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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
675 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum—a talented working-class boy who could be a character out of one of Olive's magical tales—she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends. But the joyful bacchanals Olive hosts at her rambling country house—and the separate, private books she writes for each of her seven children—conceal more treachery...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
177 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the bombs of the Blitz rain down on Britain, one young girl is evacuated to the countryside. She is struggling to make sense of her new wartime life. Then she is given a copy of Asgard and the Gods -- a book of ancient Norse myths -- and her inner and outer worlds are transformed.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
305 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Phineas G. Nanson, an unhappy young graduate student, departs from his uninspiring studies in postmodern literary theory to write a biography of a famous biographer--but his research proves frustrating, as he finds that even "facts" can be unreliable, and the quest for "truth" unsatisfying.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xvii, 445 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Medusa's Ankles celebrates the very best of A. S. Byatt's short fiction, carefully selected from a lifetime of writing... From ancient myth to a British candy factory, from a Chinese restaurant to a Mediterranean swimming pool, from a Turkish bazaar to a fairy-tale palace, Byatt transports her readers beyond the veneer of the ordinary-even beyond the gloss of the fantastical-to a place rich and strange and wholly unforgettable."--
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dr Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic...a creature of reason. While in Istanbul, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. At first, she doubts that he is real and she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. But the Djinn pleads his case, and eventually she is beguiled and makes a wish that surprises them both!