Download or read book The Roses of Picardie written by Simon Raven and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A string of long-lost and cursed rubies gives the title to this highly imaginative tale. Jacquiz Helmut and Balbo Blakeney, among other eccentric characters, pursue the jewels across four countries and eight centuries. Horror, intrigue and high comedy shape the story as it races towards an unforgettable climax.
Download or read book The Roses of Picardie written by Simon Raven and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2008-01-12 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A string of long-lost and cursed rubies gives the title to this highly imaginative tale. Jacquiz Helmut and Balbo Blakeney, among other eccentric characters, pursue the jewels across four countries and eight centuries. Horror, intrigue and high comedy shape the story as it races towards an unforgettable climax.
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Download or read book The Artist s Garden written by Jackie Bennett and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Artist’s Garden offers an intriguing study into 20 gardens that have inspired and been home to some of the greatest painters of history. The most alluring image of an artist at work is surely one where he or she has come out of their studio, set up their easel on the garden path, pulled on a hat to shade their eyes from the sun and taken their brush and palette in hand. This sumptuously illustrated and fascinating book delves into the stories behind the gardens which inspired some of the most beautiful and important works of art. These gardens not only supplied the inspiration for creative works but also illuminate the professional motivation and private life of the artists themselves – from Cezanne’s house in the south of France to Childe Hassam at Celia Thaxter’s garden off the coast off Maine. Flowers and gardens have often been the first choice for artists looking for a subject. A garden close to the artist’s studio is not only convenient for daily material and ideas, but also has the advantage of changing through the seasons and over time. Claude Monet’s Giverny was the catalyst for hundreds of great paintings (by Monet and other artists), each one different from the one before. Sometimes a whole village becomes the focus for a colony of artists as at Gerberoy in Picardy and Skagen on the northernmost tip of Denmark. This book is about the real homes and gardens that inspired these great artists – gardens that can still be visited today. The relationship between artist and garden is a complex one. A few artists, including Pierre Bonnard and his neighbour Monet were keen gardeners, as much in love with their plants as their work, while for others like Sorolla in Madrid, his courtyard home was both a sanctuary and a source of ideas. This book is as unmissable for art lovers as it is for anyone who knows the joy of time spent in gardens, offering an intriguing insight into the lives of these great painters and the gardens which inspired them to their creative heights.
Download or read book September Castle written by Simon Raven and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basic human desires merge with the occult in a complex, erotic, tale of a hunt across Europe. Ptolemaeos Tunne is determined to discover a hoard of buried treasure. His only clue is a bizarre medieval legend about a possessed Greek princess. What he doesn’t know is that his mistress has unwittingly betrayed him to some very dangerous enemies.
Download or read book C S Lewis Poetry and the Great War 1914 1918 written by John Bremer and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a realistic account of the early years of C.S. Lewis as revealed in "Spirits in Bondage" and its surrounding events. It calls for a reappraisal of Lewis himself, not as a "soldier-poet" but as a young, ruthless and ambitious would-be academic, using others--his father, his university, his mistress--to further his own ends.
Download or read book Miss Dior written by Justine Picardie and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Remarkable” —Hamish Bowles, Vogue The overdue restoration of Catherine Dior's extraordinary life, from her brother's muse to Holocaust survivor When the French designer Christian Dior presented his first collection in Paris in 1947, he changed fashion forever. Dior’s “New Look” created a striking, romantic vision of femininity, luxury, and grace, making him—and his last name—famous overnight. One woman informed Dior’s vision more than any other: his sister, Catherine, a Resistance fighter, concentration camp survivor, and cultivator of rose gardens who inspired Dior’s most beloved fragrance, Miss Dior. Yet the story of Catherine’s remarkable life—so different from her famous brother’s—has never been told, until now. Drawing on the Dior archives and extensive research, Justine Picardie’s Miss Dior is the long-overdue restoration of Catherine Dior’s life. The siblings’ stories are profoundly intertwined: in Occupied France, as Christian honed his couture skills, Catherine dedicated herself to the Resistance, ultimately being captured by the Gestapo and sent to Ravensbruck, the only Nazi camp solely for women. Seeking to trace Catherine’s story as well as her influence on her brother, Picardie traveled to the significant places of Catherine’s life, including Les Rhumbs, the Dior family villa with its magnificent gardens; the House of Dior in Paris; and La Colle Noire, Christian’s chateâu that he bequeathed to his sister. Inventive and captivating, and shaped by Picardie’s own journey, Miss Dior examines the legacy of Christian Dior, the secrets of postwar France, and the unbreakable bond between two remarkable siblings. Most important, it shines overdue recognition on a previously overlooked life, one that epitomized courage and also embodied the astonishing capacity of the human spirit to remain undimmed, even in the darkest circumstances. Includes Black-and-White Illustrations
Download or read book Troubadour written by Simon Raven and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Where the twins had been a body lay in long, soft robes, and by its head a discarded lute. The head was split into halves from the apex of the skull to the nose’. Is this macabre scene only theatre, or a sign of ill omen? In the conclusion of the ‘First Born of Egypt’ saga, the fate of Conyngham, Marius Stern and other characters is decided.
Download or read book The Troubadour written by Simon Raven and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2001 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Where the twins had been a body lay in long, soft robes, and by its head a discarded lute. The head was split into halves from the apex of the skull to the nose'. Is this macabre scene only theatre, or a sign of ill omen? In the conclusion of the 'First Born of Egypt' saga, the fate of Conyngham, Marius Stern and other characters is decided.
Download or read book The Jazz Discography written by Tom Lord and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Ethnic Music on Records written by Richard K. Spottswood and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive compilation offers a nearly complete listing of sound recordings made by American minority artists prior to mid-1942. Organized by national group or language, the seven-volume set cites primary and secondary titles, composers, participating artists, instrumentation, date and place of recording, master and release numbers, and reissues in all formats. Because of its clear arrangements and indexes, it will be a unique and valuable tool for music and ethnic historians, folklorists, and others.
Download or read book Those Paris Days With The World At The Crossroads written by Dr. Samuel N. Watson and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the volume the former Dean of the American Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Paris Samuel N. Watson recounts his experiences across America and Europe in his many years in the priesthood. Perhaps of particular interest are his reminiscences of the First World War, from which period the book takes its title and forms the majority of the pages, the Dean was a well-known and well respected pillar of the expatriate American community in Paris. Through his contacts and by his charm and grace he organized a great deal of the aid effort that flowed through the Church during World War One. An interesting snapshot of the Great War from a different perspective than the many frontline accounts.
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Download or read book An Inch Of Fortune written by Simon Raven and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esme is pushed into working in his summer holidays as a way of settling his college’s bills. Hired as holiday tutor, his brief is unusual. Not expected to teach anything he is there to keep his charge out of trouble. As the summer develops Esme makes his discoveries, the presence in the background of a psychiatrist being of some concern.
Download or read book Blood of My Bone written by Simon Raven and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2001 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of the Provost of Lancaster College is a catalyst for a series of disgraceful doings in the continuing saga of the Canteloupes. Marius, under-age father of the new heir to the family estate, is warned against the malign influence of Raisley Conyngham. With fate intervening, the stage is set for another deliciously wicked instalment.
