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Madame Bovary
'She wanted to die, and she wanted to live in Paris.'This is the story of Emma, trapped in a disappointing marriage with a dull country doctor, she dreams for a life more like the sentimental novels she reads.
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Madame Bovary
Vintage Classics French SeriesA work of brilliance
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The Black Veil Bride
In the rain soaked Kingdom of Velmourne, grief is treated like religion.Funeral bells echo endlessly through ancient cities while widows dress in black for years and the dead are spoken to as though they still linger beside the living. Yet beneath the kingdom's mourning traditions lies an older terror whispered about only during storms.The Veiled Brides.When grieving husbands begin claiming their dead wives have returned to them during the night wearing black veils, the church dismisses the stories as madness born from sorrow. But after a series of horrifying deaths leaves men found eyeless inside locked rooms, fear spreads rapidly throughout Velmourne.Father Aldren Morcant, a weary priest haunted by his own past, is drawn into the growing nightmare alongside Captain Roland Ferrow as they uncover ancient secrets buried beneath the kingdom itself. Their investigation leads them toward forgotten abbeys, ruined crypts, and a darkness hidden beneath the city older than any cathedral or crown.Deep below Velmourne, something ancient waits within the earth.Something that feeds upon grief.As storms consume the kingdom and the dead begin calling to the living once more, Aldren must confront a terrifying truth. The greatest danger is not death itself, but the desperate human longing to see lost loved ones one final time.THE BLACK VEIL BRIDE is a gothic dark fantasy filled with haunted cathedrals, ancient horrors, tragic figures, and atmospheric dread. Blending gothic horror with dark fantasy mythology, it is a story of love, mourning, sacrifice, and the terrible cost of refusing to let the dead rest.
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These Our Monsters And Other Stories
The English Heritage Book of New Folktale, Myth and LegendFrom the Arthurian myth amongst the rocky splendour of Tintagel to the mysticism of Stonehenge, English Heritage sites are often tied to native English folklore. Following the bestselling ghost story anthology Eight Ghosts, this collection by contemporary authors is inspired by the legends that live on in our ancient historical sites.
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On Silbury Hill
Silbury Hill in Wiltshire has perplexed people for generations: was it part of a ritual landscape, an island, a way of remembering the dead, a place of celebration? In this acclaimed memoir Adam Thorpe returns to the landscape of his youth to explore its many meanings for him, and for us.
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Is This The Way You Said?
Presents a collection of stories that expose the characters' deepest desires, their catastrophic fears, and their perilous frailty in the face of the responsibilities they carry.
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Birds With A Broken Wing
Whether walking an abandoned road or considering a friend's suicide, his poems remind us of our abdications, of our collapsed relationships with nature, with history, with ourselves.There are, however, all the vestiges of connective tissue - memories and mementoes, sudden, miraculous leaps of beauty.
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Still
' outwardly the unfilmable script of a would-be English cineste, one Richard Arthur Thornby currently lecturing in Texas on the cinema. He airs a hypothetical movie of both his own American present and his middle-class English families past. . ' John Fowles
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These Our Monsters And Other Stories
The English Heritage Book of New Folktale, Myth and LegendEight new stories from eight literary writers at the height of their powers, all inspired by myth and legend. Stories by Sarah Hall, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Adam Thorpe, Edward Carey, Sarah Moss, Alison Macleod, Paul Kingsnorth and Fiona Mozley.
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Voluntary
From an abandoned rowing boat in Estonia full of wild flowers to a swimming pool in the Congo full of drowned insects, Adam Thorpe's new collection takes us on a wide-ranging journey through states of gain and loss, alienation and belonging.
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Hodd
Who was Robin Hood? Romantic legend casts him as hero of the people, living in Sherwood Forest with Friar Tuck, Little John and Maid Marian. This title describes his time as a boy in the greenwood with a half-crazed bandit Robert Hodd - who, following principles of the 'heresy of the Free Spirit', believes himself above God and beyond sin.
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The Standing Pool
Two Cambridge academics, the historians Nick and Sarah Mallinson, take a sabbatical with their three small and lively girls in a remote Languedoc farmhouse. But the farmhouse contains its own histories, far darker and murkier than the Mallinsons are used to dealing with.
€ 26,50