The Madman's Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature 9781471166914

From the author of the critically acclaimed and globally successful The Phantom Atlas, The Golden Atlas and The Sky Atla

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English Pages 256 Year 2020

The Madman's Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature
9781471166914

This book aims to give new insights into the multifarious worlds of Angela Carter and to re-assess her impact and import

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Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily, ca. 80–20 BCE, wrote forty books of world history, called Librar

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