The ladies of grace adieu : and other stories

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A gorgeously illustrated book of short stories from the world of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, the 4-million-copy global bestseller'These tales read as if Jane Austen had rewritten the Brothers Grimm ... wonderful' SpectatorFaerie is never as far away as you think.Sometimes you find you have crossed an invisible line and must cope, as best you can, with petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time embroidering terrible fates or with endless paths in deep, dark woods and houses that never appear the same way twice.The heroines and heroes bedevilled by such problems in these fairy tales include a conceited Regency clergyman, an eighteenth-century Jewish doctor and Mary, Queen of Scots, as well as two characters from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: Strange himself and the Raven King. … celý popis

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Hlavní autor

Susanna Clarke, 1959-

Další autoři

Charles Vess, 1951-

Typ dokumentu

Knihy

Fyzický popis

235 stran : ilustrace ; 20 cm

Vydáno

London ; Oxford ; New York ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Bloomsbury, 2007

Edice

Bloomsbury paperback

Témata

anglické povídky

fantasy povídky

ISBN

978-0-7475-9240-2