Dora Discovers

Dora Discovers
Author: Lauryn Silverhardt
Publisher: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-09-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780689868719

"Lift the flaps, slide the doors. touch the textures, and so much more!"--Cover.

Finding Dora Maar

Finding Dora Maar
Author: Brigitte Benkemoun
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2020-05-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1606066595

Merging biography, memoir, and cultural history, this compelling book, a bestseller in France, traces the life of Dora Maar (1907–1997) through a serendipitous encounter with the artist’s address book. In search of a replacement for his lost Hermès agenda, Brigitte Benkemoun’s husband buys a vintage diary on eBay. When it arrives, she opens it and finds inside private notes dating back to 1951—twenty pages of phone numbers and addresses for Balthus, Brassaï, André Breton, Jean Cocteau, Paul Éluard, Leonor Fini, Jacqueline Lamba, and other artistic luminaries of the European avant-garde. After realizing that the address book belonged to Dora Maar—Picasso’s famous “Weeping Woman” and a brilliant artist in her own right—Benkemoun embarks on a two-year voyage of discovery to learn more about this provocative, passionate, and enigmatic woman, and the role that each of these figures played in her life. Longlisted for the prestigious literary award Prix Renaudot, Finding Dora Maar is a fascinating and breathtaking portrait of the artist. “Beautifully written and fascinating.”—Paris Match “One of the happy surprises of the end of the literary season.”—Livres Hebdo “A highly moving portrait of the artist.”—Elle (France) This book received support from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States through their publishing assistance program.

The Journal of Dora Damage

The Journal of Dora Damage
Author: Belinda Starling
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2010-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1608196046

London, 1860: On the brink of destitution, Dora Damage illicitly takes over her ailing husband's bookbinding business, only to find herself lured into binding expensive volumes of pornography commissioned by aristocratic roués. Dora's charm and indefatigable spirit carry her through this rude awakening as she contends with violent debt collectors, an epileptic daughter, evil doctors, a rheumatic husband, errant workmen, nosy neighbors, and a constant stream of wealthy dilettantes. When she suddenly finds herself forced to offer an internship to a mysterious, fugitive American slave, Dora realizes she has been pulled into in an illegal trade of sex, money, and deceit. The Journal of Dora Damage conjures a vision of London when it was the largest city in the world, grappling with the filth produced by a swollen population. Against a backdrop of power and politics, work and idleness, conservatism and abolitionism, Belinda Starling explores the restrictions of gender, class, and race, the ties of family and love, and the price of freedom in this wholly engrossing debut novel. REVIEWS: "Unfortunately, Starling's debut novel will be her last; she died prematurely last year at the age of 34. Although the plot is a bit too crowded and overworked-a common novice mistake-this historical melodrama artfully evokes the contradictions inherent in Victorian society. When Dora Damage is forced by circumstances-an invalid husband and an epileptic daughter-to take over the family bookbinding business, she is inexorably drawn into a London netherworld she barely knew existed. As if binding pornographic books for a circle of aristocratic clients isn't bad enough, she is also compelled to harbor Din Nelson, a fugitive American slave. Unable to suppress her emotional and physical attraction for Din, she gives into desire and her real education begins."- Booklist

Search and Discover with Dora

Search and Discover with Dora
Author: Nickelodeon
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Adventure and adventurers
ISBN: 9780857071682

Join Dora and Boots in this great 'look and find' adventure. Each spread shows Dora and her friends in a different location with lots of hidden objects to find on the page. Little explorers will have great fun helping Dora and Boots find all the objects.

Dora Takes the Stage!

Dora Takes the Stage!
Author: Irene Kilpatrick
Publisher: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-09-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781416960744

Dora's putting on a play, and she wants your help. Choose the scenery and characters, and use the pop-out stage and audience for your very own performance.

In Dora's Case

In Dora's Case
Author: Charles Bernheimer
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1990
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780231072212

-- The Women's Review of Books

Dora’s Journey

Dora’s Journey
Author: Сергей Дегтярёв
Publisher: Litres
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2024-08-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 5046682737

Is a story about a girl named Dora and her adventures in a magical world full of mysterious creatures and magic, where she explores her forest and the surroundings of her world

Bodies of Reform

Bodies of Reform
Author: James B. Salazar
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2010-09-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0814741320

Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series From the patricians of the early republic to post-Reconstruction racial scientists, from fin de siècle progressivist social reformers to post-war sociologists, character, that curiously formable yet equally formidable “stuff,” has had a long and checkered history giving shape to the American national identity. Bodies of Reform reconceives this pivotal category of nineteenth-century literature and culture by charting the development of the concept of “character” in the fictional genres, social reform movements, and political cultures of the United States from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century. By reading novelists such as Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman alongside a diverse collection of texts concerned with the mission of building character, including child-rearing guides, muscle-building magazines, libel and naturalization law, Scout handbooks, and success manuals, James B. Salazar uncovers how the cultural practices of representing character operated in tandem with the character-building strategies of social reformers. His innovative reading of this archive offers a radical revision of this defining category in U.S. literature and culture, arguing that character was the keystone of a cultural politics of embodiment, a politics that played a critical role in determining-and contesting-the social mobility, political authority, and cultural meaning of the raced and gendered body.

Female Subjectivity in African American Women's Narratives of Enslavement

Female Subjectivity in African American Women's Narratives of Enslavement
Author: L. Myles
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2009-10-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230103162

Female Subjectivity in African American Women s Narratives of Enslavement is a new and innovative study of black women s transformation, which focuses on black women writers who support the notion of separate location for a changed female consciousness. This book offers the concept of the "Transient Woman" as a new paradigm and feminist vision for analyzing female subjectivity and consciousness.