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Author : Ian Serraillier
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1966-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0435121006
"A collection of eleven extracts" -- Half t.p.
Author : Mary D. Sheriff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226483245
In Enchanted Islands, renowned art historian Mary D. Sheriff explores the legendary, fictional, and real islands that filled the French imagination during the ancien regime as they appeared in royal ballets and festivals, epic literature, paintings, engravings, book illustrations, and other objects. Some of the islands were mythical and found in the most popular literary texts of the day—islands featured prominently, for instance, in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso,Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata, and Fénelon’s, Telemachus. Other islands—real ones, such as Tahiti and St. Domingue—the French learned about from the writings of travelers and colonists. All of them were imagined to be the home of enchantresses who used magic to conquer heroes by promising sensual and sexual pleasure. As Sheriff shows, the theme of the enchanted island was put to many uses. Kings deployed enchanted-island mythology to strengthen monarchical authority, as Louis XIV did in his famous Versailles festival Les Plaisirs de l’île enchantée. Writers such as Fénelon used it to tell morality tales that taught virtue, duty, and the need for male strength to triumph over female weakness and seduction. Yet at the same time, artists like Boucher painted enchanted islands to portray art’s purpose as the giving of pleasure. In all these ways and more, Sheriff demonstrates for the first time the centrality of enchanted islands to ancient regime culture in a book that will enchant all readers interested in the art, literature, and history of the time.
Author : Johary Ravaloson
Publisher : AmazonCrossing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Antananarivo (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
ISBN : 1542093511
In this exhilarating prize-winning novel--only the second to be published in English from Madagascar--a young man comes of age amidst the enchanted origin myths of his island country. Named after the first man at the creation of the world in Malagasy mythology, Ietsy Razak was raised to perpetuate the glory of his namesake and expected to be as illuminated as his Great Ancestor. But in the chaos of modernity, his young life is marked only by restlessness, maddening insomnia, and an adolescent apathy. When an unexpected tragedy ships him off to a boarding school in France, his trip to the big city is no hero's journey. Ietsy loses himself in the immediate pleasures of body and mind. Weighed down by his privilege and the legacy of his name, Ietsy struggles to find a foothold. Only a return to the "Enchanted Island," as Madagascar is lovingly known, helps Ietsy stumble toward his destiny. This award-winning retelling of Madagascar's origin story offers a distinctly twenty-first-century perspective on the country's place in an ever-more-connected world.
Author : Allison Amend
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804172042
Born to immigrant parents in Minnesota just before the turn of the century, Frances Frankowski grew up coveting the life of her best friend, Rosalie Mendel. And yet, decades later, when the women reconnect in San Francisco, their lives have diverged. Rosalie is a housewife and mother, while Frances works for the Office of Naval Intelligence and has just been given a top-secret assignment: marry handsome spy Ainslie Conway and move to the Galápagos Islands to investigate the Germans living there in the build-up to World War II. Amid active volcanoes, forbidding wildlife and flora, and unfriendly neighbors, Ainslie and Frances carve out a life for themselves. But the secrets they harbor—from their friends, from their enemies, and even from each other—may be their undoing.
Author : Ellie O'Neill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 1922052825
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1807
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082233282
Author : John Hickman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Galapagos Islands
ISBN : 0904614425
The history of the Galapagos Islands from Inca times, which presents a cast of conquistadors, buccaneers, pirates, Robinson Crusoes and Swiss Family Robinsons; as well as eccentric explorers, hopeful colonists and naturalists, including the most famous of all - Charles Darwin.
Author : Ruth Plumly Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Oz (Imaginary place)
ISBN : 1930764103
Author : Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664646767
"Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic" by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Layman Frank Baum
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1016309589
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Ian Serraillier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:20540581
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1720
Category : Electronic
ISBN : GENT:900000105236
Author : Ved Mehta
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241504994
Book 11 in Ved Mehta's Continents of Exile series. Nearly 50 years in the making, Continents of Exile is one of the great works of twentieth-century autobiography: the epic chronicle of an Indian family in the twentieth century. From 1930s India to 1950s Oxford and literary New York in the 1960s-80s, this is the story of the post-colonial twentieth century, as uniquely experienced and vividly recounted by Ved Mehta. This chapter of Mehta's remarkable memoirs details the many dilemmas he encounters during the building of a new home on a strange, irresistible island: from ever-climbing costs to a frequent infestations of potato bugs in the basement. Underlying the travails of construction lies a richly allegorical tale about Mehta's own struggles as a writer and as a man in love.
Author : Sir Wyke Bayliss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Art
ISBN : UCAL:$B36035
Author : John Dryden,Thomas Shadwell,Sir William D'Avenant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1676
Category : English drama
ISBN : BL:A0021472969