The Book of the BeastIn Lee's complex fantasy city and its sprawling timeline, the descendants of one family are marked for doom and death by a mysterious amulet, leading them into opulence and decadence, where obsessive love and disease can render any magic useless. |
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Page 217
Tanith Lee. breasts bound in byssus . The Egyptian enamel and lapis was of eyes and hieroglyphs , but there hung from it a flat moon - disc spider , in silver , and there another and another was sewn on her skirt . She had placed some ...
Tanith Lee. breasts bound in byssus . The Egyptian enamel and lapis was of eyes and hieroglyphs , but there hung from it a flat moon - disc spider , in silver , and there another and another was sewn on her skirt . She had placed some ...
Page 397
... byssus . The shoulders of the dancer , her arms , rose from the silver like those of a maiden ascending from water . Over the shoulders of the bound man , the unseen hands curved back and forth , to the pits of the arms , the line of ...
... byssus . The shoulders of the dancer , her arms , rose from the silver like those of a maiden ascending from water . Over the shoulders of the bound man , the unseen hands curved back and forth , to the pits of the arms , the line of ...
Page 398
... byssus skin . But the byssus too worked gradually away from her , unfurling like the calyx of a flower , slipping from her breasts that were the cups of flowers , that now hid themselves again , that now were again and utterly unveiled ...
... byssus skin . But the byssus too worked gradually away from her , unfurling like the calyx of a flower , slipping from her breasts that were the cups of flowers , that now hid themselves again , that now were again and utterly unveiled ...
Contents
STAINED WITH CRIMSON | 5 |
EMPIRES OF AZURE | 191 |
PART ONE The Scholar | 247 |
Copyright | |
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