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Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2010-12-15
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1446420752
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKurt Vonnegut has surpassed even his own giddy heights of hilariously bitter irony in Bluebeard. It is a novel so funny and yet so terribly serious that you will read it - then reconsider your own life.
Author: Metaphrog
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2020-05-05
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 1545806659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAward-winning duo Metaphrog transform the classic folktale into a feminist fairy tale, about the blossoming of a young child to womanhood striving for independence. Eve spends an idyllic childhood of long summer days with her sweetheart Tom, and together they dream of exploring the world. But that dream is soon shattered as she comes of age. The mysterious Bluebeard is looking for a new bride and has his sights set on Eve, and rumor has it that his former wives have all disappeared. What will Eve find in the castle beyond the enchanted forest? A forbidden chamber, a golden key and the most terrifying secret, take on a new life in this gothic graphic novel.
Author: Maria Tatar
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2006-10-03
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 0691127832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaria Tatar analyses the many forms the tale of Bluebeard's wife has taken over time, showing how artists have taken the Bluebeard theme and revived it with their own signature twists.
Author: Seong-nan Ha
Publisher:
Published: 2020-06-16
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781948830171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHa looks closely at the sordid underbelly of suburbia in Bluebeard's First Wife, the latest from one of Korea's preeminent authors.
Author: Casie Hermansson
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781604732313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of the ever-evolving fairy tale about the murderous aristocrat and his endangered wife
Author: George Steiner
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1971-01-01
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780300017106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author presents a penetrating analysis of the collapse of Western culture during the last half of the twentieth century
Author: Walter Crane
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2022-10-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781018579320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Casie Hermansson
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1604733535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims are secreted from his latest bride. She is given all the keys but forbidden to open one door of the castle. This is a major study of the tale and its many variants in English: from the 18th and 19th century chapbooks, children's toybooks, pantomimes, melodramas, and circus spectaculars, to the 20th century in music, literature, art, film, and theatre.
Author: Jane Nickerson
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published: 2013-03-12
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0307976068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Bluebeard fairy tale retold. . . . When seventeen-year-old Sophia Petheram’s beloved father dies, she receives an unexpected letter. An invitation—on fine ivory paper, in bold black handwriting—from the mysterious Monsieur Bernard de Cressac, her godfather. With no money and fewer options, Sophie accepts, leaving her humble childhood home for the astonishingly lavish Wyndriven Abbey, in the heart of Mississippi. Sophie has always longed for a comfortable life, and she finds herself both attracted to and shocked by the charm and easy manners of her overgenerous guardian. But as she begins to piece together the mystery of his past, it’s as if, thread by thread, a silken net is tightening around her. And as she gathers stories and catches whispers of his former wives—all with hair as red as her own—in the forgotten corners of the abbey, Sophie knows she’s trapped in the passion and danger of de Cressac’s intoxicating world. Glowing strands of romance, mystery, and suspense are woven into this breathtaking debut—a thrilling retelling of the “Bluebeard” fairy tale.
Author: Michael Maar
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2019-02-12
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 1786635763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the last twenty years, critical discussion of Thomas Mann has highlighted the role of his homosexuality for his creative work. This not only is presented as a dynamic underlying Mann's creative work, but also is the supposed reason for the theme of guilt and redemption that grew ever stronger in Mann's fiction. Michael Maar mounts a devastating forensic challenge to this consensus: Mann was remarkably open about his sexual orientation, which he saw as no reason for guilt. But sexuality in Mann's work is inextricably bound up with an eruption of violence. Maar pursues this trail through Mann's writings and traces its origins back to Mann's second visit to Italy, during which the Devil appeared to him in Palestrina. Something happened to the twenty-one-year-old Thomas Mann in Naples that marked him for life with a burdensome sense of guilt...but what exactly was it?
