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The famous literary romance of Elizabeth Barret and Robert Browning given a funny and poignant slant - being told from the viewpoint of Elizabeth's adored spaniel, Flush, who bore his mistress's virtual imprisonment as an invalid in her father's house, and shared her dramatic flight abroad and subsequent happy married life.
Flush belonged to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and followed its mistress from her confinement in her father's house in Wimpole...
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A retelling of four Arthurian legends, "The Sword in the Stone, " "Excalibur, " "The Lady of the Lake, " and "The Last Great Battle, " which feature Merlin, King Arthur, and other familiar figures. In this collection of three exciting Arthurian tales, Merlin the magician watches over young Arthur as he rises to become king of all England. But enemies threaten Arthur: Morgan le Fay, the witch, and Mordred, the traitor, plot to bring about the king's...
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A retelling of the medieval poem about a group of travelers on a pilgrimage to Canterbury and the tales they tell each other. With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crowd of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life-from knight to nun, miller to monk-reveal a picture of English life in the fourteenth...