The Thistle

Download or read book What Happened to the Thistle written by Hans Christian Andersen and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apart from the milkmaid’s donkey, no one paid much attention to the mighty thistle that lived just behind the hedge, outside of the seigniorial garden. Until the day that a beautiful Scottish lady of noble birth asked the son of the house to pick her a flower – such an honour for the thistle! It certainly merited being transplanted into a pot, or at least inside the garden! At least, that is what he thought... Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author, poet and artist. Celebrated for children’s literature, his most cherished fairy tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Mermaid", "The Nightingale", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Little Match Girl". His books have been translated into every living language, and today there is no child or adult that has not met Andersen's whimsical characters. His fairy tales have been adapted to stage and screen countless times, most notably by Disney with the animated films "The Little Mermaid" in 1989 and "Frozen", which is loosely based on "The Snow Queen", in 2013. Thanks to Andersen's contribution to children's literature, his birth date, April 2, is celebrated as International Children's Book Day.

Download or read book The Thistle and the Brier written by Richard Blaustein and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-02-25 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland and Southern Appalachia have always shared a strong connection. Many of the first people to permanently settle in the Appalachian mountains came from the Scottish highlands seeking religious and other freedoms. Many descendants of those first settlers from Scotland still make their homes in Southern Appalachia and attribute many aspects of their culture to their Scottish heritage. This book explores the parallels and connections between Scotland and Southern Appalachia, with special attention to the interplay between revivals of folk culture, native languages, and dialects in Scotland and Appalachia since the 1970s. It covers contemporary Scottish and Appalachian cultural movements, particularly the links between cultural revivals and identity politics, and contains substantial references that increase its value as an authoritative scholarly work on the convergence of the cultures.

Download or read book The Rose and the Thistle written by Douglas W. Fellows and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a touching children’s story, illustrating the good that can come from dying to one’s self.

Download or read book Gudgekin the Thistle Girl written by John Gardner and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Gardner’s classic fairy-tale collection depicts a world where anything can happen—and often does A humble thistle girl, a wise old philosopher, a hapless woodchopper, and an unscrupulous king—these are the vivid protagonists of Gardner’s masterful book for children. Richly and humorously drawn, they face challenges at every turn. And in a realm where any one of these unconventional heroes might triumph, the reader will delight in expecting the unexpected! Inventive and illustrative, entertaining and edifying, these four stories demonstrate the quirky challenges of distinguishing between good and evil and living happily ever after. “A jaunty treatment of time-honored fairy tales . . . fantastic fun.” —Publishers Weekly “Everything is sacred and nothing is sacred. The form of the fairy tale is honored, but wild deviations are taken within it . . . Tables are turned this way and that, with consequences that are hilarious and wonderful.” —The New York Times Book Review John Gardner (1933–1982) was born in Batavia, New York. His critically acclaimed books include the novels Grendel, The Sunlight Dialogues, and October Light, for which he received the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as several works of nonfiction and criticism such as On Becoming a Novelist. He is also the author of four books for children. He was a professor of medieval literature and a pioneering creative writing teacher whose students included Raymond Carver and Charles Johnson.

Download or read book They Burn the Thistles written by Yashar Kemal and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2006-11-21 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turkey’s greatest novelist, Yashar Kemal is an unsurpassed storyteller who brings to life a world of staggering violence and hallucinatory beauty. Kemal’s books delve deeply into the entrenched social and historical conflicts that scar the Middle East. At the same time scents and sounds, vistas of mountain and stream and field, rise up from the pages of his books with primitive force. Memed—introduced in Kemal’s legendary first novel, Memed, My Hawk, and a recurrent character in many of his books—is one of the few truly mythic figures of modern fiction, a desperado and sometime defender of the oppressed who is condemned to wander in the blood-soaked gray zone between justice and the law. In They Burn the Thistles, one of the finest of Kemal’s novels, Memed is on the run. Hunted by his enemies, wounded, at wit’s end, he has lost faith in himself and has retreated to ponder the vanity of human wishes. Only a chance encounter with an extraordinarily beautiful and powerful stallion, itself a hunted creature, serves to restore his determination and rouse him to action.

Download or read book Autobiography, Poems, and Songs written by Ellen Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Saint John written by Brian Flood and published by [Saint John, N.B.] : Neptune Pub.. This book was released on 1985 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: