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A Fine and Pleasant Misery
Author | : Patrick F. McManus |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1981-04-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0805000321 |
Witty cautionary tales of outdoor life.
Tales of Cats
Author | : Pleasant DeSpain |
Publisher | : august house |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780874837131 |
Contains a 'catty' collection of folktales from around the world.
The Facetious Nights of Straparola
Author | : Giovanni Francesco Straparola |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Fairy tales |
ISBN | : |
Mount Pleasant
Author | : Patrice Nganang |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2016-04-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374713081 |
A majestic tale of colonialism and transformation, Patrice Nganang's Mount Pleasant tells the astonishing story of the birth of modern Cameroon, a place subject to the whims of the French and the Germans, yet engaged in a cultural revolution. In 1931, Sara is taken from her family and brought to Mount Pleasant as a gift for Sultan Njoya, a ruler cast into exile by French colonialists. Merely nine years old, she is on the verge of becoming the sultan’s 681st wife. But when she is dragged to Bertha, the long-suffering slave charged with training Njoya’s brides, Sara’s life takes a curious turn. Bertha sees within this little girl her son Nebu, who died tragically years before, and she saves Sara from her fate by disguising her as her son. In Sara’s new life as a boy she bears witness to the world of Sultan Njoya---a magical yet vulnerable community of artists and intellectuals---and learns of the sultan’s final days in the Palace of All Dreams and the sad fate of Nebu, the greatest artist their culture had ever seen. Seven decades later, a student returns home to Cameroon to learn about the place it once was, and she finds Sara, silent for years, ready to tell her story. But her serpentine tale, entangled by flawed memory and bursts of the imagination, reinvents history anew. The award-winning novelist Patrice Nganang’s Mount Pleasant is a lyrical resurrection of early-twentieth-century Cameroon and an elegy to the people swept up in the forces of colonization.
Sweet Land of Story
Author | : Pleasant DeSpain |
Publisher | : august house |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780874835694 |
Thirty-six true, tall, and traditional tales, primarily from the nineteenth century or earlier, selected by a professional storyteller and divided by the region of the United States from which they originated.
Tales of Nonsense and Tomfoolery
Author | : Pleasant DeSpain |
Publisher | : august house |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2005-12-14 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780874836707 |
A collection of short folktales featuring silly characters, nonsensical situations, or general tomfoolery.