Author: Anne Opotowsky
Publisher: Gestalt Publishing Pty Limited
ISBN: 9780980782363
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Imperialist controlled Hong Kong, the British ruling classes and the dynasty-influenced Chinese all create an amazing labyrinth for His Dream of the Skyland, book one in The Walled City trilogy. The Chinese colonial-inspired illustrations create an utterly distinct experience, immersing readers in a world that is opulent, dark and absorbing. Readers will be entranced by the story of Song Lu, a young boy living in Hong Kong in the 1920s, who gets caught up in the dark underbelly of the city. With two more books in the series to come, this marks the beginning of a truly epic tale.
His Dream of the Skyland
Author: Anne Opotowsky
Publisher: Gestalt Publishing Pty Limited
ISBN: 9780980782363
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Imperialist controlled Hong Kong, the British ruling classes and the dynasty-influenced Chinese all create an amazing labyrinth for His Dream of the Skyland, book one in The Walled City trilogy. The Chinese colonial-inspired illustrations create an utterly distinct experience, immersing readers in a world that is opulent, dark and absorbing. Readers will be entranced by the story of Song Lu, a young boy living in Hong Kong in the 1920s, who gets caught up in the dark underbelly of the city. With two more books in the series to come, this marks the beginning of a truly epic tale.
Publisher: Gestalt Publishing Pty Limited
ISBN: 9780980782363
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Imperialist controlled Hong Kong, the British ruling classes and the dynasty-influenced Chinese all create an amazing labyrinth for His Dream of the Skyland, book one in The Walled City trilogy. The Chinese colonial-inspired illustrations create an utterly distinct experience, immersing readers in a world that is opulent, dark and absorbing. Readers will be entranced by the story of Song Lu, a young boy living in Hong Kong in the 1920s, who gets caught up in the dark underbelly of the city. With two more books in the series to come, this marks the beginning of a truly epic tale.
Nocturne: The Walled City Trilogy (Book Two)
Author: Anne Opotowsky
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1603094512
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Emmy Award-winning writer Anne Opotowsky and stunning artist Angie Hoffmeister present the second volume in this massive saga of ambition, loyalty, and the walls we build inside and out; animating an irresistible historical setting with powerful modern resonance. Book Two of Anne Opotowsky's epic Walled City Trilogy leaps simultaneously forward and back. In 1905, a child is kidnapped and brought to Hong Kong, growing into a clever and reckless young man looking for answers. In the 1930s, the British are shaping that island into the free-trade playground for which it will soon become famous... while China's internal strife borders on chaos. The eccentricities of Hong Kong rub off on everyone, the greed is more palpable, the lust and caution ride herd on both the young and old. Within the Walled City itself, the population has grown by leaps and bounds, despite attempts to clear them out. Both the British and the Chinese now declare it a lawless ghetto, a legal No Man's Land... so the city evolves into an astonishing world of its own. In this chaotic yet harmonious world, the three boys from Book One -- Song, Xi, and Yubo -- are finding three very different ways to become men. Abductions, obsessions, refugees, and star-crossed lovers intertwine throughout this staggeringly ambitious and gorgeously illustrated saga... while the undercurrents of power, manipulation, and loss begin to show terrible cracks in the walls.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1603094512
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Emmy Award-winning writer Anne Opotowsky and stunning artist Angie Hoffmeister present the second volume in this massive saga of ambition, loyalty, and the walls we build inside and out; animating an irresistible historical setting with powerful modern resonance. Book Two of Anne Opotowsky's epic Walled City Trilogy leaps simultaneously forward and back. In 1905, a child is kidnapped and brought to Hong Kong, growing into a clever and reckless young man looking for answers. In the 1930s, the British are shaping that island into the free-trade playground for which it will soon become famous... while China's internal strife borders on chaos. The eccentricities of Hong Kong rub off on everyone, the greed is more palpable, the lust and caution ride herd on both the young and old. Within the Walled City itself, the population has grown by leaps and bounds, despite attempts to clear them out. Both the British and the Chinese now declare it a lawless ghetto, a legal No Man's Land... so the city evolves into an astonishing world of its own. In this chaotic yet harmonious world, the three boys from Book One -- Song, Xi, and Yubo -- are finding three very different ways to become men. Abductions, obsessions, refugees, and star-crossed lovers intertwine throughout this staggeringly ambitious and gorgeously illustrated saga... while the undercurrents of power, manipulation, and loss begin to show terrible cracks in the walls.
Sky-land
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Harry Partch
Author: Bob Gilmore
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300065213
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Visionary composer, theorist, and creator of musical instruments, Harry Partch (1901-1974) was a leading figure in the development of an indigenously American contemporary music. A pioneer in his explorations of new instruments and new tunings, Partch created multimedia theater works that combine sight and sound in a compelling synthesis. He is acknowledged as a major inspiration to postwar experimental composers as diverse as György Ligeti, Lou Harrison, Philip Glass, and Laurie Anderson, and his book Genesis of a Music, first published in 1949, is now considered a classic. This book is the first to tell the complete story of Partch's life and work. Drawing on interviews with many of Partch's associates and on the complete archives of the Harry Partch Estate, Bob Gilmore provides a full and sympathetic portrait of this extraordinary creative artist. He describes Partch's complicated relationships with friends, patrons, the musical establishment, and the world at large. He traces Partch's upbringing in the remote desert towns of the Southwest, his explosive encounter with formal music education in Los Angeles, and his revolutionary course as a composer that began with an interest in the musicality of speech patterns. After immersing himself in hobo subculture during the Depression, Partch came to occupy a lonely and uncompromising position as a cultural outsider. Richly fascinating in themselves, Partch's compositions, writings, and life also have much to reveal about American society and the creative impulses of the artistic avant-garde.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300065213
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Visionary composer, theorist, and creator of musical instruments, Harry Partch (1901-1974) was a leading figure in the development of an indigenously American contemporary music. A pioneer in his explorations of new instruments and new tunings, Partch created multimedia theater works that combine sight and sound in a compelling synthesis. He is acknowledged as a major inspiration to postwar experimental composers as diverse as György Ligeti, Lou Harrison, Philip Glass, and Laurie Anderson, and his book Genesis of a Music, first published in 1949, is now considered a classic. This book is the first to tell the complete story of Partch's life and work. Drawing on interviews with many of Partch's associates and on the complete archives of the Harry Partch Estate, Bob Gilmore provides a full and sympathetic portrait of this extraordinary creative artist. He describes Partch's complicated relationships with friends, patrons, the musical establishment, and the world at large. He traces Partch's upbringing in the remote desert towns of the Southwest, his explosive encounter with formal music education in Los Angeles, and his revolutionary course as a composer that began with an interest in the musicality of speech patterns. After immersing himself in hobo subculture during the Depression, Partch came to occupy a lonely and uncompromising position as a cultural outsider. Richly fascinating in themselves, Partch's compositions, writings, and life also have much to reveal about American society and the creative impulses of the artistic avant-garde.
The Works of Li Po, the Chinese Poet
Author: Bai Li
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Category : Chinese poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Category : Chinese poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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The Works of Li Po, the Chinese Poet
Author: 李白
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Touching the Sky (Land of the Lone Star Book #2)
Author: Tracie Peterson
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 144127099X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Romantic Adventure from Tracie Peterson! When Laura Marquardt first meets Brandon Reid, their encounter is anything but pleasant. But when the two are seated together at a dinner party, they soon find that they share similar interests--Laura desires to educate blacks, and Brandon, as a white officer over colored troops, eagerly supports her cause. When Laura's sister, Carissa, marries her Confederate beau, Laura finds herself in a difficult situation when she overhears plots to kill Union soldiers. Though in her heart she feels she should share this information with Brandon, Laura fears she will betray her sister's trust and possibly endanger her sister's life. And when Brandon's motives for pursuing her come into question, her heart is even more conflicted. Where is God leading her?
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 144127099X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Romantic Adventure from Tracie Peterson! When Laura Marquardt first meets Brandon Reid, their encounter is anything but pleasant. But when the two are seated together at a dinner party, they soon find that they share similar interests--Laura desires to educate blacks, and Brandon, as a white officer over colored troops, eagerly supports her cause. When Laura's sister, Carissa, marries her Confederate beau, Laura finds herself in a difficult situation when she overhears plots to kill Union soldiers. Though in her heart she feels she should share this information with Brandon, Laura fears she will betray her sister's trust and possibly endanger her sister's life. And when Brandon's motives for pursuing her come into question, her heart is even more conflicted. Where is God leading her?
Ezra Pound Among the Poets
Author: George Bornstein
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226066424
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"Be influenced by as many great writers as you can," said Ezra Pound. Pound was an "assimilative poet" par excellence, as George Bornstein calls him, a writer who more often "adhered to a . . . classical conception of influence as benign and strengthening" than to an anxiety model of influence. To study Pound means to study also his precursors—Homer, Ovid, Li Po, Dante, Whitman, Browning—as well as his contemporaries—Yeats, Williams, and Eliot. These poets, discussed here by ten distinguished critics, stimulated Pound's most important poetic encounters with the literature of Greece, Rome, China, Tuscany, England, and the United States. Fully half of these essays draw on previously unpublished manuscripts.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226066424
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"Be influenced by as many great writers as you can," said Ezra Pound. Pound was an "assimilative poet" par excellence, as George Bornstein calls him, a writer who more often "adhered to a . . . classical conception of influence as benign and strengthening" than to an anxiety model of influence. To study Pound means to study also his precursors—Homer, Ovid, Li Po, Dante, Whitman, Browning—as well as his contemporaries—Yeats, Williams, and Eliot. These poets, discussed here by ten distinguished critics, stimulated Pound's most important poetic encounters with the literature of Greece, Rome, China, Tuscany, England, and the United States. Fully half of these essays draw on previously unpublished manuscripts.
Runaway Twin
Author: Peg Kehret
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0142418498
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Thirteen-year-old Sunny runs away from her current foster parent in search of her twin sister, from whom she was separated ten years earlier. On the way, she'll face a tornado, bullies, and a stray dog- and the fact that her sister may not be who Sunny hoped she would be.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0142418498
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Thirteen-year-old Sunny runs away from her current foster parent in search of her twin sister, from whom she was separated ten years earlier. On the way, she'll face a tornado, bullies, and a stray dog- and the fact that her sister may not be who Sunny hoped she would be.
The Great Gatsby
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 198214453X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A gorgeously illustrated, first-ever graphic novel adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s beloved American classic. First published in 1925, The Great Gatsby has been acclaimed by generations of readers and is now reimagined in stunning graphic novel form. Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, and the rest of the cast are captured in vivid and evocative illustrations by artist Aya Morton. The iconic text has been artfully distilled by Fred Fordham, who also adapted the graphic novel edition of To Kill a Mockingbird. Blake Hazard, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great-granddaughter, contributes a personal introduction. This quintessential Jazz Age tale stands as the supreme achievement of Fitzgerald’s career and is a true classic of 20th-century literature. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy is exquisitely captured in this enchanting and unique edition.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 198214453X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A gorgeously illustrated, first-ever graphic novel adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s beloved American classic. First published in 1925, The Great Gatsby has been acclaimed by generations of readers and is now reimagined in stunning graphic novel form. Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, and the rest of the cast are captured in vivid and evocative illustrations by artist Aya Morton. The iconic text has been artfully distilled by Fred Fordham, who also adapted the graphic novel edition of To Kill a Mockingbird. Blake Hazard, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great-granddaughter, contributes a personal introduction. This quintessential Jazz Age tale stands as the supreme achievement of Fitzgerald’s career and is a true classic of 20th-century literature. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy is exquisitely captured in this enchanting and unique edition.