The Robber Bridegroom
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'Then she began to run, and she ran over the sharp stones and through the thorns, and the wild...
How to Use Your Enemies
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'Better mad with the crowd than sane all alone' In these witty, Machiavellian aphorisms, unlikely...
It Was Snowing Butterflies
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'The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus.' It is a selection of Darwin's...
The Fall of Icarus
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'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards...' Ovid tells the...
The Maldive Shark
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'No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.' Stories and poems by...
The Terrors of the Night
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'...dreaming of bears, or fire, or water...' The greatest of Elizabethan pamphleteers, Nashe had a...
A Simple Heart
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'She decided she would teach him to speak and he was very soon able to say, 'Pretty boy!', 'Your...
Anthem for Doomed Youth
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'Tonight he noticed how the women's eyes Passed from him to the strong men that were whole.' The...
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
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'O let them be left, wildness and wet' As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a selection of Gerard Manley...
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The Nightingales are Drunk
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'Drunk or sober, king or soldier, none will be excluded.' Sensual, profound, delighted, wise,...