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Deep within the wildwood lies a place of myth and mystery, from which few return, and of those few, none remain unchanged.Ryhope Wood may look like a three-mile-square fenced-in wood in rural Herefordshire on the outside, but inside, it is a primeval, intricate...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2012-10-29
ePub
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Atticus O'Sullivan is back in an all-new, action-packed, laugh-out-loud novella from the author of the Iron Druid Chronicles. Two-thousand-year-oldAtticus may have outwitted and outfought everyone from Odin to Bacchus, but in this ebook original, he's about to discover...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2012-09-04
Collection :
Iron Druid Chronicles
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Developed from an early oral storytelling tradition dating back to the dawn of European culture, this is one of the oldest and most vibrant of Europe's mythologies. From all six Celtic cultures - Irish, Scots, Welsh, Cornish, Manx andBreton - Peter Berresford Ellishas...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2011-09-01
Collection :
Mammoth Books
ePub
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The debut series from the double Hugo Award-winning N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season'Lush and evocative' Naomi Novik, author of UprootedIn the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2010-11-04
Collection :
Inheritance Trilogy
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Your favourite fantastic Grimm fairy tales and bedtime stories in the only complete edition of this classic collection.Wolves and grandmothers, ugly sisters, a house made of bread, a goose made of gold...the folk tales collected by the Grimm brothers created an...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-04-30
ePub
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The spicy start to a truly astonishing and steamy romantasy series you will not want to put down. Elena and Raphael are about to find out they can't stop thinking about each other, no matter how hard they try.Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux knows she's the best - but she...
Editeur :
Gollancz
Parution :
2010-02-11
Collection :
The Guild Hunter Series
ePub
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The debut novel from the triple Hugo Award-winning N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season***WINNER of the Locus Award for Best First Novel******WINNER of the RT Reviewer's Choice Award******Shortlisted for the Tiptree, the Crawford, the Nebula, the Hugo, the World...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2010-02-04
Collection :
Inheritance Trilogy
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Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king stories of adventure, love, riches and...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2010-02-04
Collection :
The Arabian Nights
ePub
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'When Tom Holt's on form, the world seems a much cheerier place' - SFX'Frantically wacky and wilfully confusing ... gratifyingly clever and very amusing' - MAIL ON SUNDAYOnce upon a time (or last Thursday, as it's known in this matrix) everything was fine: Humpty Dumpty...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2009-11-05
ePub
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Mystery and excitement abound in this lively collection of fairy tales, folklore and legends, which celebrate Scotland's enormously rich oral tradition and offers a carefully chosen combination of old favourites such as Tam Lin, Thomas Rymer and Adam Bell, as well as...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2008-10-02
ePub
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The figures and events of classical myths underpin our culture and the constellations named after them fill the night sky. Whether it’s the raging Minotaur trapped in the Cretan labyrinth or the twelve labours of Hercules, Aphrodite’s birth from the waves or Zeus...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2008-06-05
ePub
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The four works collected in this volume reveal the fascinating preoccupations of the German Romantic movement, which revelled in the inexplicable, the uncanny and the unknown and, especially, the mysterious world of the fairy tale. Goethe's richly imaginative Fairy Tale...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2007-02-22
ePub
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Warrior-prince Rama is about to be crowned Young King, when he hears the devastating news that his father, King of Ayodhya, has been tricked into banishing him to the forest. His devoted wife Sita insists on accompanying him in exile, but the evil ten-headed lord Ravana...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2006-06-01
ePub
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Seven voyages.Seven missions. Only one man has survived them.A poor man meets a great sailor and asks to hear his tale. He is amazed to be told of seven journeys to foreign lands, every one ending in shipwreck.As he listens, the traveller describes a flight on a giant...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2006-05-04
ePub
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Gathering a wide range of traditional African myths, this compelling new collection offers tales of heroes battling mighty serpents and monstrous birds, brutal family conflict and vengeance, and desperate migrations across vast and alien lands. From impassioned...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2005-12-01
ePub
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Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE. Here in these seventy-five seminal myths are the many incarnations of Vishnu, who saves mankind from destruction, and the...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2004-06-24
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Drawing on myth, folklore and history, the stories of the Mabinogion passed from generations of storytellers before they were written down in the thirteenth century in the form we know. Set in dual realms of the forests and valleys of Wales and the shadowy otherworld,...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2003-12-04
ePub
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Norse Mythology explores the magical myths and legends of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Viking-Age Greenland and outlines the way the prehistoric tales and beliefs from these regions that have remained embedded in the imagination of the world.
The book begins...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2002-10-17
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'The story goes that a sow who had delivered a whole litter of piglets loudly accosted a lioness. "How many children do you breed?" asked the sow. "I breed only one", said the lioness, "but it is very well bred!"'
The fables of Aesop have become one of the most...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2002-07-18
ePub
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'As with the commander of an army, or the leader of any enterprise, so it is with the mistress of a house.'
A founding text of Victorian middle-class identity, Household Management is today one of the great unread classics. Over a thousand pages long, and written...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2000-03-16
ePub
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