The Unknown Woman Of The Seine
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The Unknown Woman Of The Seine A Novel
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Author : Brooks Hansen
language : en
Publisher: Delphinium Books
Release Date : 2021-11-02
The Unknown Woman Of The Seine A Novel written by Brooks Hansen and has been published by Delphinium Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-02 with Fiction categories.
In the late autumn of 1889, the body of an unknown woman appeared on the banks of the Seine River in Paris. It was taken to the city morgue behind Notre Dame and put on display for a month, according to protocol. The eerie beauty of the young woman’s expression attracted crowds but no claimant, and so, before the body was dispatched, a mold was taken of the face, yielding a mask which was to become one of the most celebrated cult objects of the 20th century. Set during the final days of the Paris expo of 1889, Brooks Hansen’s captivating The Unknown Woman of the Seine sets out to solve the mystery of who the woman was behind the mask. In charge of that investigation is a former Gendarme and recent prisoner of war just returned from Tonkin, China. Emile Brassard is on his way to Paris, determined to reclaim his place in La Force when he crosses paths with an enigmatic and unnamed young maiden and her gypsy wagon. Detecting villainy, and bent on proving himself to his former superiors, Brassard tracks her into the city and observes from the shadows as, with clear but mysterious purpose, she wends her way into the orbit of several savory and unsavory characters—an Artist, an Impresario, a Madame, a Countess, and one Disciple even—each of whom sees in her some opportunity for profit or redemption; any one of whom may therefore be responsible for her sudden and unexplained disappearance. Brassard’s chase will lead him on a grand tour of the city’s lushest and seamiest venues, from its highest spires down into its darkest catacombs, and past a gallery of equally diverse crimes—the moral, the political, the maniacal. By the end of this enchanting and ominous journey, he will learn the stunning truth of the unknown woman’s true identity, her past and present, but not before unearthing the equally disturbing truth about himself, who he has been, and who he must become.
The Unknown Woman Of The Seine
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Author : Brooks Hansen
language : en
Publisher: Delphinium
Release Date : 2021-11-02
The Unknown Woman Of The Seine written by Brooks Hansen and has been published by Delphinium this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-02 with Fiction categories.
In the late autumn of 1889, the body of an unknown woman appeared on the banks of the Seine River in Paris. It was taken to the city morgue behind Notre Dame and put on display for a month, according to protocol. The eerie beauty of the young woman's expression attracted crowds but no claimant, and so, before the body was dispatched, a mold was taken of the face, yielding a mask which was to become one of the most celebrated cult objets/curios of the 20th century. Set during the final days of the Paris expo of 1889, Brooks Hansen's The Unknown Woman of the Seine sets out to solve the mystery of who the woman was behind the mask. In charge of that investigation is a former Gendarme and recent prisoner of war just returned from Tonkin, China. Henri Brassard is on his way to Paris, determined to reclaim his place in La Force when he crosses paths with a mysterious and unnamed young maiden and her gypsy wagon. Detecting villainy, and bent on proving himself to his former superiors, Brassard tracks her into the city and observes from the shadows as, with evident but inscrutable purpose, she wends her way into the orbit of several savory and unsavory characters--an Artist, an Impresario, a Madame, a Countess, and one Disciple even--each of whom sees in her some opportunity, a chance for profit or redemption; any one of whom may therefore be responsible for her sudden and unexplained disappearance. On that account, Brassard's chase will lead him on a grand tour of the city's lushest and seamiest venues, from its highest spires down into its darkest, dankest catacombs and past a gallery of equally diverse crimes--the moral, the political, the maniacal. By the end, he will, in fact, learn the stunning truth of the unknown woman's true identity, her past and present, but not before unearthing the equally disturbing truth about himself, who he has been, and who he must become.
The Drowned Muse
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Author : Anne-Gaëlle Saliot
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
The Drowned Muse written by Anne-Gaëlle Saliot and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Art categories.
The Drowned Muse is a study of the extraordinary destiny, in the history of European culture, of an object which could seem, at first glance, quite ordinary in the history of European culture. It tells the story of a mask, the cast of a young girl's face entitled "L'Inconnue de la Seine" (the Unknown Woman of the Seine), and its subsequent metamorphoses as a cultural figure. Legend has it that the "Inconnue" drowned herself in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century. The forensic scientist tending to her unidentified corpse at the Paris Morgue was supposedly so struck by her allure that he captured in plaster the contours of her face. This unknown girl, also called "The Mona Lisa of Suicide," has since become the object of an obsessive interest that started in the late 1890s, reached its peak in the 1930s, and continues to reverberate today. Aby Warburg defines art history as "a ghost story for grown-ups." This study is simlarly "a ghost story for grown-ups," narrating the aura of a cultural object that crosses temporal, geographical, and linguistic frontiers. It views the "Inconnue" as a symptomatic expression of a modern world haunted by the earlier modernity of the nineteenth century. It also investigates how the mask's metamorphoses reflect major shifts in the cultural history of the last two centuries, approaching the "Iconnue" as an entry point to understand a phenomenon characteristic of 20th- and 21st-century modernity: the translatability of media. Doing so, this study mobilizes discourses surrounding the "Inconnue," casting them as points of negotiation through which we may consider the modern age.
The Drowned Muse
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Author : Anne-Gaëlle Saliot
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
The Drowned Muse written by Anne-Gaëlle Saliot and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Death categories.
'The Drowned Muse' charts the trajectory of representations of 'L'Inconnue de la Seine' in literature and the visual arts since the late 1890s and shows how the mask's metamorphoses track across the years provides points of negotiation through which to better understand modernity.
The Drowned Muse Casting The Unknown Woman Of The Seine Across The Tides Of Modernity By Anne Ga Lle Saliot
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
The Drowned Muse Casting The Unknown Woman Of The Seine Across The Tides Of Modernity By Anne Ga Lle Saliot written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Coming Up For Air
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Author : Sarah Leipciger
language : en
Publisher: Black Swan
Release Date : 2021
Coming Up For Air written by Sarah Leipciger and has been published by Black Swan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Fiction categories.
'Bold in its weaving of three ingeniously linked storylines and rich in sensuous detail and vivid characterisation. I can't wait for her next.' PATRICK GALE 'A stunning, stirring story told with exceptional skill and rare beauty.' TERRI WHITE 'Glittering. A triumph.' RACHEL JOYCE **LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWN 2020** THREE EXTRAORDINARY LIVES INTERTWINE ACROSS OCEANS AND TIME On the banks of the River Seine in 1899, a young woman takes her final breath before plunging into the icy water. Although she does not know it, her decision will set in motion an astonishing chain of events. It will lead to 1950s Norway, where a grieving toy-maker is on the cusp of a transformative invention, all the way to present-day Canada where a journalist, battling a terrible disease, risks everything for one last chance to live. Taking inspiration from a remarkable true story, Coming Up for Air is a bold, richly imagined novel about the transcendent power of storytelling and the immeasurable impact of every human life. MORE PRAISE FOR COMING UP FOR AIR- 'Extraordinary.' FRANCIS SPUFFORD 'Vivid, evocative, moving. I loved it' CLAIRE FULLER 'Spellbinding and beautifully written.' CARYS BRAY 'Dazzling . . . I savoured every word of its beautiful prose' PRIMA
The Worshipper Of The Image
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Author : Richard Le Gallienne
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-10-18
The Worshipper Of The Image written by Richard Le Gallienne 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 2018-10-18 with categories.
In The Worshipper of the Image Antony is a man with a beautiful wife, lovely child and a gift for writing poetry. He is also one of those men destined to face tragedy. One day he finds a death mask of a girl who had drowned. Antony had no way of knowing that possessing this mask meant the eminent death of those he loved and his tragic future.
The Unknown Woman Classic Reprint
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Author : Anne Warwick
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-12-24
The Unknown Woman Classic Reprint written by Anne Warwick and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-24 with categories.
Excerpt from The Unknown Woman And they looked at each other and grinned, rather sheepishly; for they were, all three, nearer forty than thirty, yet still they could not come together for five minutes without talking about her. And they came together anywhere from once to a dozen times a day. 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.
Claude Camille
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Author : Stephanie Cowell
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2010-04-06
Claude Camille written by Stephanie Cowell and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-06 with Fiction categories.
A vividly-rendered portrait of both the rise of Impressionism and of the artist at the center of the movement, Claude and Camille is above all a love story of the highest romantic order. In the mid-nineteenth century, a young man named Claude Monet decided that he would rather endure a difficult life painting landscapes than take over his father’s nautical supplies business in a French seaside town. Against his father’s will, and with nothing but a dream and an insatiable urge to create a new style of art that repudiated the Classical Realism of the time, he set off for Paris. But once there he is confronted with obstacles: an art world that refused to validate his style, extreme poverty, and a war that led him away from his home and friends. But there were bright spots as well: his deep, enduring friendships with men named Renoir, Cézanne, Pissarro, Manet—a group that together would come to be known as the Impressionists, and that supported each other through the difficult years. Even more illuminating was his lifelong love, Camille Doncieux, a beautiful, upper-class Parisian girl who threw away her privileged life to be by the side of the defiant painter and embrace the lively Bohemian life of their time. His muse, his best friend, his passionate lover, and the mother to his two children, Camille stayed with Monet—and believed in his work—even as they lived in wretched rooms and often suffered the indignities of destitution. But Camille had her own demons—secrets that Monet could never penetrate—including one that when eventually revealed would pain him so deeply that he would never fully recover from its impact.
The Unknown Woman
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Author : Anne Warwick
language : en
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Release Date : 2009-04
The Unknown Woman written by Anne Warwick and has been published by Kessinger Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04 with Literary Collections categories.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
