Under the Greenwood Tree
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 26,2 MB
Release : 1873
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Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 26,2 MB
Release : 1873
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Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 19,39 MB
Release : 1873
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Author : Christina Hart-Davis
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,11 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781909747401
Marking the 800th anniversary of the Forest Charter, award-winning botanical artist Christina Hart-Davies celebrates our long relationship with trees. Since pre-historic times they have provided us with shelter, fuel, medicine, food and even the air we breathe. They have tanned leather, dyed cloth and made everything from cathedrals to clothes-pegs. We have told stories about them, admired their magnificent beauty and woven them into our spiritual lives. Following A Wild Plant Year, which recorded the folklore and cultural history of our native wildflowers, in The Greenwood Trees Christina looks at the history, folklore and virtues of our native trees - and a few well-known introductions too - all illustrated with her exquisitely detailed watercolour paintings. We have relied on trees throughout our history. We still do, and we always will. Touch wood. - Which tree provides a talisman supposed to protect against lightning? - Which firewood burns best, even when green? - Which tree should you plant by the dairy and the privy to deter flies?
Author : Thomas Hardy
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Page : 406 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 1889
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Author : Phillip Mallett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 37,95 MB
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521196485
This book covers the range of Thomas Hardy's works while providing a comprehensive introduction to his life and times.
Author : Emmanuelle Pagano
Publisher : Peirene Press
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 12,55 MB
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 190867055X
Meetings, partings, loves and losses in rural France are dissected with compassion. The late wedding guest isn't your cousin but a drunken chancer. The driver who gives you a lift isn't going anywhere but off the road. Snow settles on your car in summer and the sequins found between the pages of a borrowed novel will make your fortune. Pagano's stories weave together the mad, the mysterious and the dispossessed of a rural French community with honesty and humour. A superb, cumulative collection from a unique French voice. Why Peirene chose to publish this book: This is a spellbinding web of stories about people on the periphery. Pagano makes rural France her subject matter. She invokes the closeness of a local community and the links between the inhabitants' lives. But then she reminds us how little we know of each other. 'Devastatingly beautiful.' Le Soir, Belgium 'A treasure hunt that you can follow from title to title...fine-tipped drawings of little bits of the world that attach themselves to each other imperceptibly.' Xavier Houssin, Le Monde 'Pagano succeeds because of the range of her insight and the skill with which she shifts register: from wistfulness to blunt force, or from fantasy to naturalism.' Chris Power, The Guardian 'Endlessly beautiful and poignant.' Le Monde books of the year 2012 'With animal writing, Emmanuelle Pagano invites herself to the side of rebels and solitaries.' Marine Landrot, Télérama
Author : Miguel Anselmo Bernad
Publisher : Manila : Bookmark
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 36,41 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Philippine literature (English)
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Author : Arin Greenwood
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 27,41 MB
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1616952601
Everything has been downhill since Zoey Trask’s mother was murdered in a random mugging. Her younger brother, Ben, is on the autistic spectrum and needs constant supervision. It’s senior year, and she’s the new girl at a weird private school in Old Town Alexandria, VA, full of kids who seem too nice to be true—including a very cute boy named Pete. Aside from half-forgotten martial arts and survivalist skills that her widowed father insisted on teaching her (because that is excellent for her social life), Zoey has nothing to offer Pete or anyone else. Then Dad is kidnapped. Zoey suddenly finds herself sole caretaker of a younger brother she barely understands. Worse, Ben seems to hold the key to their father’s disappearance in his Dream Diary, a bizarre journal of names and places Ben claims that their mother shares from beyond the grave. And as if Zoey doesn’t have enough on her plate, there’s Pete, who stubbornly refuses to leave her side. Relying on the skills she never wanted to learn—Dad might have had his reasons after all—Zoey is plunged into a lethal battle to rescue her father, protect her brother, and determine the identity of her family’s true enemy.
Author : Shirley Sherwood
Publisher : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 33,88 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780297822707
Presents a collection of botanical paintings along with descriptions of the artists' techniques and backgrounds.
Author : Jessica Andrews
Publisher : Sceptre
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 17,29 MB
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473682849
From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across England, France and Spain.A girl grows up in the north of England amid scarcity, precarity and the toxic culture of heroin chic, believing that she needs to make herself smaller to claim presence in the world.Years later, as a young woman with unattainable ideals, she meets someone who calls everything into question, and is forced to confront episodes from her past. Their relationship takes her from London to Barcelona and the precipice of a new life, full of sensuality. Yet she still feels an uneasiness. In the sticky Mediterranean heat, among tropical plants and secluded beaches, she must decide what form her adult life should take and learn how to feel deserving of love and care.Milk Teeth is a novel about the joy and terror of taking risks and a search for bodily autonomy. Through Jessica Andrews' vivid and lyrical