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"I'm minded of the way a fire spreads in dry bracken when we burn
it off the fellside: tongues of flame this way and that - 'tis
human tongues and words that's creeping like flames in brushwood."
It all began up at High Gimmerdale with the sheep-stealing, a
hateful act in the shepherding lands around the bend in the Lune
river - the Crook o' Lune. Then came the fire at Aikengill house
and with the leaping of the flames, death, disorder and dangerous
gossip came to the quiet moorlands. Visiting his friends, the
Hoggetts, while searching for some farmland to buy up ahead of his
retirement, Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald's trip becomes a
busman's holiday when he is drawn to investigate the deadly blaze
and the deep-rooted motives behind the rising spate of crimes.
Renowned for its authentic characters and settings based partly on
the author's own experiences of life in the Lune valley, E.C.R.
Lorac's classic rural mystery returns to print for the first time
since 1953.
During a trip to a nearby village to visit friends, Sir Ashleigh
Carruthers, the adventurous and eligible son of a country squire,
attends an evening service in the small local church. There, he
finds himself seated next to the alluring and hypnotically
beautiful Woman in Black. When the vicar falls ashen and collapses
mid-sermon after looking upon her face--and when he, himself,
becomes sick--Carruthers is left to wonder and then investigate:
Who is this mysterious woman, and why does she cause mad passion,
illness, and fear in her wake? Is she afflicted with the curse of
the vampire?
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The Three Musketeers
(Paperback, Annotated edition)
Alexandre Dumas; Introduction by Keith Wren; Notes by Keith Wren; Translated by William Barrow; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren. University of Kent at
Canterbury. One of the most celebrated and popular historical
romances ever written, The Three Musketeers tells the story of the
early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman, D'Artagnan and his
three friends from the regiment of the King's Musketeers - Athos,
Porthos and Aramis. Under the watchful eye of their patron M. de
Treville, the four defend the honour of the regiment against the
guards of Cardinal Richelieu, and the honour of the queen against
the machinations of the Cardinal himself as the power struggles of
seventeenth century France are vividly played out in the
background. But their most dangerous encounter is with the
Cardinal's spy, Milady, one of literature's most memorable female
villains, and Alexandre Dumas employs all his fast-paced narrative
skills to bring this enthralling novel to a breathtakingly gripping
and dramatic conclusion. Our edition uses the William Barrow
translation first published by Bruce and Wylde (London,1846)
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Carmilla
(Hardcover)
Joseph Sheridan Lefanu; Edited by Savannah Stuttgen; Foreword by Mark Leslie Lefebvre
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Meditations is a compendium of ruminations and reflections by the
second-century Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, a staunch adherent to the
Stoic philosophy. It is a spiritual journal of the author’s
philosophical exercises and a chronicle of the paradox of the
philosopher-king.
The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are among the best loved and
most famous in world literature. This volume features more than
forty of their best-known fairy tales, lavishly illustrated with
line drawings and colour plates by Artur Rackham.
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