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Author: William Somerset Maugham Publisher: ISBN: Category : Fairy tales Languages : en Pages : 40
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Persuaded by her older sisters to cage her treasured songbird, the youngest daughter of the Siamese king is desolate when the bird refuses to sing.
Author: William Somerset Maugham Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780195124804 Category : Fairy tales Languages : en Pages : 0
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First published in 1939 and long out of print, W. Somerset Maugham's PRINCESS SEPTEMBER AND THE NIGHTINGALE is now reissued with original text and illustrations. The story is a classic fairytale of Siam (now Thailand). The ninth daughter of the king is the object of envy by her sisters, who try to kill her lucky nightingale. But the bird's life is saved, and all is well. Color illustrations.
Author: A. S. Byatt Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307483878 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 288
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The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty shop in an Istanbul bazaar. As A.S. Byatt renders this relationship with a powerful combination of erudition and passion, she makes the interaction of the natural and the supernatural seem not only convincing, but inevitable. The companion stories in this collection each display different facets of Byatt's remarkable gift for enchantment. They range from fables of sexual obsession to allegories of political tragedy; they draw us into narratives that are as mesmerizing as dreams and as bracing as philosophical meditations; and they all us to inhabit an imaginative universe astonishing in the precision of its detail, its intellectual consistency, and its splendor. "A dreamy treat.... It is not merely strange, it is wondrous." --Boston Globe "Alternatingly erudite and earthy, direct and playful.... If Scheherazade ever needs a break, Byatt can step in, indefinitely." --Chicago Tribune "Byatt's writing is crystalline and splendidly imaginative.... These [are] perfectly formed tales." --Washington Post Book World
Author: William Somerset Maugham Publisher: ISBN: Category : Fairy tales Languages : en Pages : 40
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Persuaded by her older sisters to cage her treasured songbird, the youngest daughter of the Siamese king is desolate when the bird refuses to sing.
Author: Lucy Strange Publisher: Scholastic Inc. ISBN: 1338157493 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 289
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A beautifully tangled story of friendship, fairy tales, and family secrets. For those who loved Pax and The War That Saved My Life. A Kirkus Best Middle Grade Book of 2017 An Amazon Best Book of 2017 A 2018 Bank Street College Best Book of the Year A Telegraph Top 50 Book of the Year Everyone is too busy to pay attention to Henrietta and the things she sees -- or thinks she sees -- in the shadows of their new home, Hope House. Mama is ill. Father has taken a job abroad. Nanny Jane is busy taking care of her younger sister. All alone, with only stories for company, Henry discovers that Hope House is full of strange secrets: a forgotten attic, ghostly figures, mysterious firelight that flickers in the trees beyond the garden. One night she ventures into the darkness of Nightingale Wood. What she finds there will change her whole world...
Author: Sofiya Pasternack Publisher: Versify ISBN: 0358006023 Category : JUVENILE FICTION Languages : en Pages : 421
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Thirteen-year-old Anya sets out to find her missing father but instead travels to Kiev, where she meets the tsar, dines with a rabbi, and rescues two brothers from a dangerous monster lurking beneath the city.
Author: Roy Casagranda Publisher: ISBN: 9781732477506 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 358
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In a time when uttering a woman's name in public is taboo, Artemisia dreams of replacing her father as King of Halikarnassos. While the kings of Caria plot to use her for their own ends, she outmaneuvers them in the palace and on the field of battle, cleaving the ramparts of patriarchy to become one of history's fiercest heroines.
Author: Gillian Gill Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 0345451880 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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Florence Nightingale was for a time the most famous woman in Britain–if not the world. We know her today primarily as a saintly character, perhaps as a heroic reformer of Britain’s health-care system. The reality is more involved and far more fascinating. In an utterly beguiling narrative that reads like the best Victorian fiction, acclaimed author Gillian Gill tells the story of this richly complex woman and her extraordinary family. Born to an adoring wealthy, cultivated father and a mother whose conventional facade concealed a surprisingly unfettered intelligence, Florence was connected by kinship or friendship to the cream of Victorian England’s intellectual aristocracy. Though moving in a world of ease and privilege, the Nightingales came from solidly middle-class stock with deep traditions of hard work, natural curiosity, and moral clarity. So it should have come as no surprise to William Edward and Fanny Nightingale when their younger daughter, Florence, showed an early passion for helping others combined with a precocious bent for power. Far more problematic was Florence’s inexplicable refusal to marry the well-connected Richard Monckton Milnes. As Gill so brilliantly shows, this matrimonial refusal was at once an act of religious dedication and a cry for her freedom–as a woman and as a leader. Florence’s later insistence on traveling to the Crimea at the height of war to tend to wounded soldiers was all but incendiary–especially for her older sister, Parthenope, whose frustration at being in the shade of her more charismatic sibling often led to illness. Florence succeeded beyond her wildest dreams. But at the height of her celebrity, at the age of thirty-seven, she retired to her bedroom and remained there for most of the rest of her life, allowing visitors only by appointment. Combining biography, politics, social history, and consummate storytelling, Nightingales is a dazzling portrait of an amazing woman, her difficult but loving family, and the high Victorian era they so perfectly epitomized. Beautifully written, witty, and irresistible, Nightingales is truly a tour de force.
Author: William Somerset Maugham
Author: William Somerset Maugham
Author: William Somerset Maugham
Author: A. S. Byatt
Author: William Somerset Maugham
Author: Lucy Strange
Author: Andrew Lang
Author: Sofiya Pasternack
Author: William Somerset Maugham
Author: Roy Casagranda
Author: Gillian Gill