The Russian Garland, Being Russian Folk Tales

The Russian Garland, Being Russian Folk Tales PDF Author: Various
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145

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"The Russian Garland, Being Russian Folk Tales" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The Russian Garland, Being Russian Folk Tales

The Russian Garland, Being Russian Folk Tales PDF Author: Various
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145

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Book Description
"The Russian Garland, Being Russian Folk Tales" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

A Garland Of Tales

A Garland Of Tales PDF Author:
Publisher: Children's Book Trust
ISBN: 9788189750602
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses

A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses PDF Author: Michael Slouber
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520375750
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Imagining the divine as female is rare—even controversial—in most religions. Hinduism, by contrast, preserves a rich and continuous tradition of goddess worship. A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses conveys the diversity of this tradition by bringing together a fresh array of captivating and largely overlooked Hindu goddess tales from different regions. As the first such anthology of goddess narratives in translation, this collection highlights a range of sources from ancient myths to modern lore. The goddesses featured here battle demons, perform miracles, and grant rare Tantric visions to their devotees. Each translation is paired with a short essay that explains the goddess’s historical and social context, elucidating the ways religion adapts to changing times.

Children of the Dragon

Children of the Dragon PDF Author: Garland, Sherry
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781455617098
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Vietnamese folk tales retold for a modern audience. In poetry and literature the Vietnamese call themselves the "children of the dragon." Their oral tradition is a strong one and this volume includes three of the familiar teaching tales told by the elders. Readers will learn how the tiger got his stripes, why there are monsoons, and the story of the Moon Festival.

The Lotus Seed

The Lotus Seed PDF Author: Sherry Garland
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152014834
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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A Vietnamese family is forced to flee from their homeland to escape a devastating civil war.

A Garland for Girls

A Garland for Girls PDF Author: Louisa May Alcott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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A Fairy Garland - Being Fairy Tales from the Old French - Illustrated by Edmund Dulac

A Fairy Garland - Being Fairy Tales from the Old French - Illustrated by Edmund Dulac PDF Author: Various
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1528782453
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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‘A Fairy Garland – Being Fairy Tales from the Old French’ contains a collection of stories, written by Charles Perrault, Madame D’Aulnoy and Count Anthony Hamilton. These individuals were among the first writers to bring magical children’s stories into the literary mainstream, proving to their original seventeenth century readers that such works were important, enjoyable, as well as thought-provoking. The stories in this particular text encompass favourites such as Perrault’s ‘Puss in Boots’ and ‘Riquet with the Tuft’ as well as other less well-known classics such as D’Aulnoy’s ‘The Green Dragon’, ‘Princess Rosetta’ and ‘The Blue Bird’ and Count Antony Hamilton’s dazzling ‘Mayblossom’. This edition of ‘A Fairy Garland’ further contains a set of dazzling coloured illustrations by a true master of the ‘Golden Age'; Edmund Dulac (1882 – 1953). A French artist himself, Dulac had a particular affinity with these Old French tales as well as a rigorously painterly background. The end result was beautifully coloured images which further refined the wonderful stories of Perrault, D’Aulnoy and Hamilton – all presented together in this book. Pook Press celebrates the great ‘Golden Age of Illustration‘ in children’s literature – a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration. We publish rare and vintage Golden Age illustrated books, in high-quality colour editions, so that the masterful artwork and story-telling can continue to delight both young and old.

Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook

Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook PDF Author: Michael Garland
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110164849X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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When Zack meets his second-grade teacher, Miss Smith, he can tell right away that her class will be different. But he has no idea just how different it will be! Miss Smith has a knack for telling tales when she reads from her incredible book, the stories literally spring to life! Then one day Miss Smith is late for school. The principal takes over and things get out of hand. The classroom is swarming with storybook characters from princesses to pirates to the three little pigs? All it takes is one spectacular teacher.

Stone-Garland

Stone-Garland PDF Author:
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571317287
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 105

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Anthology. The Greek origins of the word gesture at a bouquet, a garland; “a flower-logic, a petal-theory, a blossom-word.” In Stone-Garland, Dan Beachy-Quick brings the term back to its roots, linking together the lives and words of six singular ancient Greeks. Simonides: honest servant to patrons. Anacreon: lustful singer, living on in the work of his acolytes. Archilochus: cruel critic, beloved of the Muses. Alcman: who took birds as his teachers. Theognis: chronicler of human excellence and vice. Callimachus: cosmopolitan head librarian at Alexandria. These are the poets who appear in these pages, sometimes in fragments, sometimes in sustained glimpses. Drawing inspiration from the Greek Anthology, first drafted in the first century BC, Beachy-Quick presents translations filled with lovers and children, gods and insects, earth and water, ideas and ideals. Throughout, the line between the ancient and the contemporary blurs, and “the logic of how life should be lived decays wondrously into the more difficult possibilities of what life is.” Spare, earthy, lovely, Stone-Garland offers readers of the Seedbank series its lyric blossoms and subtle weave, a walk through a cemetery that is also a garden.

The Tesseract

The Tesseract PDF Author: Alex Garland
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101657634
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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An intricately woven, suspenseful novel of psychological and political intrigue, The Tesseract follows the interlocking fates of three sets of characters in the Philippines: gangsters in a chase through the streets of Manila; a middle-class mother putting her children to bed in the suburbs and remembering her first love; and a couple of street kids and the wealthy psychiatrist who is studying their dreams. Alex Garland demonstrates the range of his extraordinary talents as a novelist in this national bestseller, a Chinese puzzle of a novel about three intersecting sets of characters in the Philippines.