The Dance of the Rose and the Nightingale

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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815607274
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis The Dance of the Rose and the Nightingale by : Nesta Ramazani

Download or read book The Dance of the Rose and the Nightingale written by Nesta Ramazani and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an extraordinary autobiography of a young girl growing up in Iran. The daughter of an English Christian mother and an Iranian Zoroastrian father, Nesta Ramazani sketches her personal life story against the backdrop of a society marked by the fusion of Iranian, Islamic, and Western cultures, and by the efforts of an authoritarian state to force modernization on a traditional society. Within this multicultural tapestry of personal, cultural, and national life, the author portrays how she came to love Persian and Western music, poetry, and dance. But translating this love into practice seemed an insurmountable task until an American woman pioneered the establishment of the first indigenous Iranian ballet company. As a member of this troupe, the author violated convention, performing first in her native land and then traveling abroad to exhibit this beautiful synthesis of Persian/Western forms to foreign audiences. The significance of this work transcends an autobiography penned by an Iranian woman—still a taboo in traditional Iranian society—it is a unique microcosm of today’s universal quest for a dialogue among civilizations. Ramazani’s story will appeal not only to students of Iran, the Middle East, and women’s studies, but also to general readers.

The Nightingale and the Rose

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (568 download)

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Firefly Lane

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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429927844
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis Firefly Lane by : Kristin Hannah

Download or read book Firefly Lane written by Kristin Hannah and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . . now a #1 Netflix series! In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all---beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn. Tully, steeped in glamour and mystery, but with a secret that is destroying her. They make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer's end they've become TullyandKate. Inseparable. So begins Kristin Hannah's magnificent new novel. Spanning more than three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the bulkhead of their lives. From the beginning, Tully is desperate to prove her worth to the world. Abandoned by her mother at an early age, she longs to be loved unconditionally. In the glittering, big-hair era of the eighties, she looks to men to fill the void in her soul. But in the buttoned-down nineties, it is television news that captivates her. She will follow her own blind ambition to New York and around the globe, finding fame and success . . . and loneliness. Kate knows early on that her life will be nothing special. Throughout college, she pretends to be driven by a need for success, but all she really wants is to fall in love and have children and live an ordinary life. In her own quiet way, Kate is as driven as Tully. What she doesn't know is how being a wife and mother will change her . . . how she'll lose sight of who she once was, and what she once wanted. And how much she'll envy her famous best friend. . . . For thirty years, Tully and Kate buoy each other through life, weathering the storms of friendship---jealousy, anger, hurt, resentment. They think they've survived it all until a single act of betrayal tears them apart . . . and puts their courage and friendship to the ultimate test. Firefly Lane is for anyone who ever drank Boone's Farm apple wine while listening to Abba or Fleetwood Mac. More than a coming-of-age novel, it's the story of a generation of women who were both blessed and cursed by choices. It's about promises and secrets and betrayals. And ultimately, about the one person who really, truly knows you---and knows what has the power to hurt you . . . and heal you. Firefly Lane is a story you'll never forget . . . one you'll want to pass on to your best friend.

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307483878
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by : A. S. Byatt

Download or read book The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye written by A. S. Byatt and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty shop in an Istanbul bazaar. As A.S. Byatt renders this relationship with a powerful combination of erudition and passion, she makes the interaction of the natural and the supernatural seem not only convincing, but inevitable. The companion stories in this collection each display different facets of Byatt's remarkable gift for enchantment. They range from fables of sexual obsession to allegories of political tragedy; they draw us into narratives that are as mesmerizing as dreams and as bracing as philosophical meditations; and they all us to inhabit an imaginative universe astonishing in the precision of its detail, its intellectual consistency, and its splendor. "A dreamy treat.... It is not merely strange, it is wondrous." --Boston Globe "Alternatingly erudite and earthy, direct and playful.... If Scheherazade ever needs a break, Byatt can step in, indefinitely." --Chicago Tribune "Byatt's writing is crystalline and splendidly imaginative.... These [are] perfectly formed tales." --Washington Post Book World

The Nightingale and the Rose

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Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726598795
Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (265 download)

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Book Synopsis The Nightingale and the Rose by : Oscar Wilde

Download or read book The Nightingale and the Rose written by Oscar Wilde and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2022-03-02 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What a silly thing Love is. It is not as useful as Logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true." A young man is in love with a girl who promises to dance with him at a ball if he brings her a red rose. The boy is at a loss because he does not know where to find a red rose. A nightingale overhears and decides to help. But is their love even worth the sacrifice of the nightingale? 'The Nightingale and the Rose' is a heart-breaking fable by Oscar Wilde about the nature of love and sacrifice, and is so very captivating and emotional for such a short story. Fans of 'Aesop's Fables' will love discovering the moral of this story. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist and poet famous for ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’. He died in Paris at the age of 46. 'The Importance of Being Earnest' is Oscar Wilde’s most popular and enduring play. Poking fun at the ridiculousness of human nature, especially that of the Victorian elite, it is both incredibly clever and undeniably silly. It has been performed and made into films and for television many times, most recently in the 2002 film starring Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon and Judi Dench.

Hafez in Love

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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815655126
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Book Synopsis Hafez in Love by : Iraj Pezeshkzad

Download or read book Hafez in Love written by Iraj Pezeshkzad and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shams al-Din Mohammad Hafez is in love. He is in love with a girl, with a city, and with Persian poetry. Despite his enmity with the new and dangerous city leader, the jealousy of his fellow court poets, and the competition for his beloved, Iran’s favorite poet remains unbothered. When his wit and charm are not enough to keep him safe in Shiraz, his friends conspire to keep him out of trouble. But their schemes are unsuccessful. Nothing will chase Hafez from this city of wine and roses. In Pezeshkzad’s fictional account, Hafez’s life in fourteenth-century Shiraz is a mix of peril and humor. Set in a city that is at once beautiful and cutthroat, the novel includes a cast of historical figures to illuminate this elusive poet of the Persian literary tradition. Shabani-Jadidi and Higgins’s translation brings the beloved poetry of Hafez alive for an English audience and reacquaints readers with the comic wit and original storytelling of Pezeshkzad.

Raymie Nightingale

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Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763681172
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Book Synopsis Raymie Nightingale by : Kate DiCamillo

Download or read book Raymie Nightingale written by Kate DiCamillo and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds as she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a drama queen and a saboteur.

The Nightingale

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473577411
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis The Nightingale by : Sam Lee

Download or read book The Nightingale written by Sam Lee and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Wondering and wonderful. The nature book of the year.' JOHN LEWIS-STEMPEL 'This lovely book is almost as thrilling as the bird's immortal song - balm for a troubled soul and a glimpse of paradise.' JOANNA LUMLEY ______________________________ Come to the forest, sit by the fireside and listen to intoxicating song, as Sam Lee tells the story of the nightingale. Every year, as darkness falls upon woodlands, the nightingale heralds the arrival of Spring. Throughout history, its sweet song has inspired musicians, writers and artists around the world, from Germany, France and Italy to Greece, Ukraine and Korea. Here, passionate conservationist, renowned musician and folk expert Sam Lee tells the story of the nightingale. This book reveals in beautiful detail the bird's song, habitat, characteristics and migration patterns, as well as the environmental issues that threaten its livelihood. From Greek mythology to John Keats, to Persian poetry and 'A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square', Lee delves into the various ways we have celebrated the nightingale through traditions, folklore, music, literature, from ancient history to the present day. The Nightingale is a unique and lyrical portrait of a famed yet elusive songbird. ______________________________ 'Sam Lee has brought the poetic magic that has long enchanted so many of his musical fans into the written word. Allow yourself to glimpse the world Sam sees, to be part of his love affair with the nightingale, and you will no doubt be delighted.' LILY COLE 'A wonderful book.' STEPHEN MOSS 'A magical marriage of the lyrical and practical: a book that makes us want to seek out the nightingale and then reveals how we can.' TRISTAN GOOLEY

Veils and Words

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Publisher : I.B.Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781850435754
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (357 download)

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Book Synopsis Veils and Words by : Farzaneh Milani

Download or read book Veils and Words written by Farzaneh Milani and published by I.B.Tauris. This book was released on 1992 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in any language about the writing of women in Iran. For centuries any sense that there could be a literary tradition among women was suppressed. Since the middle of the 19th century, however, a number a of pioneering women have defied the traditional order to produce poetry and novels of the highest quality; but many of them have paid for their courage with accusations of immorality, promiscuity, heresy and even lunacy.

The Nightingale And The Rose

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1443442674
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Book Synopsis The Nightingale And The Rose by : Oscar Wilde

Download or read book The Nightingale And The Rose written by Oscar Wilde and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nightingale selflessly sacrifices herself to help a young student win the love of his professor’s daughter, but both the professor’s daughter and the young student prove unworthy of her sacrifice. Victorian author Oscar Wilde is known both as a playwright and prose author. Among his most famous works are The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel, the plays An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, and the short story collections Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories and The Happy Prince and Other Stories. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

The Night Dance

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Publisher : Simon Pulse
ISBN 13 : 9781416961321
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book The Night Dance written by Suzanne Weyn and published by Simon Pulse. This book was released on 2008-11-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the stars, in a secret world... Rowena, the youngest of twelve sisters, loves to slip out of the castle at night and dance in a magical forest. Soon she convinces her sisters to join her. When Sir Ethan notices that his daughters' slippers look tattered every morning, he is certain they've been sneaking out. So he posts a challenge to all the suitors in the kingdom: The first man to discover where his daughters have been is free to marry the one he chooses. Meanwhile a handsome young knight named Bedivere is involved in a challenge of his own: to return the powerful sword, Excalibur, to a mysterious lake. While looking for the lake, Bedivere meets the beautiful Rowena and falls for her. Bedivere knows that accepting Sir Ethan's challenge is the only opportunity for him to be with Rowena forever. But this puts both Bedivere and Rowena in a dangerous situation...one in which they risk their lives for a chance at love.

ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE

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Publisher : Musaicum Books
ISBN 13 : 8027200962
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE by : John Keats

Download or read book ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE written by John Keats and published by Musaicum Books. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook edition of "Ode to a Nightingale" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "Ode to a Nightingale" is either the garden of the Spaniards Inn, Hampstead, London, or, according to Keats' friend Charles Armitage Brown, under a plum tree in the garden of Keats House, also in Hampstead. According to Brown, a nightingale had built its nest near his home in the spring of 1819. Inspired by the bird's song, Keats composed the poem in one day. It soon became one of his 1819 odes and was first published in Annals of the Fine Arts the following July. "Ode to a Nightingale" is a personal poem that describes Keats's journey into the state of Negative Capability. The tone of the poem rejects the optimistic pursuit of pleasure found within Keats's earlier poems and explores the themes of nature, transience and mortality, the latter being particularly personal to Keats. The nightingale described within the poem experiences a type of death but does not actually die. Instead, the songbird is capable of living through its song, which is a fate that humans cannot expect. John Keats (1795-1821) was an English Romantic poet. The poetry of Keats is characterized by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes. Today his poems and letters are some of the most popular and most analyzed in English literature.

The Happy Prince and Other Tales

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Can You Get an F in Lunch?

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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0439025559
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Can You Get an F in Lunch? written by Nancy E. Krulik and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When best friends Jenny and Addie start sixth grade, Jenny quickly discovers that Addie is interested in joining the Pops, the coolest seventh grade clique in school.

The Virgin of Solitude

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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815609339
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis The Virgin of Solitude by : Taghi Modarressi

Download or read book The Virgin of Solitude written by Taghi Modarressi and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the streets of Tehran, Nuri Hushiar knows his blond hair and blue eyes attract attention. While he relishes the attention he cannot avoid the uneasy feeling of being out of place. This sense of being exceptional and estranged is the hallmark of his character and the focus of his struggle in Taghi Modarressi’s last stunning novel. Set around the time of the revolution, The Virgin of Solitude follows the parallel lives of a transplanted Austrian woman, who has made Iran her home, and her grandson, Nuri, who desperately misses his mother but hides his longing behind a veneer of teenage bravado. As the turmoil of the revolution envelops the country, grandmother and grandson witness the dissolution of social, class, and political order, while searching for a sense of belonging. Nasrin Rahimieh’s translation captures the tone and mood of the original, rendering both Modarressi’s subtle humor and assured prose with effortless precision.

Conan and the Jewels of Gwahlur

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Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1621151905
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (211 download)

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Book Synopsis Conan and the Jewels of Gwahlur by : P. Craig Russell

Download or read book Conan and the Jewels of Gwahlur written by P. Craig Russell and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2005-12-27 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P. Craig Russell, the artist best known for adapting literary works to comics, applies his legendary talents to Conan in this adaptation of Robert E. Howard's "The Jewels of Gwahlur," one of Conan's last adventures before becoming king. A young woman, having made a string of bad choices, finds herself the pawn of mercenaries-one of which is Conan of Cimmeria. As the former dancing girl poses as the dead oracle of a primitive cult, Conan puts his experience as a thief and a soldier together in pursuit of some of the most prized jewels in the world-the Teeth of Gwahlur! Featuring a sixteen-page sketchbook and an interview with Russell covering his career and creative process on this book, this handsome book not only highlights one of fantasy art's greatest living talents, it shows once again that Howard's original Conan tales remain unsurpassed.

Le Rossignol et la Rose / The Nightingale and The Rose

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Publisher : Française English
ISBN 13 : 9781835660003
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Book Synopsis Le Rossignol et la Rose / The Nightingale and The Rose by : Oscar Wilde

Download or read book Le Rossignol et la Rose / The Nightingale and The Rose written by Oscar Wilde and published by Française English. This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elle a dit qu'elle danserait avec moi si je lui apportais des roses rouges 'She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses' mais dans tout mon jardin il n'y a pas de rose rouge s'écria le jeune Etudiant. 'but in all my garden there is no red rose' cried the young Student De son nid dans le chêne vert, le rossignol l'entendit from her nest in the holm-oak tree the nightingale heard him et elle regarda à travers les feuilles, et se demanda and she looked out through the leaves, and wondered Pas de rose rouge dans tout mon jardin ! s'écria-t-il 'No red rose in all my garden!' he cried et ses beaux yeux remplis de larmes and his beautiful eyes filled with tears De quelles petites choses dépend le bonheur ! 'On what little things does happiness depend!'