Download or read book The Porcelain Dove Or Constancy s Reward written by Delia Sherman and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrated by the family's chatterbox chambermaid, it is a rich, sinister, and funny novel of romance, sorcery, and aristocracy.

Download or read book The Porcelain Dove written by Delia Sherman and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A castle locked in time, before the Revolution turned France to a bloodbath . . .A young girl, married off to a ducal collector of exotic birds . . .A boy enslaved, torn from his homeland, finding another path to power . . .A child, bound to break her family's ancient curse . . . .The lady's maid Berthe sees it all with her sharp eyes . . . and silently keeps her own secret.Eighteenth-century France is the setting-a time and place where age-old superstitions shadow an age of enlightenment, where the minuet of aristocratic life is deaf to the approaching drumbeats of revolution, where elegance masks depravity and licentiousness makes a mockery of love. Against this background, Berthe Duvet, maid to Adele du Fourchet, later mme la duchesse de Malvoeux, tells her tale of a doomed society and of a family seeking to break a terrible curse. Vivid in its re-creation of a vanished age and delightfully iconoclastic in its view of women and history, The Porcelain Dove is a triumph of the imagination.

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Download or read book Young Woman in a Garden written by Delia Sherman and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her vivid and sly, gentle and wise, long-anticipated first collection, Delia Sherman takes seemingly insignificant moments in the lives of artists or sailors—the light out a window, the two strokes it takes to turn a small boat—and finds the ghosts haunting them, the magic surrounding them. Here are the lives that make up larger histories, here are tricksters and gardeners, faeries and musicians, all glittering and sparkling, finding beauty and hope and always unexpected, a touch of wild magic. Praise for Delia Sherman's previous books: "Multilayered, compassionate, and thought-provoking."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Fantastic in every sense of the word, Sherman's second novel (Through a Brazen Mirror) is a skillfully crafted fairy tale that owes as much to E.T.A. Hoffman as to Charles Perrault. . . . The Porcelain Dove is no dainty vertu but a seductive, sinister bird with razored feathers."—Publishers Weekly Delia Sherman was born in Japan and raised in New York City. Her work has appeared most recently in the anthologies Naked City, Steampunk!, and Queen Victoria's Book of Spells. She is the author of six novels including The Porcelain Dove (a New York Times Notable Book), The Freedom Maze, and Changeling, and has received the Mythopoeic and Norton awards. She lives in New York City.

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