Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands

8 best books like Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands (Ivan Turgenev): The Robber Bridegroom, To-morrow, Circe and the Cyclops, It was Snowing Butterflies, The Night is Darkening Round Me, The Fall of Icarus, Miss Brill, I Hate and I Love

The Robber Bridegroom

Author	Jacob Grimm
ISBN	0141398574

'Then she began to run, and she ran over the sharp stones and through the thorns, and the wild animals bounded past her ...'

Four weird, dark and enchanting fairy-tales from the Brothers Grimm.

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To-morrow

Author	Joseph Conrad
ISBN	0141398493

‘It was as if the sea, breaking down the wall protecting all the homes of the town, had sent a wave over her head’ . . .

Set in a desolate English port, Conrad’s spare, savage turn-of-the-century story of lives haunted by the sea. One of Conrad’s most powerful, gripping stories.

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Circe and the Cyclops

Author	Homer
ISBN	0141398612

'You must be Odysseus, man of twists and turns...'

The tales of Odysseus's struggle with a man-eating Cyclops and Circe, the beautiful enchantress who turns men into swine.

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It was Snowing Butterflies

Author	Charles Darwin
ISBN	0141398558

'The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus'

A selection of Darwin's extraordinary adventures during the voyage of the Beagle

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The Night is Darkening Round Me

Author	Emily Brontë
ISBN	0141398477

'... ever-present, phantom thing; My slave, my comrade, and my king'

Some of Emily Brontë's most extraordinary poems

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The Fall of Icarus

Author	Ovid
ISBN	0141398671

‘Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards . . .’

Enduring myths of vengeful gods and tragically flawed mortals from ancient Rome’s great poet. Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many...

Miss Brill

Author	Katherine Mansfield
ISBN	3379017272

The story is about Miss Brill, a middle-aged English teacher in an unnamed French vacation town. It follows her on a regular Sunday afternoon in the park, which she spends walking and sitting in the park, wearing an old but beloved fur. She sees the world as if it were a stage, and enjoys watching the people...

I Hate and I Love

Author	Catullus
ISBN	0141398590

Dazzling modern lyrical poems from Catullus - by turns smutty, abusive, romantic and deeply moving.

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