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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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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A major translation achievement, this anthology presents a rich assortment of classical Arabic poems and literary prose,

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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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What can a pesticide pump, a jar full of sand, or an old calico print tell us about the Anthropocene—the age of humans?

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From the moment she first learned to read, literary genius Darcy Wells has spent most of her time living in the worlds o

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Alfred Russel Wallace On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species (S20: 1855); On the Tendency of Var

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