Download or read book The Old Wives Tale written by Arnold Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Old Wives Fairy Tale Book written by Angela Carter and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labour created our world." -- From the Introduction There was a time when fairy tales weren't meant just for children -- they were part of an oral folklore tradition passed down through generations. This volume of sixty enchanting and enduring tales, collected by master storyteller Angela Carter, revives the industry, eccentricity, spirit, and worldly wisdom of women in preindustrial times. Drawn from narrative traditions all around the world -- from ancient Swahili legends to Appalachian tall tales to European spirit stories and more -- these tales together comprise a unique feminine mythology. Angela Carter (1940-1992) was widely known for her novels, short stories, and journalism. Her many books include The Magic Toy Shop, The Sadeian Woman, Nights at the Circus, Fireworks, and Saints and Strangers.
Download or read book The Wife s Tale A Personal History written by Aida Edemariam and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR A CBC BOOK OF THE YEAR The extraordinary story of an indomitable 95-year-old woman – and of the most extraordinary century in Ethiopia’s history. A new Wild Swans
Download or read book Old Wives Tales written by Peter H. Engel and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses the truth and falsehood of one hundred examples of conventional wisdom
Download or read book Old Wives Tales written by Mary Chamberlain and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From goddesses and witches to modern-day doctors—an entertaining history of women healers featuring an A–Z of remedies The woman healer is as old as history—for millennia she has been doctor, nurse, and midwife, and even in the age of modern medicine her wisdom is handed down in the form of old wives' tales. Using extensive research into archives and original texts, and numerous conversations with women in city and countryside, Mary Chamberlain presents a stimulating challenge to the history of orthodox medicine and an illuminating survey of female wisdom which goes back to the earliest times.What are old wives’ tales? Where do they come from? Do they really work? These questions, and many more, are answered in this fascinating compendium of remedies and cures handed down from mother to daughter from the beginning of time. We may all know that stewed prunes are a cure for constipation, but how many of us were aware that a poultice of chicken manure is a remedy for baldness? Or that eel liver will aid a difficult labor?
Download or read book Young Wives Tales written by Jill Corral and published by Seal Press (CA). This book was released on 2001 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring such contributors as Juhu Thukral, Rachel Fudge, Kristy Harcourt, and Leslie Miller, a powerful collection of essays defines what it means to be a spouse in today's society, from a woman trying to cope with being identified as half of a couple to a woman who is attempting to balance a career and motherhood. Original. First serial to salon.com.
Download or read book The Old Wives Tale a Play written by George Peele and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Selected Canterbury Tales A New Verse Translation written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fisher's work is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and meter and faithfully articulating his poetic voice, Fisher makes Chaucer's tales accessible to a contemporary ear.
Download or read book The First Wife written by Paulina Chiziane and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After twenty years of marriage, Rami discovers that her husband has been living a double--or rather, a quintuple--life. Tony, a senior police officer in Maputo, has apparently been supporting four other families for many years. Rami remains calm in the face of her husband's duplicity and plots to make an honest man out of him. After Tony is forced to marry the four other women--as well as an additional lover--according to polygamist custom, the rival lovers join together to declare their voices and demand their rights. In this brilliantly funny and feverishly scathing critique, a major work from Mozambique's first published female novelist, Paulina Chiziane explores her country's traditional culture, its values and hypocrisy, and the subjection of women the world over.
Download or read book Young Wives Tales written by Adele Parks and published by Review. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you loved reading the mesmerising tale of Daisy and Simon's marriage and secrets in Just My Luck from No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author Adele Parks, you won't want to miss Lucy, Rose and Connie's story in Young Wives' Tales. Don't miss Adele's latest gripping novel, Both of You, out now! And look for One Last Secret, coming soon. ......................................... WHAT HAPPENS AFTER HAPPILY EVER AFTER? Young Wives' Tales is the stylish, insightful sequel to Playing Away. Lucy, Rose and Connie are back in a novel which is every bit as addictive as Adele's debut bestseller and follows the friends' fortunes in their new roles as wives, mothers and lovers with plenty of surprises along the way... Rose thought she had it all, but her perfect life crumbled when her so-called friend seduced her husband and destroyed her marriage. Now Rose is left without any passion, romance or plans for the future... Lucy believed she finally had her fairy-tale ending, but being the wife isn't half as glamorous as being the mistress. When excitement and thrills give way to more chat about cleaning and the kids, it's not very...her. They desperately envy Connie: happily married, effortlessly juggling two children and a fulfilling career. Connie has found genuine contentment. Until, that is, a dangerous old flame flickers back into view... Will she be tempted to play with fire again? ......................................... What readers are saying about Young Wives' Tales: 'Adele has a knack for putting her finger on our fears and vulnerabilities, our dark sides, our hopes and expectations in love and friendship, and keeping the characters 'human'. Her language is quick, sharp and thoroughly engrossing' 'Loved it! The writing style is quirky and funny - I couldn't put it down. I would say that this is one of Parks' best books in a long time'
Download or read book Old Wives Tales written by Iris Andreski and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful little book about the daily life and thought of Ibibio women of southeastern Nigeria. Andreski has gathered stories and biographies from more than two dozen elderly women, has tried to put them in ethnological perspective and shows the differential impact of rapid social changes.
Download or read book The Wives of Bath written by Susan Swan and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swan’s international bestselling novel The Wives of Bath, is both a shocking Gothic tale about a murder in a girls’ boarding school and an adolescent confession. Mouse and Paulie, reluctant fourteen-year-old boarders at Bath Ladies College, are confronted by the slippery quest for one small, vital thing: the thing that definitively makes boys different from girls. The novel was made into the feature film Lost and Delirious, shown in 34 countries. Since the film’s debut, young women all over the world have role-played the parts of Mouse, Tory and Paulie on the Lost and Delirious website.
Download or read book Old Wives Tales written by Thomas J. Craughwell and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Baby Lore written by Rosalind Franklin and published by Diggory Press Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of superstitions and old wives tales from every corner of the world related to every aspect of pregnancy, birth, and baby care are collected in this volume. It covers folklore from determining baby's sex at conception to easing baby's teething pains.
Download or read book The Wife s Tale written by Lori Lansens and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2010-02-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of their Silver Anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband Jimmy -- still every inch the handsome star athlete he was in high school -- to come home. As night turns to day, it becomes frighteningly clear to Mary that he is gone. Through the years, disappointment and worry have brought Mary's life to a standstill, and she has let her universe shrink to the well-worn path from the bedroom to the refrigerator. But her husband's disappearance startles her out of her inertia, and she begins a desperate search. For the first time in her life, she boards a plane and flies across the country to find her lost husband. So used to hiding from the world, Mary finds that in the bright sun and broad vistas of California, she is forced to look up from the pavement. And what she finds fills her with inner strength she's never felt before. Through it all, Mary not only finds kindred spirits, but reunites with a more intimate stranger no longer sequestered by fear and habit: herself.
Download or read book Secrets Beyond the Door written by Maria Tatar and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Tatar analyses the many forms the tale of Bluebeard's wife has taken over time, showing how artists have taken the Bluebeard theme and revived it with their own signature twists.
Download or read book The Absent Mother Or Women Against Women in the old Wives Tales written by Marina Warner and published by Uitgeverij Verloren. This book was released on 1991 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
