The old nurse's story

A ghostly child roams the Northumberland moors, while fairytale characters gather at a strange party, in these two Victorian gothic tales.

The beautifull cassandra

Austen's riotous early stories of drunks, poisoners and prison-break, written for her family entertainment when she was a teenager.

How we weep and laugh at the same thing

Glittering essays by the Renaissance master of the form, exploring contradictions in human thoughts and actions.

Mrs rosie and the priest

Bawdy tales of pimps, cuckolds, lovers and clever women from the fourteenth-century Florentine masterpiece The Decameron

The fall of icarus

Enduring myths of vengeful gods and tragically flawed mortals from ancient Rome's great poet.

The saga of gunnlaug serpent-tongue

Ranging across Scandinavia, England and Ireland, a Viking-age epic of two poets in doomed pursuit of Helga the Fair

A modest proposal

Swift's ferocious, landmark eighteenth-century political satire on how to solve a famine in Ireland

Woman much missed

Moving, elegiac verse set in rural landscapes, penned by the grief-stricken Hardy after his wife's death.

The eve of st agnes

The Romantic poet's most lyrical, enchanting verse on myth, sensuality, dreams and superstition.

The doorman

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9781250437921

Collation

388 p. ; 22 cm

Series Title

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Call Number

823 PAV t