Our Lady of the Flowers, Paperback - M. Jean Genet

Our Lady of the Flowers, often considered Genet's masterpiece, was written in the cell of a French prison where he was being held for theft. A stor...

'One evening, ' wrote Jean Genet in a prefatory note to The Blacks (1959), 'an actor asked me to write a play for an all-black cast.Publisher: Fabe...

Publisher: Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie PublishersAuthor(s): Gilly WilmotNumber of pages: 164Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 131 x 196 x 16Cover type...

Jean Genet, French playwright, novelist and poet, turned the experiences in his life amongst pimps, whores, thugs and other fellow social outcasts ...

Delightful Regency romance from the author of the Agatha Raisin series; now a major new drama from Sky 1

Reducere. Lady Rose Summer, the wayward Edwardian debutante who keeps getting mixed up in disreputable adventures, would swear she is not a jealous woman. Af...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The utterly delightful Phryne Fisher makes her very welcome appearance as St Kilda's Queen of the Flowers. But when a body washes up on the beach, ...

Description"As gripping as it is hilarious." -- Vanity Fair "I devoured this novel . . . It just made my whole being vibrate and hum with the impos...

Janetta Orlando's life has been bouncing along the gutter like a Brunswick bowling ball after a series of disastrous relationships and bad breakups...

Reducere. In 1942, Boston teenager Jessica Stanfield is learning about life and its complexities in a time of war as she sees her German housekeeper Anna har...

Reducere. The epic story of the complex, sensual, tragic, and remarkable life of a legendary Puerto Rican madamBorn into poverty and then abandoned by her mo...

Reducere. Excerpts from the novels, plays, and poems of the French convict, prostitute, and literary artist join notes from his film, The Penal Colony, lette...

Reducere. Nearly a decade after Spain's conquest of Mexico, the future of Christianity on the American continent was very much in doubt. Confronted with a ho...

Death welcomes everyone. This is the foundation for the veneration of Santa Muerte, or ``Holy Death.`` Considered to be the female personification ...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sylvia V. LinsteadtIn this collection of short stories, poems, and a novella, Sylvia V. Linsteadt explores the roots of pat...

Reducere. An electrifying letter to family, country, and self, Unearth The Flowers] is an essential collection, relentless in its journey through stages of g...

Reducere. Contributor(s): With: Amy CordovaWith: Eugene Gollogly Long ago, in a small village in old Mexico, a baby boy was born. A child of the Great Eagle ...

Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments is the spellbinding sequel to The Library of the Dead, with more ghosts, mysteries and mayhem as Ropa grapples with...

Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments is the spellbinding sequel to The Library of the Dead, with more ghosts, mysteries and mayhem as Ropa grapples with...

&i>Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments&/i> is the spellbinding sequel to &i>The Library of the Dead&/i>, with more ghosts, mysteries and mayhem as Ropa...

Reducere. The appearances of Our Lady of Guadalupe coincide with the birth of Hispanic culture in America and the evangelization of the continent. Written by...

How aesthetic religious experiences can create solidarity in marginalized communitiesLatine Catholics have used Our Lady of Guadalupe as a symbol i...

Junior nurse, ex-prisoner and part-time healer Alice Bhatti is looking for a job.With guidance from the working nurse's manual, and some tricks she...

Reducere. When a little boy stops in to see Sister Lucia on his way to Catechism Class, she tells him the amazing story of Fatima. As the boy's eyes fill wit...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Lisa Jean MooreIllustration(s): 23 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimens...

Reducere. "One of the greatest achievements of modern literature." -Richard Howard "A major achievement . . . . Genet transforms experiences of degradation i...

Reducere. How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers is a whimsical and delightful book of children's verse. Each verse centers around two things that resemble o...

Reducere. Now in paperback, The Crime of Jean Genet is a powerful personal account of the influence of one writer on another and one of the most penetrating ...

A beautiful retrospective overview of the work of award-winning botanical artist Christina Hart-Davis, telling the whole story of plants and flower...

Reducere. During his 2012 residency at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel (born 1964) delved into the archives of the ma...

DescriptionAn intimate herbarium of flowers in the collection of the LouvreTo celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Louvre pyramid, French artist J...

Reducere. Our Lady of Fatima, Paperback

Reducere. The story of the appearances of Our Lady to Juan Diego. Full-color illustrations. Author: Lawrence LovasikFormat: 32 pages, PaperbackPublisher: Cat...

Jean Genet, French playwright, novelist and poet, turned the experiences in his life amongst pimps, whores, thugs and other fellow social outcasts ...

Reducere. Genet has strong claims to be considered the greatest living playwright. His plays constitute a body of work unmatched for poetic and theatrical po...

Reducere. This concise and informative primer offers the faithful a wonderful resource to help celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Our Lady's Apparitions at F...

DescriptionThe Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in the midst of a national debate ab...

Reducere. In 1846, the people of the small town of Corps, located in the French Alps, had largely forgotten God. That was soon about to change. Our Lady of L...

Reducere. The story of the appearances of Our Lady to St. Bernadette. Full-color illustrations.

Reducere. Our Lady of Guadalupe takes you to a time when a modest Aztec peasant had a vision of a radiant woman """"clothed in the sun."""" This divine prese...

Reducere. Book jacket/back: The setting of Jean Genet's celebrated play is a brothel that caters to refined sensibilities and peculiar tastes. Here men from ...

Reducere. Months before Alma López's digital collage Our Lady was shown at the Museum of International Folk Art in 2001, the museum began receiving angry pho...

A beautiful new edition of Jean Genet's classic work, which includes a new introduction by Jon Savage. 'One of the great writers of our times.' Sun...

Reducere. La collection Connaître une oeuvre vous offre la possibilité de tout savoir de la pièce de théâtre Les Bonnes, de Jean Genet, grâce à une fiche de ...

Reducere. Genet's sensual and brutal portrait of World War II unfolds between the poles of his grief for his lover Jean, killed in the Resistance during the ...

Reducere. five miners buried alive in a cave in for five days. All five rescued and found in perfect health. They attribute their deliverance to Our Lady of ...

Topics covered: The geography of YorkshireThe anatomy of flowersOver 400 species describedFlowering times and distributionPublisher: The Crowood Pr...

Starting in 1970, Jean Genet--petty thief, prostitute, modernist master--spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outc...