The Juniper Tree

2018-01-23 Fiction

Author : Barbara Comyns
Release : 2018-01-23
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 324/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Juniper Tree written by Barbara Comyns. This book was released on 2018-01-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A feminist reimagining of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale about a single mother and an enchanted friendship—from one of most bewitching British writers of the 20th century. “Comyns’s world is weird and wonderful . . . Tragic , comic and completely bonkers all in one, I’d go as far as to call her something of a neglected genius.” —The Observer Bella Winter has hit a low. Homeless and jobless, she is the mother of a toddler by a man whose name she didn’t quite catch, and her once pretty face is disfigured by the scar she acquired in a car accident. Friendless and without family, she’s recently disentangled herself from a selfish and indifferent boyfriend and a cruel and indifferent mother. But she shares a quality common to Barbara Comyns’s other heroines: a bracingly unsentimental ability to carry on. Before too long, Bella has found not only a job but a vocation; not only a place to live but a home and a makeshift family. As Comyns’s novel progresses, the story echoes and inverts the Brothers Grimm’s macabre tale The Juniper Tree. Will Bella’s hard-won restoration to life and love come at the cost of the happiness of others?

Under the Juniper Tree

2005-12 Religion

Author : F. Sawyer
Release : 2005-12
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 651/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Under the Juniper Tree written by F. Sawyer. This book was released on 2005-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Juniper Tree

2003-10-15 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Jacob Grimm
Release : 2003-10-15
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 715/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Juniper Tree written by Jacob Grimm. This book was released on 2003-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in Print! Originally published as a two-volume set forty years ago, The Juniper Tree is distinguished first by the selection of stories. Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak jointly culled 27 from the 210 in the complete collection, and their contents page presents a fascinating critical statement. The translations are another distinguishing quality of the Segal/Sendak edition. Both translators have been painstakingly faithful to the German texts; they have not cut, “retold,” or bowdlerized. In addition, Segal and Jarrell bring to their renderings of Grimm the grace and precision that are characteristic of their own original prose. · One of the most acclaimed Grimm collections published in English, available again · An elegant, must-have edition for every home library · New lower-price of $19.99, formerly $28.00 · Includes standards such as “Hansel and Gretel,” “The Fisherman and His Wife,” and “The Frog King” as well as lesser-known masterpieces such as the title story and “The Goblins” · Each story contains a full-page picture by Maurice Sendak · Four stories translated by Jarrell, the rest by Segal

The Juniper Tree and Other Tales

2011-11-15 Fiction

Author : Brothers Grimm
Release : 2011-11-15
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 96X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Juniper Tree and Other Tales written by Brothers Grimm. This book was released on 2011-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The folk tales collected by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were first published in 1812–15, and in many more editions up to the deaths of the brothers around 1860. While no one knows where the tales first came from; features of many are found in myths from all over the world. They were passed on for centuries in the oral tradition, until at last collectors began recording them in print for the world of today, where we still respond to them. This volume contains a small but representative selection from the Grimms’ Children’s and Household Tales, the most famous and influential of all the great nineteenth-century folklore collections.

Juniper Tree Burning

2002-07-02 Fiction

Author : Goldberry Long
Release : 2002-07-02
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 112/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Juniper Tree Burning written by Goldberry Long. This book was released on 2002-07-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juniper Tree Burning is a dazzling meditation on legacy and legend, rebellion and renewal. When Jennie Braverman, formerly known as Juniper Tree Burning, gets news of her brother Sunny Boy Blue's suicide, she flees her new husband and embarks upon a mad dash across the American West toward the site of Sunny's death. Forced to confront the past, Jennie must face the shame of the childhood name she has been so happy to shed. Only after she weaves her way through a tapestry of family sorrows -- poverty, a spider-infested adobe house, and the legacy of her hippie parents -- will Jennie be able to take on her greatest challenge: accepting love.

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