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Ordinary Wonder Tales

Author : Emily Urquhart
Publisher : Biblioasis
ISBN 13 : 1771965061
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book Ordinary Wonder Tales written by Emily Urquhart and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction A journalist and folklorist explores the truths that underlie the stories we imagine—and reveals the magic in the everyday. “I’ve always felt that the term fairy tale doesn’t quite capture the essence of these stories,” writes Emily Urquhart. “I prefer the term wonder tale, which is Irish in origin, for its suggestion of awe coupled with narrative. In a way, this is most of our stories.” In this startlingly original essay collection, Urquhart reveals the truths that underlie our imaginings: what we see in our heads when we read, how the sight of a ghost can heal, how the entrance to the underworld can be glimpsed in an oil painting or a winter storm—or the onset of a loved one’s dementia. In essays on death and dying, pregnancy and prenatal genetics, radioactivity, chimeras, cottagers, and plague, Ordinary Wonder Tales reveals the essential truth: if you let yourself look closely, there is magic in the everyday.

Ordinary Wonder Tales

Author : Emily Urquhart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781038434395
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Ordinary Wonder Tales written by Emily Urquhart and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A journalist and folklorist explores the truths that underlie the stories we imagine--and reveals the magic in the everyday. "I've always felt that the term fairy tale doesn't quite capture the essence of these stories," writes Emily Urquhart. "I prefer the term wonder tale, which is Irish in origin, for its suggestion of awe coupled with narrative. In a way, this is most of our stories." In this startlingly original essay collection, Urquhart reveals the truths that underlie our imaginings: what we see in our heads when we read, how the sight of a ghost can heal, how the entrance to the underworld can be glimpsed in an oil painting or a winter storm--or the onset of a loved one's dementia. In essays on death and dying, pregnancy and prenatal genetics, psychics, chimeras, cottagers, and plague, Ordinary Wonder Tales reveals the essential truth: if you let yourself look closely, there is magic in the everyday."--

Wonder Tales from Around the World

Author :
Publisher : august house
ISBN 13 : 9780874834222
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Wonder Tales from Around the World written by and published by august house. This book was released on 1995 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes twenty-seven folktales from Europe, Asia, Africa, India, the Arctic, and the Americas.

Wonder Tales

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448103177
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Wonder Tales written by Marina Warner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marina Warner has gathered together a magical collection of fairy tales by the great women storytellers of the 17th and 18th centuries. These are passionate, extraordinary, and occasionally proto-feminist retellings of classic fairy stories by women who ingeniously used the fairy tale genre to comment on their own times and experiences. The stories are all in superb new translations by celebrated writers, including A. S. Byatt, Gilbert Adair and John Ashbery. With a brilliant intorduction by Marina Warner, recognised as one of our greatest experts on myth and fairy tale.

An Ordinary Wonder

Author : Buki Papillon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643137824
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book An Ordinary Wonder written by Buki Papillon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary literary debut about a Nigerian boy's secret intersex identity and his desire to live as a girl. Oto leaves for boarding school with one plan: excel and escape his cruel home. Falling in love with his roommate was certainly not on the agenda, but fear and shame force him to hide his love and true self. Back home, weighed down by the expectations of their wealthy and powerful family, the love of Oto's twin sister wavers and, as their world begins to crumble around them, Oto must make drastic choices that will alter the family's lives for ever. Richly imagined with art, proverbs and folk tales, this moving and modern novel follows Oto through life at home and at boarding school in Nigeria, through the heartbreak of living as a boy despite their profound belief they are a girl, and through a hunger for freedom that only a new life in the United States can offer. An Ordinary Wonder is a powerful coming-of-age story that explores complex desires as well as challenges of family, identity, gender, and culture, and what it means to feel whole.

Wonder Tales from Many Lands

Author :
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Wonder Tales from Many Lands written by and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1920 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THERE was once a King who had one only son, and him he loved better than anything in the whole world-better even than his own life. The King's greatest desire was to see his son married, but though the Prince had travelled in many lands, and had seen many noble and beautiful ladies, there was not one among them all whom he wished to have for a wife. One day the King called his son to him and said, "My son, for a long time now I have hoped to see you choose a bride, but you have desired no one. Take now this silver key. Go to the top of the castle, and there you will see a steel door. This key will unlock it. Open the door and enter. Look carefully at everything in the room, and then return and tell me what you have seen. But, whatever you do, do not touch nor draw aside the curtain that hangs at the right of the door. If you should disobey me and do this thing, you will suffer the greatest dangers, and may even pay for it with your life."

Greek Wonder Tales

Author : Lucy M. J. Garnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Greek Wonder Tales written by Lucy M. J. Garnett and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wonder Tales

Author : Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Baron Dunsany
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486432014
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Wonder Tales written by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Baron Dunsany and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Dunsany's] rich language, his cosmic point of view, his remote dream-worlds, and his exquisite sense of the fantastic, all appeal to me more than anything else in modern literature."--American author H. P. Lovecraft One of English literature's most original talents, Irish writer Edward J. M. D. Plunkett, the eighteenth Baron of Dunsany, created many of the best fantastic tales in the language. This collection of 33 stories includes all of the tales from two of his finest collections, including "The Three Sailors' Gambit," "The House of the Sphinx," "The Wonderful Window," "The Bad Old Woman in Black," "The Watch-Tower," "The Three Infernal Jokes," "The Secret of the Sea," and 26 other literary gems.

Wonder Tales of Architecture

Author : Louise Lamprey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Wonder Tales of Architecture written by Louise Lamprey and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wonder Tales in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt

Author : Alexandra Cheira
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527590747
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Wonder Tales in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt written by Alexandra Cheira and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides sustained critical attention on Byatt’s wonder tales, both the stand-alone tales and those which are embedded in the wider frame of a novel or novella. In this light, it examines Byatt’s claim that her wonder tales “are modern literary stories and they do play quite consciously with a postmodern creation and recreation of old forms” through a revisitation of the wonder tale in a productive dialogue with tradition as an expanded recognition of this fertile creative-critical dialogue with regards to the significance of the wonder tale in Byatt’s fictional work. The book evinces a fresh variety of conceptions and approaches to Byatt’s wonder tales, some spanning several tales and others focussing on a specific wonder tale, all thoroughly observant of the nature and workings of the relationship between story or novel and genre or tale, and theoretically informed by innovative critical approaches.

Russian Wonder Tales

Author : Post Wheeler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Wonder Tales written by Post Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

IRISH WONDER TALES - 14 illustrated Children's Stories from Ireland

Author : Anon E. Mouse
Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 8822809181
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book IRISH WONDER TALES - 14 illustrated Children's Stories from Ireland written by Anon E. Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-02-17 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herein are 14 Popular Tales collected from the people of Ireland and retold by D R McAnally. Here are tales of ghosts, giants, pookas, demons, leprechawns, banshees, fairies, witches, widows, old maids, and other marvels of the emerald isle. Celtic lore holds a wealth of colorful characters which extend far beyond the island’s famed leprechauns. Celtic folklore not only preserves the island’s cultural history, but is also richly entertaining, especially to young minds. This volume is infused with flavours that are uniquely Celtic. Celtic folklore overflows with vivid stories that fire the imagination. In Jacobs’ own words, “The Celts went forth to battle, but they always fell. Yet the captive Celt has enslaved his captor in the realm of imagination.” In this gathering of traditional folk tales brings together the best of the Emerald Isle's fabled dwellers. Tales like Taming the Pooka, About The Fairies, The Enchanted Isle, the Banshee, The Henpecked Giant, and, of course, The Leprechaun and more. All weave their spellbinding magic in the classic tradition of Irish storytelling in the pages of this enchanting treasury. Illustrated by H R Heaton with 65 beautiful pen-and-ink drawings plus the sheet music to a few Celtic folk songs which brings a new life to these wonderful stories. TAGS: Irish Wonder Tales, folklore, fairy tales, myths, legends, children’s stories, bedtime stories, Celtic, Irish, Ireland, Emerald Isle, popular tales, celtic folklore, The Seven Kings Of Athenry, Taming The Pooka, The Sexton Of Cashel, Satan's Cloven Hoof, The Enchanted Island, How The Lakes Were Made, About The Fairies, The Banshee, The Round Towers, The Police, The Leprechawn, The Henpecked Giant, Satan As A Sculptor, The Defeat Of The Widows

Russian Wonder Tales

Author : George Post Wheeler
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Russian Wonder Tales written by George Post Wheeler and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Russian Wonder Tales" by George Post Wheeler. 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 Story of the Old Plank and Other Wonder Tales

Author : Johan Jacob Antonie Goeverneur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Old Plank and Other Wonder Tales written by Johan Jacob Antonie Goeverneur and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wonder Tales from Wagner

Author : Anna Alice Chapin
Publisher : New York : Harper & Brothers Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wonder Tales from Wagner written by Anna Alice Chapin and published by New York : Harper & Brothers Publishers. This book was released on 1898 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The flying dutchman -- Tannhäuser -- Lohengrin -- Tristan and Isolde -- The mastersingers of Nuremberg.

Wonder Tales from Many Lands

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Wonder Tales from Many Lands written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wonder Tales of Old Japan

Author : Bernard Lionel Kinghorn Henderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wonder Tales of Old Japan written by Bernard Lionel Kinghorn Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: