Eleven unique, highly original short stories with a simple and clear style.
In Isak Dinesen's universe, the magical enchantment of the fairy tale and the moral resonance of myth coexist with an unflinching grasp of the most obscure human strengths and weaknesses.
There they found the wise woman . The reindeer looked at her with such pleading eyes that her own eyes twinkled . " Don't you see ? ' she said to the reindeer , " I can give Gerda no greater power than the power of her own heart .
The most original and influential comic mind of our generation gives us a rollicking tour of his expansive imagination. Alongside the hilarity are intimate, revealing, and poignant recollections of childhood's...
And what is his future?Trinka Hakes Noble is the award-winning author of numerous picture books, including The Orange Shoes and The Scarlet Stockings Spy. She lives in Bernardsville, New Jersey.
What The Crowd Of Bone Sang She is silent, Ashes, and she dances, odd one out. In the guisers' play, she bears a bag of ashes of the old year's crown to sain the hearths of the living, the hallows of the earth.
Folk stories about winter from around the world.
Winter's Tales tackles the question of whether narrative and drama are as different from each other as some scholars have assumed.
Through these stories George Mackay Brown explores the effects of new ways of thinking and working on the ancient patterns and traditions of Orkney life.
The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, some modern editors have relabelled the play as one of Shakespeare's late romances.
Snowtime Tales