Author : Miriam Dixson
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,94 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Convict women - Irish women - The "frontier woman.frontier woman.__
Author : Miriam Dixson
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 27,31 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Women
ISBN : 9780868407371
The Real Matilda book investigates the Australian experience of women in colonial times, and asks how far Australians have moved beyond formative influences - elites, convicts, the Irish - which have led to discriminatory attitudes towards women.
Author : Mara Wilson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 25,99 MB
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0698407016
"Thoughtfully traces [Mara Wilson's] journey from child actress to Hollywood dropout...Who is she now? She's a writer." —NPR's "Guide To 2016’s Great Reads" “Growing up, I wanted to be Mara Wilson. Where Am I Now? is a delight.” —Ilana Glazer, cocreator and star of Broad City Named a best book of the month by GoodReads and Entertainment Weekly A former child actor best known for her starring roles in Matilda and Mrs. Doubtfire, Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and out of place: as the only kid on a film set full of adults, the first daughter in a house full of boys, a Valley girl in New York and a neurotic in California, and a grown-up the world still remembers as a little girl. Tackling everything from what she learned about sex on the set of Melrose Place, to discovering in adolescence that she was no longer “cute” enough for Hollywood, these essays chart her journey from accidental fame to relative (but happy) obscurity. They also illuminate universal struggles, like navigating love and loss, and figuring out who you are and where you belong. Candid, insightful, moving, and hilarious, Where Am I Now? introduces Mara Wilson as a brilliant new chronicler of the experience that is growing up female.
Author :
Publisher : Parragon Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,28 MB
Release : 2010-05
Category : Imagination
ISBN : 9781445402796
A little girl named Matilda spends her time playing the roles of a beautiful princess, an angry witch, a clown, and a butterfly.
Author : Karen Cushman
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 39,83 MB
Release : 2000-10-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0547533233
Into the fascinating, pungent setting of Blood and Bone Alley, home of leech, barber-surgeon, and apothecary, comes Matilda, raised by a priest to disdain worldly affairs and focus on spiritual matters. To Matilda's dismay, her work will not involve Latin or writing, but practical tasks: lighting the fire, going to market, mixing plasters and poultices, and helping Peg treat patients. She is appalled by the worldliness of her new surroundings, and the sharp-tongued saints she turns to for advice are no help at all. Filled with the witty dialogue and richly authentic detail that Karen Cushman’s work is known for, Matilda Bone is a compelling comic novel about a girl who learns to see herself and others clearly, to laugh, and to live contentedly in this world. Author’s note.
Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 40,78 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0140066942
Twenty wickedly anarchic tales from the master of the unpredictable, chosen from his bestsellers Over to You, Someone Like You, Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch.Stylish, outrageous and haunting, they explore the sinister side of the human psyche with unexpected outcomes. There's the wife who serves up a murderous new dish to her husband, the gambler who collects little fingers from losers, the sound machine that can hear grass scream, and the night-time seduction that has macabre consequences, to name a few.
Author : Rachel Hulin
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,36 MB
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 110197317X
Matilda Goodman is an underemployed wedding photographer grappling with her failure to live as an artist and the very bad lie she has told her boyfriend (that she has a dead twin). Harry, her (totally alive) brother, is an untenured professor of literature, anxiously contemplating his dead-end career and sleeping with a student. When Matilda invited her boyfriend home for Thanksgiving to meet the family, she falls down a slippery slope of shame, scandal, and drunken hot tub revelations forcing both siblings to examine who they really are and who they want to be. Told entirely in hilarious email exchanges, this is a wonderfully subversive, sensitive novel of romantic entanglement and misguided ambition
Author : Emily Gravett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 11,33 MB
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442475285
This delightful picture book with Emily Gravett’s signature twist ending sweetly depicts the relationship between a child and her beloved pet. Matilda is desperate to figure out what her cat will enjoy. She tries everything she can think of: climbing trees, playing with wool, even tea parties and dress-up games, but as Matilda gets more and more creative in her entertainment attempts, her cat moves from unimpressed to terrified. Will Matilda ever figure out what her cat likes? In the style of Dogs and Monkey and Me, this young picture book from Emily Gravett is an insightful, fond, and funny look at the relationship between a little girl and her cat that’s sure to strike a chord with anyone who’s ever loved a pet.
Author : Cori Doerrfeld
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 35,86 MB
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0316257710
A sweet, timeless picture book about an adorable little ballerina bunny who feels overlooked until the day of her big ballet recital. Includes Read Aloud/Read to Me functionality where available. Book Description: Meet Matilda the bunny! She lives with her mother, her father, and...her many many brothers and sisters. Sometimes Matilda finds herself lost in the middle. But when her mother signs her up for bunny ballet, Matilda feels she has finally found a place to shine--if she can get her family to notice, that is.
Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0593203372
Now a musical on broadway and streaming on Netflix! Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a menacing, kid-hating headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull she suddenly discovers she has a remarkable power with which to fight back. It'll take a superhuman genius to give Miss Trunchbull what she deserves and Matilda may be just the one to do it! Here is Roald Dahl's original novel of a little girl with extraordinary powers. This much-loved story has recently been made into a wonderful new musical, adapted by Dennis Kelly with music and lyrics by Tim Minchin.
