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Category : Carnations
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The Carnation Year Book
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carnations
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carnations
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
Author: Hugh Brewster
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781554531370
Category : Broadway (Worcestershire, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The story of a little girl who takes part in the creation of John Singer Sargent's well-loved painting.
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ISBN: 9781554531370
Category : Broadway (Worcestershire, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The story of a little girl who takes part in the creation of John Singer Sargent's well-loved painting.
The Book of the Carnation
Author: R. P. Brotherston
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Category : Carnations
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Publisher:
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Category : Carnations
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Carnation
Author: Twigs Way
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780236816
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
From wedding bouquets to funeral wreaths, carnations can be seen everywhere in human culture. Their colorful but delicately folded petals have made them one of the foremost decorative flowers, from the gardens of the Ottoman Empire to American Mothers Day bouquets, via Chinese medicines and French Empresses. In this book, Twigs Way explores the extraordinary history of this inimitable flower. The author traces the trials and tribulations of early breeders—compelled by florists’ fascinations for the striped and spotted—which led to delightfully colored (and delightfully named) varieties such as Lustie Gallant and Bleeding Swain. She looks at the symbolism of the red and white—and even green—carnations made famous by Oscar Wilde, and glides through many of the rooms in literature and history that we have filled with the carnation’s glorious scent. Travelling from Europe to China, Way explores how carnations have been used by herbalists the world over as a treatment for ailments to both mind and body, and she looks at the many paintings that have attempted to capture their unique complexities. Lavishly illustrated and full of unexpected delights, this book will—like the carnation itself—charm the mind and invigorate the senses.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780236816
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
From wedding bouquets to funeral wreaths, carnations can be seen everywhere in human culture. Their colorful but delicately folded petals have made them one of the foremost decorative flowers, from the gardens of the Ottoman Empire to American Mothers Day bouquets, via Chinese medicines and French Empresses. In this book, Twigs Way explores the extraordinary history of this inimitable flower. The author traces the trials and tribulations of early breeders—compelled by florists’ fascinations for the striped and spotted—which led to delightfully colored (and delightfully named) varieties such as Lustie Gallant and Bleeding Swain. She looks at the symbolism of the red and white—and even green—carnations made famous by Oscar Wilde, and glides through many of the rooms in literature and history that we have filled with the carnation’s glorious scent. Travelling from Europe to China, Way explores how carnations have been used by herbalists the world over as a treatment for ailments to both mind and body, and she looks at the many paintings that have attempted to capture their unique complexities. Lavishly illustrated and full of unexpected delights, this book will—like the carnation itself—charm the mind and invigorate the senses.
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
Author: Lauren Willig
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780451217424
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Nothing goes right for Eloise. The one day she wears her new suede boots, it rains cats and dogs. When the subway stops short, she’s always the one thrown into some stranger’s lap. Plus, she’s had more than her share of misfortune in the way of love. In fact, ever since she realized romantic heroes are a thing of the past, she’s decided it’s time for a fresh start. Setting off for England, Eloise is determined to finish her dissertation on that dashing pair of spies, the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian. But what she discovers is something the finest historians have missed: the secret history of the Pink Carnation—the most elusive spy of all time. As she works to unmask this obscure spy, Eloise stumbles across answers to all kinds of questions. Like how did the Pink Carnation save England from Napoleon? What became of the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian? And will Eloise Kelly escape her bad luck and find a living, breathing hero all her own?
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780451217424
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Nothing goes right for Eloise. The one day she wears her new suede boots, it rains cats and dogs. When the subway stops short, she’s always the one thrown into some stranger’s lap. Plus, she’s had more than her share of misfortune in the way of love. In fact, ever since she realized romantic heroes are a thing of the past, she’s decided it’s time for a fresh start. Setting off for England, Eloise is determined to finish her dissertation on that dashing pair of spies, the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian. But what she discovers is something the finest historians have missed: the secret history of the Pink Carnation—the most elusive spy of all time. As she works to unmask this obscure spy, Eloise stumbles across answers to all kinds of questions. Like how did the Pink Carnation save England from Napoleon? What became of the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian? And will Eloise Kelly escape her bad luck and find a living, breathing hero all her own?
The Green Carnation
Author: Robert Hichens
Publisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Carnation Yearbook
Author:
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Category : Carnations
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carnations
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Book of the Carnation
Author: R. Brotherston
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429014628
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
This 1904 volume by R. Brotherston and Martin Smith is a practical guide to the history, cultivation, and care of carnations.
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429014628
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
This 1904 volume by R. Brotherston and Martin Smith is a practical guide to the history, cultivation, and care of carnations.
The Temptation of the Night Jasmine
Author: Lauren Willig
Publisher: Allison & Busby
ISBN: 0749040254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
After twelve years in India, Robert, Duke of Dovedale, returns to his estates in England with a mission in mind: to infiltrate the infamous Hellfire club to unmask the man who murdered his mentor at the Battle of Assaye. Intent on revenge, Robert never anticipates that an even more difficult challenge awaits him, in the person of one Lady Charlotte Lansdowne.
Publisher: Allison & Busby
ISBN: 0749040254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
After twelve years in India, Robert, Duke of Dovedale, returns to his estates in England with a mission in mind: to infiltrate the infamous Hellfire club to unmask the man who murdered his mentor at the Battle of Assaye. Intent on revenge, Robert never anticipates that an even more difficult challenge awaits him, in the person of one Lady Charlotte Lansdowne.
The Garden Intrigue
Author: Lauren Willig
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451415604
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Lauren Willig's Pink Carnation novels have been called "fun [and] fresh" (Kirkus Reviews) and "clever and playful " (Detroit Free Press). Now she introduces readers to a mismatched pair who find passion in the most astonishing of places... Secret agent Augustus Whittlesby has spent a decade undercover in France, posing as an insufferably bad poet. The French surveillance officers can’t bear to read his work closely enough to recognize the information drowned in a sea of verbiage. New York-born Emma Morris Delagardie is a thorn in Augustus’s side. An old school friend of Napoleon’s stepdaughter, she came to France with her uncle, eloped with a Frenchman, and has been rattling around the salons of Paris ever since. Now widowed, she entertains herself by holding a weekly salon, and loudly critiquing Augustus’s poetry. As Napoleon pursues his plans for the invasion of England, Whittlesby hears of a top-secret device to be demonstrated at a house party. The catch? The only way in is with Emma, who has been asked to write a masque for the weekend’s entertainment. In this complicated masque within a masque, nothing goes quite as scripted—especially Augustus’s unexpected feelings for Emma.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451415604
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Lauren Willig's Pink Carnation novels have been called "fun [and] fresh" (Kirkus Reviews) and "clever and playful " (Detroit Free Press). Now she introduces readers to a mismatched pair who find passion in the most astonishing of places... Secret agent Augustus Whittlesby has spent a decade undercover in France, posing as an insufferably bad poet. The French surveillance officers can’t bear to read his work closely enough to recognize the information drowned in a sea of verbiage. New York-born Emma Morris Delagardie is a thorn in Augustus’s side. An old school friend of Napoleon’s stepdaughter, she came to France with her uncle, eloped with a Frenchman, and has been rattling around the salons of Paris ever since. Now widowed, she entertains herself by holding a weekly salon, and loudly critiquing Augustus’s poetry. As Napoleon pursues his plans for the invasion of England, Whittlesby hears of a top-secret device to be demonstrated at a house party. The catch? The only way in is with Emma, who has been asked to write a masque for the weekend’s entertainment. In this complicated masque within a masque, nothing goes quite as scripted—especially Augustus’s unexpected feelings for Emma.