The Man from the Land of Fandango

The Man from the Land of Fandango PDF Author: Margaret Mahy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780547819884
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Illustrations and rhyming text introduce a dancing, juggling, bouncing man who appears once every five hundred years.

The Man from the Land of Fandango

The Man from the Land of Fandango PDF Author: Margaret Mahy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780547819884
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Illustrations and rhyming text introduce a dancing, juggling, bouncing man who appears once every five hundred years.

Fandango and Other Stories

Fandango and Other Stories PDF Author: Bryan Karetnyk
Publisher: Russian Library
ISBN: 9780231189767
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Book Description
Fandango and Other Stories presents a selection of essential short fiction by Alexander Grin, Russia's counterpart to Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Alexandre Dumas. Grin's ingenious plots explore conflicts of the individual and society in a romantic world populated by a cast of eccentric, cosmopolitan characters.

Prince of Darkness

Prince of Darkness PDF Author: Shane White
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466880716
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Book Description
“A well-told, stereotype-busting tale about a nineteenth century black financier who dared to be larger than life, and got away with it!” —Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, New York Times–bestselling author In the middle decades of the nineteenth century Jeremiah G. Hamilton was a well-known figure on Wall Street. Cornelius Vanderbilt, America’s first tycoon, came to respect, grudgingly, his one-time opponent. Their rivalry even made it into Vanderbilt’s obituary. What Vanderbilt’s obituary failed to mention, perhaps as contemporaries already knew it well, was that Hamilton was African American. Hamilton, although his origins were lowly, possibly slave, was reportedly the richest black man in the United States, possessing a fortune of $2 million, or in excess of two hundred and $50 million in today’s currency. In Prince of Darkness, a groundbreaking and vivid account, eminent historian Shane White reveals the larger than life story of a man who defied every convention of his time. He wheeled and dealed in the lily-white business world, he married a white woman, he bought a mansion in rural New Jersey, he owned railroad stock on trains he was not legally allowed to ride, and generally set his white contemporaries teeth on edge when he wasn’t just plain outsmarting them. An important contribution to American history, Hamilton’s life offers a way into considering, from the unusual perspective of a black man, subjects that are usually seen as being quintessentially white, totally segregated from the African American past. “If this Hamilton were around today, he might have his own reality TV show or be a candidate for president . . . An interesting look at old New York, race relations, and high finance.” —New York Post

Down the Back of the Chair

Down the Back of the Chair PDF Author: Margaret Mahy
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 0711253986
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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Book Description
New edition of a classic tale from one of the 20th century's bestselling children's authors.

The Sound of Nonsense

The Sound of Nonsense PDF Author: Richard Elliott
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501324551
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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Book Description
In The Sound of Nonsense, Richard Elliott highlights the importance of sound in understanding the 'nonsense' of writers such as Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, James Joyce and Mervyn Peake, before connecting this noisy writing to works which engage more directly with sound, including sound poetry, experimental music and pop. By emphasising sonic factors, Elliott makes new and fascinating connections between a wide range of artistic examples to ultimately build a case for the importance of sound in creating, maintaining and disrupting meaning.

The Global Reach of the Fandango in Music, Song and Dance

The Global Reach of the Fandango in Music, Song and Dance PDF Author: K. Meira Goldberg
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443870617
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 735

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Book Description
The fandango, emerging in the early-eighteenth century Black Atlantic as a dance and music craze across Spain and the Americas, came to comprise genres as diverse as Mexican son jarocho, the salon and concert fandangos of Mozart and Scarlatti, and the Andalusian fandangos central to flamenco. From the celebrations of humble folk to the theaters of the European elite, with boisterous castanets, strumming strings, flirtatious sensuality, and dexterous footwork, the fandango became a conduit for the syncretism of music, dance, and people of diverse Spanish, Afro-Latin, Gitano, and even Amerindian origins. Once a symbol of Spanish Empire, it came to signify freedom of movement and of expression, given powerful new voice in the twenty-first century by Mexican immigrant communities. What is the full array of the fandango? The superb essays gathered in this collection lay the foundational stone for further exploration.

My First Oxford Book of Nonsense Poems

My First Oxford Book of Nonsense Poems PDF Author: John Foster
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192762757
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Book Description
A vibrant and varied selection of some of the finest nonsense verse ever written, this treasury includes many of the childhood classics by such poets as Edward Lear, Spike Milligan, and Lewis Carroll. Full color.

Boom Baby Boom Boom

Boom Baby Boom Boom PDF Author: Margaret Mahy
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 0711254001
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Book Description
Good Baby gets a banana for pudding and, this time, he eats it all up. Boom-biddy-boom-biddy-yum-yum-yum!

Nonstop Nonsense

Nonstop Nonsense PDF Author: Margaret Mahy
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 9781510100664
Category : Children's poetry, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
A joyful jumble of poems, songs and stories. The full colour gift edition of this wonderfully witty and delightfully silly collection of stories and rhyming nonsense from all-star author and artist team, Margaret Mahy and Quentin Blake. Poems, prose and rhymes from bestselling author Margaret Mahy, and beautifully illustrated by inaugural Children's Laureate, Quentin Blake, this edition of NONSTOP NONSENSE is a perfect gift that children and adults will enjoy again and again. Published in colour for the first time.

Mister Whistler

Mister Whistler PDF Author: Margaret Mahy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781877467912
Category : Absent-mindedness
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Mr. Whistler, an absent-minded man, loses his train ticket and earns money when people mistake his searching for dancing.