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| Author | : Hans Christian Andersen |
| Publisher | : Lindhardt og Ringhof |
| Total Pages | : 12 |
| Release | : 2020-06-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 8726417294 |
Inger was a little girl but she was a bad person. This was obvious even when she was very small: she enjoyed catching insects and tearing off their wings without any pity for the poor creatures. When she was a bit bigger, her parents sent her to the country to a good family. Here, she became very refined and, going to visit her parents, decided to walk on her bread rather than in the marsh so she would not dirty her shoes. And this is where her real story begins... Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author, poet and artist. Celebrated for children’s literature, his most cherished fairy tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Mermaid", "The Nightingale", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Little Match Girl". His books have been translated into every living language, and today there is no child or adult that has not met Andersen's whimsical characters. His fairy tales have been adapted to stage and screen countless times, most notably by Disney with the animated films "The Little Mermaid" in 1989 and "Frozen", which is loosely based on "The Snow Queen", in 2013. Thanks to Andersen's contribution to children's literature, his birth date, April 2, is celebrated as International Children's Book Day.
| Author | : Kathryn Davis |
| Publisher | : Graywolf Press |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2021-08-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1644451263 |
Back in print, an astonishing novel of art, obsession, and the secrets kept by two very different women In Kathryn Davis’s second novel, Frances Thorn, waitress and single parent of twins, finds herself transformed by the dazzling magnetism of Helle Ten Brix, an elderly Danish composer of operas. At the heart of what binds them is “The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf,” the Hans Christian Andersen tale of a prideful girl who, in order to spare her new shoes, uses a loaf of bread, intended as a gift for her parents, as a stepping-stone, and ends up sinking to the bottom of a bog. Helle’s final opera, based on this tale and unfinished at the time of her death, is willed to Frances—a life-changing legacy that compels Frances to unravel the mysteries of Helle’s story and, in so doing, to enter the endlessly revolving, intricate world of her operas. The ravishing beauty and matchless wit that have characterized Davis’s work from the beginning are here on full display. The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf is a novel as thrilling in its virtuosity as it is moving in its homage to the power of art, a power that changes lives forever.
| Author | : Kathryn Davis |
| Publisher | : Graywolf Press |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2024-11-12 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1644450992 |
Marie Antoinette “tells her own story” in this “sage, mercurial, and ravishing” novel (The New Yorker) Versailles tells the story of an expansive spirit locked in a pretty body and an impossible moment in history. As the novel begins, fourteen-year-old Marie Antoinette is traveling from Austria to France to meet her fiancé. He will become the sixteenth Louis to rule France, and Antoinette will be his queen—though neither shows a strong inclination toward power, politics, or the roles they have been summoned to play. Antoinette finds herself hemmed in by towering hairdos, the xenophobic suspicion of her subjects, the misogyny of her detractors, and the labyrinthine twists and turns of the palace she calls home. At once witty, entertaining, and astonishingly wise, this widely acclaimed novel is an enchanting meditation on girlhood, womanhood, architecture, and—above all—time and the soul’s true journey within it. Shaken free of the dust of history and calcified myth, Antoinette is “very much alive here, and she’s magnificent” (Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review).
| Author | : Hans Christian Andersen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
A collection of Andersen's stories, including "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," "The Fir Tree, " and "The Money Pig."
| Author | : Hans Christian Andersen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 46 |
| Release | : 1922 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Thornton Cline |
| Publisher | : Syp Kids |
| Total Pages | : 30 |
| Release | : 2021-10 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781596161184 |
Friends meet in an unlikely place. Children will learn about friendship, determination, and bravery in this delightful tale. Two best fish friends, Sunny and Smiley, enthrall children and parents alike with the universal message, "You can't judge a fish by its face, nose or fins." Sunny and Smiley are afraid of the giant silver fish, Kingfin, with the long nose and scary smile. But when Kingfin rescues them from danger, Sunny and Smiley discover how friendly Kingfin is and that he can't even hurt a minnow.
| Author | : David Ebershoff |
| Publisher | : Allen & Unwin |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2015-12-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1760292788 |
Starring Academy Award-winner Eddie Redmayne and directed by Academy Award-winner Tom Hooper, this major motion picture portrays an unforgettable celebration of love. It starts with a question, a simple favour asked by a wife of her husband, setting off a transformation neither can anticipate. Einar Wegener and his American wife Greta Waud have been married for six years, but are yet to have a child. Both painters, they live a life of bohemian languor in Copenhagen until one day their lives are irreversibly altered. The Danish Girl eloquently shows the intimacy that defines a marriage and the nearly forgotten story of the love between a man who discovers that he is, in fact, a woman, and his wife who would sacrifice anything for him. Set against the glitz and decadence of 1920s Copenhagen, Paris and Dresden, and inspired by a true story, The Danish Girl is about one of the most passionate and unusual marriages of the twentieth century. 'a story of true love, suffering and sacrifice' - Sunday Telegraph
| Author | : Kathryn Davis |
| Publisher | : Knopf Publishing Group |
| Total Pages | : 426 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
The acclaimed author of Labrador (awarded the Kafka Prize for fiction by an American woman) now presents a story of two women who come to grips with themselves and with each other. A psycho-cultural-sexual history of the 20th century, a short course in the opera, and a philosophical--even religious--passage from despair toward redemption.
| Author | : Donald Haase |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 358 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780814322086 |
"The essays address the reception of the Grimms' texts by their readers; the dynamics between Grimms' collection and its earliest audiences; and aspects of the literary, philosophical, creative, and oral reception of the tales, illuminating how writers, philosophers, artists, and storytellers have responded to, reacted to, and revised the stories, thus shedding light on the ways in which past and contemporary transmitters of culture have understood and passed on the Grimms' tales."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Hans Christian Andersen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 412 |
| Release | : 1907 |
| Genre | : Fairy tales |
| ISBN | : |
