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Author : Janice Peterson
Release : 2018-11-06
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 456/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Becoming Gertrude by : Janice Peterson
Download or read book Becoming Gertrude written by Janice Peterson. This book was released on 2018-11-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A NavPress resource published in alliance with Tyndale House Publishers, Inc."
Author : Linda J. Dusman
Release : 1988
Genre : Choral recitations
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Becoming Becoming Gertrude by : Linda J. Dusman
Download or read book Becoming Becoming Gertrude written by Linda J. Dusman. This book was released on 1988. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonah Winter
Release : 2009-02-10
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 883/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude by : Jonah Winter
Download or read book Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude written by Jonah Winter. This book was released on 2009-02-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude. And Alice is Alice. And Gertrude and Alice are Gertrude and Alice. And you are welcome to join them for tea. But beware, for there you will find a bear in a chair, just barely scary. And here is a beard with a man attached to it. And then, of course, some words might appear, uninvited, but delighted in spite of their light bulbs. But, but, but, but—that doesn't make any sense! Yes! In a story inspired by the oh-so-modern groundbreaking writing of Gertrude herself, not a lot makes sense. Even so, the oh-so-popular author Jonah Winter, and the ever-so-popular illustrator Calef Brown, and the most popular poodle of all time, Basket, invite you to enter the whimsical world of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.
Author : Georgina Howell
Release : 2010-04-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 018/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gertrude Bell by : Georgina Howell
Download or read book Gertrude Bell written by Georgina Howell. This book was released on 2010-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical import She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind the creation of modern-day Iraq. Born in 1868 into a world of privilege, Bell turned her back on Victorian society, choosing to read history at Oxford and going on to become an archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author (of Persian Pictures, The Desert and the Sown, and many other collections), poet, photographer, and legendary mountaineer (she took off her skirt and climbed the Alps in her underclothes). She traveled the globe several times, but her passion was the desert, where she traveled with only her guns and her servants. Her vast knowledge of the region made her indispensable to the Cairo Intelligence Office of the British government during World War I. She advised the Viceroy of India; then, as an army major, she traveled to the front lines in Mesopotamia. There, she supported the creation of an autonomous Arab nation for Iraq, promoting and manipulating the election of King Faisal to the throne and helping to draw the borders of the fledgling state. Gertrude Bell, vividly told and impeccably researched by Georgina Howell, is a richly compelling portrait of a woman who transcended the restrictions of her class and times, and in so doing, created a remarkable and enduring legacy. " ... there’s never a dull moment in the peerless life of this trailblazing character." - Kirkus Reviews
Author : Vincent Giroud
Release : 2006
Genre : Art, French
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Book Rating : 104/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Picasso and Gertrude Stein by : Vincent Giroud
Download or read book Picasso and Gertrude Stein written by Vincent Giroud. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Portrait of Gertrude Stein was the first major work by Pablo Picasso to enter The Metropolitan Museum of Art, bequeathed by Stein herself in 1946. A century after it was painted, this portrait remains one of the most powerful images of early-20th-century modernism. What was to be a lifelong friendship was but a few months old in the spring of 1906, when Picasso began his portrait of Stein. He was 24 years old at the time and she was 32, and both of their careers were at a critical stage. This engaging book recounts the extraordinary circumstances that led to Stein's first posing session and argues that the portrait played a key role not only in Picasso's work as a painter but also in his subject's creative life, as he became, in turn, the subject of several of Stein's literary portraits.
