Sweeping through crumbling towns, travelling fairs & windswept ports, Gabriel Garcia Marquez introduces a host of extraordinary characters & communities in his mesmerising tales of everyday life: smugglers, bagpipers, the President & Pope at the funeral of Macondo's revered matriarch; a very old angel with enormous wings, stranded in a young couple's back garden; a town plagued by dying birds that fall from the sky & an awestruck village captivated by a beautiful drowned sailor. Teeming with the magical oddities for which his novels are loved, Marquez's stories are a delight. ...

This is the definitive collection of short stories by Saul Bellow. Abundant, precise, various, rich & exuberant, the stories display the stylistic & emotional brilliance which characterizes this master of prose. Some stories recount the events of a single day, some are contained in a wider frame; each story is a characteristic combination of observation & a celebration of humanity. ...

Throughout these seventy-nine stories
- love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the
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Melding his native Irish sensibilities to those of his adopted west-coast Scotl&, these tales attend to life`s big events: love & loss, separation & violence, death & betrayal. But the stories teem with smaller significant moments too
- private epiphanies, chilling exchanges, intimate encounters. Each of these extraordinary stories
- with their wry, self-deprecating humour, their elegance & subtle wisdom
- gets to the very heart of life.


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` Nothing so fully displays the grandeur of his mind as his immense & rare collections.. .perhaps the fullest & most curious in the world`, National Gazette, 1753 Hans Sloane (1660-1753) was the greatest collector of his time, & one of the greatest of all time. His name is familiar today through the London streets & squares named after him on land he once owned (Sloane Square, Hans Place), but the man himself, & his achievements, are almost forgotten. Born in the north of Irel&, Sloane made his fortune as a physician to London`s wealthiest residents & through investment in land & slavery. He became one of the eighteenth century`s preeminent natural historians, ultimately succeeding his rival Isaac Newton as President of the Royal Society, & assembled an astonishing collection of specimens, artefacts & oddities
- the most famous curiosity cabinet of the age. Sloane`s dream of universal knowledge, of a gathering together of every kind of thing in the world, was enabled by Britain`s rise to global ascendancy. In 1687 he travelled to Jamaica, then at the heart of Britain`s commercial empire, to survey its natural history, & later organised a network of correspondents who sent him curiosities from across the world. Shortly after his death, Sloane`s vast collection was then acquired
- as he had hoped
- by the nation. It became the nucleus of the world`s first national public museum, the British Museum, which opened in 1759. This is the first biography of Sloane in over sixty years & the first based on his surviving collections. Early modern science & collecting are shown to be global endeavours intertwined with imperial enterprise & slavery but which nonetheless gave rise to one of the great public institutions of the Enlightenment, as the cabinet of curiosities gave way to the encyclopaedic museum. Collecting the World describes this pivotal moment in the emergence of modern knowledge, & brings this totemic figure back to life.


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Discover the wonderful world of animals, in this lavishly illustrated activity book! Entertaining & educational in equal measure, this activity book is packed with fabulous facts, animal puzzles, stunning stickers & a pull-out poster to test your animal knowledge. This title covers all different types of mammals & marsupials! Astonishing elephants, amazing monkeys, incredible insect eaters & many more weird & wonderful animals are explored. From slow moving sloths to super swimming seals this book is full of fabulous animal kingdom facts & activities. The new titles from the Collection of Curiosities series are: Dinosaurs: 978-1-78493-342-5 Animals: 978-1-78493-343-2 ...

Discover the wonderful world of dinosaurs, in this lavishly illustrated activity book! Entertaining & educational in equal measure, this activity book is packed with fabulous facts, prehistoric puzzles, stunning stickers & a pull-out poster to test your dinosaur knowledge! Draw Tyrannosaurus, help Zalambdalestes hunt for insects in the Mammal Maze & spot the odd Maiasaura egg out! This book is brimming with fabulous dinosaur facts & activities. ...

Collector`s cabinet with drawers will be an ideal piece for your home. Constructed of cherry & birch woods & slightly distressed in a honey French finish with solid bronze hardware. The top half houses 14 drawers, at the bottom, 2 large cabinet doors. 35.5 (L) x 55.5 (W) x 145 (H) cm. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...

Collector`s cabinet with drawers will be an ideal piece for your home. Constructed of cherry & birch woods & slightly distressed in a honey French finish with solid bronze hardware. The top half houses 14 drawers, the bottom half, 2 spacious drawers. 35.5 (L) x 55.5 (W) x 145 (H) cm. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...