Author : Tomie dePaola
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 11,87 MB
Release : 1987-09-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152749897
Long ago and without fail, three characters brought delight to audiences: the pantalooned Pierrot; Columbine, ever saucy and adroit; and Harlequin her lover, full of good natured drolleries and amusing tricks. From the legacy left by French pantomime and the Italian commedia dell'arte, this original story in pictures has been fashioned, with a special kind of ending to transcend time. The words, as in all mime, are in the eyes of the listener.
Author : Mother of Pierrot
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,50 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Bereavement
ISBN :
Author : Frederick Orin Bartlett
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 11,84 MB
Release : 2018-01-17
Category :
ISBN : 9780484235297
Excerpt from One Year of Pierrot A little later he sat in the corner of the room with my baby in his lap. I tried to rise to my elbow and see, but I could not. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Frederick Orin Bartlett
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 2012-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781290821315
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1106 pages
File Size : 35,1 MB
Release : 1917
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Raymond Queneau
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 42,88 MB
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1628974885
Pierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau’s finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning a young man’s initiation into a world filled with deceit, fraud, and manipulation. From his short-lived job at a Paris amusement park where he helps to raise women’s skirts to the delight of an unruly audience, to his frustrated and unsuccessful love of Yvonne, to his failed assignment to care for the tomb of the shadowy Prince Luigi of Poldevia, Pierrot stumbles about, nearly immune to the effects of duplicity. This “innocent” implies how his story, at almost every turn, undermines, upsets, and plays upon our expectations, leaving us with more questions than answers, and doing so in a gloriously skewed style (admirably re-created by Barbara Wright, Queneau’s principle translator).
Author : Heather O'Neill
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1443448818
From the two-time Giller Prize shortlisted author, a dazzling circus of a novel set in the seductive underside of Montreal and New York between the wars Two babies are abandoned in a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1910. One is a girl named Rose; the other, a boy named Pierrot. Each display rare gifts that bring them adoration and hatred. As they are made to travel around the city performing clown routines to raise funds for the orphanage, they make plans for a sensational future. They are separated as teenagers and sent off to work as menial servants, but both soon find themselves escaping into the criminal world, participating in the vicious and absurd and perverted underbelly of Montreal and New York City between the wars. They search for each other, and one night, under the snowflakes, they reunite, and the underworld will never look quite the same. With all the storytelling skill and magical language for which she is known, Heather O’Neill dazzles us with a new tale of motherless gangsters, drug addicted pianists, radicalized chorus girls and a city whose economy hinges on the price of a kiss.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 24,44 MB
Release : 1914
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Publisher :
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 40,78 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Homosexuality
ISBN :
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Author : John Boyne
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 10,77 MB
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0385687729
The powerful, unforgettable new novel from the bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, for ages 12+. When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the German mountains. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 and the Second World War is fast approaching; and this is no ordinary house, for this is the Berghof, the home of Adolf Hitler. Quickly, Pierrot is taken under Hitler's wing, and is thrown into an increasingly dangerous new world: a world of terror, secrets and betrayal, from which he may never be able to escape.
