Stancliffe's Hotel
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'Reader, if you're ready, so am I.' These witty vignettes, set in Charlotte Bronte's imaginary world...
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
Jack David Zipes and Angela Carter
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In eighteenth century France, Charles Perrault rescued from the oral tradition fairy tales that are...
Lot No. 249
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'...that strange internal kingdom of which we are the hapless and helpless monarchs.' From the...
Matilda
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'I gained his secret and we were both lost for ever' Mary Shelley's dark story of a bereaved man's...
The Nun of Murano
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' "You are not my first passion, my divine friend, but you shall be my last." ' In this episode from...
Letters to a Young Poet
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'What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.' A hugely influential collection...
Kidnapped
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'Cut iron with iron, What makes iron valuable, Big kuku tree and big silk-cotton tree, Fari and...
The Lifted Veil
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'Why did she stand before me with the candle in her hand, with her cruel contemptuous eyes fixed on...
The Queen of Spades
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'Hermann waited for the appointed hour like a tiger trembling for its prey.' One of Pushkin's most...
The Sea Raiders
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'...slowly uncoiling their tentacles...and making a soft purring sound to each other' A disgusting...