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Enchanted Islands

2017-04-18 Fiction
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Release : 2017-04-18
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Book Synopsis Enchanted Islands by : Allison Amend

Download or read book Enchanted Islands written by Allison Amend. This book was released on 2017-04-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born to immigrant parents in Minnesota just before the turn of the century, Frances Frankowski grew up coveting the life of her best friend, Rosalie Mendel. And yet, decades later, when the women reconnect in San Francisco, their lives have diverged. Rosalie is a housewife and mother, while Frances works for the Office of Naval Intelligence and has just been given a top-secret assignment: marry handsome spy Ainslie Conway and move to the Galápagos Islands to investigate the Germans living there in the build-up to World War II. Amid active volcanoes, forbidding wildlife and flora, and unfriendly neighbors, Ainslie and Frances carve out a life for themselves. But the secrets they harbor—from their friends, from their enemies, and even from each other—may be their undoing.

Enchanted Islands

2018-08-16 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2018-08-16
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Enchanted Islands by : Mary D. Sheriff

Download or read book Enchanted Islands written by Mary D. Sheriff. This book was released on 2018-08-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Enchanted Islands, renowned art historian Mary D. Sheriff explores the legendary, fictional, and real islands that filled the French imagination during the ancien regime as they appeared in royal ballets and festivals, epic literature, paintings, engravings, book illustrations, and other objects. Some of the islands were mythical and found in the most popular literary texts of the day—islands featured prominently, for instance, in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso,Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata, and Fénelon’s, Telemachus. Other islands—real ones, such as Tahiti and St. Domingue—the French learned about from the writings of travelers and colonists. All of them were imagined to be the home of enchantresses who used magic to conquer heroes by promising sensual and sexual pleasure. As Sheriff shows, the theme of the enchanted island was put to many uses. Kings deployed enchanted-island mythology to strengthen monarchical authority, as Louis XIV did in his famous Versailles festival Les Plaisirs de l’île enchantée. Writers such as Fénelon used it to tell morality tales that taught virtue, duty, and the need for male strength to triumph over female weakness and seduction. Yet at the same time, artists like Boucher painted enchanted islands to portray art’s purpose as the giving of pleasure. In all these ways and more, Sheriff demonstrates for the first time the centrality of enchanted islands to ancient regime culture in a book that will enchant all readers interested in the art, literature, and history of the time.

Return to the Enchanted Island

2019 Antananarivo (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
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Release : 2019
Genre : Antananarivo (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
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Book Synopsis Return to the Enchanted Island by : Johary Ravaloson

Download or read book Return to the Enchanted Island written by Johary Ravaloson. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exhilarating prize-winning novel--only the second to be published in English from Madagascar--a young man comes of age amidst the enchanted origin myths of his island country. Named after the first man at the creation of the world in Malagasy mythology, Ietsy Razak was raised to perpetuate the glory of his namesake and expected to be as illuminated as his Great Ancestor. But in the chaos of modernity, his young life is marked only by restlessness, maddening insomnia, and an adolescent apathy. When an unexpected tragedy ships him off to a boarding school in France, his trip to the big city is no hero's journey. Ietsy loses himself in the immediate pleasures of body and mind. Weighed down by his privilege and the legacy of his name, Ietsy struggles to find a foothold. Only a return to the "Enchanted Island," as Madagascar is lovingly known, helps Ietsy stumble toward his destiny. This award-winning retelling of Madagascar's origin story offers a distinctly twenty-first-century perspective on the country's place in an ever-more-connected world.

Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic

1898 Geographical myths
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Release : 1898
Genre : Geographical myths
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Book Synopsis Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic by : Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Download or read book Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic written by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. This book was released on 1898. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Enchanted Island of Oz

2006 Oz (Imaginary place)
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Release : 2006
Genre : Oz (Imaginary place)
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Book Synopsis The Enchanted Island of Oz by : Ruth Plumly Thompson

Download or read book The Enchanted Island of Oz written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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