Goblin Market
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'She kissed and kissed her with a hungry mouth' A selection of Rossetti's most famous poems, from...
A Treasure to Die For
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Bandit gold and sunken pirate ships. What could be better for the reputation of a quaint coastal...
London's Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City
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Life in Europe was fundamentally changed in the 16th century by the astonishing discoveries of the...
Circe and the Cyclops
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'You must be Odysseus, man of twists and turns...' The tales of Odysseus' struggle with a man-eating...
O Cruel Alexis
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'But I, while vineyards ring with the cicadas' scream, Retrace your steps, alone, beneath the...
The Great Fire of London
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'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops' A selection from...
The Madness of Cambyses
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'Do you see your son, standing over there, in the antechamber? Well, I am going to shoot him.' The...
The Life of a Stupid Man
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'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.'...