Bluebeard's First Wife

Bluebeard's First Wife
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 243
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ISBN-10 : 1948830175
ISBN-13 : 9781948830171
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Bluebeard's First Wife by : Seong-nan Ha

Ha looks closely at the sordid underbelly of suburbia in Bluebeard's First Wife, the latest from one of Korea's preeminent authors.

Bluebeard's Egg

Bluebeard's Egg
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Publisher : Emblem Editions
Total Pages : 295
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ISBN-10 : 9781551994871
ISBN-13 : 1551994879
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Bluebeard's Egg by : Margaret Atwood

By turns humorous and warm, stark and frightening, Bluebeard's Egg infuses a Canada of the 1940s, '50s and '80s with glowing childhood memories, the harsh realities of parents growing old, and the casual cruelty that men and women inflict on each other. Here is the familiar outer world of family summers at remote lakes, winters of political activism, and seasons of exotic friends, mudane lives and unexpected loves. But here too is the inner world of hidden places and all that emerges from them—the intimately personal, the fantastic and the shockingly real...whether it's what lies in a mysterious locked room or in the secret feelings we all conceal.

Bluebeard

Bluebeard
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Publisher : Dial Press
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : 9780307567208
ISBN-13 : 0307567206
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Bluebeard by : Kurt Vonnegut

“Ranks with Vonnegut’s best and goes one step beyond . . . joyous, soaring fiction.”—The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story—and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man’s careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves. Praise for Bluebeard “Vonnegut is at his edifying best.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “The quicksilver mind of Vonnegut is at it again. . . . He displays all his talents—satire, irony, ridicule, slapstick, and even a shaggy dog story of epic proportions.”—The Cincinnati Post “[Kurt Vonnegut is] a voice you can trust to keep poking holes in the social fabric.”—San Francisco Chronicle “It has the qualities of classic Bosch and Slaughterhouse Vonnegut. . . . Bluebeard is uncommonly feisty.”—USA Today “Is Bluebeard good? Yes! . . . This is vintage Vonnegut—good wine from his best grapes.”—The Detroit News “A joyride . . . Vonnegut is more fascinated and puzzled than angered by the human stupidities and contradictions he discerns so keenly. So hop in his rumble seat. As you whiz along, what you observe may provide some new perspectives.”—Kansas City Star

Lady Bluebeard

Lady Bluebeard
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : IND:30000055973931
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Lady Bluebeard by : William C. Anderson

A biographical novel on the life of Lyda Southard, serial killer from Idaho.

In Bluebeard's Castle

In Bluebeard's Castle
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 156
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ISBN-10 : 0300017103
ISBN-13 : 9780300017106
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis In Bluebeard's Castle by : George Steiner

The author presents a penetrating analysis of the collapse of Western culture during the last half of the twentieth century

Bluebeard

Bluebeard
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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 1604732318
ISBN-13 : 9781604732313
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Bluebeard by : Casie Hermansson

A study of the ever-evolving fairy tale about the murderous aristocrat and his endangered wife

Secrets Beyond the Door

Secrets Beyond the Door
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 261
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ISBN-10 : 9780691127835
ISBN-13 : 0691127832
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Secrets Beyond the Door by : Maria Tatar

Maria 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.

Blue Beard (Illustrated)

Blue Beard (Illustrated)
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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages : 36
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ISBN-10 : 1727650522
ISBN-13 : 9781727650525
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Blue Beard (Illustrated) by : Charles Perrault

Rare edition with unique illustrations. Along with the collections of Andersen, Lang, and the Brothers Grimm, the Fairy tales of Charles Perrault is among the great books of European fairy tales. These stories have been enjoyed by generation after generation of children in many countries, and are here, waiting to be enjoyed again. "Blue beard" is a French folktale, the most famous surviving version of which was written by Charles Perrault and first published by Barbin in Paris in 1697 in Histoires ou contes du temps passe. The tale tells the story of a violent nobleman in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of one wife to avoid the fate of her predecessors.

Fly With the Arrow

Fly With the Arrow
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 310
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ISBN-10 : 1777264553
ISBN-13 : 9781777264550
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Fly With the Arrow by : Sarah K L Wilson

Stolen away to Bluebeard's lair and all I got was this severed head. I had already resigned myself to an unwanted marriage when he swept in and took me as his bride. I hadn't resigned myself to violence or an early death. That's a bit much to ask of a person. But I'm not the kind of girl to just give up. Not even if it means facing all the horrors of his mad Fae world head on. I refuse to give in, go crazy, or be killed by one of his rivals. I also refuse to fall in love with him. Not even if he keeps surprising me with depths I didn't expect. After all, he's had fifteen wives before me and it's not a case of "the more the merrier." I have a crafty husband, a severed head that gives surprisingly good advice, and the common sense my mother gave me. Together, they'll just have to be enough to conquer this Fae realm. Especially now that I've found out that the fate of this world is connected to the fate of my own. Failure in one will mean the desolation of the other.