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  • 28 Oct 2015
    vampire teeth

    Dead persons in Hungary who suck the blood of the living

    In this excerpt, Augustin Calmet, author of The Phantom World (2012), recalls the chilling story of blood-sucking vampires in 18th Century Hungary.

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  • 23 Oct 2014
    Caroline M.

    Things That Go Bump in the Night

    Our Cambridge Library Collection publisher Caroline M. explores the history of everyone's favorite October holiday—it's not just American commercialism, but a celebration steeped in European tradition as the "Eve of All Hallows."

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  • 2 Dec 2013
    A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, alongside a christmas tree, tinsel and mince pies
    Caroline M.

    Carols, jokes, and the Dickensian Christmas

    Caroline M, publisher of our Cambridge Library Collection, unwraps some of our Christmas titles, and puts Charles Dickens in his place.

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  • 3 Jul 2013
    Caroline M.

    An Inside Look at the Cambridge Library Collection

    In our latest installment of the Cambridge Book Club, Caroline M., the publisher of the Cambridge Library Collection, talks about the excitement of working with rare books from centuries past and how these phenomenal titles are being revitalized in the digital age.

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  • 7 Aug 2009

    Print-on-demand brings library collection off the stacks

    Two preliminary essays to On the Origin of Species. Family reminiscences of Jane Austen gathered by her nephew. The correspondence between Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt. Charles Dickens, as a journalist, reporting from America. The Cambridge Library Collection is an exciting new collaboration between the library of the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Press, the world’s oldest publisher.

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