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...
A Vision of Battlements
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A Vision of Battlements is the first novel by the writer and composer Anthony Burgess, who was born...
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...
Mythology: Who's Who in Greek and Roman Mythology
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Explore classic stories of the great Greek and Roman heroes, gods, and monsters. Who's Who in...
Shalimar the Clown
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Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls is knifed to death on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter...
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 Hospital Odyssey
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"A Hospital Odyssey" is an outrageously imaginative voyage through illness and healing. Drawing on...