The Marriage of Opposites - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Marriage of Opposites write by Alice Hoffman. This book was released on 2015-08-04. The Marriage of Opposites available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A luminous, Marquez-esque tale” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on a tropical island about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro—the Father of Impressionism. Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel’s mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules. Growing up, Rachel’s salvation is their maid Adelle’s belief in her strengths, and her deep, life-long friendship with Jestine, Adelle’s daughter. But Rachel’s life is not her own. She is married off to a widower with three children to save her father’s business. When her older husband dies suddenly and his handsome, much younger nephew, Frédérick, arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes her own life story, beginning a defiant, passionate love affair that sparks a scandal that affects all of her family, including her favorite son, who will become one of the greatest artists of France. “A work of art” (Dallas Morning News), The Marriage of Opposites showcases the beloved, bestselling Alice Hoffman at the height of her considerable powers. “Her lush, seductive prose, and heart-pounding subject…make this latest skinny-dip in enchanted realism…the Platonic ideal of the beach read” (Slate.com). Once forgotten to history, the marriage of Rachel and Frédérick “will only renew your commitment to Hoffman’s astonishing storytelling” (USA TODAY).
The Marriage of Contraries
The Marriage of Contraries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Marriage of Contraries write by J. L. Wisenthal. This book was released on 1974. The Marriage of Contraries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This reading of Bernard Shaw focuses on his habit of seeing the world in terms of contraries, a habit related to his basic rejection of absolutes, his distaste for finality. The author examines nine of Shaw's finest plays: Man and Superman, Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Pygmalion, Misalliance, Heartbreak House, Saint Joan, and Back to Methuselah. The book takes seriously Shaw's claim that all of his characters are "right from their several points of view." We are compelled to respect the qualities and values of opposing and very different characters in these plays, and we also have a sense of their complementary defects. J. L. Wisenthal's commentary sheds light on Shaw's techniques of portrayal as well as his dialectical habit of mind. This finely written essay is for all lovers of Shaw and the theater.
Proverbs of Hell
Proverbs of Hell - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Proverbs of Hell write by William Blake. This book was released on 1982. Proverbs of Hell available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The World That We Knew
The World That We Knew - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The World That We Knew write by Alice Hoffman. This book was released on 2020-09-01. The World That We Knew available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL On the brink of World War II, with the Nazis tightening their grip on Berlin, a mother’s act of courage and love offers her daughter a chance of survival. “[A] hymn to the power of resistance, perseverance, and enduring love in dark times…gravely beautiful…Hoffman the storyteller continues to dazzle.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW At the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. Her desperation leads her to Ettie, the daughter of a rabbi whose years spent eavesdropping on her father enables her to create a mystical Jewish creature, a rare and unusual golem, who is sworn to protect Hanni’s daughter, Lea. Once Ava is brought to life, she and Lea and Ettie become eternally entwined, their paths fated to cross, their fortunes linked. What does it mean to lose your mother? How much can one person sacrifice for love? In a world where evil can be found at every turn, we meet remarkable characters that take us on a stunning journey of loss and resistance, the fantastical and the mortal, in a place where all roads lead past the Angel of Death and love is never-ending.
The Best American Short Stories 2019
The Best American Short Stories 2019 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Best American Short Stories 2019 write by Anthony Doerr. This book was released on 2019. The Best American Short Stories 2019 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
