On Persephone's Island

Author: Mary Taylor Simeti
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307773116
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 409

Book Description
An American woman residing in Sicily for the past twenty years portrays the Sicilian landscape and customs--both rural and urban--from the perspectives of both a "foreigner" and a resident.

On Persephone's Island

Author: Mary Taylor Simeti
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376

Book Description
Een Amerikaanse vrouw, gehuwd met een Italiaanse landbouwdeskundige, geeft haar visie op Sicilië.

Persephone's Path

Author: Charles Sacamano
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781542948463
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
This book is a simple guide to some of the characteristic plants that grow along roadsides in Sicily's beautiful natural landscapes from sea level to high elevation mountain forests. Included are color photos of 122 species with descriptions and habitats in which you may find each kind, and helpful glossary definitions of terms used in the book.

Myth-O-Mania: Phone Home, Persephone!

Author: Kate McMullan
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1434246779
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90

Book Description
In this modern version of the Greek myth, Persephone asks Hades for a ride to escape her overprotective mother, sneaks into the Underworld, and refuses to leave.

Homer's Hymn to Ceres

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tablet computers
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Book Description
"Covers iOS5.1 on iPad, iPad 2, and iPad 3rd generation." -- Cover.

The Persephone Book of Short Stories

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903155905
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 477

Book Description
To celebrate having reached their one hundredth volume, here is Persephone's marvelous collection of short stories by women. They are very well chosen: some are by first-rank authors, including Katherine Mansfield, Edith Wharton, Dorothy Parker, Irène Némirovsky and Penelope Fitzgerald; others from well-known writers who have been championed by the imprint and deservedly gained fresh recognition, such as Dorothy Whipple and Mollie Panter-Downes. There are 30 stories in all, and all remarkably unhampered by their time. The first, Susan Glaspell's story of love and lexicography from 1909, seems as bold as the last, by Georgina Hammick (from 1986), though you might not have found such an unflinching description of a gynaecological procedure 103 years ago. Put-upon mothers, exasperated wives, discarded mistresses - shared tropes bind these disparate stories into a coherent whole. A stand-out is Norah Hoult's 1938 story of a wife whose husband is grateful for the money her gentleman friend pays her for sex.

The Children who Lived in a Barn

Author: Eleanor Graham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903155196
Category : Barns
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Suitable for both adults and children to read, this 1938 novel shows five children successfully looking after themselves when their parents go away and fail to return.

The Making of a Marchioness

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Publisher: Briggs
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
The author describes this book as 'a picture of a nice simple, sweet prosaic soul who arrives at a good fortune almost comic because it is in a way so incongruous. Its heroine is a sort of Cinderella with big feet instead of little ones.'.

Keeping Her Keys

Author: Cyndi Brannen
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1789040760
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
The ancient goddess Hekate offers her keys of magick and mystery in the revised second edition of the internationally bestselling introduction to Hekate’s Modern Witchcraft, Keeping Her Keys. Designed as a program of self-study for deepening knowledge, strengthening practice, and discovering your own unique power, chapters cover the fundamentals from Hekate’s history to self-initiation. Animals, green witchcraft, meditations, reflective writing and more fill the pages, empowering the reader with the skills for claiming, and keeping, these keys offered by Hekate. Written by Cyndi Brannen, PhD, this book abides at the crossroads of the deeper world of Hekate and contemporary life. Through the lessons, readers are guided through exercises, rituals, and practices merging personal development with spirituality and magick.

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding

Author: Julia Frances Strachey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781906462079
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"A brilliant, bittersweet upstairs-downstairs comedy."--Guardian