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Adventures in the Skin Trade
by Dylan Thomas

ISBN 081120202X (0-8112-0202-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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Affinity
by Sarah Waters

ISBN 1573228737 (1-57322-873-7)
Softcover, Riverhead Books

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Affinity is a tale of power and possession that Henry James himself might admire. In her first novel, Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters explored secrets and longing--capping off this lesbian romp with a utopian-socialist vision. Her intricate follow-up is just as sensual but infinitely darker, its moral more difficult to descry. Its stylistic and psychological rewards, however, are visible at every turn, the author's persuasive imagination matched by her gift for storytelling.
In late September 1874, Margaret Prior makes her way through the pentagons of London's Millbank Prison, a place of fearful symmetry and endless corridors. This plain woman on the verge of 30 has come to comfort those behind bars, several of whom Waters brings to instant, sad life. And our Lady Visitor plans to take her role dead seriously, having recovered from two years of nervous indolence in her family's Chelsea house. One person, however, makes her job a passion. Opening an inspection slit (or "eye" as these devices are known), Margaret hears "a perfect sigh, like a sigh in a story." Peering inward, she's confronted by the most erotic of visions--a woman turned toward the sun, caressing her cheek with a forbidden violet: "As I watched, she put the flower to her lips, and breathed upon it, and the purple of the petals gave a quiver and seemed to glow..."
Selina Dawes may indeed have the face of a Crivelli angel, but this medium is in for fraud and assault, her last session having gone very badly indeed. Suffice it to say that the first full encounter between these two very different women is enthralling. "You think spiritualism a kind of fancy," Selina riddles. "Doesn't it seem to you, now you are here, that anything might be real, since Millbank is?" And soon enough Margaret receives several viable signs of the supernatural: a locket disappears from her room, flowers mysteriously appear, and her dazzling friend knows everything about her. Strangest of all, Selina seems to love her.
As Margaret records her weekly prison forays, her own past comes into focus, notably her plans to travel to Italy with her first love (who is now her sister-in-law). But her current journal, she convinces herself, is to be very different from her last one, which "took as long to burn as human hearts, they say, do take." Meanwhile, Waters offers a narrative two-for-one, placing Margaret's diary cheek by jowl with Selina's chronicle of her pre-Millbank existence. This dispassionate, staccato record initially suggests that we can separate truth from desire. Or can we? What Waters's haunting creation leaves us with is a more painful reality--that knowledge and belief are entirely different things. --Kerry Fried [via]
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- Affinity: ISBN 1573221562 (1-57322-156-2)
  Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Affinity: ISBN 1573228737 (1-57322-873-7)
  Softcover, Riverhead Books
The Arthur of the Welsh: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval Welsh Literature
by Rachel Bromwich, A.O.H. Jarman, Brynley F. Roberts

ISBN 0708311075 (0-7083-1107-5)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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Beach of Falesa
by Dylan Thomas

ISBN 0812862058 (0-8128-6205-8)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co

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Ben Bowen
by T. Robin Chapman

ISBN 070831788X (0-7083-1788-X)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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The Black Book of Carmarthen

ISBN 0947992316 (0-947992-31-6)
Hardcover, Llanerch Enterprises

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The Book of Three
by Lloyd Alexander

ISBN 0805080481 (0-8050-8048-1)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co

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The tale of Taran, assistant pig keeper, has been entertaining young readers for generations. Set in the mythical land of Prydain (which bears a more than passing resemblance to Wales), Lloyd Alexander's book draws together the elements of the hero's journey from unformed boy to courageous young man. Taran grumbles with frustration at home in the hamlet Caer Dallben; he yearns to go into battle like his hero, Prince Gwydion. Before the story is over, he has met his hero and fought the evil leader who threatens the peace of Prydain: the Horned King.
What brings the tale of Taran to life is Alexander's skillful use of humor, and the way he personalizes the mythology he has so clearly studied. Taran isn't a stick figure; in fact, the author makes a point of mocking him just at the moments when he's acting the most highhanded and heroic. When he and the young girl Eilonwy flee the castle of the wicked queen Achren, Taran emotes, "'Spiral Castle has brought me only grief; I have no wish to see it again.' 'What has it brought the rest of us?' Eilonway asked. 'You make it sound as though we were just sitting around having a splendid time while you moan and take on.'" By the end, Alexander has spun a rousing hero's tale and created a compelling coming-of-age story. Readers will sigh with relief when they realize The Book of Three is only the first of the chronicles of Prydain. --Claire Dederer [via]
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The Castle of Llyr
by Lloyd Alexander

ISBN 0805080503 (0-8050-8050-3)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co

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Since The Book of Three was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess; Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole-prone bard; the ever-faithful Gurgi; and the curmudgeonly Doli--all of whom become involved in an epic struggle between good and evil that shapes the fate of the legendary land of Prydain.

Released over a period of five years, Lloyd Alexander's beautifully written tales not only captured children's imaginations but also garnered the highest critical praise. The Black Cauldron was a Newbery Honor Book, and the final volume in the chronicles, The High King, crowned the series by winning the Newbery Medal for "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children."

Henry Holt is proud to present this classic series to a new generation of young readers. Jackets have been handsomely redesigned while retaining the original art of Caldecott Medal-winning artist Evaline Ness. Each retypeset volume now includes a pronunciation guide prepared by Lloyd Alexander. A companion book of short stories, The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain, is also available in hardcover for the first time in twenty years.

In their more than thirty years in print, the Chronicles of Prydain have become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children.
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A Celtic Miscellany
by Kenneth H. Jackson

ISBN 0880290951 (0-88029-095-1)
Hardcover, Marboro Books

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The Celtic Poets: Songs and Tales from Early Ireland and Wales
by Patrick K. Ford

ISBN 0926689053 (0-926689-05-3)
Softcover, Ford & Bailie Pub

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A Child's Christmas in Wales
by Dylan Thomas, Fritz Eichenberg

ISBN 1561383066 (1-56138-306-6)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub

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In print for over forty years, this gem of lyric prose has enchanted both young and old and is now a modern classic.

The classic "little blue edition" with matching mailing envelope to send as a holiday gift. Dylan Thomas, one of the greatest poets and storytellers of the twentieth century, captures a child's-eye view, and an adult's fond remembrance, of a magical time of presents, aunts and uncles, the frozen sea, and, in the best of circumstances, newly fallen snowits wonder, silence, and snowball mischief.

This edition published by New Directions is the most popular format of A Child's Christmas in Walesa booklet size that can be mailed in an accompanying envelope. [via]
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A Child's Christmas in Wales
by Fritz Eichenberg, Dylan Thomas

ISBN 0811211541 (0-8112-1154-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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- A Child's Christmas in Wales: ISBN 0811213080 (0-8112-1308-0)
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A Child's Christmas in Wales
by Trina Schart Hyman, Dylan Thomas

ISBN 0823405656 (0-8234-0565-6)
Hardcover, Holiday House

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Christmas treasure. [via]
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The Children of Llyr
by Evangeline Walton

ISBN 0345277384 (0-345-27738-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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The Collected Stories
by Dylan Thomas

ISBN 0811209989 (0-8112-0998-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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This gathering of all Dylan Thomas's stories, ranging chronologically from the dark, almost surrealistic tales of Thomas's youth to such gloriously rumbustious celebrations of life as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Adventures in the Skin Trade, charts the progress of "The Rimbaud of Cwmdonkin Drive" toward his mastery of the comic idiom.
Here, too, are stories originally written for radio and television and, in a short appendix, the schoolboy pieces first published in the Swansea Grammar School Magazine. A highpoint of the collection is Thomas's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, a vivid collage of memories from his Swansea childhood that combines the lyricism of his poetry with the sparkle and sly humor of Under Milk Wood. Also here is the fiction from Quite Early One Morning, a collection planned by Thomas shortly before his death.
Altogether there are more than forty stories, providing a rich and varied literary feast and showing Dylan Thomas in all his intriguing variety-somber fantasist, joyous word-spinner, comedian of smalltown Wales. The book includes an entertaining, informative reflection on Thomas by another Welsh poet and storyteller, Leslie Norris, as well as a brief listing of publication details by Professor Walford Davies, editor of Dylan Thomas: Early Prose Works.
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- The Collected Stories: ISBN 0811209180 (0-8112-0918-0)
  Hardcover, New Directions
- The Collected Stories: ISBN 0811209989 (0-8112-0998-9)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: 1934-1952
by Dylan Thomas

ISBN 0756783399 (0-7567-8339-9)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co

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Dylan Thomas's poems gambol and frisk across the tongue and imagination like those of few poets I have ever read. His choicely crafted (and often synaesthetic) phrases, his musicality, and his laughingly lilting language are nicely captured by the first two stanzas of Fern Hill--read it aloud for full effect:

Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
The night above the dingle starry,
Time let me hail and climb
Golden in the heydays of his eyes,
And honored among wagons I was prince of the apple towns,
And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves
Trail with daisies and barley
Down the rivers of the windfall light.

And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns
About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home,
In the sun that is young once only,
Time let me play and be
Golden in the mercy of his means,
And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves
Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold,
And the sabbath rang slowly
In the pebbles of the holy streams...

This collection of his poems contains only those pieces he wished preserved and should be owned by anyone who loves beautifully crafted language. [via]
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- Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas 1934-1952: ISBN 0811202054 (0-8112-0205-4)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: 1934-1952: ISBN 0756783399 (0-7567-8339-9)
  Softcover, Diane Pub Co
Collected Poems, 1934-1953
by Dylan Thomas

ISBN 0753810662 (0-7538-1066-2)
Softcover, Phoenix

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Collected Poems, 1934-1953
by Walford Davies, Dylan Thomas, Ralph Maud

ISBN 0460047477 (0-460-04747-7)
Hardcover, J.M. Dent

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Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde

ISBN 0613629019 (0-613-62901-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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Penzler Pick, January 2002: When I first heard the premise of this unique mystery, I doubted that a first-time author could pull off a complicated caper involving so many assumptions, not the least of which is a complete suspension of disbelief. Jasper Fforde is not only up to the task, he exceeds all expectations.
Imagine this. Great Britain in 1985 is close to being a police state. The Crimean War has dragged on for more than 130 years and Wales is self-governing. The only recognizable thing about this England is her citizens' enduring love of literature. And the Third Most Wanted criminal, Acheron Hades, is stealing characters from England's cherished literary heritage and holding them for ransom.
Bibliophiles will be enchanted, but not surprised, to learn that stealing a character from a book only changes that one book, but Hades has escalated his thievery. He has begun attacking the original manuscripts, thus changing all copies in print and enraging the reading public. That's why Special Operations Network has a Literary Division, and it is why one of its operatives, Thursday Next, is on the case.
Thursday is utterly delightful. She is vulnerable, smart, and, above all, literate. She has been trying to trace Hades ever since he stole Mr. Quaverley from the original manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewit and killed him. You will only remember Mr. Quaverley if you read Martin Chuzzlewit prior to 1985. But now Hades has set his sights on one of the plums of literature, Jane Eyre, and he must be stopped.
How Thursday achieves this and manages to preserve one of the great books of the Western canon makes for delightfully hilarious reading. You do not have to be an English major to be pulled into this story. You'll be rooting for Thursday, Jane, Mr. Rochester--and a familiar ending. --Otto Penzler [via]
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Feet in Chains
by Kate Roberts, John Idris Jones

ISBN 1854113216 (1-85411-321-6)
Softcover, Seren Books/Poetry Wales Pr Ltd

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The Fight for Manod
by Raymond Williams

ISBN 0701208090 (0-7012-0809-0)
Softcover, Random House of Canada Ltd

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Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters

ISBN 1573229725 (1-57322-972-5)
Softcover, Riverhead Books

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From the author of the New York Times Notable Book Tipping the Velvet and the award-winning Affinity: a spellbinding, twisting tale of a great swindle, of fortunes and hearts won and lost, set in Victorian London among a family of thieves.

Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby's household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves-fingersmiths-for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home.

One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives-Gentleman, a somewhat elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud's vast inheritance. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be left to live out her days in a mental hospital. With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways. . . . But no one and nothing is as it seems in this > Dickensian novel of thrills and surprises.

The New York Times Book Review has called Sarah Waters a writer of "consummate skill" and The Seattle Times has praised her work as "gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and the senses." Fingersmith marks a major leap forward in this young and brilliant career. [via]
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- Fingersmith: ISBN 1573222038 (1-57322-203-8)
  Hardcover, Riverhead Books
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  Softcover, Riverhead Books
The Gododdin of Aneirin: Text and Context from Dark-Age North Britain
by John T. Koch

ISBN 0708313744 (0-7083-1374-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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Griffri
by Christopher Meredith

ISBN 1854110594 (1-85411-059-4)
Hardcover, Seren Books/Poetry Wales Pr Ltd

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A Guide to Welsh Literature, 1282v1550
by A.O.H. Jarman, Gwilym Rees Hughes, Dafydd Johnston, R. Geraint Gruffydd

ISBN 0708311431 (0-7083-1143-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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How Green Was My Valley
by Richard Llewellyn

ISBN 0684825554 (0-684-82555-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Llewellyn's tale of a young man's coming-of-age in a small Welsh mining town--the basis for the beloved film of the same name--is "a beautiful story told in words which have Welsh music in them . . . a book which will live in the mind and memory of its readers" (Atlantic Monthly) [via]
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The Island of the Mighty
by Evangeline Walton

ISBN 0345279670 (0-345-27967-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

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The Mabinogi, and Other Medieval Welsh Tales
by Patrick K. Ford

ISBN 0520034147 (0-520-03414-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr

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The Mabinogion
by Gwyn Jones, Thomas Jones

ISBN 0460872974 (0-460-87297-4)
Softcover, Everyman

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(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)

Preface by John Updike

The 11 stories of The Mabinogion, first assembled on paper in the fourteenth century, reach far back into the earlier oral traditions of Welsh poetry.

Closely linked to the Arthurian legends--King Arthur himself is a character--they summon up a world of mystery and magic that is still evoked by the Welsh landscape they so vividly describe. Mingling fantasy with tales of chivalry, these stories not only prefigure the later medieval romances, but stand on their own as magnificent evocations of a golden age of Celtic civilization.

This translation of The Mabinogion has, since its first appearance in 1949, been recognized as a classic in its own right. It was last revised by Gwyn Jones and his wife, Mair, in 1993. [via]
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The Mabinogion
by Charlotte Guest, Anonymous

ISBN 1406805092 (1-4068-0509-2)
Softcover, Echo Library

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A Welsh cycle of Arthurian tales. If you read, as a kid, the Lloyd Alexander series "Chronicles of Prydain," some names might seem familiar. [via]
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- The Mabinogion: ISBN 1419171097 (1-4191-7109-7)
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Mabinogion
by Alan Lee, Charlotte Schreiber

ISBN 0261103911 (0-261-10391-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins

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A major illustrated edition of the classic fantasy with over 50 full-colour paintings by the celebrated artist of The Lord of the Rings. Before The Lord of the Rings there was THE MABINOGION. Widely recognized as the finest arc of Celtic mythology, the eleven stories were preserved in two Welsh collections, The White Book of Rhydderch (c.1300-1325) and The Red Book of Hergest (1375-1425), though the stories themselves hail from an oral tradition dating back to the tenth century. At its core are tales of heroes and men, birth and death, gods and beasts, penance and vindication, kinship and kingship, battles and quests. THE MABINOGION embraces much of ancient and early British culture, combining the numinous world of Celtic mythology, Arthurian legend and feudal Europe's Age of Chivalry. Indeed, scholars have identified that it was out of THE MABINOGION that the Arthurian legends were born. This new edition contains the definitive translation of the work by Lady Charlotte Guest, undoubtably the most accessible of those published, and includes the tale of Taliesin, which has been missing from the collected tales of the Mabinogion for over twenty years. It also contains 50 colour paintings by Alan Lee, many appearing here for the first time. Best known for his work on the illustrated editions of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, it was always Alan Lee's ambition to illustrate THE MABINOGION, as it combines his main interests of folklore, legend and the supernatural. His style lends itself perfectly to the work and his interpretation will give enormous pleasure as the stories enter their third millennium. [via]
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The Mabinogion
by Charlotte Schreiber, Charlotte E. Guest

ISBN 0486295419 (0-486-29541-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Collection of 12 medieval Welsh stories considered a masterpiece of European literature. Includes Kilhwch and Olwen, one of the earliest Arthurian tales in Welsh; The Dream of Rhonabwy; 3 Arthurian romances: The Lady of the Fountain, Peredur the Son of Evrawc and Geraint the Son of Erbin, and more.
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Mabinogion
by J. Thomas, Gwyn Jones

ISBN 0460042289 (0-460-04228-9)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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Preface by John Updike

The 11 stories of The Mabinogion, first assembled on paper in the fourteenth century, reach far back into the earlier oral traditions of Welsh poetry.

Closely linked to the Arthurian legends--King Arthur himself is a character--they summon up a world of mystery and magic that is still evoked by the Welsh landscape they so vividly describe. Mingling fantasy with tales of chivalry, these stories not only prefigure the later medieval romances, but stand on their own as magnificent evocations of a golden age of Celtic civilization.

This translation of The Mabinogion has, since its first appearance in 1949, been recognized as a classic in its own right. It was last revised by Gwyn Jones and his wife, Mair, in 1993. [via]
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- The Mabinogion: ISBN 0460010972 (0-460-01097-2)
  Softcover, Dent
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The Mabinogion
by Jeffrey Gantz

ISBN 0140443223 (0-14-044322-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Drawing on myth, folklore and history, the stories of the "Mabinogion" passed from generations of storytellers before they were written down in the thirteenth century in the form we know. Set in dual realms of the forests and valleys of Wales and the shadowy otherworld, the tales are permeated by a dreamlike atmosphere. In "Math Son of Mathonwy" two brothers plot to carry off the virginal Goewin, while in "Manawydan Son of Llyr" a chieftain roams throughout Britain after a spell is cast over his land. And King Arthur's court provides the backdrop to tales such as "How Culhwch Won Olwen", in which a young man must complete many tasks before he can marry a giant's daughter. [via]
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The Mabinogion
by R. Williams, Charlotte E. Guest

ISBN 1425490956 (1-4254-9095-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. [via]
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The Mabinogion
by Sioned Davies

ISBN 0192832425 (0-19-283242-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history--these are just some of the themes embraced by the anonymous authors of the eleven tales that make up the Welsh medieval masterpiece known as the Mabinogion. They tell of Gwydion the shape-shifter, who can create a woman out of flowers; of Math the magician whose feet must lie in the lap of a virgin; of hanging a pregnant mouse and hunting a magical boar. Dragons, witches, and giants live alongside kings and heroes, and quests of honour, revenge, and love are set against the backdrop of a country struggling to retain its independence.
This new translation, the first for thirty years, recreates the storytelling world of medieval Wales and re-invests the tales with the power of performance. [via]
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Medieval Religious Literature
by D. Simon Evans

ISBN 0708309380 (0-7083-0938-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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Medieval Welsh Poems
by Joseph P. Clancy

ISBN 1851827838 (1-85182-783-8)
Softcover, Intl Specialized Book Service Inc

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Miscellany One: Poems, Stories, Broadcasts
by Dylan Thomas

ISBN 0460020137 (0-460-02013-7)
Hardcover, Dent

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The Mountains of Wales: An Anthology in Verse And Prose
by Ioan Bowen Rees

ISBN 0708311636 (0-7083-1163-6)
Softcover, Univ of Wales Pr

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The New Companion to the Literature of Wales
by Meic Stephens

ISBN 0708313833 (0-7083-1383-3)
Hardcover, University of Wales Press

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The Night Watch
by Sarah Waters

ISBN 1594482306 (1-59448-230-6)
Softcover, Riverhead Books

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Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying, and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch tells the story of four Londoners-three women and a young man with a past-whose lives, and those of their friends and lovers, connect in tragedy, stunning surprise and exquisite turns, only to change irreversibly in the shadow of a grand historical event. [via]
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The Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales
by Welsh Academy, Meic Stephens

ISBN 0192115863 (0-19-211586-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Though geographically a small country, Wales has produced a large body of extraordinary literature in both Welsh and English which deserves broader recognition. The Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales provides an introduction to the literature and culture of this fascinating country, covering a time period that ranges from the days of King Arthur to the present-day flowering of Welsh national consciousness. Its nearly three thousand entries treat the principal genres of Welsh literature, the complexities of Welsh poetic art, myth, legend. and folklore, and offer information on literary associations, events, movement, and institutions. The book also features biographies of major figures from all periods of Welsh literary history.

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"Dylan Thomas (1914-53), poet and prose writer....The standing of Dylan Thomas as one of the most important and challenging of the twentieth-century poets in English is assured....Certainly, part of the Welshman's significance is the umcompromising way in which he stood out against the intellectualization of poetry and any thinning of its textural and musical delights. In terms more specifically of Anglo-Welsh writing, a particular power in his poetry derives from the unresolved tensions which come from living imaginatively on the blurred edged between two cultures. Although English was his only language, the different liguistic instincts of Wales, no less than its society and topography, run deep in his poetry, where the Welshness of his materials in less self-consciously capitalized upon than in his prose. But with respect to the prose and poetry alike, renewed interest in the regional forces shaping British literature in English continues to enrich their appeal." [via]
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Pestilence
by William Roberts

ISBN 1568582579 (1-56858-257-9)
Hardcover, Timber Press, Incorporated

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Portrait of the Artist As a Young Dog,
by Dylan Thomas

ISBN 0811202070 (0-8112-0207-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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First the young schoolboy, gloriously immersed in make-believe in a shabby farmyard or beginning to interpret the urgent rituals of old age and courtship. Then the budding poet with his thrilling friendships and dreams of fortune. Finally, the neophyte reporter roaming suburban Swansea for momentous material. In these stories Dylan Thomas shows the exuberance of youth maturing into a fine celebratory compassion and the poet's sheer ironic relish for the eccentricities of common life. [via]
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The Prince of Annwn
by Evangeline Walton

ISBN 0345242335 (0-345-24233-5)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books

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The Song of Rhiannon
by Evangeline Walton

ISBN 0345027736 (0-345-02773-6)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books

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Taran Wanderer
by Lloyd Alexander

ISBN 0805080511 (0-8050-8051-1)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co

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Since The Book of Three was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess; Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole-prone bard; the ever-faithful Gurgi; and the curmudgeonly Doli--all of whom become involved in an epic struggle between good and evil that shapes the fate of the legendary land of Prydain.

Released over a period of five years, Lloyd Alexander's beautifully written tales not only captured children's imaginations but also garnered the highest critical praise. The Black Cauldron was a Newbery Honor Book, and the final volume in the chronicles, The High King, crowned the series by winning the Newbery Medal for "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children."

Henry Holt is proud to present this classic series to a new generation of young readers. Jackets have been handsomely redesigned while retaining the original art of Caldecott Medal-winning artist Evaline Ness. Each retypeset volume now includes a pronunciation guide prepared by Lloyd Alexander. A companion book of short stories, The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain, is also available in hardcover for the first time in twenty years.

In their more than thirty years in print, the Chronicles of Prydain have become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children.
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Tipping the Velvet
by Sarah Waters

ISBN 1573221368 (1-57322-136-8)
Softcover, Tarcher/Putnam

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The heroine of Sarah Waters's audacious first novel knows her destiny, and seems content with it. Her place is in her father's seaside restaurant, shucking shellfish and stirring soup, singing all the while. "Although I didn't long believe the story told to me by Mother--that they had found me as a baby in an oyster-shell, and a greedy customer had almost eaten me for lunch--for eighteen years I never doubted my own oysterish sympathies, never looked far beyond my father's kitchen for occupation, or for love." At night Nancy Astley often ventures to the nearby music hall, not that she has illusions of being more than an audience member. But the moment she spies a new male impersonator--still something of a curiosity in England circa 1888--her years of innocence come to an end and a life of transformations begins.
Tipping the Velvet, all 472 pages of it, is as saucy, as tantalizing, and as touching as the narrator's first encounter with the seductive but shame-ridden Miss Kitty Butler. And at first even Nancy's family is thrilled with her gender-bending pal, all but her sister, best friend, and bedmate, Alice, "her eyes shining cold and dull, with starlight and suspicion." Not to worry. Soon Nancy and Kitty are off to London, their relationship close though (alas for our heroine) sisterly. We know that bliss will come, and it does, in an exceptionally charged moment. A lesser author would have been content to stop her story there, but Waters has much more in mind for her buttonholing heroine, and for us. In brief, her Everywoman with a sexual difference goes from success onstage to heartbreak to a stint as a male prostitute (necessity truly is the mother of invention) to keeping house for a brother and sister in the Labour movement. And did I mention her long stint as a plaything in the pleasure palace of a rich Sapphist extraordinaire? Diana Lethaby is as cruel as she is carnal, and even the well-concealed Cavendish Ladies' Club isn't outré enough for her. Kitting Nancy out in full, elegant drag, she dares the front desk to turn them away. "We are here," she mocks, "for the sake of the irregular."
Only after some seven years of hard twists and sensual turns does Nancy conclude that a life of sensation is not enough. Still, Tipping the Velvet is so entertaining that readers will wish her sentimental--and hedonistic--education had taken twice as long. --Kerry Fried [via]
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The Welsh Fairy Book
by W. Jenkyn Thomas

ISBN 0486417115 (0-486-41711-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Ystoria Taliesin: The Story of Taliesin
by Patrick K. Ford, Elis Gruffydd, University of Wales Board of Celtic Studies Language and Literature Co, National Library of Wales

ISBN 0708310923 (0-7083-1092-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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