A humorous Victorian-era set social fable told in pure Dickensian tradition. Follow the titular pair of street orphans on adventures far and wide.
Completing the sequence begun with Hester, the prequel to Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, this free-standing historical novel returns Pearl to Norwich, and her tainted inheritance.
"Originally published in single magazine form in Pearl 1-6"--Copyright page.
Winner • PEN Award for Poetry in Translation From the acclaimed translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a spellbinding new translation of this classic allegory of grief and consolation.
9, 1966, pp. 199–22. [Italian] Miyata, Takeshi, translator. “Shiratama”: A Japanese Translation of Pearl. Konan U Bungakukai, 1954. ... Edited by Nicola Masciandaro and Karl Steel, Glossator, vol. 9, 2015 ...
Now you'll love meeting Pearl, a young woman who follows her heart to the Western frontier. Pearl was once the apple of her father's eye. Then an accident left Pearl's neck scarred and her heart desperate for her father's love.
24 Conversely, when jealous Othello murdered Desdemona, he 'threw a pearl away' (Othello, V.2). The Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy distils desire into a servant girl zealously warming her mistress's pearls around her own throat before a ...
It was the life of a man with no ties—and he liked it that way, until Pearl, a cultured beauty fresh from Boston with proper manners and fiery kisses, gave him a taste of something he could never have. Diamond, Pearl, Jade and Ruby.
Bean (née Pearl) and Henry, misfits and best friends, have the strangest mothers in town.
The fourteenth-century Middle English poem Pearl is one of the best dream vision poems ever written, yet its language (the Northwest Midlands dialect of late-medieval England) and literary allusions (to biblical, mythological, and medieval ...
Caldecott Honor-winning author and artist Molly Idle has masterfully crafted a modern classic in this mesmerizing tale about the immense power of small actions.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL • “Daring readers should find this tale of a malevolent telepathic pig to be a memorable experience.”—Booklist (starred review) There’s something strange about ...
Well, her name is Pearl and this is a story about her and her family and friends. To be more precise many of these stories are hers-authentic memories written by an amazing woman.
As the first book to analyze the work of Fanon as an existential-phenomenological of human sciences and liberation philosopher, Gordon deploys Fanon's work to illuminate how the "bad faith" of European science and civilization have ...
“Simultaneously sweeping and intimate . . . an eminently readable and engrossing account of the actions that pulled America into the Second World War.” —Parks Stephenson, producer, The Fight for Owens Pearl: December 7, 1941 is the ...
Pearl: The 7th Day of December 1941 is the story of how America and Japan, two nations with seemingly little over which to quarrel, let peace slip away, so that on that "day which will live in infamy," more than 350 dive bombers, high-level ...
The anonymous author of the poem Pearl is rated with Langland and Chaucer as one of the greatest Middle English poets. And, while a number of editions of this poem...
This is, Bernard O’Donoghue says in his introduction, ‘an event of great significance and excitement’, an encounter between medieval tradition and an acclaimed modern poet.
DELIVERING VIRTUE FORTUNA AND THE SCAPEGRACE ESCAPE FROM OBLIVIA For Jack and Grace and Lee TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER ...
As Mary Gordon tells the story of the bonds among them, she takes us deep into the labyrinths of maternal love, religious faith, and Ireland’s tragic history.