Fairy Water: A Christmas Story
Author : Mrs. J. H. Riddell
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Page : 162 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 1869
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Author : Mrs. J. H. Riddell
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Page : 162 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 1869
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Author : M. A. C.
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 12,83 MB
Release : 1864
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Author : Lisa Kröger
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 32,85 MB
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1683691393
Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature’s strangest tales, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill House and beyond. Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn’t exist without the women who created it. From Gothic ghost stories to psychological horror to science fiction, women have been primary architects of speculative literature of all sorts. And their own life stories are as intriguing as their fiction. Everyone knows about Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein, who was rumored to keep her late husband’s heart in her desk drawer. But have you heard of Margaret “Mad Madge” Cavendish, who wrote a science-fiction epic 150 years earlier (and liked to wear topless gowns to the theater)? If you know the astounding work of Shirley Jackson, whose novel The Haunting of Hill House was reinvented as a Netflix series, then try the psychological hauntings of Violet Paget, who was openly involved in long-term romantic relationships with women in the Victorian era. You’ll meet celebrated icons (Ann Radcliffe, V. C. Andrews), forgotten wordsmiths (Eli Colter, Ruby Jean Jensen), and today’s vanguard (Helen Oyeyemi). Curated reading lists point you to their most spine-chilling tales. Part biography, part reader’s guide, the engaging write-ups and detailed reading lists will introduce you to more than a hundred authors and over two hundred of their mysterious and spooky novels, novellas, and stories.
Author : Daniela Drescher
Publisher : Floris Books
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 26,80 MB
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781782508175
A magical Christmas story in the Little Fairy series from the bestselling illustrator of An Illustrated Treasury of Grimm's Fairy Tales. It's a cold winter's night and Faith is lost in a snowstorm. As the little fairy looks for somewhere warm to stay, she meets friendly birds, a lost young elf and someone else very special! Father Christmas is surprised to find a little fairy and elf out in the snow on Christmas Eve. Can he help them find somewhere to celebrate Christmas Day?
Author : Caroline Crowe
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 45,57 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0571364497
Fabulous festive picture book from the creators of the bestselling Santa's New Beard - a perfect stocking-filler gift!Christmas Eve was here at last,The countdown clock was ticking fast . . .But yikes! When Santa turned the key(The reindeer need some help you see)The engine didn't start, it spluttered,'That isn't right', the elves all muttered . . .When Santa's sleigh stops working on Christmas Eve the elves all rally round to help. Maybe they could use a slingshot? Or the owls could help? How about polar bears?Will they be able to sort the sleigh out before it is too late? Things are not looking good until one small elf has a bright idea!Festive and fun, this is destined to become a seasonal favourite.
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Page : 1352 pages
File Size : 37,47 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Bibliography
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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Author : Nicholas Daly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 36,88 MB
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316300501
In this provocative book, Nicholas Daly tracks the cultural effects of the population explosion of the nineteenth century, the 'demographic transition' to the modern world. As the crowded cities of Paris, London and New York went through similar transformations, a set of shared narratives and images of urban life circulated among them, including fantasies of urban catastrophe, crime dramas, and tales of haunted public transport, refracting the hell that is other people. In the visual arts, sentimental genre pictures appeared that condensed the urban masses into a handful of vulnerable figures: newsboys and flower-girls. At the end of the century, proto-ecological stories emerge about the sprawling city as itself a destroyer. This lively study excavates some of the origins of our own international popular culture, from noir visions of the city as a locus of crime, to utopian images of energy and community.
Author : Frances Hays
Publisher : London, Chatto and Windus
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 27,13 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Dictionary catalogs
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Author : Haverhill Public Library
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Page : 520 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Dictionary catalogs
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Author : Charlotte Riddell
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 2022-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1770488367
Charlotte Riddell’s The Uninhabited House (1875) tells the story of River Hall and the secrets that are hidden behind its doors. Within this haunted house, Riddell combines the supernatural with Victorian anxieties over stolen inheritance, crime, greed, and class mobility. This new Broadview Edition includes a detailed biography of Charlotte Riddell and illustrations from the original appearance of the novella in Routledge’s Magazine; it also includes Riddell’s ghost story “The Open Door” (1882), which serves as a useful companion text for The Uninhabited House. The contextual material in the edition highlights Victorian cultural, historical, and literary influences on Riddell’s text, including women’s contributions to the ghost story, print culture, and the development of supernatural fiction; the link between ghost stories and the holidays; and the haunted house, ghost hunting, and popular beliefs about ghosts in the Victorian era.