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81) Slender Man
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One man's search for the truth about one of the most intriguing urban legends ever-the modern bogeyman, Slender Man-leads him down a dark, dangerous path in this creepy supernatural fantasy that will make you question where the line between dark myth and terrifying reality begins.
Lauren Bailey has disappeared. As friends at her exclusive school speculate on what happened and the police search for answers, Matt Barker dreams of trees and a black...
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Flamenca es la bella esposa de Archimbaut, un caballero enamorado y celoso que la recluye en una torre, sólo le permite salir a los oficios religiosos y a tomar baños medicinales. En tanto, el virtuoso Guillermo se enamora de oídas de ella, la espía y apenas logra atisbar su rostro; aunque, con la ayuda de Amor, ambos se conocen en los sueños. Luego de largas dubitaciones, llegan los encuentros y el abandono a los placeres.
El román de Flamenca...
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In the year 778 A.D., Charles the Great, King of the Franks, returned from a military expedition into Spain, whither he had been led by opportunities offered through dissensions among the Saracens who then dominated that country. On the 15th of August, while his army was marching through the passes of the Pyrenees, his rear-guard was attacked and annihilated by the Basque inhabitants of the mountains, in the valley of Roncesvaux. About this disaster...
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"The Saga of the Volsungs" is one of the truly great Icelandic sagas. Composed sometime in the twelfth or thirteenth century by an unknown author, it is the story of Sigurd the dragon-slayer. Filled with elements of Norse mythology and great human drama, The Saga of the Volsungs has greatly influenced the fantasy genre of literature. Presented in this volume is the translation of Eiríkr Magnússon and William Morris.
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First passed down orally through innumerable generations of minstrels before the presence of Christianity in Scandinavia, and written down eventually by unknown poets, "The Poetic Edda" is a collection of mythological and heroic Old Norse poems. The bulk of the text was preserved for hundreds of years in the Codex Regius of Iceland, a 13th century manuscript which was largely unknown until its rediscovery in the 17th century. Upon this rediscovery...
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Everyone is a part of the Circle of Time, eternally reliving the same life. But, Destrou is the anomaly. And, this is his first chance at life-maybe his last, if everything works out.
S'rae is a lonely girl born light-years after Destrou. Before she could achieve her dream to graduate top of her class at the School of Wind, the professor tells her she is one of the twelve destined students, from the three elemental schools chosen, to visit the Valley...
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La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades (más conocida como Lazarillo de Tormes) es una novela española anónima, escrita en primera persona y en estilo epistolar (como una sola y larga carta), cuyas ediciones conocidas más antiguas datan de 1554. En ella se cuenta de forma autobiográfica la vida de un niño, Lázaro de Tormes, en el siglo xvi, desde su nacimiento y mísera infancia hasta su boda, ya en la edad adulta. Es...
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Here is the tale of the search for the Holy Grail, the vessel that received the blood of Christ upon the day of his Crucifixion. This anonymous story is thought to be a continuation of the French trouvère Chrétien de Troyes' unfinished "Perceval, The Story of the Grail." Written sometime in the early 13th century, this Arthurian Romance remains unique for its high amount of allegorical mysticism and use of Celtic lore. Our hero Perceval here goes...
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First told orally by unknown generations of Welsh storytellers, "The Mabinogion" was subsequently written down in the 13th century in the form of a collection of prose tales. These stories draw on pre-Christian Celtic myth, folklore, and Welsh history and tradition to tell a magical set of stories that reach back to the Iron Age and Arthurian romance. These twelve tales are set in both the land of Wales and a dim otherworld, with a wide cast of vibrant...
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First passed down orally through innumerable generations of minstrels before the presence of Christianity in Scandinavia, and written down eventually by unknown poets, "The Poetic Edda" is a collection of mythological and heroic Old Norse poems. It was preserved for hundreds of years in the medieval Codex Regius of Iceland. This body of poetry contains narratives on creation, the Doom of the Gods, the adventures of Thor and hostile giants, and many...
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Extrait : "Le roi Charles, notre empereur, le Grand, sept ans tous pleins est resté dans l'Espagne : jusqu'à la mer il a conquis la terre hautaine. Plus un château qui devant lui résiste, plus une muraille à forcer, plus une cité, hormis Saragosse, qui est sur une montagne."
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Extrait: "Depuis le bon Dieu qui inventa les hommes; Noé, la vigne; Moïse, les sauterelles; Depuis saint Vincent-de-Paule qui trouva les enfants-trouvés, et Christophe-Colomb l'Amérique; Depuis Richelieu qui inventa quarante fauteuils ornés d'hommes assis, et M. de Vigny qui inventa Richelieu; Depuis Napoléon qui inventa la poudre, et M. Bugeaud qui ne l'inventa pas.”
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Extrait: "UNE soirée que les hautes puissances Napoléoniennes étaient réunies à Saint-Cloud, madame Marie Lætitia, femme de Carlo Bonaparte et mère de Nicolas ou Napoléon Bonaparte, successivement lieutenant d'artillerie, général, premier consul et puis empereur des Français; de Joseph Bonaparte, successivement clerc de procureur à Marseille, membre du conseil des cinq-cents, ambassadeur à Rome, conseiller d'état, sénateur, roi de Naples..."...
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Once cuentos tradicionales de todas partes del mundo, con mucho humor y en versiones especialmente realizadas para esta colección. Incluye "El ingenioso zorro rojo" (chino), "La salchicha que no quería ser asada" (suizo), "La niña lista" (ruso), "Perro y Cerdo" (laosiano), "Los dos jóvenes y los dos chichones" (japonés), "El país de los perezosos" (hebreo), "El rey necio" (birmano), y "Juan el Tonto", "Una moneda de ¡ay!", "Pedro el Listo"...
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El volumen ofrece un recorrido por algunos de los siempre atrapantes mitos griegos. Incluye "El dios Apolo y la hermosa Dafne", "Las hazañas de Teseo", "El ingenioso Dédalo y su hijo Ícaro", "Faetón y el carro del Sol", "El valiente Perseo", "El vellocino de oro" y "El viaje de Jasón y los Argonautas", en versiones especialmente realizadas para esta colección.
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