The boys of the Silver Fox patrol have finally made it to Antwerp, after their harrowing adventures in Belgium! Bumpus is still worried about his mother, who is sick in Paris. The boys will find new adventures to keep them out of too much trouble, and away from Bumpus’ mother, in this last book of […]
Mario Borsa, che dal 1910 era caporedattore al “Secolo”, pubblicò in data 29 giugno 1918 l’articolo Per una Lega delle libere nazioni. Un invito di H. G. Wells alla cooperazione italiana. Poco tempo prima lo stesso Borsa aveva tradotto il breve testo di Wells che adesso presentiamo in questo e-book. La guerra volgeva al termine […]
Senator Joseph McCarthy examines the life of General George Catlett Marshall, particularly his role in government beginning in 1945 as United States Special Envoy to China, and encompassing his role of Secretary of State in the late 1940’s. This book can provide context which is important to a rounded understanding of how Communist China came […]
In the darkest days of the Persian War when the armies of Xerxes were overrunning northern Greece, Athens faced destruction. The desperate Athenians consulted the oracle at Delphi, who answered, “For thus saith Zeus, that when all else within the land of Cecrops is wasted, the wooden wall alone shall not be taken.” The British […]
Beatles fans will be offered a glimpse into George Harrison’s childhood through his back door.
Manfred is a Dramatic Poem written by Lord Byron in 1816-7 after he left England for the last time and shortly after the famous ghost story telling session at the Villa Diordati by Lake Geneva involving Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley and John Polidori which also led to the writing of Frankenstein and The Vampyre. […]
As we went out he stepped across the room and gripped my hand very hard. Queer, the affection you can feel for a stranger! It was as though his spirit and mine had momentarily succeeded in bridging the gulf of language and tradition and meeting in utter intimacy. I hoped he liked me as well […]
THE rue du Coq d’Or, Paris, seven in the morning. A succession of furious, choking yells from the street. Madame Monce, who kept the little hotel opposite mine, had come out on to the pavement to address a lodger on the third floor. Her bare feet were stuck into sabots and her grey hair was […]
George e l’Uomo con il Cappello Giallo non vedono l’ora che arrivi il Natale, C’è solo un problema: nessuno dei due sa che cosa regalare all’altro. L’Uomo non riesce a leggere la lista dei regali di George, e George non ha idea di cosa comprare all’Uomo che ha tutto. Riusciranno a trovare una soluzione in tempo per la mattina di Natale? (Titolo originale – Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas)