The Ice Palace

Author: Tarjei Vesaas
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN: 0720613760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159

Book Description
A new edition of what is commonly seen as the legendary Norwegian writer's masterpiece, this story tells the tale of Siss and Unn, two friends who have only spent one evening in each other's company. But so profound is this evening between them that when Unn inexplicably disappears, Siss's world is shattered. Siss's struggle with her fidelity to the memory of her friend and Unn's fatal exploration of the strange, terrifyingly beautiful frozen waterfall that is the Ice Palace are described in prose of a lyrical economy that ranks among the most memorable achievements of modern literature.

Ice Palace

Author: Edna Ferber
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 034580614X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
Originally published in 1958, Ice Palace is Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber's classic and mighty novel about the taming of a great northern wilderness—Alaska. Czar Kennedy came to Alaska for money and power, Thor Storm for a dream. This is the story of their struggle, over a long half-century, for the future of Alaska and the destiny of their beautiful, rebellious granddaughter, Christine, a courageous woman who must make a choice that will shape the destiny of a new generation. Above all, it is the glowing and eloquent tale of Alaska itself—the last, great American frontier.

The Ice Palace

Author: Robert Swindells
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0140349669
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54

Book Description
Ivan lives in a land where the winter is dark and fearful. Starjik, King of Winter, steals Ivan's little brother and Ivan braves the bitter cold to find him.

Ice Palace

Author: Deborah Blumenthal
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0618159606
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
A girl and her father help plan the annual winter carnival in Saranac Lake Village, New York, as the girl's uncle and other prisoners work together to build its centerpiece, the ice palace.

The Ice Palace Illustrated

Author: F Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
"The Ice Palace" modernist short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published in The Saturday Evening Post, 22 May 1920. It is one of eight short stories originally published in Fitzgerald's first collection, Flappers and Philosophers (New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920), and is also included in the collection Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1960).

The Ice Palace

Author: Angela McAllister
Publisher: Arrow
ISBN: 9780091761592
Category : Cold
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Summary: While Anna lies sick with a fever, her father tells her stories about an ice palace in a land of icy cold and plans a marvelous surprise for her.

The Ice Palace Waltz

Author: Barbara L. Baer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781948598286
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
In the autumn of 1895, citizens of Leadville, Colorado construct the Ice Palace: a last sign of hope for the fading silver mining town. There, on New Year's Eve beneath the magic lights and frozen ramparts of this fantastic ice marvel, Max Selig and the Grensky brothers, enemies and rivals, watch the youngest members of their families, June Selig and Nathan Grensky, dance and fall in love.Across the country in New York City, the waning years of the Gilded Age and a failed stock market gamble crushes the dreams of the Greenbaums. Only vivacious, copper-haired Tillie can save her family from ruin by entering into a marriage of convenience.Two decades later, Tillie, resigned to a passionless marriage, encourages her daughter Margie to live the romance she was denied and take a chance on the dashing, hard-drinking newsman Tommy Grensky, the Leadville Ice Palace lovers' son. But when the young couple travels to London in 1937, they encounter a changing Europe under the rise of Nazism.In The Ice Palace Waltz, two Jewish immigrant families-the rough and ready Western pioneers and the smooth, "our crowd" New Yorkers-come together in a riveting family saga amid the financial and social tumult of early twentieth century America. Baer's moving multigenerational novel traces the American Jewish experience and the enduring power of family and love.

Anna and Elsa

Author: Erica David
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781484487549
Category : Frozen (Motion picture : 2013 : Buck and Lee)
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
While entertaining guests, Anna and Elsa decide to show them Elsa's ice palace, but the visitors are in for a surprise when Elsa's snowgies take over the place.

Battle at Ice Palace

Author: Charlotte Fullerton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780448444093
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description

The Ice Palace

Author: Bill Haworth
Publisher: DCL Publications
ISBN: 1921347473
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description
In the freezing cold winter of 1739/40, Europe was in the grip of the worst weather for 30 years. The Seine, Rhine, Danube and Thames froze solid for months. Tsaritsa Anna Ivanovna gave an order to build a palace made completely of ice on the frozen river. She ordered the architect Pyotr Eropkin to design the building. The Ice Palace had been designed for a cruel jest. She made the prince marry a particularly ugly Kalmyk (area of Mongolia) serving woman, and the ice palace was for their honeymoon! It amounted to no more than a sick and perverse death sentence.The unhappy couple were paraded in a cage on the back of an elephant at the head of a procession of freaks, dwarves, cripples and all manner of grotesque human beings. In the palace the newlyweds were enclosed into an icy nuptial chamber under heavy guard and bedded down publicly in the icy room. The couple barely survived the night; but survive they did with the help of the Princes aide and friends of the Kalmyk bride.