Enchanted Strings

Author : Alan Bradley
Publisher : Dell
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780440339175

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The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Flavia is incisive, cutting and hilarious . . . one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature.”—USA Today Flavia de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey are over—until beloved puppeteer Rupert Porson has his own strings sizzled in an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. But who’d do such a thing, and why? Does the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Wood know more than she’s letting on? What about Porson’s charming but erratic assistant? All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can’t solve—without Flavia’s help. But in getting so close to who’s secretly pulling the strings of this dance of death, has our precocious heroine finally gotten in way over her head? BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Alan Bradley's A Red Herring Without Mustard, discussion questions, and an essay by the author.

Author : David J. Buch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226078113

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Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests by David J. Buch Pdf

Drawing on hundreds of operas, singspiels, ballets, and plays with supernatural themes, Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests argues that the tension between fantasy and Enlightenment-era rationality shaped some of the most important works of eighteenth-century musical theater and profoundly influenced how audiences and critics responded to them. David J. Buch reveals that despite—and perhaps even because of—their fundamental irrationality, fantastic and exotic themes acquired extraordinary force and popularity during the period, pervading theatrical works with music in the French, German, and Italian mainstream. Considering prominent compositions by Gluck, Rameau, and Haydn, as well as many seminal contributions by lesser-known artists, Buch locates the origins of these magical elements in such historical sources as ancient mythology, European fairy tales, the Arabian Nights, and the occult. He concludes with a brilliant excavation of the supernatural roots of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni, building a new foundation for our understanding of the magical themes that proliferated in Mozart’s wake.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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No Strings Attached by Anonim Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1914 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498405

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Randal Metz
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781626401075

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Enchanted Strings by Randal Metz Pdf

Bob Baker Marionette Theater has enchanted families in Los Angeles and beyond with delightful marionette performances since 1963. Enchanted Strings captures the visual history of this palace of puppetry from Bob Baker's earliest days to the theater's transformation into a thriving hub of creative culture.--

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1066 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006281229

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Naomi Musiker,Reuben Musiker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135917708

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Conductors and Composers of Popular Orchestral Music by Naomi Musiker,Reuben Musiker Pdf

World-wide in scope and focusing on the second half of the 20th century, this work provides biographies and discographies of some 500 composers and conductors of light and popular orchestral music, including film, show, theatre and mood music. The book is arranged in two sequences: 1) Biographies and select discographies, both arranged alphabetically, of the well-known and better-known conductors and composers. These entries also include a list of suggested reading for those wishing to further their studies; and 2) Select discographies of conductors about whom little or no biographical information is available. The bibliography at the end of the book covers discographical sources, popular music and film music. This is the first time that the lives and recordings of such artists as Kostelanetz, Faith, and Gould as well as the orchestral recordings of such great popular composers as Gershwin, Kern, Porter, Rodgers, Berlin and Coward have been documented and presented in an encyclopedic form.

Author : John Ross Dix
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Authors
ISBN : MINN:31951002397446J

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Lions: Living and Dead by John Ross Dix Pdf

Author : Charles Mackay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Poetry
ISBN : OXFORD:600083477

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The Poetical Works of Charles Mackay by Charles Mackay Pdf

Author : Charles Mackay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCD:31175035216848

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Songs for Music by Charles Mackay Pdf

Author : Sir Landon Ronald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Song cycles
ISBN : OSU:32435072426729

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Down in the Forest by Sir Landon Ronald Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081752598

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The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : M. MACD.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018525798

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My Early Dreams. [In prose and verse.] By M. Mc D[ermott]. by M. MACD. Pdf

Author : Alan Bradley
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385678896

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The Buckshaw Chronicles 3-eBook Bundle by Alan Bradley Pdf

The Buckshaw Chronicles, Volume 1, brings together under one spine the bestselling The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, and A Red Herring Without Mustard. Follow our precocious amateur detective with a passion for poison as she investigates the death of a man in her very own backyard's cucumber patch, goes behind the scenes of a puppet show to find out who wanted the puppet master dead, and as she looks into the crystal ball to find out why corpse after corpse is being found in Bishop's Lacey. Flavia is a completely enchanting character, and Alan Bradley a masterful writer. Join the adventures!

Author : Alan Bradley
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 2274 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101968550

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The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle by Alan Bradley Pdf

New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley is a master of the British cozy mystery, and in Flavia de Luce, he has created a wickedly clever and intrepid young sleuth, hailed as “one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature” (USA Today). Now readers can follow the captivating Flavia as she stirs up trouble to solve the most confounding of crimes in this seven-volume eBook bundle: THE SWEETNESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PIE THE WEED THAT STRINGS THE HANGMAN’S BAG A RED HERRING WITHOUT MUSTARD I AM HALF-SICK OF SHADOWS SPEAKING FROM AMONG THE BONES THE DEAD IN THEIR VAULTED ARCHES AS CHIMNEY SWEEPERS COME TO DUST It is the summer of 1950—and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia’s family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches as he takes his dying breath. For the appalled and delighted Flavia, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. Her investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. “I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.” Praise for the Flavia de Luce series, winners of the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award, Barry Award, Agatha Award, Macavity Award, Dilys Winn Award, and Arthur Ellis Award “Every Flavia de Luce novel is a reason to celebrate.”—USA Today “Part Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, Flavia is a pert and macabre pragmatist.”—The New York Times Book Review “Think preteen Nancy Drew, only savvier.”—Entertainment Weekly “This idiosyncratic young heroine continues to charm.”—The Wall Street Journal “Delightful . . . a combination of Eloise and Sherlock Holmes.”—The Boston Globe “Flavia de Luce is still the world’s greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth.”—The Seattle Times