Richard Kidd:Almost Famous Daisy
- Paperback 2007, ISBN: 9781845077099
Hardcover
Scholastic, United States, 2001. Later Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Publisher Marketing: Wuthering Heights is a novel by Emily Bronte, written between October 1845 and Jun… More...
Scholastic, United States, 2001. Later Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Publisher Marketing: Wuthering Heights is a novel by Emily Bronte, written between October 1845 and June 1846, and published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It was her first and only published novel: she died the following year, at age 30. The decision to publish came after the success of her sister Charlotte's novel, Jane Eyre. After Emily's death, Charlotte edited the manuscript of Wuthering Heights, and arranged for the edited version to be published as a posthumous second edition in 1850. Wuthering Heights is the name of the farmhouse on the North York Moors where the story unfolds. The book's core theme is the destructive effect that jealousy and vengefulness have, both on the jealous or vengeful individuals and on their communities. Although Wuthering Heights is now widely regarded as a classic of English literature, it received mixed reviews when first published, and was considered controversial because its depiction of mental and physical cruelty was unusually stark, and it challenged strict Victorian ideals of the day, including religious hypocrisy, morality, social classes and gender inequality. The English poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti referred to it as "A fiend of a book - an incredible monster ... The action is laid in hell, - only it seems places and people have English names there." In 1801, Mr Lockwood, a wealthy man from the south of England, rents Thrushcross Grange in the north for peace and recuperation. He visits his landlord, Mr Heathcliff, who lives in a remote moorland farmhouse, "Wuthering Heights," where he finds an odd assemblage: Heathcliff seems to be a gentleman, but his manners are uncouth; the reserved mistress of the house is in her mid-teens; and a young man seems to be a family member yet dresses and speaks like a servant. Snowed in, Lockwood is grudgingly allowed to stay and is shown to a bedchamber where he notices books and graffiti left by a former inhabitant named Catherine. He falls asleep and has a nightmare in which he sees the ghostly Catherine trying to enter through the window. He cries out in fear, rousing Heathcliff who rushes to the room. Lockwood was convinced that what he saw was real. Heathcliff, believing Lockwood to be right, examines the window and opens it hoping to allow Catherine's spirit to enter. When nothing happens, Heathcliff shows Lockwood to his own bedroom and returns to keep watch at the window. At sunrise, Heathcliff escorts Lockwood back to Thrushcross Grange. Lockwood asks the housekeeper, Nelly Dean, about the family at Wuthering Heights, and she tells him the tale. Thirty years earlier, Wuthering Heights is occupied by Mr Earnshaw, his teenage son Hindley, and his daughter Catherine. On a trip to Liverpool, Earnshaw encounters a homeless boy described as "dark-skinned gypsy in aspect." He adopts the boy and names him Heathcliff. Hindley feels that Heathcliff supplanted him in his father's affections and becomes bitterly jealous. Catherine and Heathcliff become friends and spend hours each day playing on the moors. They grow close. Hindley is sent to college. Three years later, Earnshaw dies and Hindley becomes the master of Wuthering Heights. He returns to live there with his new wife, Frances. He allows Heathcliff to stay but only as a servant. A few months after Hindley's return, Heathcliff and Catherine walk to Thrushcross Grange to spy on the Lintons who are living there. After being discovered, they try to run away but are caught. Catherine is injured by the Lintons' dog and taken into the house to recuperate while Heathcliff is sent home. Catherine stays with the Lintons and is influenced by their fine appearance and genteel manners. When she returns to Wuthering Heights, her appearance and manners are more ladylike and she laughs at Heathcliff's unkempt appearance. Mass Market Paperback. Size: 140mm - 180mm. 406 pages. Covers have some shelf-wear. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Britain/UK; Literature & Literary. ISBN: 0439228913. ISBN/EAN: 9780439228916. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 15782. . 9780439228916, Scholastic, 2001, Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1974. Book Club. Hardcover. Good/fair. 274 pages; dust jacket is heavily worn with small tears; boards, spine ends worn, corners bumped; A novella, a translation, and three short stories, mostly concerned with the lives of artists and the relation between art and life. In the title novella, based on a Celtic tale by Marie de France, two young Englishmen--an artist and a critic--visit an elderly expatriate painter in Italy and speculate on trends in modern painting, Little, Brown & Co, 1974, Mount Kisco, New York: Moyer Bell - Unbroken Circle. Good in Good dust jacket 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Marfree, acidfree stated 1stEd; not written-in, underlined, club, remainder or ex-library. Illus paperboard edgeworn, dented; unclipped DJ has tiny chips & shelfwear. Mail SAMEDAY! Publishers Weekly: In a small cottage in France a boy rebels against his parents, who want him to become a classical pianist. His dreams carry him in another direction: at night he breaks free and rides herd over cow-notes as the quarter note cowboy. The story is set in verse that becomes cumbersome at times, particularly at the end, when a sudden change in rhythm proves disruptive. The illustrations are vivid and painterly in a naive style, but some elements may prove confusing to young readers, such as the picture of a large angel embracing the house to show how the boy plays ``for spirits. '' No ages given. (December) School Library Journal: PreS-Gr 2 The quarter note cowpoke is a young French boy who plays the piano. His parents dream of a future concert career, but at night he dreams of playing American classics as a cow; 8.3 x 10.25 in.; 40 pages ., Moyer Bell - Unbroken Circle, 1987, New York, New York, U.S.A.: Vintage Books, 1999 Near-New copy - NO writing, marks or tears - IN 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young scottish woman, goes to Occupied France on a dual mission:to run an apparantly simple errand for a British special operations group and to search for her lover, an English airman called Peter Gregory, who has gone missing in action. In the small town of Lavaurette, Sebastian Faulks presents a microcosm of France and its agony in 'the black years', here is the full range of collaboration, from the tacit to the enthusiastic, as well as examples of extraordinary courage and altruism. Through the local resistance chief Julien, Charlotte meets his father a Jewish painter whose inspiration has failed him. In Charlotte's friendship with both men, Faulks opens up the theme of false memory and of paradises—both national and personal—that appear irredeemably lost. In a series of shocking narrative climaxes in which the full extent of French collusion in the Nazi holocaust is delineated, Faulks brings the story to a resolution of redemptive love. In the delicacy of its writing, the intimacy of its characterisation and its powerful narrative scenes of harrowing public events, Charlotte Gray is a worthy successor to Birdsong.. Trade Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Vintage Books, 1999, Black Swan, London, 2002. Medium Trade Paperback. Good Condition (ex-library). 252 pages. Tanned pages. Clear, self-adhesive laminate to covers/boards. Moderate spine lean. Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers.. The beguiling, funny and frank story of a young Englishwoma; If you are lucky enough to find your place, you should never actually live in it, never make it your home. And never live with the man you think you cannot live without. Le Village is a small town at the southwestern-most tip of France. Here a young Englishwoman fell in love with France, the French and one Frenchman in particular. In her seductive, lyrical and witty memoir Helen Stevenson writes about life in Le Village, not as an expat, but as someone adopted by her neighbours as one of their own. By Stefan, the Maoist tennis fanatic, who lives off his lover in solidarity with the unemployed; by Gigi, the chic Parisian who dresses her ex-lovers' girlfriends from the stock of her exquisite boutique; and by Luc, the crumpled cowboy painter and part-time dentist, who, overcoming an aversion to blondes, takes the Englishwoman up to his remote mas, shows her his paintings and teaches her to ride. Describing the colour and light of the landscape with lyrical intensity, and savouring the languid and sexy flavour of the Mediterranean lifestyle, Helen Stevenson lays bare a romantic but potentially disastrous love affair with the man 'who seems like the only man alive to me, the one with the halo round his head in a crowd, if I should ever see him in a crowd'. Instructions For Visitors may start as an objective guide for tenants arriving at her village house, but it ends as a very personal revelation of how difficult it can be to transplant oneself into someone else's country, someone else's culture, someone else's heart. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Travel & Places; ISBN: 0552999288. ISBN/EAN: 9780552999281. Inventory No: 12040027. ., Black Swan, 2002, Frances Lincoln Publishers, 2007-06-01. Paperback. New. New Paperback, no spine or cover creases, clean, tight, unmarked, Kindergarten-Grade 2? Almost Famous Daisy is almost a good book...but not quite. It''s a nice concept: a young painter sees an advertisement for an art contest, travels the world studying with famous painters (how this is accomplished is never explained, and is a bit distracting) , and paints her own winning canvas. However, the lack of a coherent story line or a sympathetic, believable character leaves readers unconcerned about whether Daisy wins, loses, or moves to Timbuktu. The illustrations on some pages resemble an ink spill (but not when she visits Jackson Pollack, which is actually the best spread in the book) and the garish color scheme is jarring. The story is regrettably anticlimactic, visually confusing, and flatly told through a series of postcards from Daisy to her parents. It''s an unfortunate outcome for the noteworthy concept of introducing children to some of the masters of Western art. ? Jennifer F..., Frances Lincoln Publishers, 2007-06-01<
