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Wild Swans


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Author : Jung Chang
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2008-06-20

Wild Swans written by Jung Chang and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.



Wild Swans


Wild Swans
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Author : Jessica Spotswood
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2016-05-03

Wild Swans written by Jessica Spotswood and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-03 with Young Adult Fiction categories.


The summer before Ivy's senior year is going to be golden-all bonfires, barbeques, and spending time with her best friends. For once, she will just get to be. No summer classes, none of Granddad's intense expectations to live up to the family name. For generations, the Milbourn women have lead extraordinary lives-and died young and tragically. Granddad calls it a legacy, but Ivy considers it a curse. Why else would her mother have run off and abandoned her as a child? But when her mother unexpectedly returns home with two young daughters in tow, all of the stories Ivy wove to protect her heart start to unravel. The very people she once trusted now speak in lies. And all of Ivy's ambition and determination cannot defend her against the secrets of the Milbourn past...



The Wild Swans


The Wild Swans
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Author : Hans Christian Andersen
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-03-08

The Wild Swans written by Hans Christian Andersen and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-08 with categories.


Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author best known for writing children's stories including "The Little Mermaid" and "The Ugly Duckling." But he didn't just write short stories, and his intended audience wasn't restricted to children. In addition to his fairy tales, Andersen wrote poems, plays, novels, travel books, essays, and more. He hungered for recognition at home (Denmark) and abroad-and he got it! Eventually. Today, his stories can be read in over one hundred languages. But no matter what language they're in, Andersen's tales have got something for everyone. In them, you'll find beauty, tragedy, nature, religion, artfulness, deception, betrayal, love, death, judgment, penance, and-occasionally-a happy ending. They're complex tales, but since Andersen himself was pretty complex, we like to think that art imitates life. Or something like that. "The Wild Swans" is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a princess who rescues her eleven brothers from a spell cast by an evil queen. Includes vintage illustration!



A Wild Swan


A Wild Swan
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Author : Michael Cunningham
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2015-11-10

A Wild Swan written by Michael Cunningham and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-10 with Fiction categories.


Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hours A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away—the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder—are transformed by Michael Cunningham into stories of sublime revelation. Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed: the years after a spell is broken, the rapturous instant of a miracle unexpectedly realized, or the fate of a prince only half cured of a curse. The Beast stands ahead of you in line at the convenience store, buying smokes and a Slim Jim, his devouring smile aimed at the cashier. A malformed little man with a knack for minor acts of wizardry goes to disastrous lengths to procure a child. A loutish and lazy Jack prefers living in his mother's basement to getting a job, until the day he trades a cow for a handful of magic beans. Reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu, rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true.



Wild Swans


Wild Swans
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Author : Jackie Morris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-04-05

Wild Swans written by Jackie Morris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-05 with Juvenile Fiction categories.


A girl loses her beloved brothers when they are turned into swans by her wicked stepmother. She embarks on a vital quest with one purpose: to find them and turn them back into boys again. But the task is complicated. She must pick nettles with her bare hands and turn them to yarn, to spin and knit into shirts for each of the eleven brothers. And all the while she cannot speak, for if she does, even so much as a whisper, it will be like a knife in the heart of each swan-boy. And so she knits in silence. And where there is silence, people will put words. The Wild Swans is a beautiful and lyrical extended version of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen in Jackie Morris's enchanting retelling, complete with delicate watercolor paintings throughout this new edition. A story about love and bravery, about how to listen, and about how, when we do not listen, we hear what we wish to hear. "Beautiful, lyrical, and lovely." Joanne Harris on The Wild Swans "Jackie Morris does more than tell a story; she conjures glorious landscapes of the heart." Meg Rosoff. For The Unwinding: "A quiet masterpiece . . . a love story, a hope story, a story out of time, out of stricture, out of the narrow artificial bounds by which we try to contain the wild wonderland of reality because we are too frightened to live wonder-stricken." Maria Popova, Brain Pickings "The tales feel like half-remembered dreams, peopled with fairytale characters and magnificent creatures." Rebecca Armstrong, i Paper Best Books of 2020



The Wild Swans At Coole


The Wild Swans At Coole
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Author : William Butler Yeats
language : en
Publisher: Litres
Release Date : 2017-09-05

The Wild Swans At Coole written by William Butler Yeats and has been published by Litres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-05 with Poetry categories.




The Painter And The Wild Swans


The Painter And The Wild Swans
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Author : Claude Clement
language : en
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers
Release Date : 1990-09

The Painter And The Wild Swans written by Claude Clement and has been published by Dial Books for Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-09 with Artists categories.


Transfixed by the beauty of a passing flock of white swans, a Japanese painter finds that he cannot work until he sees them again.



The Wild Swans


The Wild Swans
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Author : Hans Christian Andersen
language : en
Publisher: Golden Books
Release Date : 2014

The Wild Swans written by Hans Christian Andersen and has been published by Golden Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Juvenile Fiction categories.


Eleven brothers who have been turned into swans by their evil stepmother are saved by their beautiful sister.



The Wild Swans


The Wild Swans
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Author : Hans Christian Andersen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981

The Wild Swans written by Hans Christian Andersen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Fairy tales categories.


Eleven brothers who have been turned into swans by their evil stepmother are saved by their beautiful sister. Includes suggested discussion questions and Bible verses.



The Wild Swans


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Author : Peg Kerr
language : en
Publisher: Aspect
Release Date : 2001-11-01

The Wild Swans written by Peg Kerr and has been published by Aspect this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-11-01 with Fiction categories.


This novel focuses on two outcasts on two journeys in two eras. In 1689 England, Lady Eliza Grey's 11 brothers are turned into swans. Rejected by her father, Eliza is flown to America by her brothers where she has a chance to save them--until she is accused of witchcraft. In the second story, set in 1981 New York, Elias Latham has AIDS, is banished from his father's house, and must learn to live on the streets. Like Eliza, Elias struggles to understand the suffering he must endure.