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The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance, containing the lion's share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of pre-Christian Scandinavians, their unique vision of the beginning and end of the world, etc.

In her first-ever solo anthology, New York Times best-selling author Rebecca Cantrell demonstrates her award-winning skill with four wonderful stories - including the prequel to her Hannah Vogel series where Ernst Vogel explores the shadowy world of Weimar-era Berlin as he investigates the murder of a young cigarette boy at his cabaret. The collection also includes a journey through the wreckage of postwar Berlin in a search for hope, a fated meeting on a train to a concentration camp, and a supernatural warrior protecting a shtetl in wartime Czechoslovakia.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Jonathan Keeble. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Peter Wortsman. 'It was a very momentous day, the day on which I was to be slaughtered' Bringing together tales of melancholy and madness, nightmare and fantasy...

Mit wenig viel zu sagen. Das hat sich Autor Georg Rauber mit Das Herz ist ein dummer Bastard aber es weiß was es will vorgenommen. Eine Ansammlung an kurzen Gedichten, Geschichten, Aphorismen und sonstigen Wortzusammenkünften, die trotz weniger Worte viel zu bieten haben. Von experimentellem Umgang mit Sprache über kurze Erzählungen zu schlichten Aussagen und Sprüchen findet sich in diesem Band alles, was kurzweilig aber - im besten Fall - langanhaltend ist.