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The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsOstap Bender is an unemployed con artist living by his wits in postrevolutionary Soviet Russia. He joins forces with Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, a former nobleman who has returned to his hometown to find a cache of missing jewels which were hidden in some chairs that have been appropriated by the Soviet authorities...Categorized as:
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The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 98 ratingsWhat happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be...well...a lot less than the man of her dreams?As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride...Categorized as:
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![Granny, Iliko, Illarion, and I by Nodar Dumbadze, نودار دومبادزه]()
Granny, Iliko, Illarion, and I by Nodar Dumbadze, نودار دومبادزه
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"Granny, Iliko, Illarion and I" was the first book written by Nodar Dumbadze (1928-1984), a major Georgian writer. The book, which has a strong autobiographical element, tells about the wartime childhood of an orphaned Georgian boy, and about his youth and studies at Tbilisi University...Categorized as:
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Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsWhen We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six complete the four-volume set of deluxe editions of the Milne and Shepard classic works. Like their companions, the Winnie-the-Pooh 80th Anniversary Edition and The House At Pooh Corner, these beautiful books feature full-color artwork on cream-colored stock...Categorized as:
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![Gramercy Classics Lewis Carroll: The Complete Illustrated Works by Lewis Carroll]()
Gramercy Classics Lewis Carroll: The Complete Illustrated Works by Lewis Carroll
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThis beautiful, 868-page leather-bound volume contains a delightful collection of stories from one of history's most beloved children's authors. Lewis Carroll's stories are still as fresh and appealing as when they were first published more than a century ago... -
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Swami and Friends by R.K. Narayan
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratings"There are writers—Tolstoy and Henry James to name two—whom we hold in awe, writers—Turgenev and Chekhov—for whom we feel a personal affection, other writers whom we respect—Conrad for example—but who hold us at a long arm's length with their 'courtly foreign grace...Categorized as:
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The Great Brain Reforms by John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe year is 1898, and the best con man in Adenville, Utah, is the infamous twelve-year-old Tom Fitzgerald, "The Great Brain." A year at the Catholic Academy for Boys certainly hasn't dulled Tom's love for money—he's no sooner off the train than he begins scamming his own brother! By the end of his summer break, Tom has tricked all of his friends out of everything they own...Categorized as:
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The Return of the Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTom Fitzgerald, alias The Great Brain, is back, struggling to stay reformed now that his friends have threatened to ostracize him if he pulls even one more swindle. But his brother J.D. knows Tom's reformation is too good to be true, and as a reformed Great Brain makes for a dull life, J.D...Categorized as:
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The Great Brain Does it Again by John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAs entertaining as ever...readers will fall happily under The Great Brain's spell."-- "School Library Journal...Categorized as:
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Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas And Other American Stories by Hunter S. Thompson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDr. Thompson made the list of inspirational scribes when I polled in a recent writing workshop, and why not? Back in a spiffy Modern Library edition, replete with additional essays, I find in this iconographic work that HST both invoked--and provoked--an era that was not so much the '60s proper, but rather the mean, shadow-filled death of that time, which is still playing out...Categorized as:
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The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain by Mark Twain
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsFor deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain’s inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years...Categorized as:
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Selected Stories by O. Henry
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratings"Selected Stories of O. Henry," by O. Henry, is part of the "Barnes & Noble Classics"" "series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras...Categorized as:
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Paddington Helps Out by Michael Bond
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThat bear is back again, and in this new edition of Paddington Helps Out, his attraction for near disaster is as magnetic as ever. Who but Paddington would set out to cook dumplings only to find himself chased from the kitchen by something so nasty only his resourceful friend Mr... -
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The Great Brain Is Back by John D. Fitzgerald
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis classic trickster is back again, and he's up to no good in his eighth and final book of the series. Great mix of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Terrible Two series, and is perfect for fans of Roald Dahl.Tom D. Fitzgerald--better known as The Great Brain--has turned thirteen, and pretty Polly Reagan has put a spell on him. But when it comes to swindling his younger brother J. D...Categorized as:
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![Me and My Little Brain by John D. Fitzgerald]()
Me and My Little Brain by John D. Fitzgerald
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTom, a.k.a. the Great Brain, is off to boarding school. Now his little brother, J. D., is free to follow in Tom's ingenious, conniving, and profitable footsteps. All of J. D.'s attempts at turning a profit fail miserably, and he soon realizes that he just doesn't have that crafty Great Brain knack. But when his younger brother is kidnapped, J. D...Categorized as:
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![My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad, Azar Nafisi]()
My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad, Azar Nafisi
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA teenage boy makes the mistake of falling in love with the much-protected daughter of his uncle, mischievously nicknamed after his hero Napoleon Bonaparte, the curmudgeonly self-appointed patriarch of a large and extended Iranian family in 1940s Tehran...Categorized as:
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Water Music by T. Coraghessan Boyle, James R. Kincaid
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAlternate Cover Edition can be found here and here.T.C. Boyle's riotous first novel, now in a new edition for its 25th anniversary Twenty five years ago, T.C. Boyle published his first novel, Water Music, a funny, bawdy, extremely entertaining novel of imaginative and stylistic fancy that announced to the world Boyle's tremendous gifts as a storyteller...Categorized as:
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![The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill]()
The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe pushcarts have declared war! New York City's streets are clogged with huge, rude trucks that park where they want, hold up traffic, and bulldoze into anything that is in their way, and the pushcart peddlers are determined to get rid of them. But the trucks are just as determined to get rid of the pushcarts, and chaos results in the city...Categorized as:
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Flashman's Lady by George MacDonald Fraser
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFlashy, that lustful libertine, takes a round-the-world adventure that would shock Don Juan and make swingers of today green with envy. In an English mansion, he's not just doodling in the drawing room with a blue blood's red-hot-blooded mistress; in Africa, he's forced to serve a sultry queen who kills low-endurance lovers...Categorized as:
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![The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry, Shep O'Neal]()
The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry, Shep O'Neal
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsStarters are an introductory level to the new Oxford Bookworms Library, suitable for readers in their first or second years of learning English. The Starters series are original stories in a variety of formats: narrative, interactive, and comic strip. They contain glossaries and exercises and are carefully graded in structure and vocabulary. Cassettes are available for some titles...Categorized as:
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![Fish Preferred by P.G. Wodehouse]()
Fish Preferred by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHugh Carmody loved Millicent, Lord Emsworth niece, but he was very good friends with Sue Brown - an attachment which Millicent, perhaps, could hardly be expected to enthuse over. Ronnie Fish loved Sue, and entertained feelings o unrestrained ferocity towards Pilbeam, a blister of the first water, who was pestering her with flowers...Categorized as:
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Selected Stories by O. Henry
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsO. Henry originated the humorous, energetic tale that ends with an ironic, even shocking twist. In "After Twenty Years," for example, two boys agree to meet at a particular spot exactly twenty years later. Both are faithful, but in the intervening years one boy has turned into a criminal, the other into a policeman...Categorized as:
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![Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher by R.K. Narayan, Alexander McCall Smith]()
Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher by R.K. Narayan, Alexander McCall Smith
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsR. K. Narayan (1906—2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. The four novels collected here, all written during British rule, bring colonial India into intimate focus through the narrative gifts of this master of literary realism...Categorized as:
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![Two Gentlemen of Lebowski: A Most Excellent Comedie and Tragical Romance by Adam Bertocci, Bernard Setaro Clark]()
Two Gentlemen of Lebowski: A Most Excellent Comedie and Tragical Romance by Adam Bertocci, Bernard Setaro Clark
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat if William Shakespeare had written The Big Lebowski?The Dude has met the Bard, and he doth abide.Join the "Knave" and Sir Walter on a wild tale of mistaken identity, kidnapping, bowling, and a rug that, in faith, really tied the room together--in a sidesplitting Shakespearean comedy of errors and ninepins, told in five glorious acts of iambic pentameter and impeccable period prose...Categorized as:
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![El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha II by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]()
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha II by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsMany of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork...Categorized as:
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![Emil's Pranks by Astrid Lindgren]()
Emil's Pranks by Astrid Lindgren
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMischievous Emil tests out a pair of stilts, rides a horse, and goes on a sleigh ride, all with predictably disastrous results...Categorized as:
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Paddington at Large by Michael Bond
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThere’ll always be an England, but the old place has never been quite the same since the Brown children came across a small lost bear in London’s Paddington Station. Whether tinkering with the neighbor’s lawn mower or experimenting in the kitchen, Paddington has a knack for finding trouble... -
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Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAs two pals wander the streets of Belfast in search of something better--a better pint, a better job, a better woman, a better now--readers are treated to their hilarious misadventures, political intrigues, and outlandish schemes...Categorized as:
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![The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth]()
The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsConsidered by critics to be Barth's most distinguished masterpiece, The Sot-Weed Factor has acquired the status of a modern classic. Set in the late 1600s, it recounts the wildly chaotic odyssey of hapless, ungainly Ebenezer Cooke, sent to the New World to look after his father's tobacco business and to record the struggles of the Maryland colony in an epic poem...Categorized as:
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![Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand]()
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsWidely considered the most popular modern French play, Cyrano de Bergerac has dazzled audiences with its wit and eloquence since it premiered in 1897.Cyrano, a quarrelsome, hot-tempered swordsman, as famous for his dueling skills and pugnacity as for his inordinately long nose, is hopelessly enamored of the beautiful Roxane...Categorized as:
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![A Christmas Story by Jean Shepherd]()
A Christmas Story by Jean Shepherd
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana—the book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film.The holiday film A Christmas Story, first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christmas perennial, gaining in stature and fame with each succeeding year...Categorized as:
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![I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal]()
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFirst published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989, I Served the King of England is "an extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel" (The New York Times), telling the tale of Ditie, a hugely ambitious but simple waiter in a deluxe Prague hotel in the years before World War II...Categorized as:
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![Just William by Richmal Crompton]()
Just William by Richmal Crompton
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratings[...]began as a wild young man in evening clothes drinking intoxicants and playing cards, he ended as a wild old man in rags still drinking intoxicants and playing cards. He had a small child with a pious and superior expression, who spent her time weeping over him and exhorting him to a better life, till, in a moment of justifiable exasperation, he threw a beer bottle at her head...Categorized as:
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Something Fresh by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOne thing that constantly disrupts the peace of life at Blandings is the constant incursion of impostors. Blandings has impostors like other houses have mice. Now there are two of them – both intent on a dangerous enterprise...Categorized as:
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Homer Price by Robert McCloskey
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsWelcome to Centerburg! Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want; where houses are built in a day; and where a boy named Homer Price can foil four slick bandits using nothing but his wits and pet skunk...Categorized as:
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![Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll]()
Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 68 ratingsWhen Alice steps through a mirror, she enters a reflection of her world where backwards is forwards, the future is remembered, and only the opposite of logic makes sense. Increasingly befuddled, she's challenged by the belligerent Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the nonsense rhymes of the Jabberwocky, and the discovery that she's a pawn in a living game of chess...Categorized as:
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Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade by Patrick Dennis, Edward Everett Tanner III
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWildly successful when it was first published in 1955, Patrick Dennis' Auntie Mame sold over two million copies and stayed put on the New York Times bestseller list for 112 weeks. It was made into a play, a Broadway as well as a Hollywood musical, and a fabulous movie starring Rosalind Russell...Categorized as:
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![Paddington Goes to Town by Michael Bond]()
Paddington Goes to Town by Michael Bond
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIf a boulder rolls down the aisle of a bus, sending the entire carload careening; if a visitor to the hospital leaves even the staff psychiatrist baffled; or if a hostess discovers her surprise dessert is “baked elastic,” you can be sure that Paddington is somewhere close at hand. Still wearing his floppy old hat, he causes trouble wherever he goes... -
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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists by Gideon Defoe, Richard Murkin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLondon, 1840: Wagner’s latest opera plays to packed houses while disgruntled workers gather in crowded pubs to eat ice cream and plan the downfall of the bourgeoisie. And the Pirate Captain––his disguise proving something of a letdown––finds himself incarcerated at Scotland Yard, in a case of mistaken identity...Categorized as:
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![Monkey: The Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en, David Kherdian]()
Monkey: The Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en, David Kherdian
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsProbably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this classic sixteenth century novel is a combination of picaresque novel and folk epic that mixes satire, allegory, and history into a rollicking adventure. It is the story of the roguish Monkey and his encounters with major and minor spirits, gods, demigods, demons, ogres, monsters, and fairies...Categorized as:
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Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe only unabridged prose translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso - a witty parody of the chivalric legends of Charlemagne and the Saracen invasion of France - this version faithfully recaptures the entire narrative and the subtle meanings behind it...Categorized as:
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Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 67 ratingsNamed for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays with love and power. The Countess Olivia, a woman with her own household, attracts Duke (or Count) Orsino. Two other would-be suitors are her pretentious steward, Malvolio, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek...Categorized as:
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Miguel Street by V.S. Naipaul
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA tender, funny novel written with the verve of Dickens and the passion of Chekhov, set during World War II in a derelict neighborhood in Trinidad's capital and narrated by an unnamed boy--from the Nobel Prize-winning author. "One of the few contemporary writers of whom we can speak in terms of greatness...Categorized as:
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![Beer In The Snooker Club (New Writers S) by Waguih Ghali]()
Beer In The Snooker Club (New Writers S) by Waguih Ghali
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSet amidst the turbulence of 1950s Cairo, Beer in the Snooker Club is the story of Ram Bey, an over-educated, under-ambitious young Egyptian struggling to find out where he fits in...Categorized as:
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![Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol]()
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 58 ratingsDead Souls is eloquent on some occasions, lyrical on others, and pious and reverent elsewhere. Nicolai Gogol was a master of the spoof. The American students of today are not the only readers who have been confused by him. Russian literary history records more divergent interpretations of Gogol than perhaps of any other classic...Categorized as:
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Officers and Gentlemen by Evelyn Waugh
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFueled by idealism and eagerness to contribute to the war effort, Guy Crouchback becomes attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and respect must be paid to the laird. But the comedy of Mugg is soon followed by the bitterness of Crete, where chaos reigns and a difficult evacuation must be accomplished...Categorized as:
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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Ahab by Gideon Defoe, Richard Murkin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThey’re back!!! The Pirate Captain and his irascible crew of scoundrels return in their soggiest saga yet.Fresh from their mishaps with Charles Darwin and the evil Bishop of Oxford, the Pirates set sail in a bouncy new vessel——purchased on credit...Categorized as:
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The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm by Norman Hunter
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsStill one of the immortals of children's literature - Professor Branestawm's continues to amuse generations of young readers.The wonderfully nutty, fabulously entertaining mishaps of Professor Branestawm. He's madly sane and cleverly dotty... -
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The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard by Arthur Conan Doyle, Rupert Degas
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBrigadier Gerard is the hero of a series of historical short stories by the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The hero, Etienne Gerard, is a Hussar officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity - he is utterly convinced that he is the bravest soldier, greatest swordsman, most accomplished horseman and most gallant lover in all France...Categorized as:
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Pig Scrolls by Paul Shipton
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGryllus is the hero of The Pig Scrolls. Gryllus is a pig. Well, not strictly speaking a pig. He's a man who got turned into a pig. More specifically, he was one of Odysseus's crew (you remember Odysseus - big bloke, hero, all round clever clogs) and the whole crew got turned into pigs by Circe, a witch, but Gryllus never got turned back...Categorized as:
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