Download or read book Enchanted By You written by Kathleen Harrington and published by Avon. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cheyenne princess first meets the Laird of Strathlyon Castle when she saves his life on the streets of Edinburgh. She knows they're destined for each other--even though his guilt over his brother's death won't allow him the love he yearns for. But he cannot hide the passion he feels whenever he gives into his desire for her--and she manages to disrupt his life until he can no longer resist her.
Download or read book Enchanted by the Highlander written by Lecia Cornwall and published by Swerve. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enchanted by the Highlander is the fourth book in a charming and enchanting Scottish series that reimagines fairytales by Lecia Cornwall. Gillian MacLeod is shy and quiet, the least likely of all her sisters to seek out excitement and adventure. But on a moonlit night at a masquerade ball, Gillian steals a kiss from a mysterious stranger, knowing she’ll never see him again. John Erly, disowned by his noble English father, started a new life in Scotland. Most people are suspicious of the foreign mercenary and he does everything is his power to avoid romantic entanglements. But he can’t forget the bewitching beauty who kissed him in the dark, and stole his heart, even though he has no idea who she might be. A year later, John is given the duty of escorting Gillian to her wedding and immediately recognizes her as the temptress he’s dreamed of for months. There’s not much he can do when she's promised to another man, but fate intervenes and this time, passion—and adventure—can’t be denied. Honor demands he stay away from the MacLeod’s enchanting daughter, but love has a very different ending in mind...
Download or read book Olivia s Enchanted Summer written by Lyn Gardner and published by Nosy Crow. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olivia can't believe she's really at the legendary Edinburgh Festival. Every summr, people put on plays, they dance and tell jokes, and this year, it's the magnificent Swan Circus! But the run doesn't go smoothly. The Circus ends up homeless, it keeps raining and there's a thief in their midst who's determined to steal the show. As the Festival draws to a close, can anything turn Olivia's soggy summer into a truly enchanted one?
Download or read book The Enchanted Glass written by Tom Nairn and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this acclaimed study of British statehood, identity and culture, Tom Nairn deftly dispels the conviction that the Royal Family is nothing more than an amusing relic of feudalism or a mere tourist attraction. Instead, he argues that the monarchy is both apex and essence of the British state, the symbol of a national backwardness. In this fully updated edition, Nairn’s powerful and bitterly comic prose lays bare Britain’s peculiar, pseudo-modern, national identity—which remains stubbornly fixated on the Crown and its constitutional framework, the “parliamentary sovereignty” of Westminster.
Download or read book Enchanted April written by Matthew Barber and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: When two frustrated London housewives decide to rent a villa in Italy for a holiday away from their bleak marriages, they recruit two very different English women to share the cost and the experience. There, among the wisteria blossoms a
Download or read book The Enchanted Screen written by Jack Zipes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films offers readers a long overdue, comprehensive look at the rich history of fairy tales and their influence on film, complete with the inclusion of an extensive filmography compiled by the author. With this book, Jack Zipes not only looks at the extensive, illustrious life of fairy tales and cinema, but he also reminds us that, decades before Walt Disney made his mark on the genre, fairy tales were central to the birth of cinema as a medium, as they offered cheap, copyright-free material that could easily engage audiences not only though their familiarity but also through their dazzling special effects. Since the story of fairy tales on film stretches far beyond Disney, this book, therefore, discusses a broad range of films silent, English and non-English, animation, live-action, puppetry, woodcut, montage (Jim Henson), cartoon, and digital. Zipes, thus, gives his readers an in depth look into the special relationship between fairy tales and cinema, and guides us through this vast array of films by tracing the adaptations of major fairy tales like "Little Red Riding Hood," "Cinderella," "Snow White," "Peter Pan," and many more, from their earliest cinematic appearances to today. Full of insight into some of our most beloved films and stories, and boldly illustrated with numerous film stills, The Enchanted Screen, is essential reading for film buffs and fans of the fairy tale alike.
Download or read book Enchanted Objects written by Allan Hepburn and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-03-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enchanted Objects investigates the relationship between visual art and contemporary fiction, addressing the problems that arise when paintings, deluxe books, porcelains, or statues are represented in contemporary novels. The distinction between objects and art objects depends on aesthetics. While some objects are authenticated through museum exhibits, others are hidden, broken, neglected, coveted, hoarded, or salvaged. Allan Hepburn asks four broad questions about aesthetics and value: What is a detail in visual art? Is all art ornamental? Does the value of an object increase because it is fragile? What defines ugliness? Contemporary novels, such as Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring, Barry Unsworth's Stone Virgin, and Bruce Chatwin's Utz offer implicit answers to these questions while critiquing museums and the determination to invest objects with value through display. Addressing current debates in museum studies, cultural studies, art history, and literary criticism, Enchanted Objects develops an extensive theory of how contemporary literature engages with and relates to aesthetic objects.
Download or read book The Last Enchantment written by Mary Stewart and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-05-06 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Pendragon is King! Unchallenged on the battlefield, he melds the country together in a time of promise. But sinister powers plot to destroy Camelot, and when the witch-queen Morgause -- Arthur's own half sister -- ensnares him in an incestuous liaison, a fatal web of love, betrayal, and bloody vengeance is woven.
Download or read book Re Enchanted written by Maria Sachiko Cecire and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Hobbit to Harry Potter, how fantasy harnesses the cultural power of magic, medievalism, and childhood to re-enchant the modern world Why are so many people drawn to fantasy set in medieval, British-looking lands? This question has immediate significance for millions around the world: from fans of Lord of the Rings, Narnia, Harry Potter, and Game of Thrones to those who avoid fantasy because of the racist, sexist, and escapist tendencies they have found there. Drawing on the history and power of children’s fantasy literature, Re-Enchanted argues that magic, medievalism, and childhood hold the paradoxical ability to re-enchant modern life. Focusing on works by authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Susan Cooper, Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, and Nnedi Okorafor, Re-Enchanted uncovers a new genealogy for medievalist fantasy—one that reveals the genre to be as important to the history of English studies and literary modernism as it is to shaping beliefs across geographies and generations. Maria Sachiko Cecire follows children’s fantasy as it transforms over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—including the rise of diverse counternarratives and fantasy’s move into “high-brow” literary fiction. Grounded in a combination of archival scholarship and literary and cultural analysis, Re-Enchanted argues that medievalist fantasy has become a psychologized landscape for contemporary explorations of what it means to grow up, live well, and belong. The influential “Oxford School” of children’s fantasy connects to key issues throughout this book, from the legacies of empire and racial exclusion in children’s literature to what Christmas magic tells us about the roles of childhood and enchantment in Anglo-American culture. Re-Enchanted engages with critical debates around what constitutes high and low culture during moments of crisis in the humanities, political and affective uses of childhood and the mythological past, the anxieties of modernity, and the social impact of racially charged origin stories.
Download or read book A Monster Calls written by Patrick Ness and published by Thorndike Striving Reader. This book was released on 2020-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large Print�s increased font size and wider line spacing maximizes reading legibility, and has been proven to advance comprehension, improve fluency, reduce eye fatigue, and boost engagement in young readers of all abilities, especially struggling, reluctant, and striving readers.
Download or read book The Young Enchanted written by Sir Hugh Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of young love, and of brother and sister.
Download or read book The Young Enchanted A Romantic Story written by Hugh Walpole and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book Under an Enchantment written by Anne Stuart and published by Impeccably Demure Press. This book was released on 2023-03-17 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolm MacLaren has come to the small Scottish island of St. Columba for one reason—revenge. He hasn’t counted on a beautiful, fairy-like widow to haunt his footsteps, a woman so irresistible that he could almost forget his reason for being there. Ailie Spens is an old soul. She dances barefoot in the moonlight, floats like a fey creature among the relatives who try to rule her life and does her best to convince everyone she is half-mazed. And she knows when a man is under an enchantment. He walked from the sea, terrifying the townspeople, and everyone knows he must be a selkie, a man on land and a seal in the icy North Atlantic. But Ailie knows he has come for her, to rescue her from the stifling future her relatives have deemed proper. Now she simply has to convince him to take her with him when he returns to the deep, dark sea.
Download or read book Colouring Edinburgh written by Helen Stark and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful adult colouring book of famous historical landmarks and cultural icons from Scotland's world-renowned capital city, from Holyrood Palace and Arthur's Seat to the quieter beauty spots of Dean Village and Newhaven.
Download or read book Princess Charlotte and the Enchanted Rose written by Vivian French and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On her first day of a new year at The Princess Academy, Princess Charlotte is accused of stealing a magical bouquet of roses by a rather unpleasant pair of new students.
Download or read book The Witch the Sword and the Cursed Knights written by Alexandria Rogers and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for fans of The School for Good and Evil and A Tale of Magic…, this Barnes & Noble Children’s Book Award finalist and Amazon Best Book of the Month is a charming fantasy debut that puts a new spin on the legend of Camelot Twelve-year-old Ellie can’t help that she’s a witch, the most hated member of society. Determined to prove her worth and eschew her heritage, Ellie applies to the Fairy Godmother Academy—her golden ticket to societal acceptance. But Ellie’s dreams are squashed when she receives the dreaded draft letter to serve as a knight of King Arthur’s legendary Round Table. She can get out of the draft—but only if she saves a lost cause. Enter Caedmon, a boy from Wisconsin struggling with the death of his best friend. He first dismisses the draft as ridiculous; magic can’t possibly exist. But when Merlin’s ancient magic foretells his family’s death if he doesn’t follow through, he travels to the knights’ castle, where he learns of a wicked curse leeching the knights of their power. To break the curse, Ellie and Caedmon must pass a series of deathly trials and reforge the lost, shattered sword of Excalibur. And unless Ellie accepts her witch magic and Caedmon rises to become the knight he’s meant to be, they will both fail—and the world will fall to the same darkness that brought King Arthur and Camelot to ruin.
Download or read book Military Men of Feeling written by Holly Furneaux and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military Men of Feeling considers the popularity of the figure of the gentle soldier in the Victorian period. It traces a persistent narrative swerve from tales of war violence to reparative accounts of soldiers as moral exemplars, homemakers, adopters of children on the battlefield and nurses. This material invites us to think afresh about Victorian masculinity and Victorian militarism. It challenges ideas about the separation of military and domestic life, and about the incommunicability of war experience. Focusing on representations of soldiers' experiences of touch and emotion, the book combines the work of well known writers—including Charles Dickens, Charles Kingsley, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charlotte Yonge—with previously unstudied writing and craft produced by British soldiers in the Crimean War, 1854-56. The Crimean War was pivotal in shaping British attitudes to military masculinity. A range of media enabled unprecedented public engagement with the progress and infamous 'blunders' of the conflict. Soldiers and civilians reflected on appropriate behaviour across ranks, forms of heroism, the physical suffering of the troops, administrative management and the need for army reform. The book considers how the military man of feeling contributes to the rethinking of gender roles, class and military hierarchy in the mid-nineteenth century, and how this figure was used in campaigns for reform. The gentle soldier could also do more bellicose social and political work, disarming anti-war critiques and helping people to feel better about war. This book looks at the difficult mixed politics of this figure. It considers questions, debated in the nineteenth century and which remain urgent today, about the relationship between feeling and action, and the ethics of an emotional response to war. It makes a case for the importance of emotional and tactile military history, bringing the Victorian military man of feeling into contemporary debates about liberal warriors and soldiers as social workers.
