Traditional or cultural fiction and true stories, tales and retellings
Little, Brown Book Group Magic Toyshop notebook
Book SynopsisUsing the cover artwork of our much-loved Virago Modern Classics hardback range, these elegant unlined notebooks celebrate three of our most popular titles: The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith; The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter; and Good Behaviour by Molly Keane. These beautiful notebooks are a must-have for all Virago fans - surely the most stylish way of collecting notes on your favourite books. Or maybe they will inspire you to write a novel of your own . . . Each notebook features a ribbon bookmark, high-quality paper and matching endpapers.The Talented Mr Ripley and The Magic Toyshop feature artwork by vintage textile designers Marian Mahler and Jacqueline Groag. Good Behaviour features a cover by award-winning designers Eley Kishimoto: http://www.eleykishimoto.com/Trade ReviewThe boldest of English women writersHer writing is pyrotechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night sky with her starry language * Observer *She can glide from ancient to modern, from darkness to luminosity, from depravity to comedy without any hint of strain and without losing the elusive power of the original tales * The Times *Beneath its contemporary surface, this novel shimmers with blurred echoes-from Lewis Carroll, from 'Giselle' and 'Coppelia,' Harlequin and Punch . . . It leaves behind it a flavor, pungent and unsettling * New York Times *
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Little, Brown Book Group The Magic Toyshop
Book SynopsisWinner of the 1967 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Angela Carter's brilliant imagination and starting intensity of style explore and extend the nature and boundaries of love.Trade ReviewThe boldest of English women writersHer writing is pyrotechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night sky with her starry language * Observer *She can glide from ancient to modern, from darkness to luminosity, from depravity to comedy without any hint of strain and without losing the elusive power of the original tales * The Times *Beneath its contemporary surface, this novel shimmers with blurred echoes-from Lewis Carroll, from 'Giselle' and 'Coppelia,' Harlequin and Punch . . . It leaves behind it a flavor, pungent and unsettling * New York Times *
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Little, Brown Book Group A Master of Djinn
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVELWINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL ''Clever, wickedly fun . . . with an excellent balance of humour and heart. I loved it'' S. A. Chakraborty, author of The City of BrassCairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha''arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she''s certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer.So when someone murders a secret brotherhood dedicated to one of the most famous men in history, Al-Jahiz, Agent Fatma is called onto the case. Al-Jahiz transformed the world fifty years ago when he opened up the veil between the magical and mundane realms, before vanishing into the unknown. This murderer claims to be Al-Jahiz, returned to condemn the modern age for its social oppressions. His dangerous magical abilities instigate unrest in the streets of CaTrade ReviewClever, wickedly fun . . . with an excellent balance of humour and heart. I loved it -- S. A. Chakraborty, author of CITY OF BRASSA magical voice with a brilliantly unique setting, it will keep you completely enthralled -- Ben Aaronovitch, author of RIVERS OF LONDONA Master of Djinn has all the tricky twists I want in a police procedural and all the djinns, magic and wonder I want from fantasy -- Mary Robinette Kowal, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of THE CALCULATING STARSA Master of Djinn is everything you might expect from Clark: cinematic action, a radical reimagining of real history, and magic on every page. I loved it -- Hugo Award winner Alix E. Harrow, author of THE TEN THOUSAND DOORS OF JANUARYWith this fantastic feat of postcolonial imagination, Clark reconfigures history with a keen, critical eye toward gender, class and imperialism. Meanwhile, the colourful prose and thorough worldbuilding allow readers to truly enter this imagined world. An epic tale of magic and mystery, this is sure to wow -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)An engaging mystery with a wonderful mix of the fantastic and the mundane, chain-smoking crocodile gods, stuffy marid librarians, and a brilliant heroine with a dashing bowler -- Django Wexler, author of THE THOUSAND NAMESClark deftly explores colonialism and the history of Cairo with an immersive setting that acts as another character in this delightful combination of mystery, fantasy and romance -- BOOKLIST (starred review)A tremendously fun book. Between the engaging writing and the intriguing plot, it was basically impossible to put down -- FANTASY INNRefreshingly different; a well-plotted mystery filled with engaging characters, presented with a lightly humorous touch -- GUARDIANA tonic of fast moving urban fantasy -- SFX
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Little, Brown Book Group The Book of Gothel
Book SynopsisEveryone knows the story of Rapunzel in the tower, but do you know the tale of the witch who put her there?Enter a world of dark magic, mysterious woods and evil princes. This is the truth they never wanted you to know, as only a witch might tell it. With her strange black eyes and even stranger fainting spells, Haelewise is shunned by her village, and her only solace lies in the stories her mother tells of child-stealing witches, of princes in wolf-skins, of an ancient tower cloaked in mist where women will find shelter if they are brave enough to seek it.But when her mother dies, Haelewise is left unmoored. With nothing left for her in her village, she sets out to find the tower of legend-a place called Gothel, where Haelewise meets a wise woman willing to take her under her wing.But Haelewise is not the only woman to seek refuge at Gothel. It''s also a haven for a girl named Rika, who carries with her a secret the Church striveTrade ReviewFable and history rhyme in McMyne's captivating vision of a medieval past steeped in women's magic and bound by women's love -- Jordanna Max BrodskyThe Book of Gothel is wonderfully rich with historical detail, and sparkles with the intermingled magic of gods and goddesses, seers and wisewomen. Haelewise is a memorable heroine, worthy of legend. Readers will see the story of Rapunzel in a new and refreshing light. -- Louisa MorganBoth gently and fiercely told, The Book of Gothel is a sweeping, sharp story of how history twists into fairytale and back again -- Hannah WhittenSmart, swift, sure-footed and fleet-winged, The Book of Gothel launches its magic from a most reliable source: the troubled heart. Mary McMyne is a magician -- Gregory Maguire, author of WICKEDAn inventive retelling of a classic tale that pulls you deep into the wild woods of medieval Germany. The Book of Gothel is a spell-binding debut -- Signe Pike, author of THE FORGOTTEN KINGDOMMary McMyne does more than retell a beloved fairy tale. She elevates the voice of the sacred Feminine hidden within. Certain stories endure because of their beauty, wonder, and wisdom. The Book of Gothel is such a novel-one that will hold readers in delighted thrall right to the startling end -- Ronlyn Domingue, author of THE MERCY OF THIN AIRThe Book of Gothel delivers an intelligent spin on a well-loved fairy tale, the rich historical detail deftly woven with folktale magic and thoughtful characterisation -- Rowenna Miller, author of TORN
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William Morrow & Company The Great Tales of MiddleEarth Box Set
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William Morrow & Company The Fall of Gondolin
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William Morrow & Company The History of MiddleEarth Part One
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£60.00
William Morrow & Company The History of MiddleEarth Part Two
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£68.00
William Morrow & Company The History of MiddleEarth Boxed Set
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£187.50
William Morrow & Company Unfinished Tales Illustrated Edition
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Harper Voyager The Blind Kings Wrath
Book SynopsisThe final chapter in Ashok K. Banker’s acclaimed Burnt Empire Saga, The Blind King’s Wrath depicts the climactic battle between Krushni and her father, the Demonlord Jarsun, for the Burning Throne and the fate of the Krushan dynastyThe Demonlord Jarsun is poised to claim the Burning Throne and cement his rule over the Burnt Empire. Standing in his way is his daughter, now reincarnated into a new avatar named Krushni, who is determined to avenge her mother’s death by his hand—and put an end to her father’s reign of terror once and for all. Aligned with him is the vast army of the Empire, the One Hundred children of Emperor Adri, and their former guru, the legendary warrior Dronas.Krushni has allies too. Also opposing the tyrant Jarsun are the children of his nephew Shvate—the supernaturally-gifted quintet known as the Five. But Krushni and The Five are vastly outnumbered, while other rogue individuals like La
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William Morrow & Company The Nature of MiddleEarth
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William Morrow & Company Tales from the Perilous Realm
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£17.09
William Morrow & Company The Lord of the Rings Illustrated by the Author
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£67.50
William Morrow & Company Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien
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MCD X Fsg Originals Beowulf A New Translation
Book SynopsisNamed one of the Best Poetry Books of 2021 by The GuardianLonglisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry. Picked for Kirkus Reviews' Best Fiction in Translation of 2020. Named a Book of the Year by NPR, Vox, and The New Statesman. Picked for Loyalty Books' Holiday List. A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere WifeBrash and belligerent, lunatic and invigorating, with passages of sublime poetry punctuated by obscenities and social-media shorthand. Ruth Franklin, The New YorkerThe author of the crazy-cool Beowulf-inspired novel The Mere Wife tackles the Old English epic poem with a fierce new feminist translation that radically recontextualizes the tale. Barbara VanDenburgh, USA TodayNearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulfand fifty years after the tran
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Random House USA Inc Bad Cree
Book SynopsisIn this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman’s dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home.A mystery and a horror story about grief, but one with defiant hope in its beating heart. —Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers ClubWhen Mackenzie wakes up with a severed crow''s head in her hands, she panics. Only moments earlier she had been fending off masses of birds in a snow-covered forest. In bed, when she blinks, the head disappears. Night after night, Mackenzie’s dreams return her to a memory from before her sister Sabrina’s untimely death: a weekend at the family’s lakefront campsite, long obscured by a fog of guilt. But when the waking world starts closing in, too—a murder of crows stalks her every m
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WW Norton & Co Favorite African Folktales
Book SynopsisA collection of some of the oldest African tales, selected by Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa, which presents such themes as cunning animals, magic spells, and people who change forms.
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Random House Worlds Spinning Silver
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of the year’s strongest fantasy novels” (NPR), an imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale from the bestselling author of Uprooted.NEBULA AND HUGO AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Public Library With the Nebula Award–winning Uprooted, Naomi Novik opened a brilliant new chapter in an already acclaimed career, delving into the magic of fairy tales to craft a love story that was both timeless and utterly of the now. Spinning Silver draws readers deeper into this glittering realm of fantasy, where the boundary between wonder and terror is thinner than a breath, and safety can be stolen as quickly as a kiss.Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father’s inability to co
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Random House USA Inc Spinning Silver
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of the year’s strongest fantasy novels” (NPR), an imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale from the bestselling author of Uprooted.NEBULA AND HUGO AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Public Library With the Nebula Award–winning Uprooted, Naomi Novik opened a brilliant new chapter in an already acclaimed career, delving into the magic of fairy tales to craft a love story that was both timeless and utterly of the now. Spinning Silver draws readers deeper into this glittering realm of fantasy, where the boundary between wonder and terror is thinner than a breath, and safety can be stolen as quickly as a kiss.Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father’s inability to collect his debts has left his family on the edge of poverty—until Miryem takes matters into her own hands. Hardening her heart, the young woman sets out to claim what is owed and soon gains a reputation for being able to turn silver into gold. When an ill-advised boast draws the attention of the king of the Staryk—grim fey creatures who seem more ice than flesh—Miryem’s fate, and that of two kingdoms, will be forever altered. She will face an impossible challenge and, along with two unlikely allies, uncover a secret that threatens to consume the lands of humans and Staryk alike.ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Time, Tordotcom, Popsugar, Vox, Vulture, Paste, Bustle, Library Journal“A perfect tale . . . A big and meaty novel, rich in both ideas and people, with the vastness of Tolkien and the empathy and joy in daily life of Le Guin.”—The New York Times Book Review“Gorgeous, complex, and magical . . . This is the kind of book that one might wish to inhabit forever.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Cool and clever and . . . dire and wonderful.”—Laini Taylor, author of Strange the Dreamer“The Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale has never been as captivating. . . . Spinning Silver further cements [Novik’s] place as one of the genre greats.”—Paste
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Penguin Putnam Inc Little Nothing
Book SynopsisA Huffington Post Book Club Suggestion • An O: The Oprah Magazine Fall Pick • A LitHub Book You Should Read This September • One of The Millions' Most Anticipated for 2016 • 2017 Ohioana Book Award Winner in Fiction“Marisa Silver’s beguiling new novel Little Nothing is a powerful exploration of the relationship between our changeable bodies and our just as malleable identities…Silver’s storytelling skills are finely matched to her themes…meditative passages bloom with life.” —Matt Bell, The New York Times Book Review A stunning, provocative new novel from New York Times bestselling author Marisa Silver, Little Nothing is the story of a girl, scorned for her physical deformity, whose passion and salvation lie in her otherworldly ability to transform herself and the world around her.<
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Beasts Heart
Book SynopsisA luxuriously magical retelling of Beauty and the Beast set in seventeenth-century France—and told from the point of view of the Beast himself.I am neither monster nor man—yet I am both. I am the Beast.He is a broken, wild thing, his heart’s nature exposed by his beastly form. Long ago cursed with a wretched existence, the Beast prowls the dusty hallways of his ruined château with only magical, unseen servants to keep him company—until a weary traveler disturbs his isolation.Bewitched by the man’s dreams of his beautiful daughter, the Beast devises a plan to lure her to the château. There, Isabeau courageously exchanges her father’s life for her own and agrees to remain with the Beast for a year. But even as their time together weaves its own spell, the Beast finds winning Isabeau’s love is only the first impossible step in breaking free from the curse....
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Girl in Red
Book SynopsisThe woman in the jacket has no choice but to trek through the woods alone in the aftermath of the Crisis in this postapocalyptic retelling of Little Red Riding Hood from the author of Alice. Original.
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The University of Michigan Press The Global White Snake
Book SynopsisThe story of The White Snake is one of the ""four great narratives"" of China and yet it is almost unknown in the West. The Global White Snake is a major, accessible contribution to our knowledge of the story, its traditional interpretations and its importance throughout history.Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Figures Chapter 1. Introduction to White Snake Legends Gender and Species, Media and Politics Metamorphoses and Regenerations Legends of the White Snake The Power of Transmigration Aspirations in the Remaking of the Legends Theoretical Implications Part I. White Snake at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Chapter 2. The White Snake Problem versus The White Snake Industry The White Snake Problem Inspirations from Kentucky Mystery of the White Snake Hangchow, the “City of Heaven” The White Snake Industry New White Snake Performances, 1870s to 1920s The Popularity of jingju, tanci, and yueju Stage Performance, Urban Gossip, Print Culture, and Intellectual Lamentations Sounding the White Snake: Shaping New Media, New Practice, and New Sensibilities Rong Stage Dominates White Snake Performances Concluding Remarks: The Fall of the Pagoda and the Burning of the Monastery Chapter 3. Fall of the Pagoda and Rise of the White Snake: Visualization and Canonization Fall of the Pagoda and the Visualization of a Vanished Past Bricks, Scriptures, and Visuality: Relics from and Memories of the Thunder Peak Legend, Art Photography, and War Drawing: Timely Journalism and Chinese Popular Imagination Shadows of the Pagoda: Coming to Terms with the Fall through Visual and Textual Representations The Rise of the White Snake and Canonization of “The White Snake Modern” Lu Xun’s Verdict and The Righteous Snake on the Silver Screen The Pagoda in the Film Concluding Remarks: The White Snake Modern Part II Profound Humanity of the Nonhuman during the Cold War Chapter 4. The White Snake Legend in Postwar Japanese Cinema Exquisite Paradise and Forbidden Love in Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu Between Light and Shadow: Infinite Shades of Gray Sound and Look of a Lady Wakasa Film: Pottery, Water, and Mutual Enchantment White Pearl, Red Scarf, and “The Witchcraft of Love” in Byaku fujin no yoren Red Scarf, Manifested Desire, and Significance of Color Special Effects and Technologies of the “Witchcraft of Love” From Hong Kong to Southeast Asia Flowers, Animals, and Humans: Animating the White Snake Legend in Hakujaden From Live-action to Animation “Disney of the East” and Connections between China and Japan Concluding Remarks: A Token of Love Chapter 5. Reconfiguring the White Snake in Korean Cinema in an Inter-Asian Context Sino-Korean Cinematic Connections Shin Sang-ok and the 1960 Madam White Snake The Shadow of Ugetsu and Holding Hands at First Sight Dance to Seduce and Lovers’ Chat in a Moonlit Garden Mutual Love and Devotion, and the Humanity of the Nonhuman Humanity Aided by Special Effects Shin’s Forgotten Second Attempt at a “White Snake” Film: Snake Woman in 1969 A Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan Coproduction? Love of the White Snake in 1978 The Taiwan Connection in the Context of a Hong Kong-Singapore Cinematic Matrix Concluding Remarks: The Korean Connection in an Inter-Asian Context Part III. The Specter of the Past in Contemporary Popular Culture Chapter 6. Dancing White Snake, Writing Green Snake: Reconfiguring the Legend in Mainland China and Hong Kong Writing and Dancing, the Text and the Body The Expressiveness of the Hybrid Body and the Iconoclasm of the Green Snake Writing Women of China A Dancing White Snake: Centered on the “Untold Stories” Writing, Dancing, and the Cultural Revolution as Memory and Imagination Concluding Remarks: Lingering Echoes Chapter 7. The White Snake Legend in the United States in the Twenty-First Century: Opera, Drama, and Digital Video From Chinese Legend to Pulitzer-Prize Winning Western Opera: Madame White Snake Green Snake the Storyteller Righteousness against Love, Truth against Freedom The Singaporean and Mainland Chinese Origins The Powers and Possibilities of Mary Zimmerman’s The White Snake The Wuzhen Experience More Inspirations from Kentucky Students A Female Writer of Socialist China: Zhao Qingge and Her 1956 Novel The CTC Production in Washington D. C. Poetry, Photography, and Fashion: Digital Challenges from Indrani Chapter 8. Nothing Ever Dies: The Eternal Bodies of the White Snake Korean Webtoon Lady White and Her Afterlife in Chinese The Return of the Powerful Hybrid in the 2019 Internet Drama Legend of White Snake Queering an Icon, Becoming a Demon in the 2019 Animation White Snake: The Legend Begins Everlasting Bodily Memory: From the 1992 New Legend of Madame White Snake to the 2016 Star of Tomorrow The Bodies of the Green Snake and the White Snake Concluding Remarks: The Multiplicity and Openness of the Eternal Bodies of the Snake Women Notes Selected Chronological List of White Snake Texts Selected Bibliography Glossary Index
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Global White Snake
Book SynopsisThe story of The White Snake is one of the ""four great narratives"" of China and yet it is almost unknown in the West. The Global White Snake is a major, accessible contribution to our knowledge of the story, its traditional interpretations and its importance throughout history.Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Figures Chapter 1. Introduction to White Snake Legends Gender and Species, Media and Politics Metamorphoses and Regenerations Legends of the White Snake The Power of Transmigration Aspirations in the Remaking of the Legends Theoretical Implications Part I. White Snake at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Chapter 2. The White Snake Problem versus The White Snake Industry The White Snake Problem Inspirations from Kentucky Mystery of the White Snake Hangchow, the “City of Heaven” The White Snake Industry New White Snake Performances, 1870s to 1920s The Popularity of jingju, tanci, and yueju Stage Performance, Urban Gossip, Print Culture, and Intellectual Lamentations Sounding the White Snake: Shaping New Media, New Practice, and New Sensibilities Rong Stage Dominates White Snake Performances Concluding Remarks: The Fall of the Pagoda and the Burning of the Monastery Chapter 3. Fall of the Pagoda and Rise of the White Snake: Visualization and Canonization Fall of the Pagoda and the Visualization of a Vanished Past Bricks, Scriptures, and Visuality: Relics from and Memories of the Thunder Peak Legend, Art Photography, and War Drawing: Timely Journalism and Chinese Popular Imagination Shadows of the Pagoda: Coming to Terms with the Fall through Visual and Textual Representations The Rise of the White Snake and Canonization of “The White Snake Modern” Lu Xun’s Verdict and The Righteous Snake on the Silver Screen The Pagoda in the Film Concluding Remarks: The White Snake Modern Part II Profound Humanity of the Nonhuman during the Cold War Chapter 4. The White Snake Legend in Postwar Japanese Cinema Exquisite Paradise and Forbidden Love in Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu Between Light and Shadow: Infinite Shades of Gray Sound and Look of a Lady Wakasa Film: Pottery, Water, and Mutual Enchantment White Pearl, Red Scarf, and “The Witchcraft of Love” in Byaku fujin no yoren Red Scarf, Manifested Desire, and Significance of Color Special Effects and Technologies of the “Witchcraft of Love” From Hong Kong to Southeast Asia Flowers, Animals, and Humans: Animating the White Snake Legend in Hakujaden From Live-action to Animation “Disney of the East” and Connections between China and Japan Concluding Remarks: A Token of Love Chapter 5. Reconfiguring the White Snake in Korean Cinema in an Inter-Asian Context Sino-Korean Cinematic Connections Shin Sang-ok and the 1960 Madam White Snake The Shadow of Ugetsu and Holding Hands at First Sight Dance to Seduce and Lovers’ Chat in a Moonlit Garden Mutual Love and Devotion, and the Humanity of the Nonhuman Humanity Aided by Special Effects Shin’s Forgotten Second Attempt at a “White Snake” Film: Snake Woman in 1969 A Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan Coproduction? Love of the White Snake in 1978 The Taiwan Connection in the Context of a Hong Kong-Singapore Cinematic Matrix Concluding Remarks: The Korean Connection in an Inter-Asian Context Part III. The Specter of the Past in Contemporary Popular Culture Chapter 6. Dancing White Snake, Writing Green Snake: Reconfiguring the Legend in Mainland China and Hong Kong Writing and Dancing, the Text and the Body The Expressiveness of the Hybrid Body and the Iconoclasm of the Green Snake Writing Women of China A Dancing White Snake: Centered on the “Untold Stories” Writing, Dancing, and the Cultural Revolution as Memory and Imagination Concluding Remarks: Lingering Echoes Chapter 7. The White Snake Legend in the United States in the Twenty-First Century: Opera, Drama, and Digital Video From Chinese Legend to Pulitzer-Prize Winning Western Opera: Madame White Snake Green Snake the Storyteller Righteousness against Love, Truth against Freedom The Singaporean and Mainland Chinese Origins The Powers and Possibilities of Mary Zimmerman’s The White Snake The Wuzhen Experience More Inspirations from Kentucky Students A Female Writer of Socialist China: Zhao Qingge and Her 1956 Novel The CTC Production in Washington D. C. Poetry, Photography, and Fashion: Digital Challenges from Indrani Chapter 8. Nothing Ever Dies: The Eternal Bodies of the White Snake Korean Webtoon Lady White and Her Afterlife in Chinese The Return of the Powerful Hybrid in the 2019 Internet Drama Legend of White Snake Queering an Icon, Becoming a Demon in the 2019 Animation White Snake: The Legend Begins Everlasting Bodily Memory: From the 1992 New Legend of Madame White Snake to the 2016 Star of Tomorrow The Bodies of the Green Snake and the White Snake Concluding Remarks: The Multiplicity and Openness of the Eternal Bodies of the Snake Women Notes Selected Chronological List of White Snake Texts Selected Bibliography Glossary Index
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Random House USA Inc Perestroika in Paris
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals—and a young boy—whose lives intersect in Paris in this feel-good escape” (The New York Times).Paras, short for Perestroika, is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. One afternoon at dusk, she finds the door of her stall open and—she''s a curious filly—wanders all the way to the City of Light. She''s dazzled and often mystified by the sights, sounds, and smells around her, but she isn''t afraid. Soon she meets an elegant dog, a German shorthaired pointer named Frida, who knows how to get by without attracting the attention of suspicious Parisians. Paras and Frida coexist for a time in the city''s lush green spaces, nourished by Frida''s strategic trips to the vegetable market. They keep company with two irrepres
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Random House USA Inc The Silence of the Girls
Book SynopsisA Washington Post Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, The Economist, Financial Times Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award Finalist for the Women’s Prize for FictionHere is the story of the Iliad as we’ve never heard it before: in the words of Briseis, Trojan queen and captive of Achilles. Given only a few words in Homer’s epic and largely erased by history, she is nonetheless a pivotal figure in the Trojan War. In these pages she comes fully to life: wry, watchful, forging connections among her fellow female prisoners even as she is caught between Greece’s two most powerful warriors. Her story pulls back the veil on the thousands of women who lived behind the scenes of the Greek army camp—concubines, nurses, prostitutes, the women who lay out the dead—as gods and mortals spar, and as a legendary war hurtles toward its inevitable conclusion. Brilliantly written, filled with
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Random House USA Inc Gods of Jade and Shadow
Book SynopsisThe Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark, one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore.“A spellbinding fairy tale rooted in Mexican mythology . . . Gods of Jade and Shadow is a magical fairy tale about identity, freedom, and love, and it's like nothing you've read before.”—BustleNEBULA AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Tordotcom • The New York Public Library • BookRiot The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather’s house to listen to any fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty small town in southern Mexico. A life she can call her own. Yet this new life seems as distant as the stars, until the day she finds a curious wooden box in her gran
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William Morrow & Company The Fall of Arthur
Book SynopsisThe Fall of Arthur, the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends of Arthur, king of Britain, may well be regarded as his finest and most skillful achievement in the use of Old English alliterative meter, in which he brought to his transforming perceptions of the old narratives a pervasive sense of the grave and fateful nature of all that is told: of Arthur’s expedition overseas into distant heathen lands, of Guinevere’s flight from Camelot, of the great sea battle on Arthur’s return to Britain, in the portrait of the traitor Mordred, in the tormented doubts of Lancelot in his French castle.Unhappily, The Fall of Arthur was one of several long narrative poems that Tolkien abandoned. He evidently began it in the 1930s, and it was sufficiently advanced for him to send it to a very perceptive friend who read it with great enthusiasm at the end of 1934 and urgently pressed him, You simply must finish it! But in vain: he abandoned it at some unkn
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Faber & Faber Tales from Ovid
Book SynopsisAn adaptation of Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid for the stage. Tim Supple is Artistic Director of the Young Vic. He has already adapted Grimm and Rushdie, and worked with Hughes on Spring Awakening and Blood Wedding.
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Faber & Faber The Names upon the Harp
Book Synopsis. . . There is Balor of the evil eye, whose very glance meant death; the wicked queen Aoife who turned children into swans; and Oisin, who followed his love to her city beneath the waves . . .Featuring beautiful colour illustrations by Irish Children''s Laureate and twice Kate Greenaway winner P. J. Lynch, and a previously unpublished poem by Seamus Heaney, this is a stunning collection to cherish forever.
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Faber & Faber Winter in the Air
Book SynopsisThis Christmas, ''hand yourself over to be enchanted'' (Guardian) by the English genius behind witchcraft classic Lolly Willowes.''Worth 9.99 for the book jacket alone (trust Faber) ... It's exquisite and shivery, just like the stories within ... By turns creepy, melancholy, horrifying, tragic and beltingly romantic.'' Sunday Times''One of our finest writers.'' Neil Gaiman''One of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past 100 years.'' Sarah Waters''Diminutive masterpieces ... Hand yourself over to be enchanted.'' Guardian''Extraordinary, lucid wildness.'' Helen MacDonald''Glinting perfection'' The TimesDecades after her divorce, a lady returns to the village of her tumultuous marriage. A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a caf
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Charmed Wife
Book SynopsisGenre-bending and darkly comic, Grushin''s fourth novel is a weird and wonderful triumph. –O, the Oprah MagazineCinderella wants her Prince Charming dead in this sophisticated fairy-tale for the twenty-first century. Cinderella married the man of her dreams--the perfect ending she deserved after diligently following all the fairy-tale rules. Yet now, thirteen and a half years later, things have gone badly wrong and her life is far from perfect. One night, fed up and exhausted, she sneaks out of the palace to get help from the Witch who, for a price, offers love potions to disgruntled housewives. But as the old hag flings the last ingredients into the cauldron, Cinderella doesn''t ask for a love spell to win back her Prince Charming. Instead, she wants him dead. Endlessly surprising, wildly inventive, and decidedly modern, The Charmed Wife weaves together time and place, fantasy and reality, to conjure a world unlike any other. Nothing in it is quite what it seems--the twists and turns of its magical, dark, and swiftly shifting paths take us deep into the heart of what makes us unique, of romance and marriage, and of the very nature of storytelling.
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Random House USA Inc Latitudes of Longing
Book SynopsisA sweeping, lyrical debut about the love and longing between humanity and the earth itself, by a major new literary talent from India“A marvel of magical realism.”—O: The Oprah Magazine A spellbinding work of literature, Latitudes of Longing follows the interconnected lives of characters searching for true intimacy. The novel sweeps across India, from an island, to a valley, a city, and a snow desert, to tell a love story of epic proportions. We follow a scientist who studies trees and a clairvoyant who speaks to them; a geologist working to end futile wars over a glacier; octogenarian lovers; a mother struggling to free her revolutionary son; a yeti who seeks human companionship; a turtle who transforms first into a boat and then a woman; and the ghost of an evaporated ocean as restless as the continents. Binding them all together is a vision of life as vast as the universe itself. A young writer awarded one o
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Penguin Young Readers Lore Olympus Volume 01
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Penguin Books Ltd Daughters of Sparta
Book SynopsisTHE NATIONAL BESTSELLER! For millennia, men have told the legend of the woman whose face launched a thousand ships—but now it's time to hear her side of the story. Daughters of Sparta is a tale of secrets, love, and tragedy from the women behind mythology's most devastating war, the infamous Helen and her sister Klytemnestra. As princesses of Sparta, Helen and Klytemnestra have known nothing but luxury and plenty. With their high birth and unrivaled beauty, they are the envy of all of Greece. But such privilege comes at a cost. While still only girls, the sisters are separated and married to foreign kings of their father's choosing—the powerful Agamemnon, and his brother Menelaos. Yet even as Queens, each is only expected to do two things: birth an heir and embody the meek, demure nature that is expected of women.But when the weight of their husbands' neglect, cruelty, and ambition becomes too heavy to bear, Helen and Klytemn
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Penguin Putnam Inc Half Sick of Shadows
Book SynopsisLaura Sebastian is the next Madeline Miller. . . . a fierce, fresh, lyrical tale that will enthrall until the last page.--Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Huntress A Popsugar Best Summer Read of 2021 A Bibliolifestyle Most Anticipated Summer 2021 Sci-fi and Fantasy Book Magical, haunting, unique--I haven't been so excited about an Arthur book since I read The Once and Future King .--Tamora Pierce, #1 New York Times bestselling author The Lady of Shalott reclaims her story in this bold feminist reimagining of the Arthurian myth from the New York Times bestselling author of Ash Princess. Everyone knows the legend. Of Arthur, destined to be a king. Of the beautiful Guinevere, who will betray him with his most loyal knight, Lancelot. Of the bitter sorceress, Morgana, who will turn against them all. But Elaine alone carries the burden of knowing
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Random House USA Inc The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land
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Random House USA Inc In a Garden Burning Gold
Book Synopsis“Fresh and original . . . full of lush writing and detailed worldbuilding . . . [with a] rich fantasy landscape and an almost Shakespearean feel.”—PasteTwins imbued with incredible magic and near-immortality will do anything to keep their family in power—even if it tears the family apart—in the first book of a mythic epic fantasy duology from the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls.ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—BookPage Rhea and Lexos were born into a family unlike any other. Together with their siblings, they control the seasons, the tides, and the stars, and help their father rule their kingdom. Thanks to their magic, the family has ruled for an eternity, and plan to rule for an eternity more. But Rhea and Lexos are special: They are twins, bonded down to the bone, and for the past hundred years, that bond has protected them as their father becomes an unpredictable tyrant—and his worsening temper threatens the family’s grip on power. Now, with rival nations ready to attack, and a rebel movement within their own borders, Rhea and Lexos must fight to keep the kingdom—and the family—together, even as treachery, deceit, and drama threaten to strand the twins on opposite sides of the battlefield. In a Garden Burning Gold is a vividly written, atmospheric saga that explores the limits of power and the bonds of family—and how far both can be bent before they break.
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Random House USA Inc In an Orchard Grown from Ash
Book SynopsisSiblings torn apart by betrayal grapple with their broken bonds?and fight to regain their power?in this stunning conclusion to a mythic epic fantasy duology from the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls.The Argyros siblings have lost everything. With their father dead and their family home captured, they?re no longer the rulers of their fractured kingdom?and no longer bound to each other.In the frozen north, Rhea struggles to wield her newly inherited command over death and to find her place in an increasingly distrustful rebel group. Chrysanthi travels to a distant, war-torn land in search of her elusive brother Nitsos, certain that he is there on a dangerous mission to restore the family to its former glory, this time with himself at its head. And Lexos, now stripped of all his power and a political prisoner of the Domina family, is left to rot in a hauntingly desolate palace with nothing but thoughts of revenge. Alone and farther apart than they?ve ever been, the siblings must reckon with the pain of their past and find a new path forward?or risk their own destruction. In an Orchard Grown from Ash is the dramatic finale of a darkly beautiful, atmospheric saga that explores the cost of power and the weight of legacy.
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Not Stated Bad Cree
Book SynopsisIn this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman?s dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home.A mystery and a horror story about grief, but one with defiant hope in its beating heart. ?Paul Tremblay, authorof A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers ClubWhenMackenzie wakes up with a severed crow''s head in her hands, she panics. Only moments earlier she had been fending off masses of birds in a snow-covered forest. In bed, when she blinks, the head disappears.Night after night, Mackenzie?s dreams return her to a memory from before her sister Sabrina?s untimely death: a weekend at the family?s lakefront campsite, long obscured by a fog of guilt. But when the waking world starts closing in, too?a murder of crows stalks her every move around the city, she wakes up from a dream of drowning throwing up water, and gets threatening text messages from someone claiming to be Sabrina?Mackenzie knows this is more than she can handle alone.Traveling north to her rural hometown in Alberta, she finds her family still steeped in the same grief that she ran away to Vancouver to escape. They welcome her back, but their shaky reunion only seems to intensify her dreams?and make them more dangerous.What really happened that night at the lake, and what did it have to do with Sabrina?s death? Only a bad Cree would put their family at risk, but what if whatever has been calling Mackenzie home was already inside?
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Penguin Putnam Inc Way Home
Book SynopsisRenowned author Peter S. Beagle returns to the world of The Last Unicorn in this resonant and moving two-novella collection, featuring the award-winning “Two Hearts” and the brand-new “Sooz.” The Last Unicorn is one of fantasy’s most revered classics, beloved by generations of readers and with millions of copies in print. Revisiting the world of that novel, Beagle’s long-awaited Hugo and Nebula-Awards-winning “Two Hearts” introduced the irrepressible Sooz on a quest to save her village from a griffin, and explored the bonds she formed with unforgettable characters like the wise and wonderful Molly Grue and Schmendrick the Magician. In the never-before-published “Sooz,” the events of “Two Hearts” are years behind its narrator, but a perilous journey lies ahead of her, in a story that is at once a tender meditation on love and loss, and a lesson in finding your true self.
£17.00
iUniverse The Lioness Tale
£7.98
Creek Ridge Publishing Egyptian Mythology
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£9.70
LIGHTNING SOURCE INC The Gods of War and Darkness
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£21.84
Strange Nation Publishing Australian Big Cats An Unnatural History of Panthers
£25.00
Michael Walmer Odette
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£16.10
Nattie Kate Mason Heart of a Crown
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