Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download The Tale of Don L'Orignal PDF full book. Access full book title The Tale of Don L'Orignal by Antonine Maillet. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Antonine Maillet Publisher: Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions ISBN: 9780864924193 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 124
Book Description
Winner of the 1979 Governor General's Award for fiction, Antonine Maillet's virtuoso creation, The Tale of Don L'Orignal, is now back in print. Maillet's tale begins one day, not so very long ago but back in the youth of the world, when a hay-covered island materialized off shore, an island populated by fleas who soon took human form. The leader of this uncouth crew of have-nots, Don l'Orignal, wore a moose-antler crown as his badge of office. At his right hand were his brave lieutenants: his son, Noume, and his general, Michel-Archange. The general's wife, the doughty charwoman, spy, and rabble-rouser La Sagouine, had one finger in every pie and one raised to her neighbour, La Sainte. The Flea Islanders were constantly at odds with the almost as clever but far more civilized upper crust of the mainland village: the mayoress, the schoolteacher, the merchant, the banker. When they invaded and tried to steal a keg of molasses, the outcome of the mock-heroic battle was unclear, except that La Sainte's son, the hapless young Citrouille, and Adeline, the merchant's lovely daughter, had fallen in love. With the insider's accumulation of oral history, gossip, and shrewd hindsight, Antonine Maillet has conjured up a fictional Acadia that her ancestors would relish. Perhaps those who could read it would have even understood it: she wrote Don l'Orignal in a version of 16th-century domestic French that she adapted for modern readers. In this far-fetched, but always entertaining fable, Maillet holds up a mirror to Acadian history and to an all too fallible human nature.
Author: Antonine Maillet Publisher: Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions ISBN: 9780864924193 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 124
Book Description
Winner of the 1979 Governor General's Award for fiction, Antonine Maillet's virtuoso creation, The Tale of Don L'Orignal, is now back in print. Maillet's tale begins one day, not so very long ago but back in the youth of the world, when a hay-covered island materialized off shore, an island populated by fleas who soon took human form. The leader of this uncouth crew of have-nots, Don l'Orignal, wore a moose-antler crown as his badge of office. At his right hand were his brave lieutenants: his son, Noume, and his general, Michel-Archange. The general's wife, the doughty charwoman, spy, and rabble-rouser La Sagouine, had one finger in every pie and one raised to her neighbour, La Sainte. The Flea Islanders were constantly at odds with the almost as clever but far more civilized upper crust of the mainland village: the mayoress, the schoolteacher, the merchant, the banker. When they invaded and tried to steal a keg of molasses, the outcome of the mock-heroic battle was unclear, except that La Sainte's son, the hapless young Citrouille, and Adeline, the merchant's lovely daughter, had fallen in love. With the insider's accumulation of oral history, gossip, and shrewd hindsight, Antonine Maillet has conjured up a fictional Acadia that her ancestors would relish. Perhaps those who could read it would have even understood it: she wrote Don l'Orignal in a version of 16th-century domestic French that she adapted for modern readers. In this far-fetched, but always entertaining fable, Maillet holds up a mirror to Acadian history and to an all too fallible human nature.
Author: Nicholas Oldland Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd ISBN: 1554536278 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 36
Book Description
This moose may live in the wild, but he doesn�t act it † he watches from the sidelines as his friends have fun. From the creator of Big Bear Hug comes a lighthearted, contemporary fable about a mild-mannered moose who learns to live life to the fullest.
Author: Jane Eldridge Miller Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136214305 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 416
Book Description
Unique in its breadth of coverage, Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing is a comprehensive, authoritative and enjoyable guide to women's fiction, prose, poetry and drama from around the world in the second half of the twentieth century. Over the course of 1000 entries by over 150 international contributors, a picture emerges of the incredible range of women's writing in our time, from Toni Morrison to Fleur Adcock- all are here. This book includes the established and well-loved but also opens up new worlds of modern literature which may be unfamiliar but are never less than fascinating.
Author: Glenn J Hill Publisher: Mountain Glen Publishing ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 79
Book Description
The Fig Tree is a collection of Original and retold traditional Jewish stories. A magical fig tree in old Spain remembers what has long been forgotten. At a modern-day Malibu beach, a rudderless young surfer is looking for a purpose in his life. A young Jewish wife and mother is caught up in the carnage of the housing crash of 2008. During ancient times in the Middle East, a donkey saves an entire community from destruction.Come journey with Certified Jewish Storyteller Glenn J. Hill, Yosef ben Israel, as he weaves a glowing net of story gems across the fabric of time and space. From the secret of the best investment one might make, to the power of a simple prayer of blessing. From a single drink of water that changes everything, to understanding that an essential ingredient may be missing from a life. These original and retold Jewish folktales speak to secrets both simple and deep, all certain to inspire!
Author: William H. New Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1487591160 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 588
Book Description
This new volume of the Literary History of Canada covers the continuing development of English-Canadian writing from 1972 to 1984. As with the three earlier volumes, this book is an invaluable guide to recent developments in English-Canadian literature and a resource for both the general reader and the specialist researcher. The contributors to this volume are Laurie Ricou, David Jackel, Linda Hutcheon, Philip Stratford, Barry Cameron, Balachandra Rajan, Robert Fothergill, Brian Parker, Cynthia Zimmerman, Frances Frazer, Edith Fowke, Bruce G. Trigger, Alan C. Cairns, Douglas Williams, Carl Berger, Shirley Neuman, Raymond S. Corteen, and Francess G. Halpenny.
Author: Antonine Maillet
Author: Antonine Maillet
Author: Nicholas Oldland
Author: David Ketterer
Author: British Library
Author: 
Author: 
Author: Jane Eldridge Miller
Author: Bernadette Marie Donohue
Author: Glenn J Hill
Author: William H. New