Author: Francis Rosenfeld
Publisher: Francis Rosenfeld
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
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What would you do if after devoting yourself to the study of an ancient manuscript for three whole years you found out you might be the one who actually wrote it? Well, penned it, anyway. No adventure is more spellbinding than the epic journey of the mind. You pull on a loose thread and all of a sudden the fabric of reality starts to unravel in front of your eyes. Nothing is certain anymore. Time falters. Life turns into a dance of power, contradiction and change. Reality is so much stranger than magic!
Author: Kate Forsyth
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 0143786172
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Viviane de Faitaud has grown up alone at the Chateau de Belisama-sur-le-Lac in Brittany. Her father, the Marquis, lives at the court of Louis XVI in Versailles. After a hailstorm destroys the chateau's orchards, gardens and fields an ambitious young Welshman, David Stronach, accepts the commission to plan the chateau's new gardens in the hope of making his name as a landscape designer. David and Viviane fall in love, but it is an impossible romance. Her father has betrothed her to a rich duke who she is forced to marry and David is hunted from the property. Viviane goes to court and becomes a maid-in-waiting to Marie-Antoinette and a member of the extended royal family. Angry and embittered, David sails away from England with Lord Macartney, the British ambassador, who hopes to open up trade with Imperial China. In Canton, the British embassy at last receives news from home, including their first reports of the French Revolution. David hears the story of 'The Blue Rose', a Chinese fable of impossible love, and discovers the blood-red rose growing in the wintry garden. He realises that he is still in love with Viviane and must find her. Viviane escapes the guillotine and returns to the ruin of Chateau de Belisima to rebuild her life. David carrying a cluster of rosehips finds her there, and together they decide to grow the fabled red rose of China in France.
Author: Maurice Baring
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780755100880
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Paul Binski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139500600
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 725
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Cambridge University Library's collection of illuminated manuscripts is of international significance. It originates in the medieval university and stands alongside the holdings of the colleges and the Fitzwilliam Museum. The University Library contains major European examples of medieval illumination from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries, with acknowledged masterpieces of Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance book art, as well as illuminated literary texts, including the first complete Chaucer manuscript. This catalogue provides scholars and researchers easy access to the University Library's illuminated manuscripts, evaluating the importance of many of them for the very first time. It contains descriptions of famous manuscripts, for example the Life of Edward the Confessor attributed to Matthew Paris, as well as hundreds of lesser-known items. Beautifully illustrated throughout, the catalogue contains descriptions of individual manuscripts with up-to-date assessments of their style, origins and importance, together with bibliographical references.
Author: Samir Al-Sheikh
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467885835
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 201
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The Blue Rose at Twilight is a mongraph to explore the Arabic Verse in its modern trends.It intends to invetigate the modern poetic experiences as represented by five major poets: Nizar Kabbani( Syria), Unsi al-Haj ( Lebanon), Yasin T. Hafiz ( Iraq), Mahmoud Darwish ( palestine), and Ali J. al- Allaq ( Iraq). Being a universal phenomenon, the poetic image in these experiments is approached by the so-called Aesthetic-cultural Approach, a crtical means that links the cultural patterns of meaning to the aesthetic structure of the poem.
Author: Samuel Bowne Parsons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flowers in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Author: Anthony Eglin
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
ISBN: 1662940858
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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From a childhood growing up dodging doodlebugs and bombs in wartime Britain, to an award-winning career in advertising and marketing (more madcap than Mad Men), to a panoply of fascinating passions and pursuits, Anthony Eglin’s continent-spanning story is a heart-warming romp through the second half of the twentieth century and a captivating portrait of a life well lived.
Author: Walter van de Leur
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195124480
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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The first full study of Billy Strayhorn's music offers a revealing reassessment of his 30-year collaboration with Duke Ellington. 11 halftones. 69 line illustrations.
Author: C. W. Dutschke
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520333837
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
Author: Robert Hoe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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