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Memories
In Pratchett’s Discworld novels, the character of Death is a quite amiable, if somewhat emaciated, old gaffer, given to an understandable irony, who takes a genuine interest in the vagaries of human affairs and tries to make the end of life play out…
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Yénonótië
A great scholar of the First Age of Middle Earth, Quennar I
Onótimo was a loremaster in Aman. His theoretical examination
of Valimarian time reckoning, and his practical work
on the calendar, especially in the relation of the Valimarian
year to the…
Onótimo was a loremaster in Aman. His theoretical examination
of Valimarian time reckoning, and his practical work
on the calendar, especially in the relation of the Valimarian
year to the…
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Nymphs and their Ways
A charming and quite surprising set of tales in verse, relating Arcadian legends from an anonymous French Renaissance manuscript at the Bibliothèque Nationale. Frederick Marchmont’s delightful translations each face a photo-reproduction of the French…
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Necronomicon
The most notorious of the Levantine grimoires. Legend claims that its use results in a horrible death at the hands of invisible monsters. These days of course we find such fears quaint, but for fifty years the book has been kept sealed in this Wells…
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The Secret of Secrets
A sage was condemned by the King but begged before his death to present him with a wondrous book, The Secret of Secrets, with the promise that if the King cut off the Sage’s head and then read from the book, the head would answer any question.…
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The Day Labourer of the Feuillantine Nuns
The story of a day labourer and his strenuous exertions at the convent of the Feuillantine nuns in the rue St.-Honoré. The regime of the nuns was extremely ascetic: they ate only barley bread, herbs, and oatmeal, knelt at meals instead of sitting at…
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Matter of the Dragons
The Roke standard text on the literature and the history of the Dragons, including their own legends and traditions. It was written jointly by the faculty members for a symposium held at the College. Believed to have been initiated during a…
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The Mad Trist
The medieval romance that precipitates the fall of the House of Usher. In Poe’s story, the narrator reads the book The Mad Trist to Sir Roderick as part of a futile attempt to calm the mad evening’s hysteria. As he reads, he hears frightening noises…
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