London is rife with impoverished French nobility who have escaped the horror of the French revolution. Quentin de Morlaix, sympathetic to these disenfranchised aristocrats, finds that he too has his own personal reasons to pray for an end to the Revolution. He sets off for France, and enters a life of confusion, mystery, and bloody execution.

The adventures of that rascal, Puss, and his master, the miller's son are here portrayed in a lavish series of illustrations that range from sumptuous grandeur to comedy both boisterous and sly.

A Neverwhere short story from one of the brightest, most brilliant writers of our generation - the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning The Ocean At the End of the Lane. The coat. It was elegant. It was beautiful. It was so close that he could have reached out and touched it. And it was unquestionably his. *** 'Gaiman's achievement is to make the fantasy world seem true' The Times

This facsimile reprint was prepared directly from an original copy published in 1880 by Wildhern Press.

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The cat with boots. (Le Maître Chat ou le Chat bottand, in Frenchands) is a European folk tale compiled, in 1695, by Charles Perrault and published in 1697 in his book Tales of Antañor (Histoires ou contes du temps passand. Avec des moralitands). as Master Cat or Puss in Boots. 3. It tells the story of a cat that, based on cunning and deceitñYou, get the fortune and the hand of a princess for your master, totally poor. The 1695 handwritten book istodedicated to Mademoiselle, niece of Louis XIV. Puss in Boots was a hit from its first publication and remains popular, despite its ambiguous morals. The character is inspired by at least two stories previously written: the novel The Pleasant Nights by Gianfrancesco Straparola (1550, the first part and 1553, the second part) . and the Pentamerorn (The tale of tales), collectionorn of stories by Giambattista Basile published in five volumes, from 1634 to 1636. Puss in Boots has inspired designers, composers, choreographers, and just about every type of artist. It appears in the third act of the ballet The Sleeping Beauty of Tchaikovsky. In addition, the adaptations of the story have been multiple, from theater to cinema and comics, through opera, parodies ...

NEIL GAIMAN'S NEVERWHERE TP Written by Mike Carey Art and cover by Glenn Fabry The comics adaptation of New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman's acclaimed novel is now available complete in one 224-page trade paperback! Collecting all nine issues of the Vertigo maxiseries, this volume follows the adventures of an ordinary Londoner who stops to help an enigmatic girl and is drawn into a battle to save the strange underworld kingdom of London Below from destruction. Advance-solivited; on sale October 4 - 224 pg, FC, $19.99 US - MATURE READERS