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The appetites of the aristocracy

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Флуар и Бланшефлор
Флуар и Бланшефлор

Созданный во второй половине XII века неизвестным французским автором, этот роман о любви сарацинского принца Флуара и пленницы-христианки Бланшефлор принадлежит к наиболее значительным явлениям культуры той эпохи. К его сюжету не раз возвращались литераторы и более позднего времени - от Бокаччо до Блока...

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`Upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein: - to this the men pointed, crying, simultaneously struck with horror, "a Vampyre, a Vampyre!"' John Polidori's classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Set in Italy, Greece, and London, Polidori�...

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Phaedra's Love
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Sarah Kane's radical reworking of Seneca's classical tragedy of incest and unrequited lust. Phaedra's Love is a bold and provocative revisioning of the story of Phaedra's obsessive and destructive love of her son Hippolytus and his violent punishment by Theseus.

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Newt's Emerald
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On her eighteenth birthday, Lady Truthful, nicknamed “Newt,” will inherit her family’s treasure: the Newington Emerald. A dazzling heart-shaped gem, the Emerald also bestows its wearer with magical powers. When the Emerald disappears one stormy night, Newt sets off to recover it. Her plan entails dressing up as a man, mustache included, as no well-bred young lady should be seen out and about on...

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The Idylls of the Queen: A Tale of Queen Guenevere
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In The Idylls of the Queen, Phyllis Ann Karr takes an incident (the murder of Sir Patrise) from Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and creates an intelligent, complex, and fascinating mystery novel perfect for fans of historical mysteries, of British legends, and of fantasy. Queen Guenevere is giving a dinner to honor King Arthur's knights when one guest, Sir Patrise, falls dead of ...

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Britannia, Vol. 2: We Who Are About to Die
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Chretien de Troyes invente dans Yvain ou le chevalier au lion un nouveau mythe du heros accorde au monde courtois du XIIe siecle. Yvain y entreprend une quete qui le mene vers la perfection chevaleresque a travers la fievre de l'aventure et la magie du merveilleux. De la fontaine feerique a la folie noire puis aux exploits contre des geants sanguinaires, s'accomplit une initiation symbol...