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Cover of Making Money
by Paul Clitheroe, Paul Clitheroe
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011

Do you feel like your finances are out of control? Is debt a problem? Are you wondering when and if you'll be able to retire comfortably? Or do you want to increase your wealth, maximise the benefits of investments you already have, or just become smarter with your money? Whatever your personal finance...
Cover of How to Have Feminist Sex

How to Have Feminist Sex

A Fairly Graphic Guide

by Flo Perry
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2019

We talk about feminism in the workplace and we talk about dating after #MeToo, but women's own patriarchal conditioning can be the hardest enemy to defeat. When it comes to our sex lives, few of us are free of niggling fears and body image insecurities. Rather than enjoying and exploring our bodies...
Cover of Sagas of Warrior-poets
by Leifur Eiricksson
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2002

Kormak's Saga, The Saga of Hallfred Troublesome-Poet, The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue, The Saga of Bjorn, Champion of the Hitardal People, Viglund's Saga Set in the farmsteads of Viking age Iceland at a time when the old ethos of honour and heroic adventure merged with new ideas of romantic infatuation,...
Cover of Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida
by Robert Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005

From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature - including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy,...
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Short Walks from Bogotá

Journeys in the new Colombia

by Tom Feiling
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012

For decades, Colombia was the 'narcostate'. Now travel to Colombia and South America is on the rise, and it's seen as one of the rising stars of the global economy. Where does the truth lie? Writer and journalist Tom Feiling, author of the acclaimed study of cocaine The Candy Machine, has journeyed...
Cover of Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

'She turned into a frog, into a lizard, into all kinds of other reptiles and then into a spindle' In these tales, young women go on long and difficult quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or hindrance from magical dolls, cannibal witches,...
Cover of The Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2003

In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside. They amuse themselves by each telling a story a day for the ten days they are destined to remain there - a hundred stories of love, adventure and surprising twists of fate. Less preoccupied...
Cover of Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Turgenev, Tatyana Tolstaya
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009

When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend he has brought with him. A self-proclaimed nihilist, the ardent young Bazarov shocks Arkady's...
Cover of Story of the Eye
by Georges Bataille
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013

Bataille’s first novel, published under the pseudonym ‘Lord Auch’, is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating...
Cover of Tristan with the 'Tristran' of Thomas
by Gottfried von Strassburg
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004

One of the great romances of the Middle Ages, Tristan, written in the early thirteenth century, is based on a medieval love story of grand passion and deceit. By slaying a dragon, the young prince Tristan wins the beautiful Isolde's hand in marriage for his uncle, King Mark. On their journey back...
Cover of The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010

Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled...
Cover of The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
by E.T.A. Hoffmann
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2006

Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error causes his story to be accidentally mixed and spliced with a book about the composer Johannes Kreisler. As the two versions break off and alternate at dramatic moments, two wildly different characters...
Cover of The Sagas of the Icelanders
by Jane Smiley
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2005

In Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world’s great literary treasures – as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium,...
Cover of Clarissa, or the History of A Young Lady
by Samuel Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004

Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing with the witty and debonair Robert Lovelace and places herself under his protection. Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marriage...
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