Sleeping Beauty & Other Stories
Author: Rochelle Larkin
Publisher: ABDO
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781596792517
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrated collection of fourteen classic stories.
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House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
Author: Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2017-12-12
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 0525434143
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThree surreal, erotically charged stories from Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata. In the three long tales in this collection, Yasunari Kawabata examines the boundaries between fantasy and reality in the minds of three lonely men. Piercing examinations of sexuality and human psychology—and works of remarkable subtlety and beauty—these stories showcase one of the twentieth century’s great writers—in any language—at his very best.
The Sleeping Beauties
Author: Suzanne O'Sullivan
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2021-04-01
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1529010543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021 'To compare any book to a Sacks is unfair, but this one lives up to it . . . I finished it feeling thrillingly unsettled, and wishing there was more.' James McConnachie, Sunday Times 'A study of diseases that we sometimes say are 'all in the mind', and an explanation of how unfair that characterisation is.' Tom Whipple, The Times Books of the Year In Sweden, refugee children fall asleep for months and years at a time. In upstate New York, high school students develop contagious seizures. In the US Embassy in Cuba, employees complain of headaches and memory loss after hearing strange noises in the night. These disparate cases are some of the most remarkable diagnostic mysteries of the twenty-first century, as both doctors and scientists have struggled to explain them within the boundaries of medical science and – more crucially – to treat them. What unites them is that they are all examples of a particular type of psychosomatic illness: medical disorders that are influenced as much by the idiosyncratic aspects of individual cultures as they are by human biology. Inspired by a poignant encounter with the sleeping refugee children of Sweden, Wellcome Prize-winning neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan travels the world to visit other communities who have also been subject to outbreaks of so-called ‘mystery’ illnesses. From a derelict post-Soviet mining town in Kazakhstan, to the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua via an oil town in Texas, to the heart of the Maria Mountains in Colombia, O’Sullivan hears remarkable stories from a fascinating array of people, and attempts to unravel their complex meaning while asking the question: who gets to define what is and what isn’t an illness? Reminiscent of the work of Oliver Sacks, Stephen Grosz and Henry Marsh, The Sleeping Beauties is a moving and unforgettable scientific investigation with a very human face. 'To compare any book to a Sacks is unfair, but this one lives up to it.' Sunday Times
Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales
Author: Jacob Grimm
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 048627084X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes ten traditional fairy tales in their unabridged versions.
The Sleeping Beauty
Author: Mercedes Lackey
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-12-12
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1488023816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMERCEDES LACKEY'S magical A Tale of the Five Hundred Kingdoms series continues with a captivating new adventure… Heavy is the head—and the eyelids—of the princess who wears the crown… In Rosamund's realm, happiness hinges on a few simple beliefs. For every princess there's a prince. The King has ultimate power. Stepmothers should never be trusted. And bad things come to those who break with Tradition…. But when Rosa is pursued by a murderous huntsman and then captured by dwarves, her beliefs go up in smoke. Determined to escape and save her kingdom from imminent invasion, she agrees to become the subject of one of her stepmother's risky incantations—thus falling into a deep, deep sleep. When awakened by a touchy-feely stranger, Rosa must choose between Tradition and her future between a host of eligible princes and a handsome, fair-haired outsider. And learn the difference between being a princess and ruling as a Queen.
The Sleeping Beauty and Other Tales
Author: Charles Perrault
Publisher:
Published: 2014-11-30
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9781909115866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book includes five famous tales by Charles Perrault illustrated by Walter Crane (40 colour illustrations): Little Red Riding Hood; The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots; Blue Beard; The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods; and Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper. Walter Crane was a prominent book illustrator of the 19th century. In cooperation with Edmund Evans, he designed picture books printed in colour, which became the most popular children's books at the time thanks to their high level of craftsmanship and low price. Crane's style shows the influence of the art of the Renaissance and Japanese prints (ukiyo-e). He designed his books according to the belief that "children, like the ancient Egyptians, appear to see most things in profile and like definite statements in design. They prefer well-defined forms and bright, frank colour. They don't want to bother about three dimensions. They can accept symbolic representations. They themselves employ drawing ... as a kind of picture-writing and eagerly follow a pictured story." Crane's work set the standards of taste in the Victorian children's book industry and earned him a reputation as 'the father of the illustrated children's book'.
Spindle
Author: E. K. Johnston
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2016-12-04
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1484776283
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Storyteller Queen lives, and her name is E. K. Johnston." -- Rachel Hartman, New York Times best-selling author of Seraphina The follow-up to A Thousand Nights, Spindle is the feminist retelling of Sleeping Beauty where the princess saves herself and owns the narrative. The prison is crumbling. Through years of careful manipulation, a demon has regained her power. She has made one kingdom strong and brought the other to its knees, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. When a princess is born, the demon is ready with the final blow: a curse that will cost the princess her very soul, or force her to destroy her own people to save her life. The threads of magic are tightly spun, binding princess and exiled spinners into a desperate plot to break the curse before the demon can become a queen of men. But the web of power is dangerously tangled -- and they may not see the true pattern until it is unspooled.
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
Author: A. N. Roquelaure
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780751540925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStep beyond the wall of your own imagination to the place where erotic enchantment lies... When Sleeping Beauty awakes at the Prince's kiss it is the beginning of our story, not the end. Once the prisoner of a spell, locked in the sleep of innocence - now she is the prisoner of sensual love, held fast by the magic of desire. Claimed by the Prince as the slave of his passions, Sleeping Beauty learns that tenderness and cruelty, pleasure and pain, longing and fulfilment are all one in the awesome kingdom of love. Beauty she is - but she is sleeping no more...
Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Story
Author: Shirley Jackson
Publisher: Egmont Books
Published: 2004-06-01
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781405214087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFour well-known traditional stories—Sleeping Beauty, The Ugly Duckling, Beauty and the Beast, and Puss in Boots—are retold in simple language that makes them perfect for adults and children to share. They have been made into rebus stories, with colorful stickers that children match to the right outline to complete the story. As well as providing practice with early reading skills, this book will open up the wonderful, magical world of fairy tales, making it every little girl's dream!
The Sleeping Beauty and Other Stories
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Publisher:
Published: 1909
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13:
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