Hortense and the Shadow

2017-11-07 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Natalia O'Hara
Release : 2017-11-07
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 817/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Hortense and the Shadow by : Natalia O'Hara

Download or read book Hortense and the Shadow written by Natalia O'Hara. This book was released on 2017-11-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting, original fairy tale from two dazzling debut picture book talents, in the spirit of Neil Gaiman and Carson Ellis. Hortense is a kind and brave girl, but she is sad--even angry--that her shadow follows her everywhere she goes. She hates her shadow, and thinks her shadow must hate her too. But one cold, dark night, when bandits surprise her in the woods, Hortense discovers that her shadow is the very thing she needs most. This stunningly illustrated story stirs the soul with its compelling, subtle exploration of self-esteem, self-identity, and finding inner strength.

Frindleswylde

2022-11-08 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Natalia O'Hara
Release : 2022-11-08
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 096/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Frindleswylde written by Natalia O'Hara. This book was released on 2022-11-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the mysterious boy Frindleswylde enters Cora and Granny's house in the woods, he steals the light from their lantern. Without it, Granny will not be able to return home from work in the dark. Cora is determined to get the light back, but first she must follow Frindleswylde down a hole in the pond that leads to his magical frozen kingdom...

Love’s Shadow

2021-01-12 Literary Criticism

Author : Paul A. Bové
Release : 2021-01-12
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 157/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Love’s Shadow written by Paul A. Bové. This book was released on 2021-01-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A case for literary critics and other humanists to stop wallowing in their aestheticized helplessness and instead turn to poetry, comedy, and love. Literary criticism is an agent of despair, and its poster child is Walter Benjamin. Critics have spent decades stewing in his melancholy. What if instead we dared to love poetry? To choose comedy over Hamlet’s tragedy, romance over Benjamin’s suicide on the edge of France, of Europe, of civilization? Paul Bové challenges young lit critters to throw away their shades and let the sun shine in. Love’s Shadow is his three-step manifesto for a new literary criticism that risks sentimentality and melodrama and eschews self-consciousness. The first step is to choose poetry. There has been since the time of Plato a battle between philosophy and poetry. Philosophy has championed misogyny, while poetry has championed women, like Shakespeare’s Rosalind. Philosophy is ever so stringent; try instead the sober cheerfulness of Wallace Stevens. Bové’s second step is to choose the essay. He praises Benjamin’s great friend and sometime antagonist Theodor Adorno, who gloried in the writing of essays, not dissertations and treatises. The third step is to choose love. If you want a Baroque hero, make it Rembrandt, who brought lovers to life in his paintings. Putting aside passivity and cynicism would amount to a revolution in literary studies. Bové seeks nothing less, and he has a program for achieving it.

Hidden in the Shadow of the Master

2008-10-01 Art

Author : Ruth Butler
Release : 2008-10-01
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 530/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Hidden in the Shadow of the Master written by Ruth Butler. This book was released on 2008-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Czanne, Claude Monet, and Auguste Rodin. The names of these brilliant nineteenth-century artists are known throughout the world. But what is remembered of their wives? What were these unknown women like? What roles did they play in the lives and the art of their famous husbands? In this remarkable book of discovery, art historian Ruth Butler coaxes three shadowy women out of obscurity and introduces them for the first time as individuals. Through unprecedented research, Butler has been able to create portraits of Hortense Fiquet, Camille Doncieux, and Rose Beuretthe models, and later the wives, respectively, of Czanne, Monet, and Rodin, three of the most famous French artists of their generation. The book tells the stories of three ordinary women who faced issues of a dramatically changing society as well as the challenges of life with a striving genius. Butler illuminates the ways in which these model-wives figured in their husbands achievements and provides new analyses of familiar works of art. Filled with captivating detail, the book recovers the lives of Hortense, Camille, and Rose, and recognizes with new insight how their unique relationships enriched the quality of their husbands artistic endeavors."

The Bandit Queen

2019-10-29 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Natalia O'Hara
Release : 2019-10-29
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 032/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Bandit Queen written by Natalia O'Hara. This book was released on 2019-10-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "O Bandit Queen!" the bandits cried. "Little horror! Poison weed! We'll give you everything a queen could ever need..." The bandits give their queen treasure, tigers, mischief and mayhem. But sometimes a little girl needs something more... A beautiful book about finding family in unexpected places, from the creators of Hortense and the Shadow.

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