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Author: Linda Kelly Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571287166 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 147
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In 1770, at the end of his tether, the seventeen-year-old poet Thomas Chatterton, penniless and starving, despairing of success and tormented by a sense of failure, committed suicide in his garret room. Within a few years he was transformed into a legend. In the dawning Romantic Movement, he became a symbol of some of its most powerful preoccupations - suicide, youth and neglected genius. During the two ensuing centuries, Chatterton has become one of the most famous of literary suicides. To the Romantics in the nineteenth century, the premature death of this precocious genius became a source of inspiration. His suicide inspired Vigny's melodramatic play Chatterton, and forty years later, Leoncavallo's opera spread to Italy. The Pre-Raphaelites, especially Rossetti, were fascinated by his death. In the twentieth century, the eccentric scholar and poet E. W. Meyerstein developed a lifelong passion for him. Linda Kelly explores the development, pervasiveness and astonishing persistence of the Chatterton legend, throwing new and revealing light on the writers and artists who admired him. 'A book that leaves out nothing important and yet keeps us reading like a novel.' John Wain
Author: Linda Kelly Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571287166 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 147
Book Description
In 1770, at the end of his tether, the seventeen-year-old poet Thomas Chatterton, penniless and starving, despairing of success and tormented by a sense of failure, committed suicide in his garret room. Within a few years he was transformed into a legend. In the dawning Romantic Movement, he became a symbol of some of its most powerful preoccupations - suicide, youth and neglected genius. During the two ensuing centuries, Chatterton has become one of the most famous of literary suicides. To the Romantics in the nineteenth century, the premature death of this precocious genius became a source of inspiration. His suicide inspired Vigny's melodramatic play Chatterton, and forty years later, Leoncavallo's opera spread to Italy. The Pre-Raphaelites, especially Rossetti, were fascinated by his death. In the twentieth century, the eccentric scholar and poet E. W. Meyerstein developed a lifelong passion for him. Linda Kelly explores the development, pervasiveness and astonishing persistence of the Chatterton legend, throwing new and revealing light on the writers and artists who admired him. 'A book that leaves out nothing important and yet keeps us reading like a novel.' John Wain
Author: Karen Foxlee Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers ISBN: 0385753543 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 242
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Ophelia, a timid eleven-year-old girl grieving her mother, suspends her disbelief in things non-scientific when a boy locked in the museum where her father is working asks her to help him complete an age-old mission.
Author: Publisher: Charlesbridge ISBN: 1607343533 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 31
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It's a major publishing event! For nearly half a century, "The Marvelous Toy"--composed by the legendary singer/songwriter Tom Paxton--has enchanted children and adults alike. A simple tale about a mysterious, magical, and mystical toy that a father gives to his son--and that eventually gets passed down to the next generation--it celebrates a child's sense of wonder. The witty, evocative lyrics spark the imagination. No surprise, then, that the song has been recorded by countless major artists, from Peter, Paul, and Mary to the Chad Mitchell Trio to John Denver, and won legions of fans through the years. Paxton's marvelous song has finally become a stunning picture book, featuring incredible and wildly imaginative art by Steve Cox, illustrator of the award-winning PIGS MIGHT FLY. Parents, grandparents, friends, and family worldwide will remember this classic from their own youth--and joyfully share it with their own children.
Author: Teresa Heapy Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1448198356 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 35
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"I've got you, and you've got me - so we'll be all right" . . . One day, adventurous Mouse sets off to find the moon with his Marvellous Moon Map, leaving his worried friend Bear behind. But as the Woods get darker, and the weather gets worse, Mouse soon realizes that he needs more than just the Moon Map to find his way . . . An emotional and atmospheric tale of true friendship, beautifully told by Teresa Heapy with stunning illustrations from Waterstones-Prizewinning David Litchfield
Author: Edward Augustin Wyke Smith Publisher: ISBN: Category : Adventure stories Languages : en Pages : 236
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Human children Joe and Sylvia have magical adventures in the land of the snergs, a race of people only slightly taller than the average table.
Author: Tom Percival Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books ISBN: 1760989266 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 224
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From Tom Percival, the creator of Ruby's Worry and the Big Bright Feelings series, comes Odd One Out – a new title exploring big emotions through exciting adventure! When Silas disappears, it's up to the Dream Team to get him back. But things get tough when they discover he has gone back to his family, the Glooms, and is desperately trying to fit in with them – Silas is warm, friendly and bubbly but the Glooms are all very sombre and cold. And to make matters worse, they are trying to take over the dreams of children all over the world! Can the Dream Team stop the Glooms' evil plan and help Silas to discover the joy of being himself? Odd One Out is packed full of brilliant and engaging illustrations from the author. Perfect for newly independent readers, it helps kids to deal with their worries in a fun and accessible way.
Author: Karen Foxlee Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com ISBN: 1442985429 Category : Australian fiction Languages : en Pages : 494
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Ten-year-old Jennifer Day lives in a small mining town full of secrets. Trying to make sense of the sudden death of her teenage sister Beth, she looks to the adult world around her for answers.
Author: Marcia Douglas Publisher: Peepal Tree Press ISBN: 9781845233327 Category : Future life Languages : en Pages : 0
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Longlisted: 2017 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Bob Marley is dead. The Emperor Haile Selassie has been brutally murdered. The armed gangs of Kingston are at war and the murder rate soars. The people have lost all trust in self-serving politicians. It is hard to imagine worse times. The Marvellous Equations of the Dread tells the twin stories of Jamaica's nihilistic violence and its wondrously creative humanity and does truthful justice to both. It takes place in the worlds of the living and in the vivid afterlife of the dead, spanning the Kingston ghettoes, the Emperor's palace in Addis Ababa and Zion. There is even a fallen angel. At its heart are the human stories of the deaf Leenah who with her mother and daughter writes a powerful woman version of events; the relationship between Fall-down (the street madman and fallen angel) and Delroy the orphaned street-boy, and the meetings in the clock tower at Half Way Tree between Bob Marley, Marcus Garvey and the island's dead. There is also the enslaved boy who was hung from the silk cotton tree in 1766. The novel sets out to retrieve the word at the tip of his tongue. Not least of the novel's marvellous equations are the dread revenants who encourage the living to take responsibility for the future of the nation.
Author: Linda Kelly
Author: Linda Kelly
Author: Karen Foxlee
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Author: Teresa Heapy
Author: Edward Augustin Wyke Smith
Author: Tom Percival
Author: Karen Foxlee
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Author: Marcia Douglas
Author: Charles Edward Russell