Author: Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312426927
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Claude Reynaud is an old-fashioned tailor, designing his famous gowns by hand in a cluttered studio well outside Paris. But one spring afternoon a woman arrives in search of a wedding dress and shatters all his composure: Valentine de Verlay is charming, beautiful, sophisticated, and, of course, engaged. Though he has long since given up on romance in favor of his work, Claude is instantly smitten. As Valentine's wedding approaches, Claude finds it impossible to keep a safe distance, and everything he's come to rely on in his small, focused life looks ready to collapse. Worse still, it appears that Valentine may share his feelings. The Dressmaker is a perfect gem of a novel, an enchanting portrait of another world, and, above all, a sly and irresistible love story.
The Dressmaker
Author: Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312426927
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Claude Reynaud is an old-fashioned tailor, designing his famous gowns by hand in a cluttered studio well outside Paris. But one spring afternoon a woman arrives in search of a wedding dress and shatters all his composure: Valentine de Verlay is charming, beautiful, sophisticated, and, of course, engaged. Though he has long since given up on romance in favor of his work, Claude is instantly smitten. As Valentine's wedding approaches, Claude finds it impossible to keep a safe distance, and everything he's come to rely on in his small, focused life looks ready to collapse. Worse still, it appears that Valentine may share his feelings. The Dressmaker is a perfect gem of a novel, an enchanting portrait of another world, and, above all, a sly and irresistible love story.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312426927
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Claude Reynaud is an old-fashioned tailor, designing his famous gowns by hand in a cluttered studio well outside Paris. But one spring afternoon a woman arrives in search of a wedding dress and shatters all his composure: Valentine de Verlay is charming, beautiful, sophisticated, and, of course, engaged. Though he has long since given up on romance in favor of his work, Claude is instantly smitten. As Valentine's wedding approaches, Claude finds it impossible to keep a safe distance, and everything he's come to rely on in his small, focused life looks ready to collapse. Worse still, it appears that Valentine may share his feelings. The Dressmaker is a perfect gem of a novel, an enchanting portrait of another world, and, above all, a sly and irresistible love story.
The Dressmaker
Author: Kate Alcott
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307948196
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks she’s had an incredibly lucky break when she is hired by famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon to be her personal maid on the Titanic. Once on board, Tess catches the eye of two men—a kind sailor and an enigmatic Chicago businessman—who offer differing views of what lies ahead for her in America. But on the fourth night, disaster strikes, and amidst the chaos, Tess is one of the last people allowed on a lifeboat. The survivors are rescued and taken to New York, but when rumors begin to circulate about the choices they made, Tess is forced to confront a serious question. Did Lady Duff Gordon save herself at the expense of others? Torn between loyalty to Lucile and her growing suspicion that the media’s charges might be true, Tess must decide whether to stay quiet and keep her fiery mentor’s good will or face what might be true and forever change her future.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307948196
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks she’s had an incredibly lucky break when she is hired by famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon to be her personal maid on the Titanic. Once on board, Tess catches the eye of two men—a kind sailor and an enigmatic Chicago businessman—who offer differing views of what lies ahead for her in America. But on the fourth night, disaster strikes, and amidst the chaos, Tess is one of the last people allowed on a lifeboat. The survivors are rescued and taken to New York, but when rumors begin to circulate about the choices they made, Tess is forced to confront a serious question. Did Lady Duff Gordon save herself at the expense of others? Torn between loyalty to Lucile and her growing suspicion that the media’s charges might be true, Tess must decide whether to stay quiet and keep her fiery mentor’s good will or face what might be true and forever change her future.
A Studio on Bleecker Street
Author: Joseph P. Garland
Publisher: Dermody House LLC
ISBN: 1735592366
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Clara Bowman is like most society women recently turned 18 in New York in the early days of the Gilded Age. Until the man everyone expects her to marry dies in a train accident in Queens n May 1872. Her ordered life turns to shambles until she discovers an artist painting roses in a corner of London's Regent's Park and who ignites in Clara a passion to recover through sketches and portraits and landscapes, freed of the expectations of others and freed to be herself.It will take time, work, and disappointments and obstacles for Miss Clara Bowman. This is the story about her breaking free from her family's and society's expectations. It is not an easy journey, though she eventually obtains her family's support, and she encounters real and emotional pain again and again, but this story, set in the early days of the Gilded Age, is about a woman's fulfillment.This novel is related to, but is not a sequel to, Róisín Campbell, published in 2020. Many characters in that book appear here and some of their stories after the end of that book are revealed here. This is, however, a separate story. That of Clara Bowman.
Publisher: Dermody House LLC
ISBN: 1735592366
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Clara Bowman is like most society women recently turned 18 in New York in the early days of the Gilded Age. Until the man everyone expects her to marry dies in a train accident in Queens n May 1872. Her ordered life turns to shambles until she discovers an artist painting roses in a corner of London's Regent's Park and who ignites in Clara a passion to recover through sketches and portraits and landscapes, freed of the expectations of others and freed to be herself.It will take time, work, and disappointments and obstacles for Miss Clara Bowman. This is the story about her breaking free from her family's and society's expectations. It is not an easy journey, though she eventually obtains her family's support, and she encounters real and emotional pain again and again, but this story, set in the early days of the Gilded Age, is about a woman's fulfillment.This novel is related to, but is not a sequel to, Róisín Campbell, published in 2020. Many characters in that book appear here and some of their stories after the end of that book are revealed here. This is, however, a separate story. That of Clara Bowman.
The New York Mirror
Author: Theodore Sedgwick Fay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Snapshots
Author: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810113282
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Alain Robbe-Grillet has long been regarded as the chief spokesman for the controversial nouveau roman. This collection of brilliant short pieces introduces the reader to those techniques employed by Robbe-Grillet in his longer works. These intriguing, gemlike stories represent Robbe-Grillet's most accessible fiction.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810113282
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Alain Robbe-Grillet has long been regarded as the chief spokesman for the controversial nouveau roman. This collection of brilliant short pieces introduces the reader to those techniques employed by Robbe-Grillet in his longer works. These intriguing, gemlike stories represent Robbe-Grillet's most accessible fiction.
The Cinema of Eric Rohmer
Author: Jacob Leigh
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441198318
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Presents in chronological order the themes and ideas of his twenty-three feature films, and the complexity of their cinematic style.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441198318
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Presents in chronological order the themes and ideas of his twenty-three feature films, and the complexity of their cinematic style.
They Do It With Mirrors
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061753874
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
In Agatha Christie’s They Do It with Mirrors, the indomitable Miss Marple investigates some rather deadly doings at a rehabilitation center for delinquents. Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in Stoneygates, a rehabilitation center for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when someone shoots at the administrator. Although he is not injured, a mysterious visitor is less fortunate—shot dead simultaneously in another part of the building. Pure coincidence? Miss Marple thinks not, and must use all her cunning to solve the riddle of the stranger’s visit … and his murder.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061753874
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
In Agatha Christie’s They Do It with Mirrors, the indomitable Miss Marple investigates some rather deadly doings at a rehabilitation center for delinquents. Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in Stoneygates, a rehabilitation center for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when someone shoots at the administrator. Although he is not injured, a mysterious visitor is less fortunate—shot dead simultaneously in another part of the building. Pure coincidence? Miss Marple thinks not, and must use all her cunning to solve the riddle of the stranger’s visit … and his murder.
Demorest's Monthly Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dressmaking
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dressmaking
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
Author: Lucy Adlington
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063030942
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp—mainly Jewish women and girls—were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers. This fashion workshop—called the Upper Tailoring Studio—was established by Hedwig Höss, the camp commandant’s wife, and patronized by the wives of SS guards and officers. Here, the dressmakers produced high-quality garments for SS social functions in Auschwitz, and for ladies from Nazi Berlin’s upper crust. Drawing on diverse sources—including interviews with the last surviving seamstress—The Dressmakers of Auschwitz follows the fates of these brave women. Their bonds of family and friendship not only helped them endure persecution, but also to play their part in camp resistance. Weaving the dressmakers’ remarkable experiences within the context of Nazi policies for plunder and exploitation, historian Lucy Adlington exposes the greed, cruelty, and hypocrisy of the Third Reich and offers a fresh look at a little-known chapter of World War II and the Holocaust.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063030942
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp—mainly Jewish women and girls—were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers. This fashion workshop—called the Upper Tailoring Studio—was established by Hedwig Höss, the camp commandant’s wife, and patronized by the wives of SS guards and officers. Here, the dressmakers produced high-quality garments for SS social functions in Auschwitz, and for ladies from Nazi Berlin’s upper crust. Drawing on diverse sources—including interviews with the last surviving seamstress—The Dressmakers of Auschwitz follows the fates of these brave women. Their bonds of family and friendship not only helped them endure persecution, but also to play their part in camp resistance. Weaving the dressmakers’ remarkable experiences within the context of Nazi policies for plunder and exploitation, historian Lucy Adlington exposes the greed, cruelty, and hypocrisy of the Third Reich and offers a fresh look at a little-known chapter of World War II and the Holocaust.
The Dressmaker
Author: Butterick Publishing Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dressmaking
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dressmaking
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description