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Book of Urban Legend (Wordsworth Reference)

Uncle Joe’s ashes baked in a cake (Delicious!); Granny’s corpse stolen along with the family car; sewers alive with alligators… all these alleged occurrences – and many, many others – are the stuff of urban legend; the extraordinary things that you’re told happen to that elusive ‘friend of a friend’ (foaf); someone whom you can never pin …

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Moby Dick (Wordsworth Classics)

With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd. Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury Moby-Dick is the story of Captain Ahab’s quest to avenge the whale that ‘reaped’ his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it …

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