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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...
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OUP Oxford
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2000-03-16
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No other edition offers extensive textual apparatus such as explanatory notes, plot summaries, particularly vital as stories are complex and interwoven.
The Sultan Schahriar's misguided resolution to shelter himself from the possible infidelities on his wives leads...
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OUP Oxford
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1998-05-21
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THE DEFINITIVE AND COMPREHENSIVE RETELLING OF NORSE MYTHOLOGY 'Burning ice, biting flame; that is how life began' The extraordinary Scandinavian myth cycle is one of the most enduring, exciting, dramatic and compelling of the world's great stories. The Penguin Book of...
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Penguin
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1996-10-31
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No other edition offers extensive textual apparatus such as explanatory notes, plot summaries, particularly vital as stories are complex and interwoven.
The Sultan Schahriar's misguided resolution to shelter himself from the possible infidelities on his wives leads...
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OUP Oxford
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1995-10-19
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Mystery surrounds the parentage of Alexander, the prince born to Queen Olympias. Is his father Philip, King of Macedonia, or Nectanebo, the mysterious sorcerer who seduced the queen by trickery? One thing is certain: the boy is destined to conquer the known world. He...
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Penguin
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1991-04-25
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Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chrétien de Troyes fashioned a new form of medieval Romance. The Knight of the Cart is the first telling of the adulterous relationship between...
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Penguin
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1991-01-31
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Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the re-creation and completion of the story left unfinished by its initiator Chrétien de Troyes. It follows Parzival from his boyhood and career as a knight in the court of King Arthur to his...
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Penguin
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1980-08-28
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Recounting the final days of Arthur, this thirteenth-century French version of the Camelot legend, written by an unknown author, is set in a world of fading chivalric glory. It depicts the Round Table diminished in strength after the Quest for the Holy Grail, and with...
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Penguin
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1975-01-30
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Ehrengard is a delightful fairy-tale set in the early nineteenth century in the grand Duchy of Babenhausen.
The story revolves around the desire of the court portrait painter, Herr Cazotte, to seduce Ehrengard, maid-of-honour to Princess Ludmilla. The artist's ambition...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-11-21
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Lancelot, despite being the bravest of the knights, is ugly, and ape-like, so that he calls himself the Chevalier mal fet - “The Ill-Made Knight”. As a child, Lancelot loved King Arthur and spent his entire childhood training to be a knight of the round table. When he...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-07-08
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“The Odyssey” is the tale of Odysseus’ (Ulysses’ in Latin) 10-year journey from the burned ramparts of Troy to his home in Ithaca. It involved many perils and delays, and ended with his violent confrontation with the suitors of his wife, Penelope.
There have been many...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2024-08-12
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Dalla fuga dall'isola incantata di Calipso fino al commovente arrivo a Itaca e alla sanguinosa strage dei Proci, la vicenda narrata nell'Odissea si snoda in quarantuno giorni. E questo lungo viaggio, certo il più famoso della nostra letteratura, è divenuto per noi...
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Cactus
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2024-07-21
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First published in 1926, public domain. Three brownies, Hop, Skip and Jump, set out to rescue the Princess from Witch Green-eyes, and get mixed up in all sorts of adventures.
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2024-04-11
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Enid Blyton brings the great days of chivalry, nobility and adventure to life again in this splendid gathering of the most famous stories of King Arthur and his court. Includes the discovery of the sword Excalibur, the arrival of the Round Table, the quest for the Holy...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2024-04-05
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Grampa in Oz (1924) is the eighteenth in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the fourth written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Things are going from bad to worse in the dilapidated kingdom of Ragbad; even the rag crop is failing. To top it...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2024-03-30
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In this delightful book of poems, Rose Fyleman scattered her thoughts into the world like so much dandelion fuzz. And here they have landed, over a century later, in your lap. Lucky, lucky you. I trust the faithful fairies will point from their world to things that are...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2024-01-02
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ooted in an oral tradition, fantastic sagas of Norse mythology found their way into print seven centuries ago, in documents known as the Eddas. This book presents 17 of the most popular tales, from the creation of the world to the death of the gods and the world’s...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-11
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A marvelous collection of love, treachery, foolishness, tragedy and humor. All the famous great ancient Greek tales are here compellingly re-told, from the insolent exploits of Phaeton and Icarus, to the sorrow-filled fate of Orpheus and Eurydice, and many others.
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-09
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This roaring, virile novel is a fiery recreation of the legend of Jason, the Argonauts and the Golden Fleece.
Jason's turbulent marriage to Medea and his tangled affairs with many women form the framework of this spectacular historical which was written in the grand...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-09
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The Last of the Vikings tells the life and adventures of Harald Hardrada, last great Viking and King of Norway, who met his death in 1066 when fighting at Stamford Bridge against King Harold Godwinson of England.
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-05
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