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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
What time devours What time devours A. J. Hartley Thomas Knight is faced with a centuries-old mystery surrounding a long-lost, and now priceless, Shakespearean play. To find it, Thomas will have to enter a story which drags loss and death after it l… OL15527790W
Ancient Greek novels Ancient Greek novels John J. Winkler,Susan A. Stephens xvi, 541 p. ; 25 cm OL18862707W
In search of lost books In search of lost books Giorgio Van Straten "They exist as a rumour or a fading memory. They vanished from history leaving scarcely a trace, lost to fire, censorship, theft, war or deliberate destruction, yet those who seek them are convinced … OL19763432W
The History of Love The History of Love Nicole Krauss Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Believing that she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of i… OL5814543W
The tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the epic cycle The tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the epic cycle Jonathan S. Burgess "Much of our understanding of the mythological tradition surrounding the Trojan War comes from Homer. Although the Iliad and Odyssey describe only the last years of this conflict, for centuries these… OL7795683W