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The Folklore of Discworld

Legends, Myths, and Customs from the Discworld with Helpful Hints from Planet Earth

by Terry Pratchett, Jacqueline Simpson ...

Terry Pratchett joins up with a leading folklorist to reveal the legends, myths and customs of Discworld, together with helpful hints from Planet Earth.Most of us grew up having always known when to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what happens when a princess kisses a frog or a boy pulls a sword from a stone, yet sadly some of these things are beginning to be forgotten. Legends, myths, and ... Read more

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Terry Pratchett joins up with a leading folklorist to reveal the legends, myths and customs of Discworld, together with helpful hints from Planet Earth.Most of us grew up having always known when to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what happens when a princess kisses a frog or a boy pulls a sword from a stone, yet sadly some of these things are beginning to be forgotten. Legends, myths, and
... Read more

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Folklore of Sussex

by Jacqueline Simpson ...

Series series Folklore
Sussex, although near London and nowadays extensively urbanised, has a rich heritage of traditional local stories, customs and beliefs. Among many topics explored here are tales linked to landscape features and ancient churches which involve such colourful themes as lost bells, buried treasures, dragons, fairies and the Devil. There are also traditions relating to ghosts, graves and gibbets and ... Read more

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Sussex, although near London and nowadays extensively urbanised, has a rich heritage of traditional local stories, customs and beliefs. Among many topics explored here are tales linked to landscape features and ancient churches which involve such colourful themes as lost bells, buried treasures, dragons, fairies and the Devil. There are also traditions relating to ghosts, graves and gibbets and
... Read more
The Penguin Book of Ghosts

Haunted England

by Jacqueline Simpson, Jennifer Westwood ...

Shiver at the story of the malevolent apparition of 50 Berkeley Square no one has survived seeing.Listen for the tapping cane, when Jeremy Bentham’s mummified body walks through the corridors of University College.Watch out for the Roman centurion who still patrols the causeway linking Mersea Island to Essex.Shudder at the ghosts of kings and queens that keep returning to their old home at Windsor ... Read more

$16.99 USD

Shiver at the story of the malevolent apparition of 50 Berkeley Square no one has survived seeing.Listen for the tapping cane, when Jeremy Bentham’s mummified body walks through the corridors of University College.Watch out for the Roman centurion who still patrols the causeway linking Mersea Island to Essex.Shudder at the ghosts of kings and queens that keep returning to their old home at Windsor
... Read more
A Dictionary of English Folklore

by Jacqueline Simpson, Steve Roud ...

Series series Oxford Quick Reference
Are there any legends about cats? Is Cinderella an English story? What is a Mumming Play? The subject of folklore covers an extremely wide field, with connections to virtually every aspect of life. It ranges from the bizarre to the seemingly mundane. Similarly, folklore is as much a feature of the modern technological age as the ancient world, of every part of the country, both urban and rural, ... Read more

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Are there any legends about cats? Is Cinderella an English story? What is a Mumming Play? The subject of folklore covers an extremely wide field, with connections to virtually every aspect of life. It ranges from the bizarre to the seemingly mundane. Similarly, folklore is as much a feature of the modern technological age as the ancient world, of every part of the country, both urban and rural,
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Green Men & White Swans

The Folklore of British Pub Names

by Jacqueline Simpson ...

Why do British pubs have such curious names? What tales lie behind the Moonrakers, the Hooden Horse, the Derby Tup? And why does the Green Man come in different shapes and sizes?In Green Men & White Swans, leading folklorist Jacqueline Simpson explores the fascinating stories behind pub names, uncovering the myths and legends, euphemisms and wordplays, heroes and even ghosts that have inspired pub ... Read more

$17.69 USD

Why do British pubs have such curious names? What tales lie behind the Moonrakers, the Hooden Horse, the Derby Tup? And why does the Green Man come in different shapes and sizes?In Green Men & White Swans, leading folklorist Jacqueline Simpson explores the fascinating stories behind pub names, uncovering the myths and legends, euphemisms and wordplays, heroes and even ghosts that have inspired pub
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The Folklore of Discworld

Legends, Myths, and Customs from the Discworld with Helpful Hints from Planet Earth

by Terry Pratchett, Jacqueline Simpson ...

Narrated by Michael Fenton Stevens ...

Unabridged

12 hours 59 min

Terry Pratchett joins up with a leading folklorist to reveal the legends, myths and customs of Discworld, together with helpful hints from Planet Earth.Most of us grew up having always known when to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what happens when a princess kisses a frog or a boy pulls a sword from a stone, yet sadly some of these things are beginning to be forgotten. Legends, myths, and ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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Terry Pratchett joins up with a leading folklorist to reveal the legends, myths and customs of Discworld, together with helpful hints from Planet Earth.Most of us grew up having always known when to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what happens when a princess kisses a frog or a boy pulls a sword from a stone, yet sadly some of these things are beginning to be forgotten. Legends, myths, and
... Read more

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Darwin's Watch

The Science of Discworld III: A Novel

by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen ...

Narrated by Michael Fenton Stevens, Stephen Briggs ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Science of Discworld Series
Unabridged

11 hours 28 min

The wizards discover to their cost that it’s no easy task to change history.Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures that lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator — they even intervened to rid the planet of ... Read more

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The wizards discover to their cost that it’s no easy task to change history.Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures that lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator — they even intervened to rid the planet of
... Read more

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The Science of Discworld

A Novel

by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen ...

Narrated by Michael Fenton Stevens, Stephen Briggs ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Science of Discworld Series
Unabridged

13 hours 48 min

Not just another science audiobook and not just another Discworld novella, The Science of Discworld is a creative, mind-bending mash-up of fiction and fact, that offers a wizard’s-eye view of our world that will forever change how you look at the universe.Can Unseen University’s eccentric wizards and orangutan Librarian possibly shed any useful light on hard, rational Earthly science?In the course ... Read more

$22.50 USD

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Not just another science audiobook and not just another Discworld novella, The Science of Discworld is a creative, mind-bending mash-up of fiction and fact, that offers a wizard’s-eye view of our world that will forever change how you look at the universe.Can Unseen University’s eccentric wizards and orangutan Librarian possibly shed any useful light on hard, rational Earthly science?In the course
... Read more

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A Blink of the Screen

Collected Shorter Fiction

by Terry Pratchett ...

Narrated by Michael Fenton Stevens, Stephen Briggs ...

Unabridged

8 hours 32 min

A collection of short fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from schooldays to Discworld and the present day.In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world's best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short-form fiction collected into one volume. A Blink of ... Read more

$20.00 USD

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A collection of short fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from schooldays to Discworld and the present day.In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world's best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short-form fiction collected into one volume. A Blink of
... Read more

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One More for the Road

A New Story Collection

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Campbell Scott ...

Unabridged

6 hours 49 min

For more than fifty years Ray Bradbury has regaled us with wonders, enabled us to view from fresh perspectives the world we inhabit, and see others we never dreamed existed.Here are eighteen brand-new stories and seven previously published but never before collected stories -- proof positive that Bradbury's magic is as potent as ever.Sip the sweet innocence of youth, the wisdom -- and folly -- of ... Read more

$23.99 USD

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For more than fifty years Ray Bradbury has regaled us with wonders, enabled us to view from fresh perspectives the world we inhabit, and see others we never dreamed existed.Here are eighteen brand-new stories and seven previously published but never before collected stories -- proof positive that Bradbury's magic is as potent as ever.Sip the sweet innocence of youth, the wisdom -- and folly -- of
... Read more

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A Slip of the Keyboard

Collected Nonfiction

by Terry Pratchett ...

Narrated by Michael Fenton Stevens ...

Unabridged

9 hours 8 min

A collection of essays and other non fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from his early years to the present day.Terry Pratchett has earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bestselling Discworld series -- but in recent years he has become equally well-known and respected as an outspoken campaigner for causes including Alzheimer's research ... Read more

$20.99 USD

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A collection of essays and other non fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from his early years to the present day.Terry Pratchett has earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bestselling Discworld series -- but in recent years he has become equally well-known and respected as an outspoken campaigner for causes including Alzheimer's research
... Read more

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The Truth and Other Stories

by Stanislaw Lem ...

Narrated by David Aaron Baker ...

Unabridged

14 hours 11 min

Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanislaw Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making this the first “new” book of fiction by Lem since the late 1980s. The stories display the full range of Lem’s intensecuriosity about scientific ideas as well as his sardonic approach to human nature, presenting as multifarious a collection of mad scientists as any reader ... Read more

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Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanislaw Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making this the first “new” book of fiction by Lem since the late 1980s. The stories display the full range of Lem’s intensecuriosity about scientific ideas as well as his sardonic approach to human nature, presenting as multifarious a collection of mad scientists as any reader
... Read more

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