Author | : Alan Garner |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780152056247 |
Four children discover a dangerous world of magic--buried in a slum--in this Alan Garner classic.
Author | : Elidor Mëhilli |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2017-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501712233 |
Elidor Mëhilli has produced a groundbreaking history of communist Albania that illuminates one of Europe’s longest but least understood dictatorships. From Stalin to Mao, which is informed throughout by Mëhilli’s unprecedented access to previously restricted archives, captures the powerful globalism of post-1945 socialism, as well as the unintended consequences of cross-border exchanges from the Mediterranean to East Asia. After a decade of vigorous borrowing from the Soviet Union—advisers, factories, school textbooks, urban plans—Albania’s party clique switched allegiance to China during the 1960s Sino-Soviet conflict, seeing in Mao’s patronage an opportunity to keep Stalinism alive. Mëhilli shows how socialism created a shared transnational material and mental culture—still evident today around Eurasia—but it failed to generate political unity. Combining an analysis of ideology with a sharp sense of geopolitics, he brings into view Fascist Italy’s involvement in Albania, then explores the country’s Eastern bloc entanglements, the profound fascination with the Soviets, and the contradictions of the dramatic anti-Soviet turn. Richly illustrated with never-before-published photographs, From Stalin to Mao draws on a wealth of Albanian, Russian, German, British, Italian, Czech, and American archival sources, in addition to fiction, interviews, and memoirs. Mëhilli’s fresh perspective on the Soviet-Chinese battle for the soul of revolution in the global Cold War also illuminates the paradoxes of state planning in the twentieth century.
Author | : Georgess McHargue |
Publisher | : Dodd Mead |
Total Pages | : 61 |
Release | : 1973-01-01 |
Genre | : Boys |
ISBN | : 9780396068327 |
Retells a twelfth-century Welsh tale in which a young boy runs away from home and is taken by the Faery Folk to live in their underground kingdom.
Author | : Andrew Wright |
Publisher | : Oxford University |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780194372022 |
Stories motivate children to listen and learn, and help them to become aware of the sound and feel of English, and to understand language points, while enjoyiong the story. This resource book has a selection of ready-to-tell stories, although the activities can be used with any story.
Author | : Kath Filmer-Davies |
Publisher | : Popular Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780879725549 |
Filmer argues that, in secular society, the psychological need to hope is met in the literature of fantasy. She illustrates her thesis using the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Peter Beagle, Susan Cooper, Madeleine L'Engle, George Orwell, Russell Hoban, James Thurber, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Alan Garner, Ursula LeGuin, and Patricia Wrightson. Paper edition (unseen), $13.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Len Bailey |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2008-02-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429950099 |
It's Danny Ray, "the best dang rodeo cowboy in Oklahoma," to the rescue once again. King Krystal of Elidor's beautiful daughter, Princess Amber, has been kidnapped by the evil Fantasms--monstrous beasts whose sole purpose is to rule the magical kingdom of Elidor and to spread sorrow and darkness throughout the land. But not if Danny Ray and his eccentric group of friends have anything to do with it! Imagine a world with seas of polished black and white marble squares sailed upon by immense chess pieces hundreds of feet high: rooks, bishops and queens powered by tiny furry Tantarrabobs and Zanoomies. Imagine this is the battleground where Danny Ray, Tuk (a hellwain devil), KarooKachoo (a dragonfly princess), Prince Blues, the Sultana Sumferi Sar, Captain Quigglewigg, Hoodie Crow and the White Lady must rescue Princess Amber and save the kingdom of Elidor from eternal darkness. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author | : Tim Waggoner |
Publisher | : Wizards of the Coast |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2010-04-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0786956585 |
Secrets and lies... Armed with new weapons and a newfound confidence, Nearra and her friends plan to confront the wizard Maddoc. But before they can reach Cairngorn Keep, a skeletal griffin kidnaps Nearra and delivers her directly into the wizard's hands. As Maddoc prepares the final spell to unleash the Evergence, Davyn and the others struggle to rescue Nearra. But in the confines of Maddoc's keep, appearances deceive. Friends become enemies. Dark dreams become reality. And naive Nearra may not be as innocent as she seems.
Author | : Ree Soesbee |
Publisher | : Mirrorstone |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780786938339 |
Elidor, thought to have died battling the sorceress Asvaria, is brought back to life by a magic crown that will kill him if he removes it and that he must keep away from an evil wizard.