In An Enchanted Island
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Enchanted Islands
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Author : Mary D. Sheriff
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2018-08-16
Enchanted Islands written by Mary D. Sheriff and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-16 with Art categories.
In Enchanted Islands, renowned art historian Mary D. Sheriff explores the legendary, fictional, and real islands that filled the French imagination during the ancien regime as they appeared in royal ballets and festivals, epic literature, paintings, engravings, book illustrations, and other objects. Some of the islands were mythical and found in the most popular literary texts of the day—islands featured prominently, for instance, in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso,Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata, and Fénelon’s, Telemachus. Other islands—real ones, such as Tahiti and St. Domingue—the French learned about from the writings of travelers and colonists. All of them were imagined to be the home of enchantresses who used magic to conquer heroes by promising sensual and sexual pleasure. As Sheriff shows, the theme of the enchanted island was put to many uses. Kings deployed enchanted-island mythology to strengthen monarchical authority, as Louis XIV did in his famous Versailles festival Les Plaisirs de l’île enchantée. Writers such as Fénelon used it to tell morality tales that taught virtue, duty, and the need for male strength to triumph over female weakness and seduction. Yet at the same time, artists like Boucher painted enchanted islands to portray art’s purpose as the giving of pleasure. In all these ways and more, Sheriff demonstrates for the first time the centrality of enchanted islands to ancient regime culture in a book that will enchant all readers interested in the art, literature, and history of the time.
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Author : Allison Amend
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2016-05-24
Enchanted Islands written by Allison Amend and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-24 with Fiction categories.
Inspired by the midcentury memoirs of Frances Conway, Enchanted Islands is the dazzling story of an independent American woman whose path takes her far from her native Minnesota when she and her husband, an undercover intelligence officer, are sent to the Galápagos Islands at the brink of World War II. Born in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1882 to immigrant parents, Frances Frankowski covets the life of her best friend, Rosalie Mendel, who has everything Fanny could wish for—money, parents who value education, and an effervescent and winning personality. When, at age fifteen, Rosalie decides they should run away to Chicago, Fanny jumps at the chance to escape her unexceptional life. But, within a year, Rosalie commits an unforgivable betrayal, inciting Frances to strike out on her own. Decades later, the women reconnect in San Francisco and realize how widely their lives have diverged. While Rosalie is a housewife and mother, Frances works as a secretary for the Office of Naval Intelligence. There she is introduced to Ainslie Conway, an intelligence operator ten years her junior. When it’s arranged for Frances and Ainslie to marry and carry out a mission on the Galápagos Islands, the couple’s identities—already hidden from each other—are further buried under their new cover stories. No longer a lonely spinster, Frances is about to begin the most fascinating and intrigue-filled years of her life. Amid active volcanoes, forbidding wildlife and flora, and unfriendly neighbors, Ainslie and Frances carve out a life for themselves. But the secrets they harbor from their enemies and from each other may be their undoing. Drawing on the rich history of the early twentieth century and set against a large, colorful canvas, Enchanted Islands boldly examines the complexity of female friendship, the universal pursuit of a place to call home, and the reverberations of secrets we keep from others and from ourselves.
The Enchanted Island
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Author : Fannie Louise Apjohn
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-04
The Enchanted Island written by Fannie Louise Apjohn and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-04 with Fiction categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Enchanted Island" by Fannie Louise Apjohn. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Enchanted Island
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Author : Ian Serraillier
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Release Date : 1966-10-01
The Enchanted Island written by Ian Serraillier and has been published by Heinemann Educational Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966-10-01 with categories.
"A collection of eleven extracts" -- Half t.p.
The Enchanted Island Of Yew
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Author : L. Frank Baum
language : en
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Release Date : 2017-01-04
The Enchanted Island Of Yew written by L. Frank Baum and has been published by Lindhardt og Ringhof this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-04 with Fiction categories.
Three young girls wander into an enchanted forest at meet a fairy woman, who is bored with her perfect, immortal life. She convinces them to turn her into a human and decides to become a prince because boys have more fun. His/her new existence exploring the surrounding kingdoms is fast and adventurous from the get-go. What unfolds in an interesting story of problems solved by a woman’s mind in the luxury of a man’s body. ‘The Enchanted Island of Yew‘ (1903) was written by L. Frank Baum, the author of ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’, but is separate from the Oz series. This story clearly comes from the same imagination, however, with the added bonus of some interesting gender-bender elements. L. Frank Baum (1956-1919) was an American author, actor, and filmmaker best known for his children’s books, particularly ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ (1900) and its thirteen sequels. He started writing young and created a journal with his brother, which they handed out for free.
In An Enchanted Island
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Author : William Hurrell Mallock
language : en
Publisher: London : R. Bentley
Release Date : 1892
In An Enchanted Island written by William Hurrell Mallock and has been published by London : R. Bentley this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with Cyprus categories.
The Enchanted Island
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Author : Louise Fannie Apjohn
language : en
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Release Date : 2008-02-01
The Enchanted Island written by Louise Fannie Apjohn and has been published by IndyPublish.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-01 with Fiction categories.
The Enchanted Island Of Yew
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Author : Lyman Frank Baum
language : en
Publisher: Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
Release Date : 2011-12-15
The Enchanted Island Of Yew written by Lyman Frank Baum and has been published by Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-15 with Foreign Language Study categories.
A beautiful fairy is transformed into a human prince for one year. He and his friends have many adventures.
In An Enchanted Island
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Author : W. H. Mallock
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-10-12
In An Enchanted Island written by W. H. Mallock and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-12 with Fiction categories.
Excerpt from In an Enchanted Island: Or a Winter's Retreat in Cyprus But the true traveller seeks precisely what the excursionist dreads, and what those who travel with a definite object are indifferent to. It is a sense of escape from all that is homely and habitual - from an earth and a heaven grown sor did with the dust of vain associations. It is the refreshment like that felt by a fevered cheek when a pillow is turned and the touch of the linen is cool again, produced in the mind by new colours on the mountains, new scents in the atmosphere, forests with unknown borders, roads that lead into mystery, castles that rise from the mists of an en chanted past, and men whose aims and characters one cannot despise, not knowing them. Amongst influences such as these there steals upon the true traveller a delightful sense of being born again to youth. Once more, for the time, he is buoyant with bright illusions the world is once more fresh to him as it was to the eyes of twenty; life is once more a bubble iridescent with all the. 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.
The Enchanted Island
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Author : Ellie O'Neill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-07-01
The Enchanted Island written by Ellie O'Neill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-01 with Detective and mystery stories categories.