Adele A Tale Of France
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Adele
Author | : Emma Tennant |
Publisher | : William Morrow |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2002-11-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780060004545 |
The daughter of the celebrated Parisian actress Céline Varens, Adèle is a homesick, forlorn eight-year-old when she is first brought to Thornfield Hall by Edward Fairfax Rochester, her mother's former lover and -- though the grand estate's brooding lord refuses to acknowledge it -- quite possibly Adèle's father. Lonely and ill at ease in the cold, unfamiliar English countryside, the sad, precocious child longs to return to the glitter of Paris ... and to the arms of the mother who has been lost to her. But a small ray of sunshine brightens her eternal gloom when a stranger arrives to school and care for her: a mousy and serious yet intensely loving young governess named Jane Eyre. As the years pass, Adèle watches with wonder as an unexpected romance blossoms between her governess and her guardian -- even as her curiosity leads her deeper into the shadowy manor, toward the dark and terrible secret that is locked away in a high garret. And on Jane and Rochester's planned wedding day, it is Adèle who is instrumental in bringing about the fiery catastrophe that shatters her "family" and sends her fleeing, frightened and alone, back to France. But Paris is no longer the glamorous ideal she remembers. Intent on finding her mother, Adèle is soon lost in a world of sham sparkle and ruthless exploiters. Yet her will remains strong as she grows and learns, determined to follow her solitary odyssey to its inevitable conclusion, as she -- like Jane Eyre and the tormented Edward Rochester -- searches for salvation and love amid the ruins of misfortune. A novel of wondrous imagination and vivid intensity, Emma Tennant's Adèle brilliantly captures the nuances and spirit of the cherished classic that inspired it, while being a bold and original literary work that stands firmly and gloriously on its own.
Wide Sargasso Sea
Author | : Jean Rhys |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780393308808 |
"A considerable tour de force by any standard." ?New York Times Book Review"
Adele in Sand Land
Author | : Claude Ponti |
Publisher | : Astra Publishing House |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-06-06 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1943145164 |
Where can young readers experience boundless imagination? In the sandbox, of course, as they follow Adele on her discovery of a barefoot king, a cloud of fluffy chicks, and a dessert island (YUM!). With this wild playground adventure, it’s easy to see why star French cartoonist Claude Ponti is one of the world’s most beloved children’s book authors.
Two Fearsome Fairy Tales from France
Author | : Adele Geras |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2015-01-01 |
Genre | : Fairy tales |
ISBN | : 9780992283841 |
Two magical, scary classic fairy tales from France, Beauty and the Beast and Bluebeard, elegantly retold by Adele Geras and lavishly illustrated by Fiona McDonald. For older readers. About the author and illustrator: Adele Geras is a British writer for young children, teens and adults. She has written more than 95 books for children, young adults, and adults. Her best-known books are Troy (shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and Highly commended for the Carnegie Medal) Ithaka, Happy Ever After (previously published as the Egerton Hall Trilogy), Silent Snow, Secret Snow, and A Candle in the Dark. Fiona McDonald is an Australian illustrator, author and dollmaker. She has had more than 10 books published internationally, including a graphic novel for children, Ghost Doll and Jasper. Her previous title with Christmas Press, Two Selkie Stories from Scotland, retold by Kate Forsyth, came out in 2014 and was listed as one of Good Reading Magazine's top books for 2014.
From Africa
Author | : Adele King |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780803227583 |
Out of French-speaking Africa, from Togo, Chad, C–te d?Ivoire, Cameroon, Guinea, Congo, Rwanda, Djibouti, and Madagascar, comes the polyphony of newøvoices aired in this volume. The collection brings together fourteen important contemporary authors with roots in sub-Saharan French Africa and Madagascar, a new generation now living in France or the United States, and introduces their remarkable work to readers of English. These writers? stories, unlike earlier African literature, seldom resemble traditional folk tales. Instead they are concerned with the postindependence world and reveal in their rich and complex depths the influence of modern European and American short-story traditions as well as the enduring reach of African myths and legends. This gathering of gifted writers tenders modern versions of myths; nostalgia for childhood in Africa; relations between the sexes in contemporary Africa; continuing political problems; and the life of the African diaspora in France?all related in new and familiar ways, in innovative and traditional forms. Their work, most of it little known outside France and their native African countries, revises our understanding of the lingering effects of colonization even as it celebrates the complexity, exuberance, and tenacity of African culture.