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Author: Gerry Gogna Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1546285490 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 35
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The Ugly Queen is a fairy tale of a queen who was ugly and unloved by all. It is a tale of the queens confrontation with the toughest and scariest challenges to overcome her personal handicap and winning the hearts of her people. It is an account of her journey and adventures to achieve her impossible goal. How does she achieve it? Peter the Great is a tale of courage, war, and love. A tale of the confrontation of the good and the evil. A tale of two hearts meeting. Will Peter be successful?
Author: Gerry Gogna Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1546285490 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 35
Book Description
The Ugly Queen is a fairy tale of a queen who was ugly and unloved by all. It is a tale of the queens confrontation with the toughest and scariest challenges to overcome her personal handicap and winning the hearts of her people. It is an account of her journey and adventures to achieve her impossible goal. How does she achieve it? Peter the Great is a tale of courage, war, and love. A tale of the confrontation of the good and the evil. A tale of two hearts meeting. Will Peter be successful?
Author: Gerry Gogna Publisher: ISBN: 9789381205129 Category : Languages : en Pages : 47
Book Description
The Ugly Queen is a fairy tale of a queen who was ugly and unloved by all. It is a tale of the queen s confrontation with the toughest and scariest challenges to overcome her personal handicap and winning the hearts of her people. It is an account of her journey and adventures to achieve her impossible goal. How does she achieve it? Peter the Great is a tale of courage, war and love. A tale of the confrontation of the good and the evil. A tale of two hearts meeting. Will Peter be successful?
Author: Catherine the Great Publisher: Modern Library ISBN: 0307432432 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 362
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Empress Catherine II brought Europe to Russia, and Russia to Europe, during her long and eventful reign (1762—96). She fostered the culture of the Enlightenment and greatly expanded the immense empire created by Czar Ivan the Terrible, shifting the balance of power in Europe eastward. Famous for her will to power and for her dozen lovers, Catherine was also a prolific and gifted writer. Fluent in French, Russian, and German, Catherine published political theory, journalism, comedies, operas, and history, while writing thousands of letters as she corresponded with Voltaire and other public figures. The Memoirs of Catherine the Great provides an unparalleled window into eighteenth-century Russia and the mind of an absolute ruler. With insight, humor, and candor, Catherine presents her eyewitness account of history, from her whirlwind entry into the Russian court in 1744 at age fourteen as the intended bride of Empress Elizabeth I’s nephew, the eccentric drunkard and future Peter III, to her unhappy marriage; from her two children, several miscarriages, and her and Peter’s numerous affairs to the political maneuvering that enabled Catherine to seize the throne from him in 1762. Catherine’s eye for telling details makes for compelling reading as she describes the dramatic fall and rise of her political fortunes. This definitive new translation from the French is scrupulously faithful to her words and is the first for which translators have consulted original manuscripts written in Catherine’s own hand. It is an indispensable work for anyone interested in Catherine the Great, Russian history, or the eighteenth century.
Author: Peter Hince Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre ISBN: 1784188794 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 292
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Imagine being alongside one of the greatest bands in the history of rock, touring the world and being there as they perform at some of the best and biggest music venues in the world. Peter Hince didn't have to imagine: for more than a decade, he lived a life that other people can only dream of as he worked with Queen as head of their road crew. In 1973, Queen was the support act for Mott the Hoople, for whom Peter was a roadie. Back then, Queen had to content themselves with being second on the bill and the world had not yet woken up to the flamboyant talent of Freddie Mercury. Peter started working full time for Queen just as they were making A Night at the Opera, the album which catapulted them to international stardom. In this intimate and affectionate book, Peter recalls the highlights of his years with the band. He was with Freddie when he composed 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love'; he was responsible for making sure that Freddie's stage performances went without a hitch - and was often there to witness his famed tantrums! He was also party to the sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll which are invariably part of life on the road with a rock band.
Author: Charlotte M. Wright Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135706026 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 153
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"If beauty is truth, is ugliness falsehood and deception? If all art need concern itself with is beauty, what need have we to explore in our literature the nature and consequences of ugliness?" In Plain and Ugly Janes, Charlotte Wright defines and explores the ramifications of a new character type in twentieth-century American literature, the "ugly woman," whose roots can be traced to the Old Maid/Spinster character of the nineteenth century. During the 1970s, stories began to appear in which the ugly woman is a figure of power-heroic not in the traditional old maid's way of quiet, passive acc
Author: Ruth Pritchard Dawson Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350244643 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 321
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This highly original study provides a detailed analysis of Catherine the Great's celebrity avant la lettre and how gender, power, and scandal made it commercially successful. In 1762, when Catherine II overthrew her husband to seize the throne of the Russian Empire, her instant popular fame in regions of Europe far from her own domains fit the still new discourse of modern celebrity and soon helped shape it. Catherine the Great and Celebrity Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe shows that over the next 35 years Catherine was part of a standard troika of celebrity-making agents-intriguing central figure, large-scale media, and an engaged public. Ruth P. Dawson reveals how writers, print makers, newspaper editors, playwrights, and more-the 18th-century's media workers-laboured to produce marketable representations of the empress, and audiences of non-elite readers, viewers, and listeners savoured the resulting commodities. This book presents long neglected material evidence of the tsarina's fantasy-inducing fame, examines the 1762 coup as the indispensable story that first constructed her distant public image, and explains how the themes of enlightenment, luxury consumption, clashing gender roles, and exotic Russia continued to attract non-elite fans and anti-fans during the middle decades of her reign. For the later years, the book considers the scrutiny inspired by the French Revolution and Catherine's skewering in unsparing misogynist cartoons as they applied to visual representations, her achievements as ruler, the long-ago overthrow of her husband, and her gradually revealed list of lovers. Dawson reflects on Catherine II's demise in 1796 and how this instigated a final burst of adoration, loathing, and ambivalence as new accounts of her life, both real and fictional, claimed to unwrap the final secrets of the first modern international female celebrity – even now the only woman in history widely known as 'the Great'.
Author: Dani Haviland Publisher: Chill Out! Books ISBN: 1950592170 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 315
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Benji knew he was a time traveler. That he could handle. What he didn’t know was he was supposed to be a fictional character! Benji, the 6'7" good-natured former wrestler, mechanic, and handyman is also an 18th century time traveler, stuck in the 21st century. His new friends in North Carolina help him adjust, but make sure he doesn't find out he's also a fictional character from the popular romance series, LOST! Now that he’s heard it's possible to return to his natal time, can he make it back? And if he does, should he stay there once he's found love? Challenges abound, but this big guy is not one to back down. THE GREAT BIG FAIRY ~ an intriguing mix of mystery, history, and fantasy, with a tad of romance, a dash of violence, and a pinch of humor added to enhance your reading experience.
Author: Rebecca L. Thomas Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1440834350 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 1657
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Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.
Author: Gerry Gogna
Author: Gerry Gogna
Author: Gerry Gogna
Author: Catherine the Great
Author: Peter Hince
Author: Charlotte M. Wright
Author: Dennis O'Sullivan
Author: Ruth Pritchard Dawson
Author: Dani Haviland
Author: Arthur Mee
Author: Rebecca L. Thomas