At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book that spans three hundred years. Different voices tell the story of Ulverton: one of Cromwells soldiers staggers home to find his wife remarried & promptly disappears an eighteenth century farmer carries on an affair with a maid under his wifes nose a mother writes letters to her imprisoned son a 1980s real estate company discover a soldiers skeleton dated to the time of Cromell... Told through diaries sermons letters drunken pub conversations & film scripts this is a masterful novel that reconstructs the unrecorded history of Engl&. Sometimes you forget that it is a novel & believe for a moment that you are really hearing the voice of the dead". (Hilary Mantel)." ...

James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece Ulysses tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom & Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904 during which Bloom's voluptuous wife Molly commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England & the USA this richly-allusive novel revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats T. S. Eliot & Ernest Hemingway. Scandalously frank wittily erudite mercurially eloquent resourcefully comic & generously humane Ulysses offers the reader a life-changing experience. ...

Ulysses one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century has had a profound influence on modern fiction. In a series of episodes covering the course of a single day 16 June 1904 the novel traces the movements of Leopold Bloom & Stephen Dedalus through the streets of Dublin. Each episode has its own literary style & the epic journey of Odysseus is only one of many correspondencies that add layers of meaning to the text. Ulysses has been the subject of controversy since copies of the first English edition were burned by the New York Post Office Authorities. Today critical interest centres on the authority of the text & this edition complete with an invaluable Introduction notes & appendices republishes for the first time without interference the original 1922 text. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

Ulysses Grant was his countrys greatest general since George Washington. Like Washington Grants battlefield performance was the only factor standing between the United States continuing as one indivisible nation. Grant was the keystone of Union victory a man whose removal would have resulted in the Union cause crumbling into defeat
- & the United States dissolving into a collection of competing sovereign states. It was not always so clear cut. An early military career had ended with his resignation for alleged drunkenness while in civilian life a number of his business ventures foundered leading to the nickname Useless Grant. However victory had its rewards & in March 1864 Grant was promoted to lieutenant-general the only United States Army officer except for George Washington & Winfield Scott to achieve that rank. By the end of the war Grant would become the United States Armys first full general since Washington.
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2012 A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella. James Joyce Ulysses Recently having abandoned his RD Laing-influenced experiment in running a therapeutic community
- the so-called Concept House in Willesden
- maverick psychiatrist Zack Busner arrives at Friern Hospital a vast Victorian mental asylum in North London under a professional & a marital cloud. He has every intention of avoiding controversy but then he encounters Audrey Dearth a working-class girl from Fulham born in 1890 who has been immured in Friern for decades. A socialist a feminist & a munitions worker at the Woolwich Arsenal Audrey fell victim to the encephalitis lethargica sleeping sickness epidemic at the end of the First World War & like one of the subjects in Oliver Sacks Awakenings has been in a coma ever since. Realising that Audrey is just one of a number of post-encephalitics scattered throughout the asylum Busner becomes involved in an attempt to bring them back to life
- with wholly unforeseen consequences. Is Audreys diseased brain in its nightmarish compulsion a microcosm of the technological revolutions of the twentieth century? & if Audrey is ill at all
- perhaps her illness is only modernity itself? & what of Audreys two brothers Stanley & Albert: at the time she fell ill Stanley was missing presumed dead on the Western Front while Albert was in charge of the Arsenal itself a coming man in the Imperial Civil Service. Now fifty years later when Audrey awakes from her pathological swoon which of the two is it who remains alive? Radical in its conception uncompromising in its style Umbrella is Will Selfs most extravagant & imaginative exercise in speculative fiction to date.



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Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance" makes his comics writing debut in this outrageous superhero epic that Grant Morrison called " An ultraviolet psychedelic sherbet bomb of wit & ideas. The superheroes of the 21st century are here at last..." In an inexplicable worldwide event forty-seven extraordinary children were spontaneously born by women who'd previously shown no signs of pregnancy. Millionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves adopted seven of the children; when asked why his only explanation was " To save the world." These seven children form The Umbrella Academy a dysfunctional family of superheroes with bizarre powers. Their first adventure at the age of ten pits them against an erratic & deadly Eiffel Tower piloted by the fearsome zombie-robot Gustave Eiffel. Nearly a decade later the team disbands but when Hargreeves unexpectedly dies these disgruntled siblings reunite just in time to save the world once again." ...

Marco Polo maps feature completely up-to-date digitally generated mapping. The high quality cartography with distance indicators & scale converters aid route planning. A fold-out overview map is ideal for route planning & 7 self-adhesive Marco Polo mark-it stickers can be used to pin-point a destination or route for future reference. Scenic routes & places of interest are highlighted
- ideal for touring holidays. The maps also contain a comprehensive index & city plans of Ancona Perugia & Pascara. Map Scale
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The iron wheel began to spin slowly at first then faster & faster. The room grew darker. As the light lessened so did the sound. Deeba & Zanna stared at each other in wonder. The noise of the cars & vans & motorbikes outside grew tinny.. . The wheel turned off all the cars & turned off all the lamps. It was turning off London. Zanna & Deeba are two girls leading ordinary lives until they stumble into the world of Un London an urban Wonderland where all the lost & broken things of London end up.. .and some of its lost & broken people too. Here discarded umbrellas stalk with spidery menace carnivorous giraffes roam the streets & a jungle sprawls beyond the door of an ordinary house. Un London is under siege by the sinister Smog & its stink-junkie slaves; it is a city awaiting its hero. Guided by a magic book that cant quite get its facts straight & pursued by Hemi the half-ghost boy the girls set out to stop the poisonous cloud before it burns everything in its path. They are joined in their quest by a motley band of Un London locals including Brokkenbroll boss of the broken umbrellas Obaday Fing a couturier whose head is an enormous pincushion & an empty milk carton called Curdle. The world of Un London is populated by astonishing frights & delights that will thrill the imagination. ...