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Book Fallada s Faerie Tales

Download or read book Fallada s Faerie Tales written by Alicia Michaels and published by Marion Press. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every story has a beginning… See the world of Fallada through the eyes of Jacob Grimm, and discover the back stories of your favorite characters from the Lost Kingdom of Fallada series in these short story prequels. Includes: A King Named Magnus. The Queen of the Fae, Adrah Everstar, has no choice but to marry the man her father chose for her now that she has taken the throne. Can their arranged marriage become a love match despite their differences? The Huntsman and I. Snow White awoke from an enchanted sleep to find that the man of her dreams had kissed her and broken the spell … or so she thought. When her happily ever after turns into a nightmare, another chance at love and redemption will present itself. The Nymph Queen. Jacob Grimm has discovered many treasures in the realm of Fallada, but none are more elusive than the shy creatures known as Wood Nymphs. When he finally comes face to face with their queen, a love affair will change his life … and give rise to a prophecy hundreds of years in the making. Fallada’s Last Stand: The Fall of King Magnus. War has come to Fallada as the greed of mankind threatens to destroy it. As the Faeries rise up to defend the land they call home, General Rothatin Longspear will face a difficult choice between duty and love, and Queen Adrah will learn just what sort of sacrifice being queen of the Fae will require of her. Fallada’s Last Stand: The Fall of King Magnus. War has come to Fallada as the greed of mankind threatens to destroy it. As the Faeries rise up to defend the land they call home, General Rothatin Longspear will face a difficult choice between duty and love, and Queen Adrah will learn just what sort of sacrifice being queen of the Fae will require of her.

Book Beyond the Iron Gate

Download or read book Beyond the Iron Gate written by Alicia Michaels and published by Elise Marion. This book was released on with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 1845, before the mystical land of Fallada was separated from the realm of men forever, the two worlds coexisted in harmony. Man could mingle freely in the world of the Elves and Faeries at will and peace reigned. In the hills of Shropshire, England, just miles from the gate separating the village of Ludlow from the world of mystical creatures, farmer’s daughter Zara Wells longs for answers. It is not only the golden hair that trail feet behind her, or the strange hue of her violet eyes that separates her from the other girls her village. There is something inside of her, something touched by magic that longs to know more about what lies on the other side of the gate. In Fallada, darkness has begun to spread. As the youngest and most beautiful girls of her village begin to disappear, Zara comes closer to discovering the true circumstances surrounding her birth. Little does she know, that the closer she comes to the answers she so desperately desires, the closer she will come to being ensnared in the dark queen’s web of growing treachery.

Book The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales written by Jack Zipes and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In over 1,000 entries, this acclaimed Companion covers all aspects of the Western fairy tale tradition, from medieval to modern, under the guidance of Professor Jack Zipes. It provides an authoritative reference source for this complex and captivating genre, exploring the tales themselves, the writers who wrote and reworked them, and the artists who illustrated them. It also covers numerous related topics such as the fairy tale and film, television, art, opera, ballet, the oral tradition, music, advertising, cartoons, fantasy literature, feminism, and stamps. First published in 2000, 130 new entries have been added to account for recent developments in the field, including J. K. Rowling and Suzanne Collins, and new articles on topics such as cognitive criticism and fairy tales, digital fairy tales, fairy tale blogs and websites, and pornography and fairy tales. The remaining entries have been revised and updated in consultation with expert contributors. This second edition contains beautifully designed feature articles highlighting countries with a strong fairy tale tradition, covering: Britain and Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, North America and Canada, Portugal, Scandinavian countries, Slavic and Baltic countries, and Spain. It also includes an informative and engaging introduction by the editor, which sets the subject in its historical and literary context. A detailed and updated bibliography provides information about background literature and further reading material. In addition, the A to Z entries are accompanied by over 60 beautiful and carefully selected black and white illustrations. Already renowned in its field, the second edition of this unique work is an essential companion for anyone interested in fairy tales in literature, film, and art; and for anyone who values the tradition of storytelling.

Book Wolf Among Wolves

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hans Fallada
  • Publisher : Melville House
  • Release : 2010-05-25
  • ISBN : 1933633921
  • Pages : 816 pages

Download or read book Wolf Among Wolves written by Hans Fallada and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as “Fallada’s best book” (The New Yorker), this sprawling post-WWI is a portrait of Berlin in a time of great upheaval—and of the common man’s struggle to survive it all Set in Weimar Germany soon after Germany’s catastrophic loss of World War I, the story follows a young gambler who loses everything in Berlin, then flees the chaotic city, where worthless money and shortages are causing pandemonium. Once in the countryside, however, he finds a defeated German army that has decamped there to foment insurrection. Somehow, amidst it all, he finds romance—it’s The Year of Living Dangerously in a European setting. Fast-moving as a thriller, fascinating as the best historical fiction, and with lyrical prose that packs a powerful emotional punch, Wolf Among Wolves is the equal of Fallada’s acclaimed Every Man Dies Alone as an immensely absorbing work of important literature. “An unmissably brilliant portrait of Berlin before the Nazis.” —The Times of London

Book Tales of Feyland and Faerie

Download or read book Tales of Feyland and Faerie written by Anthea Sharp and published by Fiddlehead Press. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight tales of Faerie magic and adventure, spanning the centuries from Ancient Ireland to a near-distant future. Includes new, exclusive content! BENEATH THE KNOWE Can music overcome fey magic? When the chieftain's infant son is stolen away by the fey folk of the Bright Court, Maeve Donnelly journeys beneath the faerie hill to save the child. Her only weapon is a simple pennywhistle, and the music running in her bard-gifted blood. FAE HORSE Accused as witch, Eileen must flee for her life, leaving her village and true love behind. With her pursuers closing in, she chances across a strange black horse - but does she dare to pay the price of escape? BREAKING THE BROWNIE CODE *New, exclusive content* Feeyah MacGuire is not very good at being a Brownie—but when she breaks the sacred code of their kind she faces banishment… or worse. MUSIC’S PRICE Jeremy Cahill’s gifted cello playing calls the creatures of Faerie to him. As a boy, his Irish grandmother crafts him a charm to keep the fair folk at bay—but when it finally fails, Jeremy must face the terrifying power of Faerie…alone. FEYLAND: THE FIRST ADVENTURE Jennet Carter never thought hacking into her dad's new epic-fantasy sim-game would be so exciting... or dangerous. Behind the interface, dark forces lie in wait, leading her toward a battle that will test her to her limits and cost her more than she ever imagined. HOW TO BABYSIT A CHANGELING When a mortal boy is exchanged for a hideous faerie creature, Marny Fanalua steps up to help her friends in their battle against the Dark Court. *NOTE * The events in this novella occur simultaneously with Feyland: The Twilight Kingdom. Reading the complete Feyland Trilogy first is recommended if you would like to avoid spoilers. TRINKET Violet Yamaguchi can't wait to play the immersive new computer game, Feyland--but she doesn't suspect the game wants something in return... BREA’S TALE: ARRIVAL When a faerie girl is sent on a mission to the mortal world, she must learn to navigate the intricacies of life among humans - but will she survive undetected? *NOTE* This story falls in between Spark and Royal in the Feyguard books, but it can be read as a stand-alone without spoiling anything. Keywords: litRPG, cyberpunk, YA fantasy, teen adventure, Celtic mythology, historical fantasy, Fantasy Short Story Collection

Book Tales from the Underworld

Download or read book Tales from the Underworld written by Hans Fallada and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin In these stories, criminals lament how hard it is to scrape a living by breaking and entering; families measure their daily struggles in marks and pfennigs; a convict makes a desperate leap from a moving train; a ring - and with it a marriage - is lost in a basket of potatoes. Here, as in his novels, Fallada is by turns tough, darkly funny, streetwise and effortlessly engaging, writing with acute feeling about ordinary lives shaped by forces larger than themselves: addiction, love, money.

Book Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion

Download or read book Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion written by Jack Zipes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fairy tale is arguably one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until the first publication of Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in order to shape children's lives – their behavior, values, and relationship to society. As Jack Zipes convincingly shows in this classic work, fairy tales have always been a powerful discourse, capable of being used to shape or destabilize attitudes and behavior within culture. How and why did certain authors try to influence children or social images of children? How were fairy tales shaped by the changes in European society in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Zipes examines famous writers of fairy tales such as Charles Perrault, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen and L.Frank Baum and considers the extraordinary impact of Walt Disney on the genre as a fairy tale filmmaker.

Book Daughter of the Red Dawn

Download or read book Daughter of the Red Dawn written by Alicia Michaels and published by Snowy Wings Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the outside, seventeen year-old Selena McKinley is like any other teenage girl. Yet Selena has always felt as if she doesn’t belong and is counting the days to graduation and her freedom from the small town that makes her feel so out of place, when the arrival of a stranger turns her world upside down. Selena will learn just how different she is and the truth of where she comes from. A lost princess, they call her, the catalyst for a war involving a world that Selena was taken from as a child. An evil queen obsessed with her own beauty with a plan to enslave the human race.…the notion seems so silly, yet Selena knows in her heart that it is true. Then there is Titus, the shape shifter whose blue eyes and claims of destiny hold her heart captive. Can Selena find the strength to do what she must while following her heart?

Book Folk and Fairy Tales   Fourth Edition

Download or read book Folk and Fairy Tales Fourth Edition written by Martin Hallett and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of folk and fairy tales brings together 52 stories from a range of historical and geographic traditions. Sections group tales together by theme or juxtapose variations of individual tales, inviting comparison and analysis across cultures and genres. An accessible section of critical selections provides a foundation for readers to analyze, debate, and interpret the tales for themselves. An expanded introduction by the editors looks at the history of folk and fairy tales and distinguishes between the genres, while revised introductions to individual sections provide more detailed history of particular tellers and tales, paying increased attention to the background and cultural origin of each tale. A selection of illustrations from editions of classic tales from the 19th to the 21st centuries is also included. This new edition includes a larger selection of critical articles, more modern and cross-cultural variations on classic tales, and an expanded discussion of illustrations.

Book Faerie Tale

    Book Details:
  • Author : Raymond E. Feist
  • Publisher : Doubleday Books
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 9780385236232
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book Faerie Tale written by Raymond E. Feist and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phil Hastings, a screenwriter in rural upstate New York, is changed when a Faerie, a Fool, and the resurrection of a primordial war with a forgotten People come into his life.

Book Shimmer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Claudette Melanson
  • Publisher : Claudette Melanson
  • Release : 2014-05-23
  • ISBN : 1310159491
  • Pages : 8 pages

Download or read book Shimmer written by Claudette Melanson and published by Claudette Melanson. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love Faerie Tales? Ariane & Aureliam have grown up together, always knowing they were destined to spend their lives together. But a chance meeting may bring an end to the happiness they've always hoped to have together. Ariane's father has other plans for her future...and they don't include Aureliam. The faerie pair are not willing to lose each other so easily and Aureliam has laid a plan in place that will hopefully ensure their future together. Will Ariane's dreams of a life with her true love come true? This short story will captivate readers with its magic and shimmering imagery. Sure to become a fairy tale for the ages!

Book Fairy Tales and Society

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ruth B. Bottigheimer
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2014-12-05
  • ISBN : 0812201507
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Fairy Tales and Society written by Ruth B. Bottigheimer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of exemplary essays by internationally recognized scholars examines the fairy tale from historical, folkloristic, literary, and psychoanalytical points of view. For generations of children and adults, fairy tales have encapsulated social values, often through the use of fixed characters and situations, to a far greater extent than any other oral or literary form. In many societies, fairy tales function as a paradigm both for understanding society and for developing individual behavior and personality. A few of the topics covered in this volume: oral narration in contemporary society; madness and cure in the 1001 Nights; the female voice in folklore and fairy tale; change in narrative form; tests, tasks, and trials in the Grimms' fairy tales; and folklorists as agents of nationalism. The subject of methodology is discussed by Torborg Lundell, Stven Swann Jones, Hans-Jorg Uther, and Anna Tavis.

Book Tempest s Fury

Download or read book Tempest s Fury written by Alicia Michaels and published by Marion Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gretchen Thomas isn’t exactly princess material. She’s not thin, perky, graceful, or refined. So, when a mysterious man claiming to be from another world appears, telling her that she’s royalty, her first instinct is to laugh in his face. However, his assertion that she’s from this strange parallel realm rings true—especially given the freakish abilities she’s had since childhood. Yet, with that knowledge comes a set of expectations Gretchen isn’t sure she can live up to. With an entire kingdom relying on her to fight for them against an evil queen, and a long lost family hoping to reunite with her, being a princess doesn’t seem like all it’s cracked up to be. One thing is for sure; when the war between good and evil spills over from one realm into another, disrupting her life and threatening the brother who raised her, Gretchen will not hesitate to unleash the powerful storm brewing inside of her.

Book Fox and the Rose

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rebecca Buchanan Buchanan (author)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1901
  • ISBN : 9780359354252
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Fox and the Rose written by Rebecca Buchanan Buchanan (author) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ruins of Noe

Download or read book The Ruins of Noe written by Danika Dinsmore and published by Hydra House. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brigitta's adventures continue with THE RUINS OF NOE, which picks up where Book One, BRIGITTA OF THE WHITE FOREST, leaves off. ~ ~ ~ "I don't understand," said Brigitta, and then glanced back down as the baby yawned and opened her eyes. They were crystal white. "She has no destiny." Ondelle reached in, picked the baby up, and cradled it in her arms. "The Ethereals have not visited her." ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ A child born with no destiny: one of many signs that the White Forest faeries had lost touch with the Ethereals, the Ancient Ones. High Priestess Ondelle is convinced by an old proverb that one faerie is fated to travel to the former home of the Ancients, the Ruins of Noe, to find the answer. That faerie, she believes, is Brigitta. Ondelle and Brigitta set off to save their forest once again, but when they arrive in Noe they discover something they never learned from any faerie tale. Why had this dark secret been kept from them? Why in the name of Faweh had the Ancients left some faeries behind?

Book A Dark Faerie Tale Series Omnibus Edition  Books 7   8

Download or read book A Dark Faerie Tale Series Omnibus Edition Books 7 8 written by Alexia Purdy and published by Lyrical Lit. Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This boxed set contains books 7 & 8 of A Dark Faerie Tale Series. In the heart of Faerie lies corruption, mystery, and untapped magic. Legends of Fire (Book 7) When the Raven Faery Queen’s brother is cursed and in danger of losing his wings and mind, she calls in specialized mercenaries for the Seelie Faery Court—Benton and Rylan (AKA Soap). They immediately discover this might not be a cut and dry mission. Benton is reminded of a promise he vowed to keep and uncovers an important tie to his family’s past. But the secrets go beyond his family and lead to the real reason Elementals, like Benton, are being hunted and are almost extinct. Soap also discovers a link to his past that threatens his magic and reveals deadly truths about the Land of Faerie and the two divided courts. Guardians of Fire (Book 8) When the magic of Faerie fractures, the land demands the ultimate price. Hearts will shatter and alliances will be crushed, but one power might just save them all. Follow your favorite Dark Faerie Tale characters once more in another world shattering adventure for the all-consuming quest for power and magic.

Book A Small Circus

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hans Fallada
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0141196556
  • Pages : 628 pages

Download or read book A Small Circus written by Hans Fallada and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a storm is brewing. The shabby reporter Tredup leads a precarious existence working for the Pomeranian Chronicle - until he takes some photographs that offer the chance to make a fortune. In Kruger's bar, the farmers are plotting their revenge on greedy officials.