Dragons, Heroes, Myths & Magic: The Medieval Art of Storytelling
By: Chantry Westwell
4.00
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Some of literature’s most celebrated myths, legends and fables explored, retold and examined alongs…
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1. The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)
By: Philippa Gregory
4.05
Format: 502 pages, Hardcover
Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, was mar… read more
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- historical
- medieval
"A wise woman curses very sparingly."-Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)
"He is fragile, like a prince of ice, of glass."-Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)
"All that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing."-Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)
"Every woman is a mad ugly bad old witch somewhere in her heart."-Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)
2. The Left Hand of Darkness
By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Lech Jęczmyk
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human… read more
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- classics
"The king was pregnant."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Truth is a matter of the imagination."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"The light is the left hand of darkness"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
3. Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems
By: Mary Oliver
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
"What good company Mary Oliver is!" the Los Angeles Times has remarked. And never more so than in t… read more
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- nonfiction
4. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- classics
- history
5. De Profundis
By: Oscar Wilde , Richard Ellmann
4.03
Format: 246 pages,
De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is a 50,000 word letter written by Oscar Wilde during his i… read more
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- classics
- nonfiction
6. Snow & Rose
By: Emily Winfield Martin
4.04
Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition
A New York Times bestselling author-illustrator brings readers into the woods to meet two young sis… read more
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"Rose pictured herself as a tidy bow, and Snow was a wild tangle."-Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose
"Snow and Rose didn't know that they were living in a fairy tale--people never do."-Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose
"A feeling of celebration spread through the woods as the changed ones found their long-forgotten voices"-Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose
"To find out what a story's really about,' the Librarian said, 'you don't ask the writer. You ask the reader ."-Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose
7. Nutcracker
By: E.T.A. Hoffmann , Ralph Manheim , Maurice Sendak
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
The tale of Nutcracker, written by E.T.A. Hoffmann in 1816, has fascinated and inspired artists, co… read more
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- classics
8. Arabella
By: Georgette Heyer
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
To Arabella Tallant, the eldest daughter of a penniless country clergyman, the invitation to stay w… read more
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- historical
- classics
9. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.99
Format: 272 pages,
Barbara W. Tuchman--the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Guns of August--… read more
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- medieval
- historical
- nonfiction
- history
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- classics
11. The Mabinogion
By: Unknown , Jeffrey Gantz
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
On the bank of the river he saw a tall tree: from roots to crown one half was aflame and the other … read more
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12. Five Weeks in a Balloon (Extraordinary Voyages, #1)
By: Jules Verne
0.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
There was a large audience assembled on the 14th of January, 1862, at the session of the Royal Geog… read more
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13. The King in Yellow
By: Robert W. Chambers
3.55
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
One of the leading examples of Victorian-gothic horror, The King in Yellow is a collection of ten i… read more
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- classics
"Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
"Strange in the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But Stranger still is Lost Carcosa."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
"I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth..."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
"No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
14. Carmilla
By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu
3.86
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing… read more
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- classics
"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
15. The Living Planet
By: David Attenborough
3.81
Format: 75 pages, Hardcover
(Also has Collins ISBN - 0002191393) Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants, animals and m… read more
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16. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
17. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
By: Neil Price
4.18
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more
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- medieval
- historical
- nonfiction
- history
"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
18. Scotland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and Misunderstood
By: Alistair Moffat
3.98
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
While Scotland’s history cannot be separated from its kings and queens, saints, and warriors, there… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
19. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
By: Judi Dench
4.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
20. The Orange and Other Poems
By: Wendy Cope
4.19
Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition
My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more
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- classics
- nonfiction
21. The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History
By: Edward Brooke-Hitching
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
This fascinating and bizarre collection compiles the most unusual, obscure books from the far reach… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- historical
- history
22. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- classics
- history
23. The Story of Art Without Men
By: Katy Hessel
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before th… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- historical
- history
24. Poems 1962-2020
By: Louise Glück
4.46
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet For the past fif… read more
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25. Half Sick of Shadows
By: Laura Sebastian
3.71
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Everyone knows the legend. Of Arthur, destined to be a king. Of the beautiful Guinevere, who will b… read more
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- historical
- mythology
"One day,"-Laura Sebastian, Half Sick of Shadows
"Don’t mind me,"-Laura Sebastian, Half Sick of Shadows
"You were not raised to be safe. You were raised to be heroes."-Laura Sebastian, Half Sick of Shadows
"Not all men, fine, but enough of them. Enough of them to drown out the few good ones. More than enough to ruin the whole damn world" - Guinevere"-Laura Sebastian, Half Sick of Shadows
26. Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
By: Linda Nochlin
4.33
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
"Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" is a 1971 essay by American art historian Linda Nochl… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
27. The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
By: Pat Barker
3.83
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who e… read more
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- historical
- mythology
"Achilles' story never ends: wherever men fight and die, you'll find Achilles."-Pat Barker, The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
"Crows are ferociously intelligent birds. I used to watch them gather as the men set off for another day of war. Drums, pipes, trumpets, the rhythmical pounding of swords on shields—to the fighters, t…"-Pat Barker, The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
"It was one of those moments that I think everybody experiences - and they don't have to be dramatic - when things begin to change; and you know there's no point ruminating about it, because thinking …"-Pat Barker, The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
28. The Story of Silence
By: Alex Myers
4.10
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A knightly fairy tale of royalty and dragons, of midwives with secrets and dashing strangers in dar… read more
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- historical
29. The Bright Sword
By: Lev Grossman
4.06
Format: 673 pages, Hardcover
A gifted young knight named Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a spot on the Round Table, onl… read more
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- historical
- mythology
"One day you will see that it is a mistake to love an empire, or a throne, or a crown, because those things cannot love. They can only die."-Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword
"God doesn't come when you snap your fingers, He comes when you're ready for Him." Nimue snapped her delicate fingers, producing a strikingly loud pop in the quiet. "That's the difference between a sp…"-Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword
30. Dragons, Heroes, Myths & Magic: The Medieval Art of Storytelling
By: Chantry Westwell
4.00
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Some of literature’s most celebrated myths, legends and fables explored, retold and examined alongs… read more
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- classics
- history
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- nonfiction
- medieval
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