Download or read book The School at the Chalet written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-05-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by a vacation to the Austrian Alps, Elinor M. Brent-Dyer wrote The School at the Chalet, launching a series that would span more than 60 books. The series follows the adventures of a boarding school set in the picturesque Swiss Alps. The series begins with The School at the Chalet (1925), where readers are introduced to Miss Madge Bettany, a young woman who decides to start a school for girls in the Swiss mountains. The series then chronicles the growth and evolution of the school, as well as the trials and triumphs of its students.
Download or read book Eustacia Goes to the Chalet School written by Elinor Mary Brent-Dyer and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Excitements at the Chalet School written by Elinor Mary Brent-Dyer and published by Girls Gone by. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its small beginnings, the Chalet School grows to be one of the most famous girls' schools in the world. There's no end of excitement and adventure and it's every girl's dream to be a pupil there. The winter term is a week old when Inter V propose a scheme for the school's anniversary.
Download or read book The Chalet School in Exile written by Elinor M Brent-Dyer and published by Chalet School. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shocks for the Chalet School written by Elinor Mary Brent-Dyer and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gabriel and the Hour Book written by Evaleen Stein and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the story of the making of an hour book as a wedding gift from King Louis of France to Lady Anne of Brittany and the good fortune it brought to little Gabriel, Brother Stephen's color grinder.
Download or read book Chalet School in the Oberland written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-07-25 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer was born Gladys Eleanor May Dyer on April 6, 1894 in South Shields, in the northeast of England. She wrote over a hundred books of children’s literature during her life. From lower middle-class roots, she went to a small private school and became a teacher after attending the City of Leeds Training College. As a teacher, she worked at both public and private schools, and even as a governess. She had an interest in the theater, and her first book Gerry Goes to School (the first in her La Rochelle series) was written in 1922 --for the child actress Hazel Bainbridge. About this time, inspired by a vacation to the Austrian Alps, she wrote The School at the Chalet in 1923 (the first in her Chalet School series). Brent-Dyer continued to teach and tried rather unsuccessfully to run her own school from 1938 to 1948. After this, she quit teaching but continued writing until her death on September 20, 1969 in Redhill, Surrey.
Download or read book Balthus written by Nicholas Fox Weber and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 1047 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-scale biography of one of the most elusive and enigmatic painters of our time -- the self-proclaimed Count Balthus Klossowski de Rola -- whose brilliantly rendered, markedly sexualized portraits, especially of young girls, are among the most memorable images in contemporary art. The story of Balthus's life has been shrouded by contradiction and hearsay, most of it his own invention; over the years he created for himself a persona of mystery, aristocracy, and glamour. Now, in Nicholas Fox Weber's superb biography, Balthus, the man and the artist, stands revealed as never before. He was born in Paris in 1908 to Polish parents. At age twelve he first stepped into the spotlight with the publication of forty of his drawings illustrating a story about a cat by Rainer Maria Rilke, who was then Balthus's mother's lover and a crucial influence on the young boy. From that moment, Balthus has never been out of the public eye. In 1934 his first exhibition, in Paris, stunned the art world. The seven canvases drew attention to his extraordinary technique -- a mix of tradition and imagination informed by the work of Piero della Francesca, Courbet, and Joseph Reinhardt, but unique to the twenty-six-year-old artist -- and to their provocative content; one of the paintings, The Guitar Lesson, was so powerful in its sadomasochistic imagery that it was deemed necessary to remove it from public display. Continuously since then, Balthus's work has provoked both great opprobrium and profound admiration -- as has the artist himself, whether collaborating with Antonin Artaud on his Theater of Cruelty, transforming the Villa Medici into the social center of Fellini's Rome in the 1950s, or competing for the artistic limelight with his friends Picasso and André Derain. The artist's complexities are clarified and his genius understood in a book that derives its particular immediacy from Weber's long and intense conversations with Balthus -- who never previously consented to discuss his life and work with a biographer -- as well as his interviews with the painter's closest friends, members of his family, and many of the subjects of his controversial canvases. Weber's critical and human grasp (he acutely analyzes the paintings in terms of both their aesthetic achievement and what they reveal of their maker's psyche), combined with his rich knowledge of Balthus's life and his insight into the ideas and forces that have helped to shape Balthus's work over the past seven decades, gives us a striking, illuminating portrait of one of the most admired and outrageous artists of our time.
Download or read book The Princess of the Chalet School written by Elinor Mary Brent-Dyer and published by Chalet School. This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From its small beginnings, the Chalet School grows to be one of the most famous girl's schools in the world. There's no end of excitement and adventure, and its every girl's dream to be a pupil there. "I'll wind the rope round this stump', said Joey. 'You go down first and I'll follow.' The princess clambered down and called, 'It's all right, Joey! Come down!" Jo proceeded to knot the improvised rope round the rock, then taking a deep breath, let herself down. It was a risky undertaking, for the rope was wearing thin, but there was nothing else for it. she had got halfway when it suddenly gave, and she fell ..."--Back cover.
Download or read book The Nicest Girl In The School A Story Of School Life written by Angela Brazil and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Nicest Girl inside the School" by Angela Brazil is a fascinating tale that immerses readers within the colourful international of college existence, friendship, and the pursuit of personal increase. The narrative revolves around the valuable person, the titular "nicest woman," and her reports navigating the united states of americaand downs of faculty dynamics. As the tale unfolds, readers are brought to a cast of energetic characters, each with their precise personalities and backgrounds. The novel explores issues of friendship, loyalty, and the challenges faced by younger people as they strive to find their locations in a school community. Angela Brazil, regarded for her contributions to ladies' faculty tales, skillfully captures the essence of adolescent existence, combining relatable characters with attractive plotlines. The book affords a glimpse into the camaraderie, rivalries, and life lessons that shape the characters' adolescence. "The Nicest Girl inside the School" not most effective entertains but also imparts precious lessons about character, resilience, and the enduring bonds formed all through one's school days. Angela Brazil's storytelling invites readers right into a world in which the complexities of growing up are met with warm temperature, humor, and a celebration of the enduring spirit of teens.
Download or read book My Life in Clothes written by Summer Brenner and published by Red Hen Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Despite my mother's efforts to tame me, I resisted, holding onto my creature nature until the day she informed me I would no longer be running naked in the yard or showering with my dad. It took a few scoldings before I was transformed from colt to show-pony: a proper reflection of whichever laundered, starched, pressed, brushed, straightened, zippered, tied, and buttoned garment was placed upon me." --From the foreword of Summer Brenner's new collection of short stories, My Life in Clothes These stories explore the charm, tyranny, and preoccupation of clothes, on and off, bought, made, or found, fashion or function, projection or expression, body and soul turned inside out.
Download or read book Summer Term at the Chalet School written by Elinor Mary Brent-Dyer and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Back Home written by Michelle Magorian and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1987-08-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WW2 has just ended and twelve-year-old Rusty comes back home to Britain after being evacuated to the US. The greyness and bleakness of life in England is a shock, but even worse is adapting to the strict discipline of her family, including a brother she's never met, after the warmth and openness of her adopted American family. Rusty is sent to an horrific boarding school, before finally running away as her search for happiness becomes more and more desperate.
Download or read book Olive Odyssey written by Julia Angus and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanied by her husband and their ten-month-old son, Angus collects samples from ancient trees to determine where the first olive tree originated, feasts on inky black tapenades and codfish drizzled with olive oil, witnesses the harvesting of olives in Greece, and visits perhaps the oldest olive tree in the world on Crete. The result is a fascinating history and biography of this most influential and irresistible fruit.
Download or read book Prefects of the Chalet School written by Elinor Mary Brent-Dyer and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last term at the Chalet School for the Maynard triplets is bound to be an eventful one! A supposedly quiet afternoon has a near unhappy ending, and Examinations, Sports and the Sale all produce their own excitements. But it is Len, as head girl, who has the greatest shock of all when Dr Entwistle has a serious accident. Can she learn to grow up at last?
Download or read book The Exploits of the Chalet Girls written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-07-25 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer was born Gladys Eleanor May Dyer on April 6, 1894 in South Shields, in the northeast of England. She wrote over a hundred books of children’s literature during her life. From lower middle-class roots, she went to a small private school and became a teacher after attending the City of Leeds Training College. As a teacher, she worked at both public and private schools, and even as a governess. She had an interest in the theater, and her first book Gerry Goes to School (the first in her La Rochelle series) was written in 1922 --for the child actress Hazel Bainbridge. About this time, inspired by a vacation to the Austrian Alps, she wrote The School at the Chalet in 1923 (the first in her Chalet School series). Brent-Dyer continued to teach and tried rather unsuccessfully to run her own school from 1938 to 1948. After this, she quit teaching but continued writing until her death on September 20, 1969 in Redhill, Surrey.
Download or read book Not Under My Roof written by Amy T. Schalet and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Healthy Teen Network’s Carol Mendez Cassell Award for Excellence in Sexuality Education and the American Sociological Association's Children and Youth Section's 2012 Distinguished Scholarly Research Award For American parents, teenage sex is something to be feared and forbidden: most would never consider allowing their children to have sex at home, and sex is a frequent source of family conflict. In the Netherlands, where teenage pregnancies are far less frequent than in the United States, parents aim above all for family cohesiveness, often permitting young couples to sleep together and providing them with contraceptives. Drawing on extensive interviews with parents and teens, Not Under My Roof offers an unprecedented, intimate account of the different ways that girls and boys in both countries negotiate love, lust, and growing up. Tracing the roots of the parents’ divergent attitudes, Amy T. Schalet reveals how they grow out of their respective conceptions of the self, relationships, gender, autonomy, and authority. She provides a probing analysis of the way family culture shapes not just sex but also alcohol consumption and parent-teen relationships. Avoiding caricatures of permissive Europeans and puritanical Americans, Schalet shows that the Dutch require self-control from teens and parents, while Americans guide their children toward autonomous adulthood at the expense of the family bond.
