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Of Street Pieman
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26/02/2015,
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Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. This title features stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog
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26/02/2015,
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Includes miniature tales that describe con men, tricksters, disasters, murders, rascals and lovers, and include Franz Kafka's favourite story.
It Was Snowing Butterflies
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26/02/2015,
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Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. This book features stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
Reckoning
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26/02/2015,
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Features two moving stories of love, loss, desire and divorce, from one of the great chroniclers of nineteenth-century New York life.
Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands
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26/02/2015,
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Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. This title features stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
Nun of Murano
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03/03/2016,
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Swashbuckling serial seducer Casanova falls for a beautiful nun on the Venetian island of Murano - despite already being involved with another one...
Hippo Banquet
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26/02/2015,
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Includes adventures of doughty female Victorian explorer describe stumbling upon five hippos by night, dodging elephants and fighting off a leopard with a stool.
Mrs Rosie and the Priest
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26/02/2015,
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Contains four provocative stories from Boccaccio's Decameron, featuring cuckolded husbands, cross-dressing wives and very bad priests.
Leonardo da Vinci
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26/02/2015,
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Often called "the first art historian", the author writes with delight on the lives of Leonardo and other celebrated Renaissance artists.
Wailing Ghosts
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26/02/2015,
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Includes Chinese stories, such as 'The Golden Goblet', 'Scorched Moth the Daoist' and 'The Black Beast.'
Trimalchio's Feast
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26/02/2015,
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Presents a satirical portrait of a drunken, orgiastic Roman banquet, hosted by the grossly ostentatious Trimalchio.
Frogs
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03/03/2016,
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Gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars
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03/03/2016,
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Gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Green Tea
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03/03/2016,
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Features tale of a clergyman who is tormented by a demonic creature. This title includes fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Nervous Breakdown
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03/03/2016,
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'I did have hallucinations, but did they harm anyone? Who did they harm, that's what I'd like to know!' This title features three disturbing tales of supernatural hallucinations, hysterical obsession and moral decay. It includes fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Figure in the Carpet
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26/02/2015,
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Presents the story of an unsolved literary mystery that explores what James referred to as "troubled artistic consciousness."
Sandman
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03/03/2016,
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Tells a disturbing tale of a young man's obsession with the Sandman, stealer of eyes, which has inspired writers from Sigmund Freud to Neil Gaiman.
Terrible Beauty is Born
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03/03/2016,
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By turns joyful and despairing, this title presents some of the twentieth century's greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice.
Typhoon
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03/03/2016,
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The crew aboard a ramshackle steamer faces a treacherous storm.
Tinderbox
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26/02/2015,
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Includes tales such as 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier' and 'Big Klaus and Little Klaus'.
Speaking of Siva
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26/02/2015,
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Featuring meditative, deeply personal poems to the god Siva, from four major Hindu saints. This book includes, stories lyrical, poems and essays.
Dhammapada
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26/02/2015,
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Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. This book features stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
World is Full of Foolish Men
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03/03/2016,
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Gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Rip Van Winkle
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03/03/2016,
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Gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Hannibal
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03/03/2016,
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Gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Modest Proposal
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26/02/2015,
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Features Jonathan Swift's (1667-1745) devastating short satire on how to solve a famine.
Three Tang Dynasty Poets
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26/02/2015,
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Offers a selection from three of the greatest and most enjoyable of Chinese poets.
Femme Fatale
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26/02/2015,
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Introducing a collection of book from around the world and across many centuries. The books in this collection features stories, poems, essays and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. It also includes stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Normandy countryside.
Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls
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26/02/2015,
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Describes the customs of India, recounts the story of the king who died eighty-four times and explains how to retrieve diamonds from snake-infested caves...
Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe
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26/02/2015,
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Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. This book features stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
Pair of Silk Stockings
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26/02/2015,
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From one of the most daring writers of fin-de-siecle America, this title features five stories of awakening that range from Louisiana's plantations and poverty-stricken bayous to its gilded cities.
Nightingales are Drunk
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26/02/2015,
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Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. This book features stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
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26/02/2015,
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Offers a selection of Gerard Manley Hopkins' (1844-1889) poetry, ranging from the ecstasy of 'The Windhover' and 'Pied Beauty' to the heart-wrenching despair of the 'sonnets of desolation'.
Caligula
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26/02/2015,
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Presents the biography of the brutal, crazed and incestuous Roman Emperor Caligula, who tried to appoint his own horse consul.
Robber and the Bridegroom
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26/02/2015,
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Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. This book includes stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
I Hate and I Love
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26/02/2015,
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Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. This title features stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
Circe and the Cyclops
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26/02/2015,
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Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. This title features stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
Come Close
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26/02/2015,
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Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. This title features stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
Traffic
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26/02/2015,
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Includes two of author's powerful essays: 'Traffic' and 'The Roots of Honour'.
Old Man of the Moon
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26/02/2015,
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Offers an account of author's marriage - from early passion to the trials of poverty and separation - and his great, enduring love for his wife in eighteenth-century China.
Tell-Tale Heart
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26/02/2015,
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Includes stories about murder, mystery and madness, portraying the author's feverish imagination at its creative height.
Gate of the Hundred Sorrows
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26/02/2015,
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'Mind you, it was a pukka, respectable opium-house, and not one of those stifling, sweltering chandoo-khanas that you can find all over the City.' Kipling first became famous for his pungent, harsh and shocking stories of northwest India, where he grew up. This book presents a selection from his inexhaustibly contentious and various early work.
Eve of St Agnes
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26/02/2015,
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Contains a selection of John Keats' greatest verse - including his gothic story in verse, 'The Eve of St Agnes', and the mysterious 'Lamia' - exploring themes of love, enchantment, myth and magic.
Woman Much Missed
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26/02/2015,
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After the death of his wife Emma, the author wrote some of the best verse of his career. This book deals with his works.
Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue
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26/02/2015,
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Presents a tale from the Viking Age that ranges across Scandinavia and Viking Britain.
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
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26/02/2015,
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Considers murder in a purely aesthetic light and explains how practically every philosopher over the past two hundred years has been murdered - 'insomuch, that if a man calls himself a philosopher, and never had his life attempted, rest assured there is nothing in him'.
Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon
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26/02/2015,
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Includes animal fables that are some of the earliest stories ever told, thought to have been composed by a slave in Greek antiquity and giving glimpses of a world that is harsh, pitiless and yet also eerily familiar.
Lips Too Chilled
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26/02/2015,
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Takes you on a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. This work includes stories, poems, essays and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. It deals with books from around the world and across many centuries.
Jason and Medea
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26/02/2015,
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Presents the tragic, epic love affair that allowed Jason to get the Golden Fleece.
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