Author: Thomas James Thackeray
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Languages : en
Pages : 612
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The mountain sylph: A romantic grand opera, in two acts, etc. By T. J. Thackeray
Author: Thomas James Thackeray
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Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Languages : en
Pages : 612
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The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance
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Category : Fashion
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Category : Fashion
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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The Bride's Farewell
Author: Meg Rosoff
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101105402
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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A tender and magical tale from the 2016 recipient of the Astrid Lindgren award and author of international bestseller How I Live Now, National Book Award finalist Picture Me Gone, and most recently Jonathan Unleashed Pell Ridley, daughter of a good-for-nothing preacher in mid-nineteenth century England, has watched her mother crushed by the burden of too many children and too little money. Unwilling to repeat her fate, Pell runs away on her wedding day taking only her beautiful, white horse. But, as she journeys through a strange world of gypsies in search of a new life, Pell finds that her ties to home refuse to release her. Like the works of Philip Pullman and Sue Monk Kidd, The Bride's Farewell will resonate with readers of all ages as it grapples with timeless questions of how to live, how to love, and how to be true to one's self.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101105402
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
A tender and magical tale from the 2016 recipient of the Astrid Lindgren award and author of international bestseller How I Live Now, National Book Award finalist Picture Me Gone, and most recently Jonathan Unleashed Pell Ridley, daughter of a good-for-nothing preacher in mid-nineteenth century England, has watched her mother crushed by the burden of too many children and too little money. Unwilling to repeat her fate, Pell runs away on her wedding day taking only her beautiful, white horse. But, as she journeys through a strange world of gypsies in search of a new life, Pell finds that her ties to home refuse to release her. Like the works of Philip Pullman and Sue Monk Kidd, The Bride's Farewell will resonate with readers of all ages as it grapples with timeless questions of how to live, how to love, and how to be true to one's self.
Romeo Et Juliette
Author: Jules Barbier
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Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Graham's Illustrated Magazine of Literature, Romance, Art, and Fashion
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Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Pages : 642
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The Universal Songster, Or, Museum of Mirth
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Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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James' novels
Author: George Payne Rainsford James
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Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Romance
Author: Rossiter Johnson
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Category : Anthologies
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Category : Anthologies
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Red Love
Author: Lijian Zhao
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1546245588
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 427
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Red Love, set in modern Communist China, traces the story of three best friendsJianfei, Huifang, and Lishanas they cross from adolescence to adulthood during the uncertain decade preceding the Cultural Revolution. For each of them, it is a time of self-definition and sexual awakening within a prudish Chinese culture, a culture itself in the midst of political tumult. Chinas quickly shifting political winds provide the treacherous ground upon which the three women voice their first tentative and brave expressions of love, in spite of the obstructions erected by family, school, the military, Maoist doctrine, and the whole of Chinese society. Huifang is desperate to overcome her parents blackened Nationalist reputations and falls for a Peoples Liberation Army soldier. She carries out a discreet affair despite the possibility of his discharge. Jianfei, a politically astute and rabidly idealistic Maoist, idolizes her childhood sweetheart. She finally fulfills her desires when the two enter college in Shanghai, only to be forced to abandon her lover as affirmation of her own political ideals. Lishan, a bookish painter, wrestles with her own unspeakable yearningsan overwhelming infatuation with her best friend. In a world lacking a word for sex, let alone homosexual, Lishan defiantly rejects everything except for the passions that compel her. All three dare to pursue their own visions of love, and all three come to learn that a love, persistent in the face of rejection, hate, and violence, brings with it tragedy.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1546245588
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
Red Love, set in modern Communist China, traces the story of three best friendsJianfei, Huifang, and Lishanas they cross from adolescence to adulthood during the uncertain decade preceding the Cultural Revolution. For each of them, it is a time of self-definition and sexual awakening within a prudish Chinese culture, a culture itself in the midst of political tumult. Chinas quickly shifting political winds provide the treacherous ground upon which the three women voice their first tentative and brave expressions of love, in spite of the obstructions erected by family, school, the military, Maoist doctrine, and the whole of Chinese society. Huifang is desperate to overcome her parents blackened Nationalist reputations and falls for a Peoples Liberation Army soldier. She carries out a discreet affair despite the possibility of his discharge. Jianfei, a politically astute and rabidly idealistic Maoist, idolizes her childhood sweetheart. She finally fulfills her desires when the two enter college in Shanghai, only to be forced to abandon her lover as affirmation of her own political ideals. Lishan, a bookish painter, wrestles with her own unspeakable yearningsan overwhelming infatuation with her best friend. In a world lacking a word for sex, let alone homosexual, Lishan defiantly rejects everything except for the passions that compel her. All three dare to pursue their own visions of love, and all three come to learn that a love, persistent in the face of rejection, hate, and violence, brings with it tragedy.
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 948
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 948
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