Had she been born in the latter half of the 20th century, George Sand would have raised few eyebrows. Her penchant for wearing trousers and smoking roll-ups, her sexual experiments, even an immoderate enthusiasm for making jam, would today pass as unremarkable behaviour in a woman novelist. ...
George Sand, French Romantic writer known primarily for her so-called rustic novels. Her notable works included Valentine (1832), Leila (1833), La Mare au diable (1846), Francois le Champi (1848), and La Petite Fadette (1849). Learn more about Sand’s li
The poem that inspired this work uses images of the natural world — sand, smoke, wind — to build its metaphor of love’s paradox (its holding fast with an open hand). Humanity is in the foreground, nature in the background. Tetenbaum’sDiagram of Windreverses that. Nature with its a...
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr Anthony Doerr is quickly rising to the top of my most favorite authors of all time, I have never read anything by him that I didn’t love and this book was right up there. Taking place in three wildly different time periods threaded together by a commo...
M. Berly falls down and finds himself on top of Gustave, an illustration by George B. Luks from the Quinby edition ofThat Rascal Gustave. The next three years take Gustave on a grand tour of the salons and bedrooms of Spain, Italy, and England. He finds England’s tastes particularly my...
novelette"Sandkings"George R.R. Martin short story"The Way of Cross and Dragon"George R.R. Martin 1981novelThe Snow QueenJoan D. Vinge novella"Lost Dorsai"Gordon R. Dickson novelette"The Cloak and the Staff"Gordon R. Dickson short story"Grotto of the Dancing Deer"Clifford D. Simak ...
An exploration, both visually and physically, the ‘edge’ of the sea where it meets the land, with its continuous ebb and flow of the breaking waves, rhythmically rolling back and forth onto the sand. (Artist’s description) With the binding and her photography in Ebb and Flow, Jane Cra...
David’s is a spiritual quest; George’s is both political and sexual; and Rudolph…well, Rudolph is what we’d call an upperclass twit, the sort of airhead who sets out on his quest with a near-empty tank of gas. Warner dabbled in Communism, partly influenced by his friend, the ...
Gustave Flaubert; George Sand Lettres de Gustave Flaubert à George Sand 1884; written 1863-80—French Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1865—English Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There 1871—English 'Jabberwocky' part of Through the Looking-Glass, and What ...
Posted on Thursday 9th June, 2022 by thebookandpapergathering. Accessed 13 June 2022. What stresses occur when we open a book? How do spine materials affect them? What are we really doing when we stick things on a book spine, sand them back, and then stick more things on? On what ar...