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Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Magic
From the liars of the fantastical and fabular and from the domains of the unconscious' mysteries ...lie the brides in the Bloody Chamber - hunts unwillingly the Queen of the Vampires - slips Red Riding Hood into the arms of the Wolf - pimps our Puss-In-Boots for his lustful master. In tales that glitter ...Show more
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Magic
Dr Jekyll has been experimenting with his identity. He has developed a drug which separates the two sides of his nature and allows him occasionally to abandon himself to his most corrupt inclinations as the monstrous Mr Hyde. But gradually he begins to find that the journey back to goodness becomes more ...Show more
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories (Vintage Classics) by R. L. Stevenson
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Magic Ser.
"How thin is the line between good and evil? r Jekyll has been experimenting with his identity. He has developed a drug which separates the two sides of his nature and allows him to occasionally abandon himself to his most corrupt inclinations as the monstrous Mr Hyde.But gradually he begins to find tha ...Show more
Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Magic
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, th ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Magic Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JEANETTE WINTERSON AND A CULTURAL HISTORY OF FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER What you create can destroy you. One freezing morning, a lone man wandering across the Arctic ice caps is rescued from starvation by a ship's captain. Victor Frankenstein's story is one of ambition, murder and ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Magic Ser.
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Magic
What you create can destroy you. One freezing morning, a lone man wandering across the Arctic ice caps is rescued from starvation by a ship's captain. That man is Victor Frankenstein and his story is one of ambition, murder and revenge. As a young scientist he pushed moral boundaries in order to cross t ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Magic
Mary Shelley's seminal novel of the scientist whose creation becomes a monster This edition is the original 1818 text, which preserves the hard-hitting and politically charged aspects of Shelley's original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. This edition also includes a new ...Show more
House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Magic
As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her sister, Rosa the Beautiful, Clara is mute for nine years. When she breaks her silence, it is to announce that she will be married soon to the s ...Show more
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Magic Ser.
Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world's great storytellers at the peak of his powers. Here we meet a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who is on the run, and Nakata, an aging simpleton who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami en ...Show more
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Magic
Kafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The ageing Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his highly simplified life suddenly o ...Show more
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Magic Ser.
The bloody chamber -- The courtship of Mr. Lyon -- The tiger's bride -- Puss-in-Boots -- The Erl-King -- The snow child -- The lady of the house of love -- The worewolf -- The company of wolves -- Wolf-Alice.