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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This is a book about why medieval manuscripts matter. The idea for the book, which is entirely new, is to invite the reader into intimate conversations with twelve of the most famous manuscripts in existence and to explore with the author what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history -- and sometimes about the modern world too. Part travel book, part detective story, part conversation with the reader, Meetings with remarkable...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The seventy-five folios and other unpublished manuscripts contains early versions of six episodes later included in Marcel Proust's �A la recherche du temps perdu. Discovered in 2018 and presented here for the first time in English, the folios reveal the autobiographical extent of Proust's work and the "sacred moment" when his genius blossomed"--
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to the north. Fadlan belatedly discovers that his job is to combat the terrors in the night that come to slaughter the Vikings--but just how he will do it, Fadlan has no idea.
Series
British Library Crime Classics volume 93
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"With Martin Edwards as librarian and guide, delve into an irresistible stack of bibliomysteries, perfect for every booklover and armchair sleuth, featuring much-loved Golden Age detectives Nigel Strangeways, Philip Trent, Detective Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn, and others. But readers should be warned that the most riveting tales often conceal the deadliest of secrets ... A bookish puzzle threatens an eagerly awaited inheritance; a submission...
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