Summer Will Show, Warner, Sylvia Townsend

Автор: Warner, Sylvia Townsend
Название: Lolly willowes
ISBN: 0241454883 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241454886
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: 'A great shout of life and individuality ... an act of defiance that gladdens the soul' Guardian Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London and moving, alone, to the depths of the countryside, her overbearing relatives are horrified.

But Lolly has a greater, far darker calling than family: witchcraft. 'The book I'll be pressing into people's hands forever . .

. It tells the story of a woman who rejects the life that society has fixed for her in favour of freedom ... tips suddenly into extraordinary, lucid wildness' Helen Macdonald'Witty, eerie, tender ...

her prose, in its simple, abrupt evocations, has something preternatural about it' John Updike

Автор: Townsend Warner, Sylvia
Название: Of cats and elfins
ISBN: 1912766159 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781912766154
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Описание: The 23 stories in Of Cats and Elfins encompass scholarship, black humour, the Gothic, and the anthropomorphic cats of The Cat`s Cradle Book (1940), which enact Warner`s preoccupation with the dark forces at large in Europe in the later 1930s. This is a major fantasy collection for a new generation of fantasy enthusiasts and Warner fans.

Автор: Warner Sylvia Townsend
Название: Lolly Willowes or the Loving Huntsman
ISBN: 1162643161 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781162643168
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Цена: 35490.00 T
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Автор: Lyon Lea, Lafaye Alexandria
Название: Ready to Fly: How Sylvia Townsend Became the Bookmobile Ballerina
ISBN: 0062888781 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062888785
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 13230.00 T
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Описание:

An inspiring picture book for little ballerinas everywhere This nonfiction picture book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular for children ages 4 to 6. It's a fun way to learn to read and as a supplement for activity books for children.

Ready to Fly is the true story of Sylvia Townsend, an African American girl who falls in love with ballet after seeing Swan Lake on TV.

Although there aren't many ballet schools that will accept a girl like Sylvia in the 1950s, her local bookmobile provides another possibility. A librarian helps Sylvia find a book about ballet and the determined seven-year-old, with the help of her new books, starts teaching herself the basics of classical ballet.

Soon Sylvia learns how to fly--how to dance--and how to dare to dream.

Lyrical, easy-to-read, and affecting text paired with bright, appealing illustrations make Ready to Fly perfect for aspiring ballerinas everywhere who are ready to leap and to spread their wings.

Includes a foreword from Sylvia Townsend, a brief history of the bookmobile, an author's note, and a further reading list.

Автор: Figgis John Neville, Warner George Townsend, Frazer Norman Lewis
Название: English History Illustrated from Original Sources Volume 3
ISBN: 1355304873 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781355304876
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Цена: 42850.00 T
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Автор: Warner, Sylvia Townsend
Название: The Corner That Held Them
ISBN: 0241454816 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241454817
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic offers, for the first time, an original, timely examination of the pivotal role poetry plays in policy, power and political legitimacy in modern-day Iran. Through a compelling chronological and thematic framework, Shams presents fresh insights into the emerging lexicon of coercion and unrest in the modern Persian canon.

Автор: Townsend Warner Sylvia
Название: Kingdoms of Elfin
ISBN: 199994481X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781999944810
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Описание: Endorsed by Neil Gaiman, this new edition of Sylvia Townsend Warner`s final collection of short stories brings her fantasy writing to a new readership. These sixteen sly and enchanting stories of Elfindom show Warner`s mastery of realist fantasy that recalls the success of her first novel, the witchcraft classic Lolly Willowes (1926).

Автор: Warner Sylvia Townsend
Название: Mr. Fortune
ISBN: 1590174585 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781590174586
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 9170.00 T
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Описание: After a decade in one South Seas mission, a London bank-clerk-turned-minister sets his heart on serving a remote volcanic island. Fanua contains neither cannibals nor Christians, but its citizens, his superior warns, are like children--immoral children. Still, Mr. Timothy Fortune lights out for Fanua. Yet after three years, he has made only one convert, and his devotion to the boy may prove more sensual than sacred. Mr. Fortune's Maggot, Sylvia Townsend Warner's follow-up to Lolly Willowes, is lyrical, droll, and deeply affecting, and her missionary captivated his creator as much as he did her readers.
Long after the work's publication, Warner began the novella The Salutation. Now adrift and starving on the Brazilian pampas, Mr. Fortune is rescued by an elderly widow, who delights in having an Englishman about the house. Her heir, however, may beg to differ.
Brilliant and subversive, Mr. Fortune's Maggot and its sequel are now available in one volume. They show Sylvia Townsend Warner at the height of her powers.

Автор: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Название: The Corner That Held Them
ISBN: 1844088049 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844088041
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: A masterful historical novel of monastic life, set in the 14th century. Many consider this Townsend Warner`s most accomplished work.

Автор: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Название: The Corner That Held Them
ISBN: 1681373874 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681373874
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors.

Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in the era of the Black Death, about a Benedictine convent of no great note. The nuns do their chores, and seek to maintain and improve the fabric of their house and chapel, and struggle with each other and with themselves. The book that emerges is a picture of a world run by women but also a story--stirring, disturbing, witty, utterly entrancing--of a community. What is the life of a community and how does it support, or constrain, a real humanity? How do we live through it and it through us? These are among the deep questions that lie behind this rare triumph of the novelist's art.

Автор: Townsend Warner, Sylvia
Название: Selected Stories
ISBN: 1853811599 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781853811593
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: `One of our most idiosyncratic, courageous and versatile writers` - Hermione Lee

Автор: Townsend Warner, Sylvia
Название: After The Death Of Don Juan
ISBN: 1853810576 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781853810572
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: Published in 1938, mirroring the author`s concern with the background to the Spanish Civil War, this novel mixes legend and history, in tracing the disappearance of Don Juan.