Spring Snow

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307834317

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Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima Pdf

"A classic of Japanese literature" (Chicago Sun-Times) and the first novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, set in 1912 Tokyo, featuring an aspiring lawyer who believes he has met the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend. It is 1912 in Tokyo, and the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders—rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make them formidable contenders for social and political power. Shigekuni Honda, an aspiring lawyer and his childhood friend, Kiyoaki Matsugae, are the sons of two such families. As they come of age amidst the growing tensions between old and new, Kiyoaki is plagued by his simultaneous love for and loathing of the spirited young woman Ayakura Satoko. But Kiyoaki’s true feelings only become apparent when her sudden engagement to a royal prince shows him the magnitude of his passion—and leads to a love affair both doomed and inevitable.

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679722410

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Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima Pdf

Yukio Mishima’s Spring Snow is the first novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Here we meet Shigekuni Honda, who narrates this epic tale of what he believes are the successive reincarnations of his friend, Kiyoaki Matsugae. It is 1912 in Tokyo, and the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders — rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make them formidable contenders for social and political power. Shigekuni Honda, an aspiring lawyer and his childhood friend, Kiyoaki Matsugae, are the sons of two such families. As they come of age amidst the growing tensions between old and new, Kiyoaki is plagued by his simultaneous love for and loathing of the spirited young woman Ayakura Satoko. But Kiyoaki’s true feelings only become apparent when her sudden engagement to a royal prince shows him the magnitude of his passion — and leads to a love affair both doomed and inevitable.

Author : Y. Mishima
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1407054147

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Spring Snow by Y. Mishima Pdf

Author : Il Sung Na
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307977908

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Snow Rabbit, Spring Rabbit: A Book of Changing Seasons by Il Sung Na Pdf

Learn what animals do when the snow falls to the ground and all the trees are bare! Some fly long distances, while some swim to warmer waters. Some take a long, warm sleep where they live, while others have a thick, cozy coat and can stay in the snow! Filled with rich illustrations, charming animals, and a simple, lyrical text, Snow Rabbit, Spring Rabbit is now available in a board edition for the smallest hands and youngest readers. It's a gentle introduction to the ideas of adaptation, hibernation, and migration, and an exhuberant celebration of changing seasons.

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Random House
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407054131

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Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima Pdf

Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial families, a new and powerful political and social elite. Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family - members of the waning aristocracy - but he is not one of them. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between old and new, and his feelings for the exquisite, spirited Satoko, observed from the sidelines by his devoted friend Honda. When Satoko is engaged to a royal prince, Kiyoaki realises the magnitude of his passion.

Author : Moying Li
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-06
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781429940788

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Snow Falling in Spring by Moying Li Pdf

Most people cannot remember when their childhood ended. I, on the other hand, have a crystal-clear memory of that moment. It happened at night in the summer of 1966, when my elementary school headmaster hanged himself. In 1966 Moying, a student at a prestigious language school in Beijing, seems destined for a promising future. Everything changes when student Red Guards begin to orchestrate brutal assaults, violent public humiliations, and forced confessions. After watching her teachers and headmasters beaten in public, Moying flees school for the safety of home, only to witness her beloved grandmother denounced, her home ransacked, her father's precious books flung onto the back of a truck, and Baba himself taken away. From labor camp, Baba entrusts a friend to deliver a reading list of banned books to Moying so that she can continue to learn. Now, with so much of her life at risk, she finds sanctuary in the world of imagination and learning. This inspiring memoir follows Moying Li from age twelve to twenty-two, illuminating a complex, dark time in China's history as it tells the compelling story of one girl's difficult but determined coming-of-age during the Cultural Revolution. Snow Falling in Spring is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Author : Buffy Silverman
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541595637

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On a Snow-Melting Day by Buffy Silverman Pdf

Snowmen droop / Cardinals swoop, Rabbits bounce / Foxes pounce In the early days of spring when the snow begins to melt, plants and animals stir to life. High-impact photos and simple, rhyming text make for an engaging read-aloud while back matter offers more detail about each of the creatures featured in this celebration of spring's arrival.

Author : Deborah Vogts
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780310292753

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Snow Melts in Spring by Deborah Vogts Pdf

Harboring affection for a gruff rancher, Mattie Evans faces a painful dilemma when the rancher's estranged son, Gil, plans to sell the ranch and move to California, a situation that is further complicated by difficult family secrets.

Author : Alison Turnbull
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Artists' books
ISBN : UCSD:31822032517096

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Spring Snow, a Translation by Alison Turnbull Pdf

Spring snow is the first novel of Japanese writer Yukio Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Alison Turnbull condenses the narrative into a colour chart. Working from the English edition, she isolates and orders each of the more than six hundred colours as they appear in the text - what emerges is a visual essay on the nature of translation.

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307834331

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The Decay of the Angel by Yukio Mishima Pdf

Yukio Mishima’s The Decay of the Angel is the final novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. It is the last installment of Shigekuni Honda’s pursuit of the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend Kiyoaki Matsugae. It is the late 1960s and Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, once more encounters a person he believes to be a reincarnation of his friend, Kiyoaki — this time restored to life as a teenage orphan, Tōru. Adopting the boy as his heir, Honda quickly finds that Tōru is a force to be reckoned with. The final novel of this celebrated tetralogy weaves together the dominant themes of the previous three novels in the series: the decay of Japan’s courtly tradition; the essence and value of Buddhist philosophy and aesthetics; and, underlying all, Mishima’s apocalyptic vision of the modern era.

Author : Virginia Brimhall Snow
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781423632610

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Fall Walk by Virginia Brimhall Snow Pdf

"Learn about autumn leaves through a rhyming, activities, and tree trivia"--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307834324

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The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima Pdf

Yukio Mishima’s The Temple of Dawn is the third novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Here, Shigekuni Honda continues his pursuit of the successive reincarnations of Kiyoaki Matsugae, his childhood friend. Travelling in Thailand in the early 1940s, Shigekuni Honda, now a brilliant lawyer, is granted an audience with a young Thai princess—an encounter that radically alters the course of his life. In spite of all reason, he is convinced she is the reincarnated spirit of his friend Kiyoaki. As Honda goes to great lengths to discover for certain if his theory is correct, The Temple of Dawn becomes the story of one man’s obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and his equally passionate search for enlightenment.

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679722403

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Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima Pdf

Yukio Mishima’s Runaway Horses is the second novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Again we encounter Shigekuni Honda, who narrates this epic tale of what he believes are the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend Kiyoaki Matsugae. In 1932, Shigeuki Honda has become a judge in Osaka. Convinced that a young rightist revolutionary, Isao, is the reincarnation of his friend Kiyoaki, Honda commits himself to saving the youth from an untimely death. Isao, driven to patriotic fanaticism by a father who instilled in him the ethos of the ancient samurai, organizes a violent plot against the new industrialists who he believes are usurping the Emperor’s rightful power and threatening the very integrity of the nation. Runaway Horses is the chronicle of a conspiracy — a novel about the roots and nature of Japanese fanaticism in the years that led to war.

Author : Melissa Bashardoust
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250077745

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Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust Pdf

Melissa Bashardoust’s acclaimed debut novel Girls Made of Snow and Glass is “Snow White as it’s never been told before...a feminist fantasy fairy tale not to be missed” (BookPage)! “Utterly superb.” —ALA Booklist, starred review “Dark, fantastical, hauntingly evocative.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “An empowering and progressive original retelling.” —SLJ, starred review Sixteen-year-old Mina is motherless, her magician father is vicious, and her silent heart has never beat with love for anyone—has never beat at all, in fact, but she’d always thought that fact normal. She never guessed that her father cut out her heart and replaced it with one of glass. When she moves to Whitespring Castle and sees its king for the first time, Mina forms a plan: win the king’s heart with her beauty, become queen, and finally know love. The only catch is that she’ll have to become a stepmother. Fifteen-year-old Lynet looks just like her late mother, and one day she discovers why: a magician created her out of snow in the dead queen’s image, at her father’s order. But despite being the dead queen made flesh, Lynet would rather be like her fierce and regal stepmother, Mina. She gets her wish when her father makes Lynet queen of the southern territories, displacing Mina. Now Mina is starting to look at Lynet with something like hatred, and Lynet must decide what to do—and who to be—to win back the only mother she’s ever known...or else defeat her once and for all. Entwining the stories of both Lynet and Mina in the past and present, Girls Made of Snow and Glass traces the relationship of two young women doomed to be rivals from the start. Only one can win all, while the other must lose everything—unless both can find a way to reshape themselves and their story.

Author : Hans Christian Andersen
Publisher : The Planet
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781908478894

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The Snow Queen (Illustrated) by Hans Christian Andersen Pdf

The Snow Queen is a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. It is his longest story and is considered by many as his best work. First published in 1844, it has inspired many artists and many times has been retold in movies and animation. This edition features illustrations by T. Pym (the pseudonym of Clara Creed), a Victorian artist, whose sentimental style blends very well with the Andersen's tale. Although not widely known, the Pym's illustrations are among the best ones created for The Snow Queen.