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  Myths of China and Japan -...

  Donald A. Mackenzie

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  The myths of China and Japan set beside those of India, Babylon and Europe: the dragon kings, the sun goddess, the eight immortals, the culture heroes and the flood. Donald Mackenzie wrote a shelf of mythology volumes in the 1920s and was interested chiefly in the borrowings between them. His diffusionist theory is out of favour; the retellings are clear and the comparisons still provoke. Twenty-eight plates of Chinese and Japanese painting, from Xia Gui and Ni Zan to Tani Bunchō, carry the landscapes, figures and flowers that the old stories grew from.

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  A Thief in the Night - A Book of...

  E.W. Hornung

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  More Raffles: the amateur cracksman and Bunny break into a country house during a shooting party, rob a Chelsea studio, and are blackmailed by a man who knows. Hornung was Conan Doyle's brother-in-law and built Raffles by inverting Holmes and Watson into a burglar and his accomplice; Doyle disapproved, wrote that one should not make a criminal a hero, and was quite right, which is why it works. Fifty plates of harbour fog, music-hall footlights and grey Channel skies by Whistler and Sickert run through this Raffles, matching the twilight trade of the gentleman burglar.

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  The Muse's Tragedy - From their...

  Edith Wharton

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  Edith Newbold Jones was born in New York on January 24, 1862.   Born into wealth, this background of privilege gave her a wealth of experience to eventually, after several false starts, produce many works based on it culminating in her Pulitzer Prize winning novel ‘The Age Of Innocence’ 
  Marriage to Edward Robbins Wharton, who was 12 years older in 1885 seemed to offer much and for some years they travelled extensively.  After some years it was apparent that her husband suffered from acute depression and so the travelling ceased and they retired to The Mount, their estate designed by Edith.  By 1908 his condition was said to be incurable and prior to divorcing Edward in 1913 she began an affair, in 1908, with Morton Fullerton, a Times journalist, who was her intellectual equal and allowed her writing talents to push forward and write the novels for which she is so well known.  
  Acknowledged as one of the great American writers with novels such as Ethan Frome and the House of Mirth among many.  Wharton also wrote many short stories, including ghost stories and poems which we are pleased to publish.  
  Edith Wharton died of a stroke in 1937 at the Domaine Le Pavillon Colombe, her 18th-century house on Rue de Montmorency in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt.

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  A Christmas Mistake

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

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  Some mistakes carve wounds. Others, however, carve paths—twisting, unexpected roads that lead straight to the heart of what truly matters. In A Christmas Mistake, Montgomery paints a holiday tale where a simple misunderstanding reshapes lives in ways neither regret nor logic could predict. The charm of this story lies in its warmth, its humanity, and the quiet wisdom that sometimes, what seems like misfortune is nothing more than fate wrapped in disguise. Witty, touching, and utterly Montgomery, this is Christmas storytelling at its finest—where mishaps become blessings and where the wrong road just might lead to the right home.

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  Epic of Gilgamesh The: Modern...

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. ★ The Oldest Story in Human History Reborn into a Modern Fantasy Epic ★ 
   
  Over 4,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, the legend of King Gilgamesh was carved onto clay tablets. Today, humanity's first epic hero returns in a fast-paced, modern fantasy narrative optimized for contemporary readers and listening flow. 
   
  ■ ABOUT THIS EDITION 
  - Modernized Narrative Flow: Replaces archaic tablet fragments and rigid poetic repetition with clear, vivid prose while preserving the epic scale and profound themes of the original Mesopotamian text. 
  - High-Impact Storytelling: Follows Gilgamesh's journey from an unstoppable, tyrannical king of Uruk to a humbled seeker of eternal life. 
  - Legendary Encounters: Experience the epic bonds of brotherhood with Enkidu, the fearsome battle against the forest demon Humbaba, the wrath of the Bull of Heaven, and the ancient tale of the Great Flood told by the immortal Utnapishtim. 
   
  ■ SYNOPSIS 
  Gilgamesh, two-thirds god and one-third man, rules Uruk with an iron fist. Unmatched in strength, he knows no equal—until the gods forge Enkidu, a wild man born of the wilderness. What begins as a brutal clash of titans blossoms into the greatest friendship in ancient mythology. But when tragedy strikes, Gilgamesh is forced to face his own mortality, embarking on a perilous quest to the ends of the earth to uncover the secret of eternal life. 
   
  Ideal for fans of mythology, classic literature, epic fantasy, and world history!

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  The Age of Innocence - A Novel...

  Edith Wharton

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  Newland Archer is engaged to the correct girl when her cousin returns from Europe with a failed marriage behind her and no intention of pretending otherwise. Wharton was born inside old New York and dismantled it from the inside; this was the first novel by a woman to win the Pulitzer, and she wrote it in France, in her fifties, about a world that had already vanished. One hundred plates of painting from 1800 to 1921, among them Cassatt and Homer, catch the parlors, promenades and summer light of the world Wharton's New York was already losing.

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