Russell Hoban's Books

A Russell Hoban Omnibus

By: Russell Hoban

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A Russell Hoban Omnibus presents four of Hoban's novels: the haunting The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz; the popular Turtle Diary (which was made into a movie starring Glenda Jackson and Ben Kingsley); Pilgermann; and his newest work, Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer, a brilliant Faustian comedy published here for the first time in the United States. Book jacket.

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Indiana University Press

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0253335868

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9780253335869

Kleinzeit

By: Russell Hoban

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Kleinzeit

By: Russell Hoban

On a day like any other, Kleinzeit gets fired. Hours later he finds himself in hospital with a pair of adventurous pyjamas and a recurring geometrical pain. Here he falls instantly in love with a beautiful night nurse called Sister. And together they are pitched headlong into a wild and flickering world of mystery ... Kleinzeit. In German that means 'hero'. Or 'smalltime'. It depends on whom you ask. 'Russell Hoban is our Ur-novelist, a maverick voice that is like no other' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

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1408835754

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9781408835753

The Mouse and His Child

By: Russell Hoban

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The Mouse and His Child

By: Russell Hoban

Like the fantasies of Tolkien, Thurber, E. B. White, The Mouse and His Child is filled with symbolism and satire, violence and vengeance, tears and laughter." -- The New York Times The images stay with you long after the book is done: the toy mouse and his father, on a journey together joined hand in hand; Manny Rat, the nefarious lord of the junkyard, stalking the toy mice for their clockwork parts; Uncle Frog, spouting wisdom and nonsense from within a glove; and the Bonzo Dog Food dog, repeating himself endlessly on a label, fading away to the last visible dog...Russell Hoban's novel is many things: a stirring adventure story, a sharp-witted comedy, and the moving tale of a father and son struggling to return to a state of grace.Called one of the great works of children's literature of the twentieth century -- but with an audience that spans ages and times -- The Mouse and His Child has been lovingly re-illustrated by Caldecott Medalist David Small for a new generation and a new millennium.

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Scholastic Inc.

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1338043056

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9781338043051

A Bargain for Frances

By: Russell Hoban

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A Bargain for Frances

By: Russell Hoban

One day Thelma tricks Frances into buying her old plastic tea set. Thelma says there are no backsies on the bargain. Can Frances come up with a plan that will change her friend's mind? Outstanding Children's Books of 1970 (NYT)

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Harper Collins

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0060223294

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Come Dance With Me

By: Russell Hoban

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Come Dance With Me

By: Russell Hoban

Since the age of thirteen, Christabel Alderton has been troubled by a sort of second sight that works sometimes, but not always. Death is much on her mind because the men in her life tend to die before their time and she's come to think she's bad luck. Fascinated by Christabel, diabetologist Elias Newman is keen to know her better but she's afraid of what might happen. Taking the reader from the River Lea via a haunted woodland bog, out to the crash of the Pacific surf on Kahakuloa Head in the Hawaiian Islands, this is Russell Hoban at his engrossing, inimitable best.

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1408835266

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9781408835265

A Russell Hoban Omnibus

By: Russell Hoban

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A Russell Hoban Omnibus

By: Russell Hoban

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Riddley Walker

By: Russell Hoban

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Riddley Walker

By: Russell Hoban

‘Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely come to writing all this down. Thinking on what the idear of us myt be. Thinking on that thing whats in us lorn and loan and oansome.’ Composed in an English which has never been spoken and laced with a storytelling tradition that predates the written word, RIDDLEY WALKER is the world waiting for us at the bitter end of the nuclear road. It is desolate, dangerous and harrowing, and a modern masterpiece.

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1408832240

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Her Name Was Lola

By: Russell Hoban

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Her Name Was Lola

By: Russell Hoban

This is it ... this is my destiny woman,' Max blurted out when he first met Lola at the Coliseum shop. Not only was she aristocratic and wild at heart, but the two discovered an uncanny convergence of musical tastes. Soon they were converging at every level - Lola filling Max's emptiness and vice versa. But Max had also always craved the recognition of another sort of woman, the sort who had been Homecoming Queen at her high school - just as the tempting Lula Mae Flowers had been back in Texas. Why did Max have to meet Lula Mae just when he'd found his destiny woman in Lola? And if Lola embodied everything Max longed for, how could there be anything left over for Texan ex-Homecoming Queens?

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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140883538X

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Dinner at Alberta's

By: Russell Hoban

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Dinner at Alberta's

By: Russell Hoban

Arthur Crocodile cannot seem to learn table manners until his sister brings her new girlfriend to visit.

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Vintage

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0224013939

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9780224013932

The Twenty Elephant Restaurant

By: Russell Hoban

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The Twenty Elephant Restaurant

By: Russell Hoban

A man builds a new table sturdy enough for an elephant to dance on and works up to a restaurant with twenty dancing elephants

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Random House (UK)

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0140331123

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Turtle Diary

By: Russell Hoban

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Turtle Diary

By: Russell Hoban

In this wise and touching classic by the author of Riddley Walker, two lonely Londoners bond over a plan to free the sea turtles at the city zoo. Life in a city can be atomizing, isolating. And it certainly is for William G. and Neaera H., the strangers at the center of Russell Hoban’s surprisingly heartwarming novel Turtle Diary. William, a clerk at a used-book store, lives in a rooming house after a divorce that has left him without home or family. Neaera is a successful writer of children’s books, who, in her own estimation, “looks like the sort of spinster who doesn’t keep cats and is not a vegetarian. Looks…like a man’s woman who hasn’t got a man.” Entirely unknown to each other, they are both drawn to the turtle tank at the London zoo with “minds full of turtle thoughts,” wondering how the turtles might be freed. And then comes the day when Neaera walks into William’s bookstore, and together they form an unlikely partnership to make what seemed a crazy dream become a reality.

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New York Review of Books

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1590176464

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9781590176467

Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition

By: Russell Hoban

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Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition

By: Russell Hoban

A hero with Huck Finn's heart and charm, lighting by El Greco and jokes by Punch and Judy. . . . Riddley Walker is haunting and fiercely imagined and—this matters most—intensely ponderable." —Benjamin DeMott, The New York Times Book Review "This is what literature is meant to be." —Anthony Burgess "Russell Hoban has brought off an extraordinary feat of imagination and style. . . . The conviction and consistency are total. Funny, terrible, haunting and unsettling, this book is a masterpiece." —Anthony Thwaite, Observer "Extraordinary . . . Suffused with melancholy and wonder, beautifully written, Riddley Walker is a novel that people will be reading for a long, long time." —Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World "Stunning, delicious, designed to prevent the modern reader from becoming stupid." —John Leonard, The New York Times "Highly enjoyable . . . An intriguing plot . . . Ferociously inventive." —Walter Clemons, Newsweek "Astounding . . . Hoban's soaring flight of imagination is that golden rarity, a dazzlingly realized work of genius." —Jane Clapperton, Cosmopolitan "An imaginative intensity that is rare in contemporary fiction.' —Paul Gray, Time Riddley Walker is a brilliant, unique, completely realized work of fiction. One reads it again and again, discovering new wonders every time through. Set in a remote future in a post-nuclear holocaust England (Inland), Hoban has imagined a humanity regressed to an iron-age, semi-literate state—and invented a language to represent it. Riddley is at once the Huck Finn and the Stephen Dedalus of his culture—rebel, change agent, and artist. Read again or for the first time this masterpiece of 20th-century literature with new material by the author.

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Indiana University Press

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0253008514

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9780253008510

Bread and Jam for Frances

By: Russell Hoban

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Bread and Jam for Frances

By: Russell Hoban

Frances is a fussy eater. In fact, the only thing she likes is bread and jam. She won't touch her squishy soft-boiled egg. She trades away her chicken-salad sandwich at lunch. She turns up her nose at boring veal cutlets. Unless Mother can come up with a plan, Frances just might go on eating bread and jam forever!

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0060837985

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The Marzipan Pig

By: Russell Hoban

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The Marzipan Pig

By: Russell Hoban

The marzipan pig eaten by a mouse starts a chain of events involving the feelings of the mouse, a grandfather clock, an owl, a bee, a flower, and another mouse who in her turn discovers another marzipan pig to eat.

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0224016873

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The Little Brute Family

By: Russell Hoban

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The Little Brute Family

By: Russell Hoban

The little Brute family is not nice. Can Baby Brute change their ways?

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Macmillan

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0312621388

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Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer

By: Russell Hoban

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Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer

By: Russell Hoban

Russell Hoban's imagination knows no bounds ... darkly funny and profound' The Times 'You want to buy my death for a million pounds!' Piccadilly Circus tube station is an unlikely location for a pact with the Devil, but this is where Jonathan Fitch first meets Mr Rinyo-Clacton. Devastated after his girlfriend Serafina has left him, Jonathan agrees that this mysterious stranger will pay him a million pounds for a year, if he agrees to die at the end of it. What could possibly go wrong? 'A poignant and engaging fable of ownership and surrender' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday 'Nothing is accidental or optional in this jewelled clockwork egg of a book ... Hoban is a hugely skilled, moving and endlessly entertaining writer' The Times Literary Supplement

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0141995408

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Linger Awhile

By: Russell Hoban

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Linger Awhile

By: Russell Hoban

Irving Goodman, self-confessed dirty old man, is 83 years old and has just fallen in love. Unfortunately, Justine Trimble, star of 1950s cowboy B-movies, has been dead for 47 years. He saw her first in "Last Stage to El Paso", a lowlife black-and-whie Western, and has been unable to think of anything else since. Desperate, Goodman invokes the help of his old friend, Istvan Fallock, to see if they can't somehow coax a videotape to yield the 25-year-old Justine. So with a test tube, distillation of frog, a soupcon of primordial soup mixed with a suspension of disbelief, they summon her back to life. And to their surprise and consternation, she materializes. As a reward for lust and hubris, Irving gets a lot more than the affection and attention he'd bargained for. Thus beings an amazing tale of murder and mayhem in contemporary London, where sexy vampire cowgirls run amok, chased by men old enough to know better.

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1567923267

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9781567923261

How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen

By: Russell Hoban

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How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen

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Tom likes fooling around and is rather good at it, much to the annoyance of his Aunt Fidget Wonkham-Strong. So one day this fearsome lady decides to teach Tom a lesson and summons Captain Najork and his Hired Sportsmen to play womble, muck and sneedball. Can it possibly end well for all concerned?

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Her Name was Lola

A Novel

By: Russell Hoban

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Her Name was Lola

A Novel

By: Russell Hoban

Falling head over heels for the spirited Lola, who shares his musical tastes and complements him on every level, Max nevertheless pursues a secret second relationship when the unattainable high-school homecoming queen he loved years earlier reenters his life.

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Arcade Publishing

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1559707267

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9781559707268

Best Friends for Frances

By: Russell Hoban

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Best Friends for Frances

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When Albert and his buddies have a "no girls" baseball game, Frances and her sister organize a "Best Friends Outing -- No Boys.

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0060838019

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The Bat Tattoo

By: Russell Hoban

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The Bat Tattoo

By: Russell Hoban

Recently widowed and increasingly lonely, Roswell Clark's life had arrived at the point when he felt he needed a tattoo. His ideal image was that of a bat featured on an eighteenth-century bowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum, but strangely, on a visit to the museum, he encountered a woman called Sarah Varley, who was clearly compelled by the same bat. What did it mean? Sarah dealt in antiques and Roswell soon ran into her stalls in Chelsea and Covent Garden. His calling, which grew out of an obsession with crash-test dummies, was a bit harder to explain. It led from the invention of a popular children's toy to lucrative commissions from a Parisian sybarite for wooden working models with very adult moving parts. Both Roswell and Sarah had lost their spouses and were still grieving in their different ways. And then Christ started putting a hand in - literally - when a fragment of an ancient crucifix fetched up in one of Sarah's antique lots. Between some compulsion conveyed by this hand and Sarah's natural urge to make improvements in people, Roswell's work took a surprising new turn... Russell Hoban's delicious new novel combines much about art - traditional and conceptual - with new angles on Christ, crash-test dummies, antiques, pornography and a charming tale of romance.

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1408835703

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9781408835708

Legislation at Westminster

Parliamentary Actors and Influence in the Making of British Law

By: Meg Russell,Daniel Gover (Political researcher)

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Legislation at Westminster

Parliamentary Actors and Influence in the Making of British Law

By: Meg Russell,Daniel Gover (Political researcher)

The Westminster parliament is a highly visible political institution, and one of its core functions is approving new laws. Yet Britain's legislative process is often seen as executive-dominated, and parliament as relatively weak. As this book shows, such impressions can be misleading. Drawing on the largest study of its kind for more than forty years, Meg Russell and Daniel Gover cast new light on the political dynamics that shape the legislative process. They provide a fascinating account of the passage of twelve government bills - collectively attracting more than 4000 proposed amendments - through both the House of Commons and House of Lords. These include highly contested changes such as Labour's identity cards scheme and the coalition's welfare reforms, alongside other relatively uncontroversial measures. As well as studying the parliamentary record and amendments, the study draws from more than 100 interviews with legislative insiders. Following introductory chapters about the Westminster legislative process, the book focuses on the contribution of distinct parliamentary 'actors', including the government, opposition, backbenchers, select committees, and pressure groups. It considers their behaviour in the legislative process, what they seek to achieve, and crucially how they influence policy decisions. The final chapter reflects on Westminster's influence overall, showing this to be far greater than commonly assumed. Parliamentary influence is asserted in various different ways - ranging from visible amendments to more subtle means of changing government's behaviour. The book's findings make an important contribution to understanding both British politics and the dynamics of legislative bodies more broadly. Its readability and relevance will appeal to both specialists and general readers with interests in politics and law, in the UK and beyond.

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Oxford University Press

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0198753829

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9780198753827

The Art-makers

An Informal History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in Nineteenth-century America

By: Russell Lynes

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The Art-makers

An Informal History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in Nineteenth-century America

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Eakins, Hunt, French, Morse, Trumbull, et al. and their struggle to make art respectable in 19th-century America. 211 illus.

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Courier Corporation

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0486242390

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9780486242392

Teaching about Teaching

Purpose, Passion and Pedagogy in Teacher Education

By: Tom Russell

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Teaching about Teaching

Purpose, Passion and Pedagogy in Teacher Education

By: Tom Russell

Considers teacher education as an important aspects of the teaching profession and demonstrates why it is so important for higher education institutions to value their teacher educators' professional knowledge. The book demonstrates how teaching about teaching knowledge pedagogy is vital to the development of quality in teacher education and how this knowledge needs to be articulated and communicated throughout the teaching profession, both in schools and universities.

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Routledge

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1135714932

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9781135714932

The Bat Tattoo

By: Russell Hoban

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The Bat Tattoo

By: Russell Hoban

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Jim Hedgehog and the Lonesome Tower

By: Russell Hoban

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Jim Hedgehog and the Lonesome Tower

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Jim Hedgehog, who likes heavy metal music, buys a cassette tape and a musical instrument from Mr. Strange, which lead him to a haunted castle.

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0395597609

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9780395597606

Charlie Meadows

By: Russell Hoban

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Charlie Meadows

By: Russell Hoban

While delivering the news to the other field mice, Charlie Meadows, who loves dancing with his shadow in the moonlight, narrowly escapes being eaten by the owl.

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Henry Holt Books For Young Readers

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0030695023

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9780030695025

The Court of the Winged Serpent

By: Russell Hoban,Patrick Benson

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The Court of the Winged Serpent

By: Russell Hoban,Patrick Benson

While sleeping at night, John dreams that he travels through a jungle to find a courtyard where he encounters a huge winged serpent with emerald-green scales.

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Trafalgar Square Books

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0224036149

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