Author: Susan PindarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Fireside Fairies, Or, Christmas at Aunt Elsie's
Author: Susan PindarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The Coming of the Fairies
Author: Arthur Conan DoylePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fairies
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Fireside Fairies, Or, Christmas at Aunt Elsie's
Author: Susan PindarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christmas stories
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Elsie Venner
Author: Oliver Wendell HolmesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
FIRESIDE FAIRIES
Author: Susan Ca 1820-1892 PindarPublisher:
ISBN: 9781362312086
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The English Catalogue of Books ...
Author: The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
Author: Jacob GrimmPublisher:
ISBN: 9789387779693
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Once upon a time in a fairy tale world, There were magical mirrors and golden slippers;Castles and fields and mountains of glass,Houses of bread and windows of sugar.Frogs transformed into handsome Princes,And big bad wolves into innocent grandmothers.There were evil queens and wicked stepmothers;Sweethearts, true brides, and secret lovers. In the same fairy world, A poor boy has found a golden key and an iron chest, and " We must wait until he has quite unlocked it and opened the lid . . ." A classic collection of timeless folk tales by Grimm Brothers, Grimm' s Fairy Tales are not only enchanting, mysterious, and amusing, but also frightening and intriguing. Delighting children and adults alike, these tales have undergone several adaptations over the decades. This edition with black-and-white illustrations is a translation by Margaret Hunt.
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Subject index
Author: The Children's Book
Author: A. S. ByattPublisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307373835
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
From the renowned author of Possession, The Children’s Book is the absorbing story of the close of what has been called the Edwardian summer: the deceptively languid, blissful period that ended with the cataclysmic destruction of World War I. In this compelling novel, A.S. Byatt summons up a whole era, revealing that beneath its golden surface lay tensions that would explode into war, revolution and unbelievable change — for the generation that came of age before 1914 and, most of all, for their children. The novel centres around Olive Wellwood, a fairy tale writer, and her circle, which includes the brilliant, erratic craftsman Benedict Fludd and his apprentice Phillip Warren, a runaway from the poverty of the Potteries; Prosper Cain, the soldier who directs what will become the Victoria and Albert Museum; Olive’s brother-in-law Basil Wellwood, an officer of the Bank of England; and many others from every layer of society. A.S. Byatt traces their lives in intimate detail and moves between generations, following the children who must choose whether to follow the roles expected of them or stand up to their parents’ “porcelain socialism.” Olive’s daughter Dorothy wishes to become a doctor, while her other daughter, Hedda, wants to fight for votes for women. Her son Tom, sent to an upper-class school, wants nothing more than to spend time in the woods, tracking birds and foxes. Her nephew Charles becomes embroiled with German-influenced revolutionaries. Their portraits connect the political issues at the heart of nascent feminism and socialism with grave personal dilemmas, interlacing until The Children’s Book becomes a perfect depiction of an entire world. Olive is a fairy tale writer in the era of Peter Pan and Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind In the Willows, not long after Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. At a time when children in England suffered deprivation by the millions, the concept of childhood was being refined and elaborated in ways that still influence us today. For each of her children, Olive writes a special, private book, bound in a different colour and placed on a shelf; when these same children are ferried off into the unremitting destruction of the Great War, the reader is left to wonder who the real children in this novel are. The Children’s Book is an astonishing novel. It is an historical feat that brings to life an era that helped shape our own as well as a gripping, personal novel about parents and children, life’s most painful struggles and its richest pleasures. No other writer could have imagined it or created it.
The Three Hostages
Author: John BuchanPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473373646
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The fourth of the five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan. Here we find our hero Richard Hannay living a quiet life in the countryside with a wife and young child but his past comes back to haunt him and he once more must face up to an arch-enemy.