The Green Carnation
Author: Robert Hichens
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 228
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Author: Robert Hichens
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Twigs Way
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2016-11-15
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1780236816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom wedding bouquets to funeral wreaths, carnations can be seen everywhere in human culture. Their colorful but delicately folded petals have made them one of the foremost decorative flowers, from the gardens of the Ottoman Empire to American Mothers Day bouquets, via Chinese medicines and French Empresses. In this book, Twigs Way explores the extraordinary history of this inimitable flower. The author traces the trials and tribulations of early breeders—compelled by florists’ fascinations for the striped and spotted—which led to delightfully colored (and delightfully named) varieties such as Lustie Gallant and Bleeding Swain. She looks at the symbolism of the red and white—and even green—carnations made famous by Oscar Wilde, and glides through many of the rooms in literature and history that we have filled with the carnation’s glorious scent. Travelling from Europe to China, Way explores how carnations have been used by herbalists the world over as a treatment for ailments to both mind and body, and she looks at the many paintings that have attempted to capture their unique complexities. Lavishly illustrated and full of unexpected delights, this book will—like the carnation itself—charm the mind and invigorate the senses.
Author: Lauren Willig
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2005-12-27
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780451217424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNothing goes right for Eloise. The one day she wears her new suede boots, it rains cats and dogs. When the subway stops short, she’s always the one thrown into some stranger’s lap. Plus, she’s had more than her share of misfortune in the way of love. In fact, ever since she realized romantic heroes are a thing of the past, she’s decided it’s time for a fresh start. Setting off for England, Eloise is determined to finish her dissertation on that dashing pair of spies, the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian. But what she discovers is something the finest historians have missed: the secret history of the Pink Carnation—the most elusive spy of all time. As she works to unmask this obscure spy, Eloise stumbles across answers to all kinds of questions. Like how did the Pink Carnation save England from Napoleon? What became of the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian? And will Eloise Kelly escape her bad luck and find a living, breathing hero all her own?
Author: J. R. Lawrie
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Published: 2021-04
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9781948272506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe heart of Alastair Harding's life is duty. Becoming the first gay chief of the London police has required certain sacrifices, but Alastair made them willingly. If his life now lacks human connections, he can't exactly complain-and it's a little too late for regrets. Jay Fieldhouse knows all about sacrifice, too. Brought to London for his own safety by witness protection, Jay's grassroots charity works day and night to save vulnerable kids from a life of crime. But getting close to other people is tough when no one really knows who you are. When he meets Alastair one night at a charity event, Jay is intrigued by his glimpse of a gentle soul beneath the commissioner's uniform. The two men decide to run their lonely paths side by side for a while-after all, life is short and good sex is hard to come by. Then the shadows of the past begin to stir, and the words which go unsaid might be Jay and Alastair's undoing. The Sheltering Tree is J.R. Lawrie's first full length novel, following her beloved debut anthology, Let Your Heart Be Light.
Author: R. Brotherston
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 2008-12
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 1429014628
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1904 volume by R. Brotherston and Martin Smith is a practical guide to the history, cultivation, and care of carnations.
Author: C. L. Beaumont
Publisher:
Published: 2021-11-19
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ISBN-13: 9781948272544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Amy Helene Forss
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0803249543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMildred Dee Brown (1905–89) was the cofounder of Nebraska’s Omaha Star, the longest running black newspaper founded by an African American woman in the United States. Known for her trademark white carnation corsage, Brown was the matriarch of Omaha’s Near North Side—a historically black part of town—and an iconic city leader. Her remarkable life, a product of the Reconstruction era and Jim Crow, reflects a larger American history that includes the Great Migration, the Red Scare of the post–World War era, civil rights and black power movements, desegregation, and urban renewal. Within the context of African American and women’s history studies, Amy Helene Forss’s Black Print with a White Carnation examines the impact of the black press through the narrative of Brown’s life and work. Forss draws on more than 150 oral histories, numerous black newspapers, and government documents to illuminate African American history during the political and social upheaval of the twentieth century. During Brown’s fifty-one-year tenure, the Omaha Star became a channel of communication between black and white residents of the city, as well as an arena for positive weekly news in the black community. Brown and her newspaper led successful challenges to racial discrimination, unfair employment practices, restrictive housing covenants, and a segregated public school system, placing the woman with the white carnation at the center of America’s changing racial landscape.
Author: Charles Ward
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 2008-11
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1429013850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles Ward's 1903 work is a complete reference on the culture of the American carnation.
Author: Hugh Brewster
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781554531370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of a little girl who takes part in the creation of John Singer Sargent's well-loved painting.
Author: R.C Sherriff
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-10-22
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 1783195770
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“There have been strange rumours about this house. Although it was in a state of ruin, lights were seen in the windows every Christmas Eve: music was heard: voices and laughter...” The first production in sixty years of R. C. Sherriff's supernatural drama. Christmas Eve, 1951. As Britain rebuilds itself after the war, John Greenwood has it all – a successful business, a beautiful house and an aristocratic wife. But as he bids farewell to the guests leaving his annual Christmas party, a gust of wind slams the front door shut, starting a chain of events that makes him doubt everything he has ever known... From the writer of one of the 20th century's most acclaimed plays, Journey’s End, The White Carnation is a ghostly tale of one man’s chance to do things differently.