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Enchanted Islands

Author : Mary D. Sheriff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022648324X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Enchanted Islands written by Mary D. Sheriff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Enchanted Islands, renowned art historian Mary D. Sheriff explores the legendary, fictional, and real islands that filled the French imagination during the ancien regime as they appeared in royal ballets and festivals, epic literature, paintings, engravings, book illustrations, and other objects. Some of the islands were mythical and found in the most popular literary texts of the day—islands featured prominently, for instance, in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso,Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata, and Fénelon’s, Telemachus. Other islands—real ones, such as Tahiti and St. Domingue—the French learned about from the writings of travelers and colonists. All of them were imagined to be the home of enchantresses who used magic to conquer heroes by promising sensual and sexual pleasure. As Sheriff shows, the theme of the enchanted island was put to many uses. Kings deployed enchanted-island mythology to strengthen monarchical authority, as Louis XIV did in his famous Versailles festival Les Plaisirs de l’île enchantée. Writers such as Fénelon used it to tell morality tales that taught virtue, duty, and the need for male strength to triumph over female weakness and seduction. Yet at the same time, artists like Boucher painted enchanted islands to portray art’s purpose as the giving of pleasure. In all these ways and more, Sheriff demonstrates for the first time the centrality of enchanted islands to ancient regime culture in a book that will enchant all readers interested in the art, literature, and history of the time.

Return to the Enchanted Island

Author : Johary Ravaloson
Publisher : AmazonCrossing
ISBN 13 : 9781542093514
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Return to the Enchanted Island written by Johary Ravaloson and published by AmazonCrossing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exhilarating prize-winning novel--only the second to be published in English from Madagascar--a young man comes of age amidst the enchanted origin myths of his island country. Named after the first man at the creation of the world in Malagasy mythology, Ietsy Razak was raised to perpetuate the glory of his namesake and expected to be as illuminated as his Great Ancestor. But in the chaos of modernity, his young life is marked only by restlessness, maddening insomnia, and an adolescent apathy. When an unexpected tragedy ships him off to a boarding school in France, his trip to the big city is no hero's journey. Ietsy loses himself in the immediate pleasures of body and mind. Weighed down by his privilege and the legacy of his name, Ietsy struggles to find a foothold. Only a return to the "Enchanted Island," as Madagascar is lovingly known, helps Ietsy stumble toward his destiny. This award-winning retelling of Madagascar's origin story offers a distinctly twenty-first-century perspective on the country's place in an ever-more-connected world.

Enchanted Islands

Author : Allison Amend
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0804172048
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Enchanted Islands written by Allison Amend and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born to immigrant parents in Minnesota just before the turn of the century, Frances Frankowski grew up coveting the life of her best friend, Rosalie Mendel. And yet, decades later, when the women reconnect in San Francisco, their lives have diverged. Rosalie is a housewife and mother, while Frances works for the Office of Naval Intelligence and has just been given a top-secret assignment: marry handsome spy Ainslie Conway and move to the Galápagos Islands to investigate the Germans living there in the build-up to World War II. Amid active volcanoes, forbidding wildlife and flora, and unfriendly neighbors, Ainslie and Frances carve out a life for themselves. But the secrets they harbor—from their friends, from their enemies, and even from each other—may be their undoing.

Enchanted Island

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Enchanted Island written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dark Harbor

Author : Ved Mehta
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241504996
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Dark Harbor written by Ved Mehta and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 11 in Ved Mehta's Continents of Exile series. Nearly 50 years in the making, Continents of Exile is one of the great works of twentieth-century autobiography: the epic chronicle of an Indian family in the twentieth century. From 1930s India to 1950s Oxford and literary New York in the 1960s-80s, this is the story of the post-colonial twentieth century, as uniquely experienced and vividly recounted by Ved Mehta. This chapter of Mehta's remarkable memoirs details the many dilemmas he encounters during the building of a new home on a strange, irresistible island: from ever-climbing costs to a frequent infestations of potato bugs in the basement. Underlying the travails of construction lies a richly allegorical tale about Mehta's own struggles as a writer and as a man in love.

The Enchanted Island of Oz

Author : Ruth Plumly Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781930764101
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book The Enchanted Island of Oz written by Ruth Plumly Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Enchanted Island

Author : Ian Serraillier
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780435121006
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Enchanted Island written by Ian Serraillier and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1966-10-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of eleven extracts" -- Half t.p.

The Enchanted Islands

Author : John Hickman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780904614428
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book The Enchanted Islands written by John Hickman and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Galapagos Islands from Inca times, which presents a cast of conquistadors, buccaneers, pirates, Robinson Crusoes and Swiss Family Robinsons; as well as eccentric explorers, hopeful colonists and naturalists, including the most famous of all - Charles Darwin.

The Enchanted Island

Author : Ellie O'Neill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922052827
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (528 download)

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Download or read book The Enchanted Island written by Ellie O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Tempest

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Tempest written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1720 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic

Author : Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic written by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic" by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The Tempest, Or The Enchanted Island

Author : John Dryden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Tempest, Or The Enchanted Island written by John Dryden and published by . This book was released on 1676 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Enchanted Islands

Author : Ainslie Conway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258930806
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Enchanted Islands written by Ainslie Conway and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1947 edition.

A River Enchanted

Author : Rebecca Ross
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063056003
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book A River Enchanted written by Rebecca Ross and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Exquisitely written with compelling characters and romance . . . I was swept away by the enchanting and magical world Rebecca Ross crafted, and loved every moment of it.” — Sue Lynn Tan, bestselling author of Daughter of the Moon Goddess Enter the isle of Cadence in this novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divine Rivals—a Scottish-inspired fantasy brimming with enemies-to-lovers romance, magic and spirits, and a captivating mystery It starts with a letter and an ominous journey across dark waters. Ten years after being sent away to the mainland to become a bard, Jack Tamerlaine is summoned home to Cadence. Girls are going missing from the island, and Adaira, his childhood nemesis and the future leader of the clan, believes Jack is the only one who can find them. The elemental spirits that dwell in every breath of air, splash of water, blade of grass, and flicker of fire find mirth in the lives of the humans, and a bard’s music is the only way to summon them and ask that the girls be returned. Yet as Jack and Adaira get closer to solving the mystery, it becomes apparent that an older, darker secret about Cadence lurks beneath the surface, and no harp song may be strong enough to stop it. With unforgettable characters, a thrilling plot, and a lush folklore-infused world, A River Enchanted is a stirring story of duty, love, and creating harmony between opposing forces. This first book in the Elements of Cadence duology marks Rebecca Ross’s brilliant entry on the adult fantasy stage.

The Enchanted Island

Author : Desmond Marwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book The Enchanted Island written by Desmond Marwood and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Enchanted Island

Author : Louise Fannie Apjohn
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 : 9781435393875
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (938 download)

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Download or read book The Enchanted Island written by Louise Fannie Apjohn and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Enchanted Land

Author : Jude Deveraux
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062135783
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book The Enchanted Land written by Jude Deveraux and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman who could not be conquered . . . A love that was never forsaken . . . A land that will not be forgotten . . . For beautiful Morgan Wakefield, the enchanted land is the ranch in New Mexico her father has left her. But the only way for her to inherit is if she lives there for a year with a husband. And so Morgan proposes a marriage of convenience to a man she just met—handsomely rugged rancher Seth Colter. In Seth's powerful embrace, Morgan discovers a passion she never knew existed, and an unexpected new love blossoms between them. But devastating challenges and betrayal conspire against these lovers, and they will have to fight for a future together on this wild, enchanted land.