Blue-beard's Work-shop & Other Stories


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"Bluebeard's workshop is a cycle of seductive and provocative stories about the games people play and the tales they tell. Why does the old lady across the street dangle desperate messages from her window? What is the secret to writing a worldwide bestseller? Can a day at the beach at Paekakariki, the sight of Wellington harbour at dusk, or a new pair of shoes in Dunedin, change your perspective on life? With quirky humour and extraordinary insights, Pierre Furlan explores universal human frailty"--Back cover.




Secrets Beyond the Door


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Maria Tatar analyses the many forms the tale of Bluebeard's wife has taken over time, showing how artists have taken the Bluebeard theme and revived it with their own signature twists.




Bluebeard's Egg


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By turns humorous and warm, stark and frightening, Bluebeard's Egg infuses a Canada of the 1940s, '50s and '80s with glowing childhood memories, the harsh realities of parents growing old, and the casual cruelty that men and women inflict on each other. Here is the familiar outer world of family summers at remote lakes, winters of political activism, and seasons of exotic friends, mudane lives and unexpected loves. But here too is the inner world of hidden places and all that emerges from them—the intimately personal, the fantastic and the shockingly real...whether it's what lies in a mysterious locked room or in the secret feelings we all conceal.




The Academy


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Metaphrog's Bluebeard


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Award-winning duo Metaphrog transform the classic folktale into a feminist fairy tale, about the blossoming of a young child to womanhood striving for independence. Eve spends an idyllic childhood of long summer days with her sweetheart Tom, and together they dream of exploring the world. But that dream is soon shattered as she comes of age. The mysterious Bluebeard is looking for a new bride and has his sights set on Eve, and rumor has it that his former wives have all disappeared. What will Eve find in the castle beyond the enchanted forest? A forbidden chamber, a golden key and the most terrifying secret, take on a new life in this gothic graphic novel.




The Story of Bluebeard and Other Stories


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An illustrated collection of short stories and poems.







The United States Catalog


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