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The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival
Percival
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
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"The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival, The Belle of the Delaware, Written by Herself, Voluptuous, Exciting, Amorous and Delighting" is a 1864 erotic novel of anonymous authorship. Presented as an autobiography, the story entails the recounting of the narrator's life and her varied, numerous, and risque sexual encounters in a bawdy and frank manner. Humerous at times, shocking at others,
Mysterious marsh-dwelling yodelers, witches talking to flower beds, and ogres who homeschool their offspring. Percival is a serving boy of the every day kind, working at an inn. He is minding his business, when one evening an extremely hungry knight shows up, followed by a ferocious dragon. A kidnapping ensues and an entire night's worth of clean dishes is smashed up. Percival is soon swept up into what appears to be a simple get-in, get the girl, get-out mission. However, destiny has another plan. Percival finds himself next in line for the Throne, and his merry band of comrades (including a cat, a French friar, and, the noble knight who started it all) are with him every step of the way.
Percival Stuffington, Catalects from Spiffies and Loonies
M. Jean-Paul G. POTET
Lulu.com
2019
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Percival Stuffington, nicknamed "Stuffie", is a good-for-nothing, a womanizer and a crook. He belongs to the theatre of the grotesque. His ignorance and dishonesty is exposed when he poses as a teacher of English to foreign students in a London private school. He flies to California, where he tries to pass as a golf instructor. Finally he plans to extort money from a former fellow student by poisoning him, and promising the quick delivery of the antidote against a staggering sum.
A novel of ambition and obsession centered on the race to discover Pluto in 1930, pitting an untrained Kansas farm boy against the greatest minds of Harvard at the run-down Lowell Observatory in Arizona In 1928, the boy who will discover Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh, is on the family farm, grinding a lens for his own telescope under the immense Kansas sky. In Flagstaff, Arizona, the staff of Lowell Observatory is about to resume the late Percival Lowell's interrupted search for Planet X. Meanwhile, the immensely rich heir to a chemical fortune has decided to go west to hunt for dinosaurs and in Cambridge, Massachussetts, the most beautiful girl in America is going slowly insane while her ex-heavyweight champion boyfriend stands by helplessly, desperate to do anything to keep her. Inspired by the true story of Tombaugh and set in the last gin-soaked months of the flapper era, Percival's Planet tells the story of the intertwining lives of half a dozen dreamers, schemers, and madmen. Following Tombaugh's unlikely path from son of a farmer to discoverer of a planet, the novel touches on insanity, mathematics, music, astrophysics, boxing, dinosaur hunting, shipwrecks--and what happens when the greatest romance of your life is also the source of your life's greatest sorrow.
On Old MacDonald's farm there lived a pig with a wonderful voice. Animals came from miles around just to hear Percival sing; and so did Hiram J. Potter who bought him and took him to London for a career in Grand Opera. But Percival wasn't keen on London so he devised a scheme to get home to the farm. This play offers parts not only for the farm animals, but the scenery ordered by the stage manager has unaccountably failed to turn up, so some actors have to represent a house, trees and so on!Flexible casting
Did you know that monsters get sick, sore and injured, just like you? But who looks after the beasties when they're feeling beastly?This funny and engaging story by author, Nick Berkery, introduces us to our unassuming, dedicated and hard working hero, Percival Proctor.Children are captivated by Percival and his colourful cast of creature co-stars who are beautifully brought to life through the brilliant artwork of award winning illustrator, Ben Hutchings.And our young audience learn a little about resilience, empathy and kindness along the way.Praise for Percival Proctor Monster Doctor 'A wonderful story of enchantment, joy, and quiet humour that humanises the monsters, showing of them being just like us with their ailments and loneliness and clumsiness...all the things kids go through'Amanda J Spedding, award-winning horror writer and graphic novelist'A gorgeously quirky take on visiting the doctor which is sure to delight kids and adults alike.'Dr Sue White, YA author and clinical geneticist, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
This engaging and wide-ranging biography casts new light on the life and careers of Percival Lowell. Scion of a wealthy Boston family, elder brother of Harvard President Lawrence and poet Amy, Percival Lowell is best remembered as the astronomer who claimed that intelligent beings had built a network of canals on Mars. But the Lowell who emerges in David Strauss's finely textured portrait was a polymath: not just a self-taught astronomer, but a shrewd investor, skilled photographer, inspired public speaker, and adventure-travel writer whose popular books contributed to an awakening American interest in Japan.Strauss shows that Lowell consistently followed the same intellectual agenda. One of the principal American disciples of Herbert Spencer, Lowell, in his investigations of Japanese culture, set out to confirm Spencer's notion that Westerners were the highest expression of the evolutionary process. In his brilliant defense of the canals on Mars, Lowell drew on Spencer's claim that planets would develop life-supporting atmospheres over time.Strauss's charming, somewhat bittersweet tale is the story of a rebellious Boston Brahmin whose outsider mentality, deep commitment to personal freedom, and competence in two cultures all contributed to the very special character of his careers, first as a cultural analyst and then more memorably as an astronomer.
This is the story of one car--a 1911 Stevens-Duryea Model Y "Big Six"--and its famous owner Percival Lowell, the American astronomer best known for his studies of Mars and mathematical prediction of the discovery of Pluto. The narrative follows the vehicle, a product of Frank Duryea--of the pioneering Duryea brothers--through its time with Lowell and through subsequent owners to its present status as a moving landmark of history. This automobile made its debut in Flagstaff, which was at that time a frontier logging and cow town of Arizona with unpaved streets in what was not yet even one of the United States. It survived the years from 1911 when delivered to Lowell, through his death in 1916, through occasional use until 1938 when it was "abandoned," then through sixty subsequent years of neglect before being restored to its original form and condition and finally returning to Lowell Observatory on Mars Hill overlooking Flagstaff. Many of the important developments in the early history of the gasoline-powered automobile are traced to establish the context in which this remarkable vehicle was created. The community in which the Duryea brothers labored, in short lived teamwork, and their role in the evolution of the automobile industry are discussed. The text also provides an intimate look at the life of one of America's most important astronomers.
The year is 20018. The famed magician Illuminari is dead, and his greatest illusion has died with him. Dark forces now seek the Engine of Armageddon, the ancient, sentient doomsday weapon that Illuminari hid amongst the stars.Enter Percival Gynt, accountant and part-time hero, whose quest to find the Engine before it falls into the wrong hands may be our universe's last best hope for survival. It is a quest that will take him from the highest reaches of power to the lowest pits of despair and through every manner of horror and absurdity between.But beware. This accountant has a secret.A secret that may damn us all.Percival Gynt and the Conspiracy of Days is a maximalist space-fantasy adventure comedy full of swashbuckling, math, dark secrets, space-faeries, obtrusive product placement, Nazis, beating up those Nazis, unlimited baked beans, zombie cyborg assassins, fate with a capital "F," love, betrayal, wizards, jokes, paradoxes, a sentient doomsday weapon, eleven-dimensional space, clones, monsters, space-nuns, and at least one rat-chef.(Only one rat-chef.)
Percival Gynt and the Inevitability of Fire and Other Cases
Drew Melbourne
Ruesday Books
2025
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One day, the fate of the entire universe will rest in the hands of one man. A hero. An accountant.But Percival Gynt is neither of those things.Not yet.Collected here for the first time are the early adventures of Percival Gynt, a young man caught between his own dark past and an incandescent future. A future of starships and sorcery. Of monsters and mysteries. Of... um... card games and... conference calls?In this volume, you'll learn how Percival caught his first killer, toppled a despot, and saved Christmas. And YOU will guide Percival through his darkest day, as he seeks any path to escape......the inevitability of fire. Percival Gynt and the Inevitability of Fire and Other Cases presents eleven stories of maximalist space-fantasy, existential angst, comedy, adventure, and mystery in the 201st century, in this standalone prequel to the novel Percival Gynt and the Conspiracy of Days.