Thomas The Rhymer
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Author |
: Ellen Kushner |
Publisher |
: Gollancz |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2015-07-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 147321162X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781473211629 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (2X Downloads) |
Synopsis Thomas the Rhymer by : Ellen Kushner
A minstrel lives by his words, his tunes, and sometimes by his lies. But when the bold and gifted young Thomas the Rhymer awakens the desire of the powerful Queen of Elfland, he finds that words are not enough to keep him from his fate. As the Queen sweeps him far from the people he has known and loved into her realm of magic, opulence - and captivity - he learns at last what it is to be truly human. When he returns to his home with the Queen's parting gift, his great task will be to seek out the girl he loved and wronged, and offer her at last the tongue that cannot lie. Award-winning author Ellen Kushner's inspired retelling of an ancient legend weaves myth and magic into a vivid contemporary novel about the mysteries of the human heart. Brimming with ballads, riddles, and magical transformations, here is the timeless tale of a charismatic bard whose talents earn him a two-edged otherworldly gift.
Author |
: Diana Wynne Jones |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 430 |
Release |
: 2012-04-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101566992 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110156699X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fire and Hemlock by : Diana Wynne Jones
A fantastic tale by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones—with an introduction by Garth Nix. Polly Whittacker has two sets of memories. In the first, things are boringly normal; in the second, her life is entangled with the mysterious, complicated cellist Thomas Lynn. One day, the second set of memories overpowers the first, and Polly knows something is very wrong. Someone has been trying to make her forget Tom - whose life, she realizes, is at supernatural risk. Fire and Hemlock is a fantasy filled with sorcery and intrigue, magic and mystery - and a most unusual and satisfying love story. Widely considered to be one of Diana Wynne Jones's best novels, the Firebird edition of Fire and Hemlock features an introduction by the acclaimed Garth Nix - and an essay about the writing of the book by Jones herself.
Author |
: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1190 |
Release |
: 1901 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015009203343 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 by : Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Author |
: Nigel Tranter |
Publisher |
: Hodder & Stoughton |
Total Pages |
: 505 |
Release |
: 2012-09-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781444757644 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1444757644 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis True Thomas by : Nigel Tranter
Little is known about Thomas Learmonth of Ercildoune, vassal and esquire of the Earl of Dunbar, poet and prophesier known as 'Thomas the Rhymer'. During the reign of the Scottish King Alexander III, a time when the sword ruled over all and the treachery of the powerful earls had never been greater, True Thomas became renowned for his extraordinary gift of prophecy - a gift which has echoed through the centuries. In this enthralling tale, Scottish historical novelist Nigel Tanter brings him and the wild and rugged times in which he lived to vivid and memorable life.
Author |
: Arthur Quiller- Couch |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 871 |
Release |
: 1963 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:248100354 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Book of Ballads by : Arthur Quiller- Couch
Author |
: Elizabeth Burton |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 295 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1861431635 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781861431639 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life and Times of Thomas of Ercildune 'The Rhymer' by : Elizabeth Burton
Author |
: Ellen Kushner |
Publisher |
: Charlesbridge Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 97 |
Release |
: 2011-07-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781607345039 |
ISBN-13 |
: 160734503X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Golden Dreydl by : Ellen Kushner
Nun, Gimel, Hey, Shin Sara finds Chanukah celebrations boring. When her Tante Miriam arrives and gives her a Golden Dreydl, everything changes. The dreydl, an enchanted princess in disguise, takes Sara on a journey to a magical world. When the princess is taken by the Demon King, who possesses the power of the Tree of Life, it is Sara who must use her wit to save the princess and return her to her parents — King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. A delightful holiday tale that weaves together threads of Jewish folklore and tradition with fantasy and humor.
Author |
: Nancy Moore Goslee |
Publisher |
: University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages |
: 263 |
Release |
: 2014-07-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813163208 |
ISBN-13 |
: 081316320X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Scott the Rhymer by : Nancy Moore Goslee
Renewed arguments over the definition of Romanticism warrant a new look at the narrative poetry of Sir Walter Scott. Nancy Moore Goslee's study, the first full treatment of Scott's poems in many years, will do for his poetry what Judith Wilt's book has done for his novels. Already a subtle reader of the high Romantics and their celebrations of the visionary imagination, Goslee draws upon several recent critical developments for this study of Scott: a growing tendency among critics of his novels to see romance as a positive strength, the broader development of narrative theory, and feminist theory. Like Thomas the Rhymer, the half-historical, half- mythic minstrel who rides off with the elfin queen, Scott's poems repeatedly accept the world of romance and yet challenge it, often wittily, with an array of hermeneutic perspectives upon its function. The perspectives Goslee considers most fully are the development of poetry from a communal, oral performance to a written, published document; the larger, more violent development of Scottish and British history from feudal to modern cultures; and the repeated contrast, in that succession of cultures, between the limited, passive role of most actual women and their active, powerful role as elfin queen or enchantress in the romance. As if drawn toward yet simultaneously repelled by such women, Scott alternates between poems in which enchantresses seem to control their worlds and those in which women are only pawns, desirable for the land they inherit. The poems of the latter group are more realistically historical in plot, turning upon major battles; those of the former are more romantic and magical. Yet both follow similar narrative patterns derived from medieval and especially Renaissance romance. Both, too, show a wandering in more primitive, violent societies which delays the rational, gradual progress seen as cultural salvation by Enlightenment historians.
Author |
: Ellen Kushner |
Publisher |
: Spectra |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2007-12-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307418647 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307418642 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Thomas the Rhymer by : Ellen Kushner
Award-winning author and radio personality Ellen Kushner’s inspired retelling of an ancient legend weaves myth and magic into a vivid contemporary novel about the mysteries of the human heart. Brimming with ballads, riddles, and magical transformations, here is the timeless tale of a charismatic bard whose talents earn him a two-edged otherworldly gift. A minstrel lives by his words, his tunes, and sometimes by his lies. But when the bold and gifted young Thomas the Rhymer awakens the desire of the powerful Queen of Elfland, he finds that words are not enough to keep him from his fate. As the Queen sweeps him far from the people he has known and loved into her realm of magic, opulence—and captivity—he learns at last what it is to be truly human. When he returns to his home with the Queen’s parting gift, his great task will be to seek out the girl he loved and wronged, and offer her at last the tongue that cannot lie.
Author |
: James A. H. Murray |
Publisher |
: BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 154 |
Release |
: 2024-01-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783385250406 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3385250404 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune by : James A. H. Murray
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.