When a mummy in the Museum of Albion is unpacked it is found to contain a bundle of curious objects and documents which tell of the wanderings of an unknown woman, Leto. On the run, in a far-off era of civil strife, Leto gives birth to twins, shelters with wolves, survives in a desert stronghold as the lover of its commander, stows away on a ship loaded with plundered antiquities and then works as a maid in a war-torn city. She loses her son but saves her daughter during a long siege. As the novel sweeps from mythological times and the Middle Ages to the treasure-hunting of Victorian Europe and into the present day, Leto reappears in different guises. Eventually she becomes a servant to a rock singer, and begins to search for her son.

The Leto Bundle

Literature & Fiction

WARNER, Marina

Contemporary

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The scrolls of the Essenes and the history of this Jewish sect's possible antecedence to Christianity intrigued Edmund Wilson and drew him, in 1954, to Israel and the revelations contained in the newly discovered scrolls. His resulting account of the scrolls' history and significance was first published in New Yorker, then expanded into book form, and the revised just before Wilson's death. ...the result is a provocative and absorbing report. -The New York Times

Israel and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Politics & Social Sciences

WILSON, EDMUND

Philosophy

Representing Yourself: What You Can Do Without a Lawyer

Kenneth, Lasoon and the Public Citizen Litigation Group

Introduction by Leon Edel. "A Little Tour in France" is James' account of his travels in the chateau country and the Midi during late September and October 1882. He intended the book as a guide (and it is a splendid one) to these regions and addressed it to his fellow Americans who, like him, were "too apt to think that France is Paris." A charming book. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983. 5.5in x 8.5in tall; xxii, 247pp. Indexed.

A Little Tour in France

JAMES,HENRY

When a man dies and leaves behind a wife and a mistress, we expect certain responses to follow. But as the narrator of Salley Vickers's second novel explains, "this is not an account of feminine jealousy, or even revenge, and not all human beings (not even women) conform to the attitudes generally expected." Indeed, in this ironic and witty novel nothing is quite as we expect to find it. Telling the story of Bridget Hansome and Frances Slater, Vickers brings to life a loving marriage and a love affair that exist side by side for years - and continue to reverberate after secretive, generous, sexually prodigal Peter Hansome dies suddenly in a car accident, on his way home from an assignation with yet another lover, about whom neither woman knows.While Frances, a London art dealer and sometime artists' model, gradually makes friends with the older, Shakespeare-loving Bridget, these two unconventional women start to learn the whole truth (or almost the whole truth) about the man whose death brought them together and whose ghost watches over them still. Wise, wry, and intellectually playful, Instances of the Number 3 explores the mysterious power of triangles in love, art, and theology. It confirms Salley Vickers as one of the most intelligent new voices in British fiction.

Instances of the Number 3

VICKERS, Salley

Genre Fiction

Inspired by Seamus Heaney's poems, and notably by his version of the medieval Irish saga Buile Suibhne, the American photographer Rachel Giese has produced a stunning portfolio of pictures of the northern Irish landscape, covering the boundaries of Mad Sweeney's original kingdom of Dal-Arie. She has followed the clues to topography and the natural world in Sweeney's wanderings, and gathered together 34 photographs which Seamus Heaney has matched with extracts and quotations from his Sweeney Astray.

Sweeney's flight: Based on the revised text of "Sweeney astray" : with the complete revised text of "Sweeney astray"

History

HEANEY, SEAMUS

Europe

Poems, 1963-1983

WILLIAMS, C.K.

Poetry

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