Author: Diana Waggoner
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
A study and bibliography of modern fantasy novels and stories, concentrating on books that have taken on somewhat classic proportions, but examining others as well. Chapter one defines fantasy as a type of modern literature, establishing certain set subgenres, using terminology derived from J.R.R. Tolkien's "On Fairy-Stories" and Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism. Chapter two is a historical overview of fantasy from George MacDonald and William Morris to the present. The bibliographical guide consists of approximately one thousand annotated entries, evaluating the works and placing them in their appropriate subgenres ... Four appendices list fantasies by subgenre, by year of appearance, and by awards given to them. There is also a discussion, with examples, of the current state of fantasy illustration.
The Hills of Faraway
Author: Diana Waggoner
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
A study and bibliography of modern fantasy novels and stories, concentrating on books that have taken on somewhat classic proportions, but examining others as well. Chapter one defines fantasy as a type of modern literature, establishing certain set subgenres, using terminology derived from J.R.R. Tolkien's "On Fairy-Stories" and Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism. Chapter two is a historical overview of fantasy from George MacDonald and William Morris to the present. The bibliographical guide consists of approximately one thousand annotated entries, evaluating the works and placing them in their appropriate subgenres ... Four appendices list fantasies by subgenre, by year of appearance, and by awards given to them. There is also a discussion, with examples, of the current state of fantasy illustration.
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
A study and bibliography of modern fantasy novels and stories, concentrating on books that have taken on somewhat classic proportions, but examining others as well. Chapter one defines fantasy as a type of modern literature, establishing certain set subgenres, using terminology derived from J.R.R. Tolkien's "On Fairy-Stories" and Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism. Chapter two is a historical overview of fantasy from George MacDonald and William Morris to the present. The bibliographical guide consists of approximately one thousand annotated entries, evaluating the works and placing them in their appropriate subgenres ... Four appendices list fantasies by subgenre, by year of appearance, and by awards given to them. There is also a discussion, with examples, of the current state of fantasy illustration.
Far Away Hills
Author: Jean Debney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781909477421
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
In the waning age of the nineteenth century, Sal McBride has been separate from her pioneering husband for years. But the time has finally come for her to escape the poverty stricken hovels of Glasgow and rejoin her lover in the vast wilderness of the Canadian prairies. The physical and emotional journey will be a tortuous one. Strong and determined, yet fully alone on the brink of her greatest task ever attempted, Sal will come face to face with the ultimate cruelties of life as her quest exacts its harsh and thankless tolls. Based on the author's own ancestral history, Far Away Hills traces the ups and downs of a young, fragile family struggling to make their way through an unforgiving world. Though the pioneer story has long been thought to be the province of men, Jean Debney's tale of courage, grit, and resolve will prove once again that history's women are far more complex and powerful than records have ever shown.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781909477421
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
In the waning age of the nineteenth century, Sal McBride has been separate from her pioneering husband for years. But the time has finally come for her to escape the poverty stricken hovels of Glasgow and rejoin her lover in the vast wilderness of the Canadian prairies. The physical and emotional journey will be a tortuous one. Strong and determined, yet fully alone on the brink of her greatest task ever attempted, Sal will come face to face with the ultimate cruelties of life as her quest exacts its harsh and thankless tolls. Based on the author's own ancestral history, Far Away Hills traces the ups and downs of a young, fragile family struggling to make their way through an unforgiving world. Though the pioneer story has long been thought to be the province of men, Jean Debney's tale of courage, grit, and resolve will prove once again that history's women are far more complex and powerful than records have ever shown.
Over the Hills & Far Away
Author: Chris Conover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 9780374380434
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A skillful piper makes people happy as he goes about playing music that lightens their burdens and makes them want to dance.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 9780374380434
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A skillful piper makes people happy as he goes about playing music that lightens their burdens and makes them want to dance.
Over the Hills and Far Away
Author: Elizabeth Hammill
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0763677299
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A spectacular treasury of 150 classic nursery rhymes and new discoveries, featuring a star-studded roster of seventy-seven illustrators. Nursery rhymes have entertained and comforted children for centuries. Over the Hills and Far Away is a unique collection of rhymes and verse from across the globe—rhymes from the English-speaking world as well as verse that entered English from Chinese, Latino, African, and other cultures. With illustrations from seventy-seven artists, many celebrated throughout the world, and some just emerging, this volume is truly an adventure in language, image, and imagination. A magnificent gift for little ones hearing these verses for the first time as well as a wonderful book for family sharing across generations.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0763677299
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A spectacular treasury of 150 classic nursery rhymes and new discoveries, featuring a star-studded roster of seventy-seven illustrators. Nursery rhymes have entertained and comforted children for centuries. Over the Hills and Far Away is a unique collection of rhymes and verse from across the globe—rhymes from the English-speaking world as well as verse that entered English from Chinese, Latino, African, and other cultures. With illustrations from seventy-seven artists, many celebrated throughout the world, and some just emerging, this volume is truly an adventure in language, image, and imagination. A magnificent gift for little ones hearing these verses for the first time as well as a wonderful book for family sharing across generations.
Over the Hills and Far Away
Author: Els Boekelaar
Publisher: Floris Books - Floris Books
ISBN: 9780863157301
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A revised color edition of a collection of forty stories from around Europe about gnomes, dwarfs, leprechauns and fairies.
Publisher: Floris Books - Floris Books
ISBN: 9780863157301
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A revised color edition of a collection of forty stories from around Europe about gnomes, dwarfs, leprechauns and fairies.
Over the Hills and Far Away
Author: Matthew Dennison
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1784975621
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of Beatrix Potter's remarkable and unexpected life. Inspired by the twenty-three 'tales', Matthew Dennison takes a selection of quotations from Potter's stories and uses them to explore her multi-faceted life and character: repressed Victorian daughter; thwarted lover; artistic genius; formidable countrywoman. They chart her transformation from a young girl with a love of animals and fairy tales into a bestselling author and canny businesswoman, so deeply unusual for the Victorian era in which she grew up. Embellished with photographs of Potter's life and her own illustrations, this short biography will delight anyone who has been touched by Beatrix Potter's work.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1784975621
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of Beatrix Potter's remarkable and unexpected life. Inspired by the twenty-three 'tales', Matthew Dennison takes a selection of quotations from Potter's stories and uses them to explore her multi-faceted life and character: repressed Victorian daughter; thwarted lover; artistic genius; formidable countrywoman. They chart her transformation from a young girl with a love of animals and fairy tales into a bestselling author and canny businesswoman, so deeply unusual for the Victorian era in which she grew up. Embellished with photographs of Potter's life and her own illustrations, this short biography will delight anyone who has been touched by Beatrix Potter's work.
A Faraway Island
Author: Annika Thor
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0375844953
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Two Jewish sister leave Austria during WWII/Holocaust and find refuge in Sweden. It's the summer of 1939. Two Jewish sisters from Vienna—12-year-old Stephie Steiner and seven-year-old Nellie—are sent to Sweden to escape the Nazis. They expect to stay there six months, until their parents can flee to Amsterdam; then all four will go to America. But as the world war intensifies, the girls remain, each with her own host family, on a rugged island off the western coast of Sweden. Nellie quickly settles in to her new surroundings. Not so for Stephie, who finds it hard to adapt; she feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who's as unforgiving as the island itself. It's no wonder Stephie doesn't let on that the most popular girl at school becomes her bitter enemy, or that she endures the wounding slights of certain villagers. Her main worry, though, is her parents—and whether she will ever see them again.
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0375844953
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Two Jewish sister leave Austria during WWII/Holocaust and find refuge in Sweden. It's the summer of 1939. Two Jewish sisters from Vienna—12-year-old Stephie Steiner and seven-year-old Nellie—are sent to Sweden to escape the Nazis. They expect to stay there six months, until their parents can flee to Amsterdam; then all four will go to America. But as the world war intensifies, the girls remain, each with her own host family, on a rugged island off the western coast of Sweden. Nellie quickly settles in to her new surroundings. Not so for Stephie, who finds it hard to adapt; she feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who's as unforgiving as the island itself. It's no wonder Stephie doesn't let on that the most popular girl at school becomes her bitter enemy, or that she endures the wounding slights of certain villagers. Her main worry, though, is her parents—and whether she will ever see them again.
Running for the Hills
Author: Horatio Clare
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743274288
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Part memoir, part adventure story, and part study of the natural world, this is an evocative and vividly written memoir of a childhood on a remote sheep farm in Wales.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743274288
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Part memoir, part adventure story, and part study of the natural world, this is an evocative and vividly written memoir of a childhood on a remote sheep farm in Wales.
Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby
Author: Craig Varjabedian
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Varjabedian illuminates the dramatic cliffs and plains of Ghost Ranch, once the home of Georgia O'Keeffe.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Varjabedian illuminates the dramatic cliffs and plains of Ghost Ranch, once the home of Georgia O'Keeffe.
Viva Jacquelina!
Author: Louis A. Meyer
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547763506
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Still yearning to be reunited with her beloved Jaimy, Jacky Faber continues to collect intelligence for the Crown as she leads guerrilla attacks against Napoleon's forces, poses for the artist Francisco Goya, is kidnapped by the Spanish Inquisition, and travels with a gypsy caravan.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547763506
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Still yearning to be reunited with her beloved Jaimy, Jacky Faber continues to collect intelligence for the Crown as she leads guerrilla attacks against Napoleon's forces, poses for the artist Francisco Goya, is kidnapped by the Spanish Inquisition, and travels with a gypsy caravan.