Author: Julie CunninghamPublisher:
ISBN: 9781733452502
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Orphaned Wife
Author: Julie CunninghamPublisher:
ISBN: 9781733452502
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Paper Wife
Author: Laila IbrahimPublisher: Lake Union Publishing
ISBN: 9781503904576
Category : FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the bestselling author of Yellow Crocus comes a heart-wrenching story about finding strength in a new world. Southern China, 1923. Desperate to secure her future, Mei Ling's parents arrange a marriage to a widower in California. To enter the country, she must pretend to be her husband's first wife--a paper wife. On the perilous voyage, Mei Ling takes an orphan girl named Siew under her wing. Dreams of a better life in America give Mei Ling the strength to endure the treacherous journey and detainment on Angel Island. But when she finally reaches San Francisco, she's met with a surprise. Her husband, Chinn Kai Li, is a houseboy, not the successful merchant he led her to believe. Mei Ling is penniless, pregnant, and bound to a man she doesn't know. Her fragile marriage is tested further when she discovers that Siew will likely be forced into prostitution. Desperate to rescue Siew, she must convince her husband that an orphan's life is worth fighting for. Can Mei Ling find a way to make a real family--even if it's built on a paper foundation?
The Orphan Master's Son
Author: Adam JohnsonPublisher: Random House Incorporated
ISBN: 0812992792
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
The son of a singer mother whose career forcibly separated her from her family and an influential father who runs an orphan work camp, Pak Jun Do rises to prominence using instinctive talents and eventually becomes a professional kidnapper and romantic rival to Kim Jong Il. By the author of Parasites Like Us.
The orphan; or, Memoirs of Matilda, tr. [from Mathilde] by the hon. D.G. Osborne
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Author: Marie Joseph Eugène SuePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
The Orphan in Fiction and Comics since the 19th Century
Author: Marion GymnichPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527515702
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The orphan has turned out to be an extraordinarily versatile literary figure. By juxtaposing diverse fictional representations of orphans, this volume sheds light on the development of cultural concepts such as childhood, family, the status of parental legacy, individualism, identity and charity. The first chapter argues that the figure of the orphan was suitable for negotiating a remarkable range of cultural anxieties and discourses in novels from the Victorian period. This is followed by a discussion of both the (rare) examples of novels from the first half of the 20th century in which main characters are orphaned at a young age and Anglophone narratives written from the 1980s onward, when the figure of the orphan proliferated once more. The trope of the picaro, the theme of absence and the problem of parental substitutes are among the issues addressed in contemporary orphan narratives. The book also looks at the orphan motif in three popular fantasy series, namely Rowling’s Harry Potter septology, Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy and Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. It then traces the development of the orphan motif from the end of the 19th century to the present in a range of different types of comics, including funnies and gag-a-day strips, superhero comics, underground comix, and autobiographical comics.
The Orphan, Etc
Author: Thomas OtwayThe Orphan's Legacy: or a testimentary abridgement. In three parts. I. Of last wills and testaments. II. Of executors and administrators. III. Of legacies and devises, etc
Author: John GODOLPHINFraud and Friendship: Or, The Orphan and the Foundling of the King's Printing-house. An Edinburgh Tale
Author: FraudThe Orphan
Author: Thomas OtwayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Author: Thomas Otway