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Horatius at Khazad-dum
[ alphabetical by book title; book author; reviewer ]
| Macbeth [as a failed science-fiction story] |
William Shakespeare | DL Franson |
| Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy | Paul A. Rahe (editor) | RW Franson |
| Mage: The Ascension | White Wolf Game Studio | WH Stoddard |
| Major Ingredients: Short Stories | Eric Frank Russell | RW Franson |
| Malakand Field Force, The Story of the An Episode of Frontier War |
Winston S. Churchill | RW Franson |
| Man and Superman | George Bernard Shaw | RW Franson |
| Mark of Zorro, The | Johnston McCulley | WH Stoddard |
| Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe, The | Sydney Anglo | WH Stoddard |
| Men in Black How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America |
Mark R. Levin | RW Franson |
| Men Like Gods | H. G. Wells | RW Franson |
| Men of Tomorrow Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book |
Gerard Jones | WH Stoddard |
| Micah Clarke | A. Conan Doyle | RW Franson |
| Midsummer Century | James Blish | RW Franson |
| Mightiest Machine, The | John W. Campbell | R Grube |
| Mind Parasites, The | Colin Wilson | RW Franson |
| Miracle and Other Christmas Stories | Connie Willis | RW Franson |
| Mirror of Myth, The Classical Themes & Variations |
Jasper Griffin | RW Franson |
| Molon Labe | Boston T. Party | WH Stoddard |
| Moonstone, The | Wilkie Collins | RW Franson |
| More in Sorrow | Wolcott Gibbs | RW Franson |
| Motive in Shadow | Lesley Egan | JM Franson |
| Murchison Murders, The [and other essays] |
Arthur W. Upfield | RW Franson |
| Murder After Hours (The Hollow) |
Agatha Christie | RW Franson |
| Murder by the Book | Rex Stout | RW Franson |
| Murder for Christmas (Hercule Poirot's Christmas) (A Holiday for Murder) |
Agatha Christie | JM Franson |
| Murder Is Announced, A | Agatha Christie | RW Franson |
| Murder Will Out (The Purple Hieroglyph) |
Murray Leinster | RW Franson |
| My Grandfather's Son A Memoir |
Clarence Thomas | RW Franson |
| My Life and Hard Times | James Thurber | RW Franson |
| Mysterious Affair at Styles, The | Agatha Christie | RW Franson |
| Mystery of the Blue Train, The | Agatha Christie | RW Franson |
| Nansen The Explorer as Hero |
Roland Huntford | RW Franson |
| Necessary Evil, A A History of American Distrust of Government |
Garry Wills | W McElroy |
| New Solar System, The | J. Kelly Beatty, Carolyn Collins Petersen & Andrew Chaikin |
RW Franson |
| New Thought Police, The Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds |
Tammy Bruce | RW Franson |
| Nietzsche's Task An Interpretation of Beyond Good and Evil |
Laurence Lampert | RW Franson |
| No Holly for Miss Quinn | Miss Reed (Dora Saint) |
JM Franson |
| North and South | Elizabeth Gaskell | WH Stoddard |
| Norton Shakespeare, The | William Shakespeare | RW Franson |
| Null-A series | A. E. van Vogt | RW Franson |
| Objectivist Newsletter, The Objectivist, The [ ==> Ayn Rand at Troynovant ] |
Ayn Rand & Nathaniel Brandon | |
| Of All the Bloody Cheek (Augustus Mandrell series) |
Frank McAuliffe | RW Franson |
| Off Armageddon Reef | David Weber | WH Stoddard |
| On the Trail of William Shakespeare | J. Keith Cheetham | JM Franson |
| One City [Edinburgh stories] | OneCity Trust | JM Franson |
| Orphans of Chaos | John C. Wright | WH Stoddard |
| Our Famous Guest Mark Twain in Vienna |
Carl Dolmetsch | BA Lopez |
| Out Goes She (Prisoner's Base) |
Rex Stout | RW Franson |
| Past Through Tomorrow, The Future History Stories |
Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
| Penrod: His Complete Story | Booth Tarkington | RW Franson |
| Pentagon's New Map, The War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century |
Thomas P. M. Barnett | RW Franson |
| Perjury The Hiss-Chambers Case |
Allen Weinstein | RW Franson |
| Philosophical Letters | Voltaire | W McElroy |
| Picaro in Hitler's Europe, A | Walter Arndt | ZB Matkowska |
| Pictorial History of Science Fiction | David Kyle | RW Franson |
| Players of Null-A, The | A. E. van Vogt | RW Franson |
| Pleasures of Afternoon Tea, The | Angela Hynes | JM Franson |
| Poirot Loses a Client (Dumb Witness) |
Agatha Christie | RW Franson |
| Poirot's Early Cases | Agatha Christie | JM Franson |
| Pogo - Through the Wild Blue Wonder The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Volume 1 [1949-1950] |
Walt Kelly | RW Franson |
| Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's Kremlin The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina |
Paul R. Gregory | PT Smith |
| Portable Nietzsche, The (edited & translated by Walter Kaufmann) |
Friedrich Nietzsche | RW Franson |
| Porterhouse Blue | Tom Sharpe | RW Franson |
| Prelude to Greatness Lincoln in the 1850s |
Don E. Fehrenbacher | RW Franson |
| Princess for the Gentleman, A | Mindy Burbidge Strunk | RW Franson |
| Print the Legend The Life and Times of John Ford |
Scott Eyman | RW Franson |
| Prisoner's Base (Out Goes She) |
Rex Stout | RW Franson |
| Proud Robot, The (Robots Have No Tails) |
Henry Kuttner | RW Franson |
| Psychohistorical Crisis | Donald Kingsbury | WH Stoddard |
| Quartered Safe Out Here A Recollection of the War in Burma [February-August 1945] |
George MacDonald Fraser | RW Franson |
| Queen's Gambit, The | Walter Tevis | RW Franson |
| Quincunx of Time, The | James Blish | RW Franson |
| Race and Culture A World View |
Thomas Sowell | RW Franson |
| Rather a Vicious Gentleman (Augustus Mandrell series) |
Frank McAuliffe | RW Franson |
| Reagan, In His Own Hand | Ronald Reagan | RW Franson |
| Reagan's Revolution [the 1976 nomination campaign] |
Craig Shirley | RW Franson |
| Reckless Love | Elizabeth Lowell (Ann Maxwell) |
RW Franson |
| Reichstag Fire, The Legend and Truth |
Fritz Tobias | RW Franson |
| Remake | Connie Willis | RW Franson |
| Rendezvous with Destiny [Reagan and the 1980 Presidential campaigns] |
Craig Shirley | RW Franson |
| Reporting Vietnam American Journalism 1959-1975 |
(anonymous) | RW Franson |
| Retief [collection] |
Keith Laumer | RW Franson |
| Reveille for Radicals | Saul D. Alinsky | RW Franson |
| Revolution in the Valley The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made |
Andy Hertzfeld | RW Franson |
| Right to Die, A | Rex Stout | RW Franson |
| Ring of Words, The Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary |
Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall & Edmund Weiner |
RW Franson |
| Robert A. Heinlein A Reader's Companion |
James Gifford | RW Franson |
| Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century Volume 1, 1907-1948: Learning Curve |
William H. Patterson, Jr. | RW Franson |
| Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century Volume 1, 1907-1948: Learning Curve |
William H. Patterson, Jr. | WH Stoddard |
| Robert Heinlein Interview, The and Other Heinleiniana |
J. Neil Schulman | RW Franson |
| Robots Have No Tails (The Proud Robot) |
Henry Kuttner | RW Franson |
| Rock in the Baltic, A | Robert Barr | RW Franson |
| Rocket Ship Galileo | Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
| Rolling Stones, The (Space Family Stone) |
Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
| Romance of American Communism, The | Vivian Gornick | RW Franson |
| Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | RW Franson |
| Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Edward FitzGerald | RW Franson |
| Rubber Band, The | Rex Stout | RW Franson |
| Rules, The: Time-tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right |
Ellen Fein & Sherrie Schneider |
RW Franson |
[Belmont, Southern Italy.]
Prince of Aragon (to Portia, etc.):Why then, to thee, thou silver treasure-house.
Tell me once more what title thou dost bear.
'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves' —William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice, 2.9.33-35
[In the 1936 film Poppy, W. C. Fields plays McGargle, here running a carnival shell game:]
McGargle is tipped off as the mayor approaches and shifts gears without so much as a pause. "Gambling, my friends, is the root of all evil," he intones, quivering with righteousness. "For years I was a victim of this heartless scourge — gambling — a helpless pawn in the toils of Beelzebub."
The mayor comes forth to offer his hand, and McGargle asks if he has read his book on the evils of wagering.
"No ...," says the mayor, to which McGargle registers mock surprise.
"You haven't? It has a blue cover. Maybe that will recall it to your mind."
James Curtis
W. C. Fields
A Biography
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