Stories of Enchantment

Stories of Enchantment PDF Author: Jane Pentzer Myers
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Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Enchantment

Enchantment PDF Author: Orson Scott Card
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0345484509
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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In Enchantment, Orson Scott Card works his magic as never before, transforming the timeless story of Sleeping Beauty into an original fantasy brimming with romance and adventure. The moment Ivan stumbled upon a clearing in the dense Carpathian forest, his life was forever changed. Atop a pedestal encircled by fallen leaves, the beautiful princess Katerina lay still as death. But beneath the foliage a malevolent presence stirred and sent the ten-year-old Ivan scrambling for the safety of Cousin Marek's farm. Now, years later, Ivan is an American graduate student, engaged to be married. Yet he cannot forget that long-ago day in the forest—or convince himself it was merely a frightened boy’s fantasy. Compelled to return to his native land, Ivan finds the clearing just as he left it. This time he does not run. This time he awakens the beauty with a kiss . . . and steps into a world that vanished a thousand years ago. A rich tapestry of clashing worlds and cultures, Enchantment is a powerfully original novel of a love and destiny that transcend centuries . . . and the dark force that stalks them across the ages.

Book of Enchantments

Book of Enchantments PDF Author: Patricia C. Wrede
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417705979
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Ten short stories include the tale of Queen Cimorene's Frying Pan of Doom, a yarn about a magical blue chipmunk with a passion for chestnuts, and a story about an enchanted wizard's daughter.

Tales of Enchantment

Tales of Enchantment PDF Author: Pleasant DeSpain
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874837117
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Contains a magical collection of folktales from around the world.

The Uses of Enchantment

The Uses of Enchantment PDF Author: Bruno Bettelheim
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307739635
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 343

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Winner of the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award "A charming book about enchantment, a profound book about fairy tales."—John Updike, The New York Times Book Review Bruno Bettelheim was one of the great child psychologists of the twentieth century and perhaps none of his books has been more influential than this revelatory study of fairy tales and their universal importance in understanding childhood development. Analyzing a wide range of traditional stories, from the tales of Sindbad to “The Three Little Pigs,” “Hansel and Gretel,” and “The Sleeping Beauty,” Bettelheim shows how the fantastical, sometimes cruel, but always deeply significant narrative strands of the classic fairy tales can aid in our greatest human task, that of finding meaning for one’s life.

Land of Enchantment

Land of Enchantment PDF Author: Leigh Stein
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101982683
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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"[A] thoughtful and compelling elegy to a troubled man, a broken love, and a broken dream of the west."—Leslie Jamison, New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams An MSN Best Book of 2016 Set against the stark and surreal landscape of New Mexico, Land of Enchantment is a coming-of-age memoir about young love, obsession, and loss, and how a person can imprint a place in your mind forever. When Leigh Stein received a call from an unknown number in July 2011, she let it go to voice mail, assuming it would be her ex-boyfriend Jason. Instead, the call was from his brother: Jason had been killed in a motorcycle accident. He was twenty-three years old. She had seen him alive just a few weeks earlier. Leigh first met Jason at an audition for a tragic play. He was nineteen and troubled and intensely magnetic, a dead ringer for James Dean. Leigh was twenty-two and living at home with her parents, trying to figure out what to do with her young adult life. Within months, they had fallen in love and moved to New Mexico, the “Land of Enchantment,” a place neither of them had ever been. But what was supposed to be a romantic adventure quickly turned sinister, as Jason’s behavior went from playful and spontaneous to controlling and erratic, eventually escalating to violence. Now New Mexico was marked by isolation and the anxiety of how to leave a man she both loved and feared. Even once Leigh moved on to New York, throwing herself into her work, Jason and their time together haunted her. Land of Enchantment lyrically explores the heartbreaking complexity of why the person hurting you the most can be impossible to leave. With searing honesty and cutting humor, Leigh wrestles with what made her fall in love with someone so destructive and how to grieve a man who wasn’t always good to her.

A Child's Book of Myths and Enchantment Tales

A Child's Book of Myths and Enchantment Tales PDF Author: Margaret Evans Alice
Publisher: Checkerboard Books
ISBN: 9780026894128
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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A collection of twenty Greek and Roman myths including Apollo and Diana, Arcas and Callisto, and Pomona and Vertumnus.

Tales of Magic and Enchantment

Tales of Magic and Enchantment PDF Author: Brimax Books, Limited
Publisher: Brimax Books
ISBN: 9780861120741
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Myths and Enchantment Tales

Myths and Enchantment Tales PDF Author:
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Category : Mythology, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Nineteen tales from Greek mythology adapted for children.

Stories of Enchantment

Stories of Enchantment PDF Author: Jane Pentzer Myers
Publisher:
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Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Wonder Tales

Wonder Tales PDF Author: Marina Warner
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448103177
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Marina Warner has gathered together a magical collection of fairy tales by the great women storytellers of the 17th and 18th centuries. These are passionate, extraordinary, and occasionally proto-feminist retellings of classic fairy stories by women who ingeniously used the fairy tale genre to comment on their own times and experiences. The stories are all in superb new translations by celebrated writers, including A. S. Byatt, Gilbert Adair and John Ashbery. With a brilliant intorduction by Marina Warner, recognised as one of our greatest experts on myth and fairy tale.