Author: Marianne Mitchell
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
ISBN: 162979886X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Almost a year ago, a car accident changed Crystal's life. The accident killed Crystal's father and left her in a wheelchair. Now, Crystal and her mother are staying at the home of Grandmother Emilia, who has just passed away. They face the painful task of sorting through Gram's possessions—and their own memories. Then Crystal's mother, an artist, is offered an unexpected chance to exhibit her work at a gallery in New Mexico—an opportunity she can't afford to turn down. While her mother is gone, Crystal is left in the care of Zola, a friend of her grandmother's. One day Zola suddenly disappears. A series of alarming incidents convinces Crystal that she must find Zola as quickly as possible. Two mysteries escalate simultaneously in Marianne Mitchell's vividly written novel. The question "Where's Zola?" forces Crystal to confront another, equally baffling question: Now that her life has changed so dramatically, who is Crystal?
Finding Zola
Author: Marianne Mitchell
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
ISBN: 162979886X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Almost a year ago, a car accident changed Crystal's life. The accident killed Crystal's father and left her in a wheelchair. Now, Crystal and her mother are staying at the home of Grandmother Emilia, who has just passed away. They face the painful task of sorting through Gram's possessions—and their own memories. Then Crystal's mother, an artist, is offered an unexpected chance to exhibit her work at a gallery in New Mexico—an opportunity she can't afford to turn down. While her mother is gone, Crystal is left in the care of Zola, a friend of her grandmother's. One day Zola suddenly disappears. A series of alarming incidents convinces Crystal that she must find Zola as quickly as possible. Two mysteries escalate simultaneously in Marianne Mitchell's vividly written novel. The question "Where's Zola?" forces Crystal to confront another, equally baffling question: Now that her life has changed so dramatically, who is Crystal?
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
ISBN: 162979886X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Almost a year ago, a car accident changed Crystal's life. The accident killed Crystal's father and left her in a wheelchair. Now, Crystal and her mother are staying at the home of Grandmother Emilia, who has just passed away. They face the painful task of sorting through Gram's possessions—and their own memories. Then Crystal's mother, an artist, is offered an unexpected chance to exhibit her work at a gallery in New Mexico—an opportunity she can't afford to turn down. While her mother is gone, Crystal is left in the care of Zola, a friend of her grandmother's. One day Zola suddenly disappears. A series of alarming incidents convinces Crystal that she must find Zola as quickly as possible. Two mysteries escalate simultaneously in Marianne Mitchell's vividly written novel. The question "Where's Zola?" forces Crystal to confront another, equally baffling question: Now that her life has changed so dramatically, who is Crystal?
Finding Cabin Six
Author: Missy Robertson
Publisher: Zonderkidz
ISBN: 0310762588
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
The fourth book in the Faithgirlz Princess in Camo series—Finding Cabin Six—is sure to capture the imagination of young readers as they follow adventurous Allie Carroway and her cousins as they experience life in the Louisiana Bayou and on the television screen as reality TV stars. Written by reality TV stars Missy and Mia Robertson, the fourth book in the Princess in Camo series, Finding Cabin Six, finds the Carroway cousins attending camp for an exciting week of fun, friends, and faith-building. But this summer will be different—rumor has it that the camp is struggling and may be sold to a resort developer at the end of the season. Cousins Allie, Kendall, Lola, Ruby, and Hunter are devastated by the news, so they set out on a mission to save the camp! Finding Cabin Six: Is the fourth book in the Faithgirlz Princess in Camo series Explores the nature of a family filled with social, cultural, and physical diversity Is the perfect fiction series for readers 8-12 Features trending topics such as bullying and forgiveness
Publisher: Zonderkidz
ISBN: 0310762588
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
The fourth book in the Faithgirlz Princess in Camo series—Finding Cabin Six—is sure to capture the imagination of young readers as they follow adventurous Allie Carroway and her cousins as they experience life in the Louisiana Bayou and on the television screen as reality TV stars. Written by reality TV stars Missy and Mia Robertson, the fourth book in the Princess in Camo series, Finding Cabin Six, finds the Carroway cousins attending camp for an exciting week of fun, friends, and faith-building. But this summer will be different—rumor has it that the camp is struggling and may be sold to a resort developer at the end of the season. Cousins Allie, Kendall, Lola, Ruby, and Hunter are devastated by the news, so they set out on a mission to save the camp! Finding Cabin Six: Is the fourth book in the Faithgirlz Princess in Camo series Explores the nature of a family filled with social, cultural, and physical diversity Is the perfect fiction series for readers 8-12 Features trending topics such as bullying and forgiveness
Finding Monte Cristo
Author: Eric Martone
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476633398
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
During his lifetime, Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)--grandson of a Caribbean slave and author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo--faced racial prejudice in his homeland of France and constantly strove to find a sense of belonging. For him, "Monte Cristo" was a symbol of this elusive quest. It proved equally elusive for those struggling to overcome slavery and its legacy in the former French colonies. Exiled to the margins of society, 19th and 20th century black intellectuals from the Caribbean and Africa drew on Dumas' work and celebrity to renegotiate their full acceptance as French citizens. Their efforts were influenced by earlier struggles of African Americans in the decades after the Civil War, who celebrated Dumas as a black American hero.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476633398
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
During his lifetime, Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)--grandson of a Caribbean slave and author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo--faced racial prejudice in his homeland of France and constantly strove to find a sense of belonging. For him, "Monte Cristo" was a symbol of this elusive quest. It proved equally elusive for those struggling to overcome slavery and its legacy in the former French colonies. Exiled to the margins of society, 19th and 20th century black intellectuals from the Caribbean and Africa drew on Dumas' work and celebrity to renegotiate their full acceptance as French citizens. Their efforts were influenced by earlier struggles of African Americans in the decades after the Civil War, who celebrated Dumas as a black American hero.
Flaubert
Author: Michel Winock
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067497445X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
A “well-researched, elegantly written” study of the life and work of 19th-century French author Gustave Flaubert (Roger Pearson, University of Oxford). Michel Winock’s biography situates Gustave Flaubert’s life and work in France’s century of great democratic transition. Flaubert did not welcome the egalitarian society predicted by Tocqueville. Wary of the masses, he rejected the universal male suffrage hard won by the Revolution of 1848, and he was exasperated by the nascent socialism that promoted the collective to the detriment of the individual. But above all, he hated the bourgeoisie. Vulgar, ignorant, obsessed with material comforts, impervious to beauty, the French middle class embodied for Flaubert every vice of the democratic age. His loathing became a fixation—and a source of literary inspiration. Flaubert depicts a man whose personality, habits, and thought are a stew of paradoxes. The author of Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education spent his life inseparably bound to solitude and melancholy, yet he enjoyed periodic escapes from his “hole” in Croisset to pursue a variety of pleasures: fervent friendships, society soirées, and a whirlwind of literary and romantic encounters. He prided himself on the impersonality of his writing, but he did not hesitate to use material from his own life in his fiction. Nowhere are Flaubert’s contradictions more evident than in his politics. An enemy of power who held no nostalgia for the monarchy or the church, he was nonetheless hostile to collectivist utopias. Despite declarations of the timelessness and sacredness of Art, Flaubert could not transcend the era he abominated. Rejecting the modern world, he paradoxically became its celebrated chronicler and the most modern writer of his time. Praise for Flaubert “This generous study ingeniously builds a narrative around Flaubert’s own words—from not only the novels but also voluminous correspondence and unpublished work. Adding light background and analysis, Winock allows the mind of the Master to shine.” —The New Yorker “It is precisely the historical background of Flaubert’s times, both its conscious and its invisible impingements on the writer’s sensibility, on which Winock is especially revelatory . . . Michel Winock has written a compelling and stylish biography, and Nicholas Elliott has brought it into English with flair and skill.” —Bruce Whiteman, Hudson Review “Noted French historian Winock’s biography succeeds in presenting a fresh portrait of a man plagued by paradoxes . . . Winock provides absorbing background related to the country’s social and political scenes that occurred during his subject’s lifetime.” —Erica Swenson Danowitz, Library Journal
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067497445X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
A “well-researched, elegantly written” study of the life and work of 19th-century French author Gustave Flaubert (Roger Pearson, University of Oxford). Michel Winock’s biography situates Gustave Flaubert’s life and work in France’s century of great democratic transition. Flaubert did not welcome the egalitarian society predicted by Tocqueville. Wary of the masses, he rejected the universal male suffrage hard won by the Revolution of 1848, and he was exasperated by the nascent socialism that promoted the collective to the detriment of the individual. But above all, he hated the bourgeoisie. Vulgar, ignorant, obsessed with material comforts, impervious to beauty, the French middle class embodied for Flaubert every vice of the democratic age. His loathing became a fixation—and a source of literary inspiration. Flaubert depicts a man whose personality, habits, and thought are a stew of paradoxes. The author of Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education spent his life inseparably bound to solitude and melancholy, yet he enjoyed periodic escapes from his “hole” in Croisset to pursue a variety of pleasures: fervent friendships, society soirées, and a whirlwind of literary and romantic encounters. He prided himself on the impersonality of his writing, but he did not hesitate to use material from his own life in his fiction. Nowhere are Flaubert’s contradictions more evident than in his politics. An enemy of power who held no nostalgia for the monarchy or the church, he was nonetheless hostile to collectivist utopias. Despite declarations of the timelessness and sacredness of Art, Flaubert could not transcend the era he abominated. Rejecting the modern world, he paradoxically became its celebrated chronicler and the most modern writer of his time. Praise for Flaubert “This generous study ingeniously builds a narrative around Flaubert’s own words—from not only the novels but also voluminous correspondence and unpublished work. Adding light background and analysis, Winock allows the mind of the Master to shine.” —The New Yorker “It is precisely the historical background of Flaubert’s times, both its conscious and its invisible impingements on the writer’s sensibility, on which Winock is especially revelatory . . . Michel Winock has written a compelling and stylish biography, and Nicholas Elliott has brought it into English with flair and skill.” —Bruce Whiteman, Hudson Review “Noted French historian Winock’s biography succeeds in presenting a fresh portrait of a man plagued by paradoxes . . . Winock provides absorbing background related to the country’s social and political scenes that occurred during his subject’s lifetime.” —Erica Swenson Danowitz, Library Journal
Zola
Author: Phillip Walker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317195361
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
In the novels of Emile Zola, the pain and horror of working class life was pushed into the drawing rooms of polite society. Zola set out to shock and to question the assumptions of fiction and of comfortable, settled lives. The impact of his writing was far wider than France, and his attacks on the pillars of society gave him an international reputation. First published in 1985, this biography of Zola does much more than simply describe Zola as a writer, and his literary impact. It brings together the many strands of Zola’s life and creates an impression of a remarkable, if often exasperating individualist. This book will be of interest to those studying the works of Emile Zola and more broadly nineteenth-century and French literature.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317195361
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
In the novels of Emile Zola, the pain and horror of working class life was pushed into the drawing rooms of polite society. Zola set out to shock and to question the assumptions of fiction and of comfortable, settled lives. The impact of his writing was far wider than France, and his attacks on the pillars of society gave him an international reputation. First published in 1985, this biography of Zola does much more than simply describe Zola as a writer, and his literary impact. It brings together the many strands of Zola’s life and creates an impression of a remarkable, if often exasperating individualist. This book will be of interest to those studying the works of Emile Zola and more broadly nineteenth-century and French literature.
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ÉMILE ZOLA
Author: Émile Zola
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 13907
Book Description
In 'The Complete Works of Émile Zola', readers are transported to 19th century France through a collection of Zola's most renowned novels and essays. Known for his naturalistic writing style, Zola delves into the human psyche, societal issues, and the consequences of industrialization. His vivid descriptions and character development provide a rich literary experience that is both thought-provoking and insightful. This compilation showcases the breadth of Zola's talent and his contribution to the literary realism movement. Readers can expect to be immersed in a world filled with complex characters and moral dilemmas, all expertly crafted by Zola's skilled pen. From 'Germinal' to 'The Drinking Den', each work offers a unique perspective on the human condition in a rapidly changing world.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 13907
Book Description
In 'The Complete Works of Émile Zola', readers are transported to 19th century France through a collection of Zola's most renowned novels and essays. Known for his naturalistic writing style, Zola delves into the human psyche, societal issues, and the consequences of industrialization. His vivid descriptions and character development provide a rich literary experience that is both thought-provoking and insightful. This compilation showcases the breadth of Zola's talent and his contribution to the literary realism movement. Readers can expect to be immersed in a world filled with complex characters and moral dilemmas, all expertly crafted by Zola's skilled pen. From 'Germinal' to 'The Drinking Den', each work offers a unique perspective on the human condition in a rapidly changing world.
The Complete Works of Emile Zola
Author: emile Zola
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 5543
Book Description
A longish volume of translations of all works of French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism - Emile Zola.
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 5543
Book Description
A longish volume of translations of all works of French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism - Emile Zola.
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Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rehabilitation
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rehabilitation
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
"C"
Author: Maurice Baring
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
"C" by Maurice Baring is a monumental and inspiring homage to 20th-century family life from the point of view of a noble son falling into obsessive and fiery love with a self-centered and beautiful young woman. Excerpt; "They say we'll meet in some transfigured space, Beyond the sun. I need you here, in this familiar place Of tears and fun. I do not need you changed, dissolved in the air; Nor rarified; I need you all imperfect as you were Here, at my side."
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
"C" by Maurice Baring is a monumental and inspiring homage to 20th-century family life from the point of view of a noble son falling into obsessive and fiery love with a self-centered and beautiful young woman. Excerpt; "They say we'll meet in some transfigured space, Beyond the sun. I need you here, in this familiar place Of tears and fun. I do not need you changed, dissolved in the air; Nor rarified; I need you all imperfect as you were Here, at my side."
Zola, The Body Modern
Author: Susan Harrow
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351536079
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Emile Zola's reputation as a landmark European novelist is undisputed. His monumental achievement, the novel cycle Les Rougon-Macquart: Histoire sociale et naturelle d'une famille sous le Second Empire (1871-1893), fixed his status as a major writer in the naturalist tradition. Is there any more to be said? Susan Harrow answers boldly in the affirmative, challenging the commonplace view that Zola's writing is predictable, prolix and transparent (what Barthes called 'readerly', for which read 'tedious'). Harrow exposes the modernist and postmodernist strategies which surface in the Rougon-Macquart novels, and reveals Zola's innovatory representation of the body captured here at work, at war, at play, at rest, and in arresting abstraction. Informed by critical thought from Barthes and Deleuze to Michel de Certeau and Anthony Giddens, Zola, the Body Modern offers a model for how we can revitalize our understanding of the canonical nineteenth-century European novel, and learn to travel more flexibly between parameters of century, style and aesthetics.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351536079
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Emile Zola's reputation as a landmark European novelist is undisputed. His monumental achievement, the novel cycle Les Rougon-Macquart: Histoire sociale et naturelle d'une famille sous le Second Empire (1871-1893), fixed his status as a major writer in the naturalist tradition. Is there any more to be said? Susan Harrow answers boldly in the affirmative, challenging the commonplace view that Zola's writing is predictable, prolix and transparent (what Barthes called 'readerly', for which read 'tedious'). Harrow exposes the modernist and postmodernist strategies which surface in the Rougon-Macquart novels, and reveals Zola's innovatory representation of the body captured here at work, at war, at play, at rest, and in arresting abstraction. Informed by critical thought from Barthes and Deleuze to Michel de Certeau and Anthony Giddens, Zola, the Body Modern offers a model for how we can revitalize our understanding of the canonical nineteenth-century European novel, and learn to travel more flexibly between parameters of century, style and aesthetics.