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Author : Phyllis Hastings
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Fiction in English
ISBN : 0304300489
Author : Christine E. Jackson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781861894960
Breathtakingly beautiful and exotic, the peacock inspires devotion among both artists and bird lovers. Its iridescent plumage, when fully displayed, is a delight to behold. The bird itself, as Christine E. Jackson notes in Peacock, appears to enjoy its audience, preening and strutting about within a few feet of humans. It is not surprising, then, that these vain birds and their distinctive feathers have been the prized possessions of kings for nearly three thousand years. Jackson here explores the peacock’s beauty—and its apparent attitude—through fairy tales, fables, and superstitions in both Eastern and Western cultures. Peacock takes stock of the bird as it appears within art, from the earliest mosaics to medieval illuminated manuscripts to modern graphics, with a special emphasis on the peacock’s symbolic value in the nineteenth-century arts and crafts and art nouveau movements. Jackson further details the peacock’s colorful presence in hats, clothing, and even sports equipment. A sweeping combination of social and natural history, Peacock is the first book to bring together all the shimmering, colorful facets of these magnificent birds.
Author : Lisa Gornick
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374718497
From “one of the most perceptive, compassionate writers of fiction in America...immensely talented and brave” (Michael Schaub, NPR), a historical saga about love, class, and the past we never escape. The Peacock Feast opens on a June day in 1916 when Louis C. Tiffany, the eccentric glass genius, dynamites the breakwater at Laurelton Hall—his fantastical Oyster Bay mansion, with columns capped by brilliant ceramic blossoms and a smokestack hidden in a blue-banded minaret—so as to foil the town from reclaiming the beach for public use. The explosion shakes both the apple crate where Prudence, the daughter of Tiffany’s prized gardener, is sleeping and the rocks where Randall, her seven-year-old brother, is playing. Nearly a century later, Prudence receives an unexpected visit at her New York apartment from Grace, a hospice nurse and the granddaughter of Randall, who Prudence never saw again after he left at age fourteen for California. The mementos Grace carries from her grandfather’s house stir Prudence’s long-repressed memories and bring her to a new understanding of the choices she made in work and love, and what she faces now in her final days. Spanning the twentieth century and three continents, The Peacock Feast ricochets from Manhattan to San Francisco, from the decadent mansions of the Tiffany family to the death row of a Texas prison, and from the London consultation room of Anna Freud to a Mendocino commune. With psychological acuity and aching eloquence, Lisa Gornick has written a sweeping family drama, an exploration of the meaning of art and the art of dying, and an illuminating portrait of how our decisions reverberate across time and space.
Author : William Edward Mead
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780429514203
Originally published in 1931, The English Medieval Feast examines the act of feasting and food during the medieval period. The book provides a scholarly look at the human detail involved in the variety of medieval manners and customs which make up the medieval feast. The book introduces the scene of the feast and its service, providing explanations of the food, drink and preparation that comprised the act of the medieval feast. The book also describes in full, certain and notable feasts of the period. The book also includes some historical examination of medieval dietetics which will be of interest to the modern reader.
Author : Edwin Paxton Hood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Anecdotes
ISBN : HARVARD:HXCSH8
Author : Alan Aldridge,Harry Willock,George E. Ryder
Publisher : Studio
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Animals
ISBN : 067054549X
Sir Perceval Peacock plans a party for those of his friends who were excluded from the Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast.
Author : Bryan Burns
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 038920532X
This is the first book to offer a literary analysis of Peacock's novels, including the two ironic medieval romances Maid Marian and The Misfortunes of Elphin. Other works included are Headlong Hall, Melincourt, Nightmare Abbey, Crotchet Castle, The Romances and Gryll Grange.
Author : William Matthews
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Isabel Savory
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465545060
Author : Gina B. Nahai
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743403375
Peacock is jailed in Iran by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. While in prison she recounts her remarkable 116 year life to her fellow inmates.
Author : Oxford Society for Promoting the Study of Gothic Architecture, afterwards Oxford Architectural and Historical Society (OXFORD)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019243796
Author : Herbert Haines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Brasses
ISBN : OXFORD:590452927
Author : Paul Doherty
Publisher : Headline
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472233653
An exclusive digital novella featuring Sir Hugh Corbett, lead of acclaimed historian Paul Doherty's most popular series. Includes an exclusive extract from the eighteenth Corbett novel DARK SERPENT, the follow up to THE MYSTERIUM. If you love historical mysteries from Robin Hobb, Susanna Gregory or Bernard Knight you will love this. It is 1311 and England seethes with unrest. Sir Hugh Corbett, former keeper of the Secret Seal, has been absent from royal service for over six years. Content to live a life more relaxed with his wife and children in the country Corbett has enjoyed his time away from the machinations of court and the secrets men will kill to keep. But a visit from his new King, Edward II, brings about change. His former protégé, Ranulf Atte-Newgate, now Senior Clerk in the Chancery, has been implicated in the death of a young novice, and Edward has made it clear that Corbett must resume his post and solve the case if Ranulf is not to hang for the murder... Corbett knows that resuming his post will bring him to the fore of Edward's political machinations but with Ranulf's life at stake, does Corbett have any choice but to accept the Seal once more?
Author : Fadel AlMheiri
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781491783238
It is the year AD 1510 and young Zahran wants to be a sailor more than anything in the world. As Portuguese caravels arrive to seize his town of Calicut, India, stories begin circulating about the legendary one-eyed pirate and smuggler, Dayjur, who is known for his reckless bravery. Enchanted by the stories, Zahran dreams of joining the infamous corsairs of the Arabian Sea and has his first encounter with Dayjur. As the Portuguese blast Calicut into rubble, Zahran is left orphaned after his entire family is killed. Now with his city in ruins and thousands dead, Zahran plans a daring scheme to seek revenge for his family that leads him to Dayjur’s ship, the Jahanam, where the pirate’s and teen’s lives become entangled in a twist of fate. After Dayjur reluctantly adds Zahran to his crew as a cabin boy, the Jahanam gallops into the open ocean. As Zahran’s adventure begins, he must battle to survive and get along with his crusty crewmates—all while learning the tale of Dayjur’s fascinating life journey fueled by vigilance, peril, and escape. Kingdom of Peacocks shares a young corsair’s retelling of the swashbuckling story of smugglers and pirates who stood against the Portuguese oppression in the early sixteenth century.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UVA:X030221933
