Author: Tove Jansson Publisher: Mankato, MN : Creative Education ISBN: 9780886822996 Category : Fear Languages : en Pages : 31
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The fillyjonk is seized with a nameless fear, a sense of approaching disaster, but once the calamity occurs she feels peaceful and free.
Author: Tove Jansson Publisher: Sort of Books ISBN: 1908745371 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 122
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In her first ever story collection, Jansson revealed the clarity of vision and light philosophical touch that were to become her hallmark. From the good listener who begins to betray the secrets confided to her, to vignettes of a city storm or the slow halting of spring, these stories are gifts of originality and depth.
Author: Tove Jansson Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) ISBN: 1466871652 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 191
Book Description
Here are nine delightfully funny stories about the triumphs and tribulations of the citizens of Moominvalley. Readers will discover how the Moomin family save young Ninny from permanent invisibility, and what happens when Moomintroll catches the last dragon in the world. Some of the characters in these tales will be brand-new to Moomin fans, but there are lots of old friends to meet as well.
Author: Tove Jansson Publisher: Sort of Books ISBN: 1908745126 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 147
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In the deep winter snows of a Swedish hamlet, a strange young woman fakes a break-in at the house of an elderly artist in order to persuade her that she needs companionship. But what does she hope to gain by doing this? And who ultimately is deceiving whom? In this portrayal of two women grappling with truth and lies, nothing can be taken for granted. By the time the snow thaws, both their lives will have changed irrevocably.
Author: Boel Westin Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 145297120X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 844
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An in-depth, perceptive account of the unconventional life of the Moomins’ beloved creator, now available in the United States Tove Jansson achieved fame as the creator of the Moomins, beloved by generations of readers around the world. Remarkably, the Moomins were only part of the prodigious creative output of this Finnish-Swedish writer and artist. Jansson’s work also includes short stories and five novels for adults, as well as paintings, murals, and book illustrations. In this acclaimed biography, Boel Westin relies on numerous conversations with Jansson and unprecedented access to her journals, letters, and personal archives to present an engrossing and comprehensive review of the life and world of Scandinavia’s best-loved author. As Westin’s meticulous research makes clear, Jansson’s artistic and literary works reflected what was most important to her: the love of family and nature and the desire to pursue her art. Guided by her personal motto, “Love and work,” Jansson seized both with uncompromising joy. And while her romantic relationships with men proved unfulfilling, she found those with women—especially with her longtime partner, the artist Tuulikki Pietilä—both grounding and inspiring. Westin weaves together the many threads of Jansson’s rich, complex life: an education interrupted to help her family; the bleak war years and her emergence as a painter; the decades of Moominmania across books, newspaper comic strips, merchandise, and adaptations; her later fictions, including her popular The Summer Book; and her time with Pietilä on the solitary island of Klovharu. Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words offers fans and admirers around the world the most complete portrait of the writer Philip Pullman described as “a genius, a woman of profound wisdom and great artistry.”
Author: Alex Haridi Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books ISBN: 9781529014921 Category : Fantasy fiction Languages : en Pages : 96
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Set in Moominvalley where everyone is welcome, there are three stories to treasure in this stunning collection, based on Tove Jansson's beloved and classic chapter books - introducing readers to the charming Moomins and their warm-hearted way of life.
Author: James R Ford Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1304640299 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 95
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Fail Better is a catalogue of selected artworks by British-born artist James R Ford, with accompanying texts, interviews and essays, from 2008-2013. ""Forever playfully exploring the intimate relationships between physical media and everyday life: Ford's investigations into, and reflections on, existential nature and the use of conventional materials and modes of presentation reveal countless nuanced contradictions as well as a fascination with process and the filling-in of time. While mostly a creator of laboured drawings, well considered objects and videos, Ford also provides us with scenarios that have us pondering over the mundane and/or acting out the absurd as he invites us to look deeper into his works and at what is taking place around us."" Justin Jade Morgan, 2013
Author: Tove Jansson Publisher: Sort of Books ISBN: 1908745959 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 105
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In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless skerry in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, and for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietilä, retreated there to live, paint and write, energised by the solitude and shifting seascapes. Notes from an Island, published in English for the first time, is both a chronicle of this period and a homage to the mature love that Tove and 'Tooti' shared for their island and for each other. Tove's spare prose, and Tuulikki's subtle washes and aquatints combine to form a work of meditative beauty. '... Tooti wandered aimlessly around the island and stood stock still for long periods. I thought I knew what she was doing. She was working again. Copperplate etchings and wash drawings. Mostly the lagoon, the lagoon as a consummate mirror for clouds and birds, the lagoon in a storm, in fog. And the granite, first and foremost, the granite, the cliff, the rocks. It's all peace and quiet now.'
Author: Riikka Rossi Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand ISBN: 9518589003 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 214
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This volume opens a new perspective on the thriving area of research on the imagined North by studying emotions in the light of case studies in Finnish literature. It addresses the cultural history of Arctic hysteria and maps other strange emotions depicted and evoked in literature of the Finnish North. The case studies range from the works of internationally renowned authors, such as Rosa Liksom, Emmi Itäranta and Tove Jansson, to the affectively controversial and provocative writings of Timo K. Mukka, Marko Tapio and Pentti Linkola. By focusing on the imagined North in the literature of modernism and late modernity, the authors offer fresh views on experiences of modernisation and the changing Northern environment in the age of the Anthropocene. The book is intended for scholars and students in literary studies, together with everyone interested in the imagined North and emotion, Finnish literature and culture.
Author: Tove Jansson
Author: Tove Jansson
Author: Tove Jansson
Author: Tove Jansson
Author: Tove Jansson
Author: Boel Westin
Author: Alex Haridi
Author: James R Ford
Author: Tove Jansson
Author: Riikka Rossi