Hume: 529 books

We had better lie down and die, said Robin peevishly. "I can't go a step further," and to emphasise his words he deliberately sat. "Infernal little duffer," growled Herrick. "Huh! Might have guessed you would Joyce." He threw himself down beside his companion and continued...

For three hundred years a bitter controversy has raged around the actions of Philip the Second of Spain. Until our own times no attempt even had been made to write his life-history from an impartial point of view. He had been alternately deified and execrated, until through the mists of time and prejudice...

They are destined to find each other… Allene Whelan is scavenging through the ruins of post-apocalypse Oregon when she finds a strange tarot card, the Knave of Blades. Touching it awakens her magic—the power of the sylph, a rare and deadly seelie sidhe who can defeat any other of her kind....

Après avoir joint la compagnie que je trouvais rassemblée dans la bibliothèque de Cléanthe, Déméa fit quelques  compliments à Cléanthe du soin qu’il prenait de mon éducation et de la constance inébranlable avec laquelle il ...

Dugger Coleman is the songwriter who gave the world “The Anniversary Carol” – in 1949, it went to the top of the holiday charts!  It was his only hit… and, unfortunately, he never made a dime from it.  Now, at 94, he’s lost the love he once had for Christmas.  And he’s abandoned...

Shortly after graduation he left for Melbourne. He began writing plays, but found it impossible to persuade the managers of the Melbourne theatres to accept or even read them. Finding that the novels of Emile Gaboriau were then very popular in Melbourne, he obtained and read a set of them and determined to write a novel of a similar kind...

Motoring about the countryside in search of inspiration, melodramatist Cyrus Vance runs out of gas at the door of a remote shop. Having filled his tank, he searches for the proprietor, only to discover her dead, himself locked in, and someone driving away with his car. Once he has convinced the excited...

"What IS your name?" "Susan Grant, Miss Loach." "Call me ma'am. I am Miss Loach only to my equals. Your age?" "Twenty-five, ma'am." "Do you know your work as parlor-maid thoroughly?" "Yes, ma'am. I was two years in one place and six months in...

A wild bleak-looking coast, with huge water-worn promontories jutting out into the sea, daring the tempestuous fury of the waves, which dashed furiously in sheets of seething foam against the iron rocks. Two of these headlands ran out for a considerable distance, and at the base of each, ragged cruel-looking...

Eighteen-year-old Amekia Daterryan is happily living a quiet existence with her parents on the outskirts of Ernsteduntil her brother, Jorden, comes to visit after a years-long absence. Immediately after he delivers the shocking news that the king wants to hurt him, Amekia and Jorden are separated...

Filo, Cleantes y Demea, los tres personajes de estos Diálogos..., no son solamente artificios del ingenio y la prudencia del autor, sino que representan el drama del hombre de su tiempo y el del hombre mismo que los ha imaginado y les da vida a lo largo del debate: los hombres modernos se encuentran...

First published in 1981, this book traces the history of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) from 1897-1914. Whereas most historians have focused on the more militant aspect of the struggle for female enfranchisement, embodied by the Women’s Political and Social Union (WPSU),...

Warum soll der Freitod gegen Gottes Gesetz verstoßen, da er in der Welt geschieht und doch kein "erschaffenes Wesen ... die Ordnung der Welt stören" kann? Und wie soll die Seele unsterblich sein, wo doch "alles zwischen Seele und Körper gemeinsam" ist, also "die Existenz...

First published in 1994. This study aims to provide evidence for the natural class of sounds comprised of front vowels, front glides and coronal consonants. The author also shows that a revised definition of the articulator feature [coronal] properly characterises this natural class of sounds. The...