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10 best books like Leonardo da Vinci (Giorgio Vasari): The Robber Bridegroom, To-morrow, The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon, Sindbad the Sailor, The Night is Darkening Round Me, The Old Man of the Moon, My Dearest Father, The Reckoning, I Hate and I Love, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

The Robber Bridegroom
AuthorJacob Grimm
ISBN0141398574
'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
AuthorJoseph Conrad
ISBN0141398493
‘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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The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon
AuthorAesop
ISBN0141398434
'An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion...'

Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories ever told, thought to have been composed by a slave in Greek antiquity and giving glimpses of a world that is harsh, pitiless and yet also eerily familiar.

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Sindbad the Sailor
AuthorUnknown
ISBN0141397683
'The valley was full of snakes and serpents as big as palm trees, so huge that they could have swallowed any elephant that met them.'

A selection of fantastic and perilous adventures at sea from the Thousand and One Nights.

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The Night is Darkening Round Me
AuthorEmily Brontë
ISBN0141398477
'... ever-present, phantom thing; My slave, my comrade, and my king'

Some of Emily Brontë's most extraordinary poems

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The Old Man of the Moon
AuthorShen Fu
ISBN0141397802
Some men are just obsessed with their woman. Indeed, there is only one constant in Shen Fu’s life and that’s his wife Yun. Fate has brought them together and, according to them, will always keep them together. Their love knows no bounds and is immeasurable. Folk law suggests that is the old man in the...
My Dearest Father
AuthorWolfgang Amadeus Mozart
ISBN0141397624
'They wanted me to give a concert; I wanted them to beg me. And so they did. I gave a concert.'

A selection of personal correspondence between Mozart and his most important mentor and supporter, his father.

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The Reckoning
AuthorEdith Wharton
'If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature.'

Two moving stories of love, loss, desire and divorce, from one of the great chroniclers of nineteenth-century New York life.

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I Hate and I Love
AuthorCatullus
ISBN0141398590
Dazzling modern lyrical poems from Catullus - by turns smutty, abusive, romantic and deeply moving.

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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
AuthorOscar Wilde
ISBN1853260665
It was Lady Windermere's last reception before Easter, and Bentinck House was even more crowded than usual. Six Cabinet Ministers had come on from the Speaker's Levee in their stars and ribands, all the pretty women wore their smartest dresses, and at the end of the picture-gallery stood the Princess...
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