White Snake and Other Stories
Author | : Geling Yan |
Publisher | : Aunt Lute Books |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
First collection published in English by major, multiple award-winning Chinese writer Yan Geling.
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Author | : Geling Yan |
Publisher | : Aunt Lute Books |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
First collection published in English by major, multiple award-winning Chinese writer Yan Geling.
Author | : Brothers Grimm |
Publisher | : Lindhardt og Ringhof |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 2020-10-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 8726591928 |
Imagine this. You take a bite from the king’s dish which is a white snake. Then suddenly you start understanding the language of animals. And this gets you out of numerous problems. Does it sound believable? Well it should because this is what the servant in our story experienced. However what are those troubles that he found himself in? Could he really understand all animals and how did this help him? If a servant takes a bite from the king’s dish, you would expect punishment to follow. Did it? Or the servant got a reward? If you want to know how and why, you can read "The White Snake". Children and adults alike, immerse yourselves into Grimm’s world of folktales and legends! Come, discover the little-known tales and treasured classics in this collection of 200 fairytales. Brothers Grimm are probably the best-known storytellers in the world. Some of their most popular fairy tales are "Cinderella", "Beauty and the Beast" and "Little Red Riding Hood" and there is hardly anybody who has not grown up with the adventures of Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel and Snow White. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s exceptional literature legacy consists of recorded German and European folktales and legends. Their collections have been translated into all European languages in their lifetime and into every living language today.
Author | : Liang Luo |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2021-08-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0472038605 |
Tracing the history and adaptation of one of China's foundational texts
Author | : Ben Nadler |
Publisher | : Astra Publishing House |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-05-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1943145377 |
Young Randall dreams of adventures until one day he’s sent off on a mission to discover the neighboring king’s secret. When he returns, he’s thrown in a dungeon and despairs until Princess Tilda — the power behind the throne – entices him to compete for her hand. Courage, determination — and Tilda’s trust in him – toss him from one adventure to the next as he dives for a ring at the bottom of the ocean and searches for a Golden Apple from the Tree of Life. BEN NADLER’s modern version in comics highlights the timeless truth at the heart of this Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale in a way that is sure to delight and resonate with today’s young readers.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2009-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1603842144 |
A cornerstone of Chinese popular culture, the legend of the White Snake--the admirable demon who loves her victim--has been continually rewritten, reinterpreted, and readapted for over five hundred years. The Precious Scroll of Thunder Peak was one of the most popular nineteenth-century versions of the legend. In bringing together translations of the Scroll, four anonymous youth books, and other texts related to the development of the White Snake legend, this volume opens a window into the richness and variety of premodern Chinese popular literature. It also illustrates the ways in which traditional and modern Chinese societies have treated a host of vital cultural issues, including the role of women in society, perceptions of sexuality, and folk religion. Wilt L. Idema's Introduction traces the evolution of the legend and places the translated texts in the history of Chinese popular literature and culture. Annotations explaining terms and references that may be unfamiliar to Western readers, a glossary, and a thorough bibliography further enhance the value of this book for both scholars and students.
Author | : Olive Senior |
Publisher | : Longman Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The second collection from Olive Senior, winner of the Commonwealth Writer's Prize in 1987 for Summer Lightning. Set again in Jamaica, these new stories continue to explore the child as an isolated individual coming to terms with the strange, harsh ways of the adult world.
Author | : Joy Cowley |
Publisher | : Gecko Press |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2013-10-21 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1877579599 |
Snake and Lizard are a lovable, foolish pair, always arguing, embarking on unlikely enterprises and telling one another hotly contested tales - none of which behaviour lessens their affection for one another. A series of stories about friendship for children. Awards: Winner NEW ZEALAND POST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2008; Winner Junior Fiction Category in The New Zealand Post Children's and Young Adult awards; Storylines Notable New Zealand Junior Fiction 2008 award; LIANZA Merit Award; White Raven ; US School Library Journal starred review; North Dakota Library Association Flicker Tale Children's Book Award
Author | : James McClure |
Publisher | : Soho Press |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2011-08-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1569479690 |
Lieutenant Kramer and Sergeant Zondi have their hands full. On the same day that an adult entertainer known as Eve is found accidentally strangled to death in her dressing room, her pet python wrapped dead around her neck, a beloved candy shop owner named "Lucky" Siyayo is shot to death at his counter in a botched robbery. The detective duo quickly realize neither death is as simple as it looks on the surface: Lucky Siyayo's cash register was all but empty the day he was murdered, which suddenly throws a whole rash of fatal neighborhood robberies into perspective—were none of them robberies at all? It becomes clear a killer is on the loose, but Zondi and Kramer must figure out what the killer is after. Meanwhile, postmortem analysis reveals that Eve didn't die at the time her ex-boss had stated he'd discovered her body; the more Kramer picks the circumstances apart, the less they make sense. With two very different sets of crimes to solve, Kramer and Zondi set off on treks that take them all over town, from the poorer villages to the sleazy dressing rooms of con artists and pimps to gorgeous steop of the South African countryside in another surefire investigation full of both stirring observations of Apartheid and plenty of mischief. Only one thing is for sure—no one is getting to take his day off this week!
Author | : Sadie Jones |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2019-06-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062897047 |
“The Snakes is many things—a parable and an ancient drama where a father’s greed devours his children, a police procedural, an avid take on tabloid venality, and a bitter comedy, superbly observed, where behind a woman’s eyes she is ‘all movement inside herself, like a wasp in a glass.’ I admit that I’m still shaken by parts of this novel. Sadie Jones writes with pitiless aplomb and corrosive intelligence.”—Louise Erdrich A chilling page-turner and impossible to put down, THE SNAKES is Sadie Jones at her best: breathtakingly powerful, brilliantly incisive, and utterly devastating. The new novel by Sadie Jones tells the tense and violent story of the Adamsons, a dysfunctional English family, with exceptional wealth, whose darkest secrets come back to bite them. Set mostly in rural France during contemporary times, THE SNAKES is an all-consuming read and a devastating portrait of how money corrupts, and how chance can deal a deadly hand. THE SNAKES exposes the damage wreaked by parents on children as observed by a new member of the family, Dan, a mixed-race man from Peckham who marries Bea, the daughter who refuses to take any of her father’s filthy money. But when Bea’s brother Alex (who runs a shabby hotel in Paligny, France) dies suddenly in unexplained circumstances, the confusion and suspicion which arise bring other dark family secrets—and violence—to the surface. And none of the family, even the good members, go untouched.