The Marvellous Boy
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The Marvellous Boy
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Author : Linda Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2012-11-15
The Marvellous Boy written by Linda Kelly and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1770, at the end of his tether, the seventeen-year-old poet Thomas Chatterton, penniless and starving, despairing of success and tormented by a sense of failure, committed suicide in his garret room. Within a few years he was transformed into a legend. In the dawning Romantic Movement, he became a symbol of some of its most powerful preoccupations - suicide, youth and neglected genius. During the two ensuing centuries, Chatterton has become one of the most famous of literary suicides. To the Romantics in the nineteenth century, the premature death of this precocious genius became a source of inspiration. His suicide inspired Vigny's melodramatic play Chatterton, and forty years later, Leoncavallo's opera spread to Italy. The Pre-Raphaelites, especially Rossetti, were fascinated by his death. In the twentieth century, the eccentric scholar and poet E. W. Meyerstein developed a lifelong passion for him. Linda Kelly explores the development, pervasiveness and astonishing persistence of the Chatterton legend, throwing new and revealing light on the writers and artists who admired him. 'A book that leaves out nothing important and yet keeps us reading like a novel.' John Wain
Ophelia And The Marvelous Boy
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Author : Karen Foxlee
language : en
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Release Date : 2014-01-28
Ophelia And The Marvelous Boy written by Karen Foxlee and has been published by Knopf Books for Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-28 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
“Magic is “messy and dangerous and filled with longing,” we learn in this brave tale of grief, villainy and redemption that borrows from the story of the Snow Queen. Set in a vast, chilly museum, the tale brings together a valiant girl, a charmed boy, a magical sword and a clock ticking down to the end of the world.”—The Wall Street Journal This is the story of unlikely heroine Ophelia Jane Worthington-Whittard who doesn't believe in anything that can't be proven by science. She and her sister Alice are still grieving for their dead mother when their father takes a job in a strange museum in a city where it always snows. On her very first day in the museum Ophelia discovers a boy locked away in a long forgotten room. He is a prisoner of Her Majesty, the Snow Queen. And he has been waiting for Ophelia's help. As Ophelia embarks on an incredible journey to rescue the boy everything that she believes will be tested. Along the way she learns more and more about the boy's own remarkable journey to reach her and save the world. A story within a story, this a modern day fairytale about the power of friendship, courage and love, and never ever giving up.
Ophelia And The Marvellous Boy
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Author : Karen Foxlee
language : en
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Release Date : 2014-02-06
Ophelia And The Marvellous Boy written by Karen Foxlee and has been published by Hot Key Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-06 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
In which young Ophelia rescues a magical boy, battles the Snow Queen, and saves the world Eleven-year-old Ophelia might not be brave, but she certainly is curious. Her family are still reeling from her mother's death, and in a bid to cheer everyone up, her father has taken a job at a fantastically enormous and gothic museum in a city where it never stops snowing. Ophelia can't wait to explore - and she quickly discovers an impossibility. In a forgotten room, down a very dark corridor, she finds a boy, who says he's been imprisoned for three-hundred-and-three-years by an evil Snow Queen who has a clock that is ticking down towards the end of the world. A sensible girl like Ophelia doesn't quite believe him, of course, but there's no denying he needs her help. There are many other, darker, impossibilities in this museum too. Ghosts, wolves, Misery Birds, magical swords - and even fabled Snow Queens - will all do their very best to stop Ophelia and hurt her family. She will have to garner all her courage, strength and cleverness if she is to rescue this most Marvellous Boy - and maybe even save the world in the process.
The Marvellous Boy
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Author : Louis Nowra
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
The Marvellous Boy written by Louis Nowra and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with categories.
The Marvellous Boy
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Author : Peter Corris
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2017-01-01
The Marvellous Boy written by Peter Corris and has been published by Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-01 with Fiction categories.
The third book in the Cliff Hardy series Lady Catherine presides over the declining fortunes of the Chatterton estate, which is lacking a suitable heir. When she hears of a grandson she never knew, Cliff Hardy takes the job, reluctantly, of finding him. From the run-down boarding houses of Darlinghurst to the social set of Canberra, Hardy finds the case forcing him into some of the strangest roles a private detective has ever had to play.
The Marvellous Boy
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Author : Linda Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date : 1971-01-01
The Marvellous Boy written by Linda Kelly and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971-01-01 with Faux et supercheries littéraires - Histoire - 18e siècle categories.
Silas And The Marvellous Misfits
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Author : Tom Percival
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2021-10-14
Silas And The Marvellous Misfits written by Tom Percival and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-14 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A Marcus Rashford Book Club Choice! Silas and the Marvellous Misfits by Tom Percival is an action-packed adventure that shows kids the joy of being themselves. 'Engaging and action packed. I would have loved this book as a child!' – Marcus Rashford MBE Erika has a BIG secret. She’s a member of the Dream Defenders – a top-secret organization that banishes your worries while you sleep! And tonight they're on a mission to rescue Erika's best friend Silas from the clutches of the evil Glooms – creatures who want everyone in the dream world to look and think exactly the same way! Can the Dream Defenders save Silas and help him to see that being a misfit can be a truly marvellous thing? Discover more of the Dream Defenders adventures in Erika and the Angermare and Chanda and the Devious Doubt. The Marcus Rashford Book Club is a collaboration between Marcus Rashford and Macmillan Children's Books, inspiring children to develop a love of reading and literacy as a life skill.
Lenny S Book Of Everything
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Author : Karen Foxlee
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2019-01-24
Lenny S Book Of Everything written by Karen Foxlee and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-24 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A moving novel about love, loss and growing up with a brother who has gigantism "Tough, tender and beautiful"Glenda Millard, author of The Stars at Oktober Bend Lenny Spink is the sister of a giant. Her little brother Davey won't stop growing - and at seven is as tall as a man. When they receive their monthly instalment of Burrell's Build-It-at-Home Encyclopedia set, fun and excitement burst into Lenny and Davey's lives. The amazing, mysterious entries in the book's pages give them a way to dream of escape: Lenny vows to become a beetle expert, while Davey decides he will run away to Canada and build a log cabin. But as Davey's disease progresses, the siblings' richly imagined world becomes harder to cling to in this deeply moving and original novel about grief, family and wonder. "Warm, humorous, absolutely real and above all, uplifting... Karen Foxlee, you're a genius" Wendy Orr, author of Dragonfly Song Karen Foxlee was born in Mount Isa, Australia. She trained and worked as a nurse before studying for a degree in creative writing at the University of the Sunshine Coast. She is the author of five books, including The Anatomy of Wings, which won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Book in the South East Asia and South Pacific region, and Lenny's Book of Everything, which is published by Pushkin Children's Books.
Thomas Chatterton
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Author : Charles Edward Russell
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-02-02
Thomas Chatterton written by Charles Edward Russell and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Excerpt from Thomas Chatterton: The Marvellous Boy, the Story of a Strange Life, 1752-1770 Some obstacle to a wide reading of Chatterton has been found in the strange and antique garb of the Rowley poems. An attempt is made here to show how slight is this obstacle by printing examples of the poems in their original and others in a modernized form. There will also be found analyses of musical themes employed by Chatterton that may seem to exhibit more clearly the unusual nature of his endowment and the essential beauty of his work. 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 Marvellous Adventures Of Maggie And Methuselah
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Author : Sarah Brennan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-12-07
The Marvellous Adventures Of Maggie And Methuselah written by Sarah Brennan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-07 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Maggie loves hanging out with her best friends Methuselah (her talkative parrot) and Edmund (the richest boy in Hong Kong), but loathes attending boring parties with her mum and dad! Little does she know that a Family Fun Day will trigger a thrilling adventure involving one of Hong Kong's greatest mysteries. A funny, exciting story for pre-teens set in one of the world's most exotic cities, where cultures meet and risks are for the taking!