Tales of the Rose Tree

Tales of the Rose Tree
Author: Jane Brown
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2006
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9781567923124

"From the towering Burmese magnificum, with its three-foot-diameter trunk and its masses of sweet-smelling purple flowers, to the potted pink azalea, glowing like a burning bush on the backyard garden patio, Rhododendron is a genus of infinite variety and beauty. There are 1,025 known species: it is a native of the snows of the Himalayas and the swamps of the Carolinas, the jungles of Borneo and the island inlets of Japan. It is also one of the oldest of plants - many believe the dove that returned to Noah's ark was carrying a rhododendron sprig - although it has been known to western horticulture for only 300 years. The curious history of Westerners and rhododendrons is full of swashbuckling plant collectors and visionary gardeners, colonial violence and ecological destruction, stunning botanical successes and bitter business disappointments. And it is here related with consummate skill by Jane Brown, an English garden writer."--BOOK JACKET.

The Snail and the Rosebush

The Snail and the Rosebush
Author: Hans Christian Andersen
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Total Pages: 5
Release: 2020-06-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8726417200

In the middle of a garden, beyond which stretched endless meadows, was a rose bush. Under the rose bush lived a snail who enjoyed talking to the rose bush. They asked themselves what, from this small garden, they could bring to the world. 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.

English Fairy Tales

English Fairy Tales
Author: Joseph Jacobs
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2018-10-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781727818864

English Fairy Tales By Joseph Jacobs A word or two as to our title seems necessary. We have called our stories Fairy Tales though few of them speak of fairies. The same remark applies to the collection of the Brothers Grimm and to all the other European collections, which contain exactly the same classes of tales as ours. Yet our stories are what the little ones mean when they clamour for "Fairy Tales," and this is the only name which they give to them. One cannot imagine a child saying, "Tell us a folk-tale, nurse," or "Another nursery tale, please, grandma." As our book is intended for the little ones, we have indicated its contents by the name they use. The words "Fairy Tales" must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something "fairy," something extraordinary--fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals. It must be taken also to cover tales in which what is extraordinary is the stupidity of some of the actors.

The Nightingale and the Rose

The Nightingale and the Rose
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1981
Genre:
ISBN: 9780718212599

THIS 9 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Best Known Works of Oscar Wilde, by Oscar Wilde. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 076613010X.

Indian Fairy Tales

Indian Fairy Tales
Author: Joseph Jacobs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1892
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN:

Folk tales from India.

The Annotated Brothers Grimm

The Annotated Brothers Grimm
Author: Jacob Grimm
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780393058482

Containing 40 stories in new translations by Tatar this celebration of the richness and dramatic power of the legendary fables also features 150 illustrations, many of them in color, by legendary painters.

The Rose and the Yew Tree

The Rose and the Yew Tree
Author: Mary Westmacott
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1997
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0006499481

Nobody expected aristocratic Isabelle to fall for John Gabriel, a ruthless war hero. For Isabella, love would mean abandoning her dreams of privilege. For Gabriel, it would ruin his chance of a career and all his ambitions. This novel was written by Agatha Christie under the name Mary Westmacott.

The Way of the Rose

The Way of the Rose
Author: Clark Strand
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0812988973

What happens when a former Zen Buddhist monk and his feminist wife experience an apparition of the Virgin Mary? “This book could not have come at a more auspicious time, and the message is mystical perfection, not to mention a courageous one. I adore this book.”—Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit Before a vision of a mysterious “Lady” invited Clark Strand and Perdita Finn to pray the rosary, they were not only uninterested in becoming Catholic but finished with institutional religion altogether. Their main spiritual concerns were the fate of the planet and the future of their children and grandchildren in an age of ecological collapse. But this Lady barely even referred to the Church and its proscriptions. Instead, she spoke of the miraculous power of the rosary to transform lives and heal the planet, and revealed the secrets she had hidden within the rosary’s prayers and mysteries—secrets of a past age when forests were the only cathedrals and people wove rose garlands for a Mother whose loving presence was as close as the ground beneath their feet. She told Strand and Finn: The rosary is My body, and My body is the body of the world. Your body is one with that body. What cause could there be for fear? Weaving together their own remarkable story of how they came to the rosary, their discoveries about the eco-feminist wisdom at the heart of this ancient devotion, and the life-changing revelations of the Lady herself, the authors reveal an ancestral path—available to everyone, religious or not—that returns us to the powerful healing rhythms of the natural world.

David Austin's English Roses

David Austin's English Roses
Author: David Austin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: English roses
ISBN: 9781870673709

Fully illustrated, the charm of his English Roses comes across on every page, even if the reader has to imagine their scent. The Irish Garden Like its highly-respected companion in the series, Old Roses, this title draws the most useful information fr