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  • The Spanish Civil War

    Revised Edition

    by Hugh Thomas ...
    “Mr. Thomas has understood [the Spanish Civil War] incredibly well and has written it superbly. A full, vivid and deeply serious treatment of a great subject.”—Vincent Sheean, The New York Times Book ReviewA masterpiece of the historian’s art, Hugh Thomas’sThe Spanish Civil War remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of the twentieth century ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Norman Conquest

    England after William the Conqueror

    by Hugh M. Thomas ...
    Series series
    Exploring the successful Norman invasion of England in 1066, this concise and readable book focuses especially on the often dramatic and enduring changes wrought by William the Conqueror and his followers. From the perspective of a modern social historian, Hugh M. Thomas considers the conquest's wide-ranging impact by taking a fresh look at such traditional themes as the influence of battles and ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • The Mythology of Ancient Greece and Rome - Ultimate Collection

    Legends Retold + Original Ancient Mythology Sources: Theogony, Iliad, Odyssey & Metamorphoses

    by Homer, Hesiod, Ovid, E. M. Berens, Jessie M. Tatlock ...
    Translated by Samuel Butler, Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Henry Thomas Riley ...
    The 'Mythology of Ancient Greece and Rome - Ultimate Collection' is a treasure trove that encapsulates the rich tapestry of myths that have shaped Western literary tradition. This anthology spans a broad spectrum of narrative styles, from the epic grandeur of Homer's sagas to the intricate mythological retellings of Ovid. Each piece is carefully selected to highlight the diversity in storytelling, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tom Brown at Oxford

    by Thomas Hughes ...
    Thomas Hughes was an English lawyer and writer best known for the novels Tom Brown’s School Days and Tom Brown at Oxford. This edition of Tom Brown at Oxford includes a table of contents. ... Read more

    $2.70 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Spanish Civil War

    by Hugh Thomas ...
    Though more than half a century has passed since the Spaish Civil War began in 1936, it is still the subject of intense controversy. What was it that roused left wing sympathisers from all over the world to fight for a cause for which their governments would not give active support? In his famous history, Hugh Thomas presents an objective analysis of a conflict - where fascism and democracy, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Power and Pleasure

    Court Life under King John, 1199-1216

    by Hugh M. Thomas ...
    Although King John is remembered for his political and military failures, he also resided over a magnificent court. Power and Pleasure reconstructs life at the court of King John and explores how his court produced both pleasure and soft power. Much work exists on courts of the late medieval and early modern periods, but the jump in record keeping under John allows a detailed reconstruction of ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Mystique of the Darkness: 100+ Gothic Classics

    An International Treasury of Haunted Castles, Vampires, Psychological Horror, and Dark Romance

    by Charles Dickens, Friedrich Schiller, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bram Stoker, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, William Godwin, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Guy Boothby, Jane Austen, Mayne Reid, John Meade Falkner, Guy de Maupassant, George Eliot, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Hugh Benson, Horace Walpole, Frederick Marryat, Thomas Love Peacock, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gaston Leroux, Grant Allen, Arthur Machen, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, Robert Browning, Walter Hubbell, Marie Corelli, Charles Brockden Brown, James Hogg, William Blake, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Keats, Richard Marsh, Clara Reeve, Charles Robert Maturin, John William Polidori, Lord Byron, W. W. Jacobs, E. F. Benson, M. R. James, E. T. A. Hoffmann, George W. M. Reynolds, William Thomas Beckford, Christina Rossetti, Tobias Smollett, Nikolai Gogol, Mary Shelley, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Eliza Parsons, Eleanor Sleath, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian ...
    Translated by C. J. Hogarth, Samuel Henley, Isabel F. Hapgood ...
    Mystique of the Darkness: 100+ Gothic Classics maps the Gothic imagination across more than a century of supernatural terror, psychological unease, romantic melancholy, and social transgression. Its capacious selection moves among novels, tales, poems, and proto-detective mysteries, tracing ruined castles, haunted houses, spectral doubles, forbidden knowledge, and the unstable boundaries between ... Read more

    Was $2.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Maze

    by Hugh Thomas ...
    Drawing on the patterns of words, speech, and identity we encounter in the wider world—subway ads in Mexico City, a Dutch-Japanese phrase book, multilingual airplane safety instructions, one of Italo Calvino’s invisible cities—the poems in Hugh Thomas’s Maze playfully (mis)translate the maze of languages and language into moments of amazement. ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Mythology of Ancient Greece and Rome

    Creation Myths, Olympian Gods, Heroic Quests, and Roman Tales of Metamorphosis

    by Homer, Hesiod, Ovid, E. M. Berens, Jessie M. Tatlock ...
    Translated by Samuel Butler, Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Henry Thomas Riley ...
    The Mythology of Ancient Greece and Rome gathers foundational accounts of gods, heroes, creation, transformation, and fate into a capacious survey of the classical imagination. Epic narrative, genealogical cosmogony, hymn-like praise, and tales of metamorphosis coexist here, revealing how myth served as religious explanation, ethical inquiry, and enduring literary art. Narratives of the Olympians, ... Read more

    Was $2.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tom Brown's Schooldays

    by Thomas Hughes ...
    The story follows the experiences of a young boy named Tom Brown, who enters Rugby School as a new student. The novel explores Tom's journey from his early days as a timid and homesick boy to his development into a confident and honorable young man.As Tom navigates the ups and downs of his school life, the book delves into various themes such as friendship, loyalty, moral values, and the ... Read more

    $1.33 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Innovation in China

    A Strategic Management Casebook

    by Hugh Thomas ...
    Innovation has shaped society since civilization began. Imperial China was the most innovative society on earth, but it failed to join the 19th century industrial revolution. In the 20th century, the Communist Party of China addressed that failure. Today China boasts an internationally compliant, rapidly developing IP system. State planning continues to be critical as the case of the largest, ... Read more

    $129.79 CAD

  • Tom Brown's School Days - The Original Classic Edition

    by Hughes Thomas ...
    This book is about the life and coming of age of a young wealthy English boy, who goes to school at Rugby. Throughout the novel, we are witnesses to the growing up of Tom and his friends. Tom is not a model boy, but rough, virile and self-confident, as is his friend East, a smart and audacious guy. The story is funny and entertaining, and is also illustrative about life in the English boarding ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus