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• Author : Jung Chang
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• File Size : 24,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2008-06-20
• Total pages : 544
• ISBN : 9781439106495
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The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.

• Author : Jung Chang
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• File Size : 21,6 Mb
• Release Date : 2003-08-12
• Total pages : 592
• ISBN : 9780743246989
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A Chinese woman chronicles the struggle of her grandmother, her mother, and herself to survive in a China torn apart by wars, invasions, revolution, and continuing upheaval, from 1907 to the present.

• Author : Jung Chang
• Publisher : HarperCollins UK
• File Size : 24,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2007
• Total pages : 728
• ISBN : 9780007241675
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This is the story of three generations of women in a Chinese family and mirrors the tumultuous history of twentieth century China. Jung Chang's grandmother was born into the feudal China of 1909. Her feet were bound and at the age of 15 she was given to a warlord general as a concubine. Her daughter grew up in occupied Manchuria and became active in the underground Nationalist movement. After many epic exploits, she and her guerilla lover became senior Communist officials. After a privileged childhood, Jung Chang became a Red Guard, but faced with the destructiveness of the Cultural Revolution, began to question Mao - a step which was to have momentous consequences for her and her family.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 14,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2019
• Total pages : 229
• ISBN : OCLC:1189952811
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PDF book entitled The Wild Swans written by Anonim and published by Unknown which was released on 2019 with total hardcover pages 229, the book become popular and critical acclaim.

• Author : Jessica Spotswood
• Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
• File Size : 49,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2016-05-03
• Total pages : 304
• ISBN : 9781492622178
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The summer before Ivy's senior year is going to be golden-all bonfires, barbeques, and spending time with her best friends. For once, she will just get to be. No summer classes, none of Granddad's intense expectations to live up to the family name. For generations, the Milbourn women have lead extraordinary lives-and died young and tragically. Granddad calls it a legacy, but Ivy considers it a curse. Why else would her mother have run off and abandoned her as a child? But when her mother unexpectedly returns home with two young daughters in tow, all of the stories Ivy wove to protect her heart start to unravel. The very people she once trusted now speak in lies. And all of Ivy's ambition and determination cannot defend her against the secrets of the Milbourn past...

• Author : William Butler Yeats
• Publisher : Litres
• File Size : 29,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2017-09-05
• Total pages : 229
• ISBN : 9785040491735
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PDF book entitled The Wild Swans at Coole written by William Butler Yeats and published by Litres which was released on 2017-09-05 with total hardcover pages 229, the book become popular and critical acclaim.

• Author : Michael Cunningham
• Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• File Size : 25,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2015-11-10
• Total pages : 144
• ISBN : 9780374712600
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Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hours A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away—the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder—are transformed by Michael Cunningham into stories of sublime revelation. Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed: the years after a spell is broken, the rapturous instant of a miracle unexpectedly realized, or the fate of a prince only half cured of a curse. The Beast stands ahead of you in line at the convenience store, buying smokes and a Slim Jim, his devouring smile aimed at the cashier. A malformed little man with a knack for minor acts of wizardry goes to disastrous lengths to procure a child. A loutish and lazy Jack prefers living in his mother's basement to getting a job, until the day he trades a cow for a handful of magic beans. Reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu, rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true.

• Author : Jackie Morris
• Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
• File Size : 11,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2015-10-01
• Total pages : 0
• ISBN : 1847805361
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This very beautiful and lyrical extended version of the fairy tale 'The Wild Swans' by Hans Christian Andersen is the much anticipated companion to East of the Sun, West of the Moon. With strong characterization of the heroine and also with more rounded characterisation of the wicked stepmother than in the original version, and with delicate watercolor paintings throughout, this is both a wonderful story and delightful gift. Beautifully presented in a jacketed edition with foiled title.

• Author : Gregory Maguire
• Publisher : HarperCollins
• File Size : 12,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2020-10-06
• Total pages : 272
• ISBN : 9780062980809
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After brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked turns his unconventional genius to Hans Christian Andersen's "The Wild Swans," transforming this classic tale into an Italian-American girl's poignant coming-of-age story, set amid the magic of Christmas in 1960s New York. Following her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet, awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a popular girl who bullied her. When Christmas is over and the new year begins, Laura may find herself at boarding school in Montreal. Nearly unmoored from reality through her panic and submerged grief, Laura is startled when a handsome swan boy with only one wing lands on her roof. Hiding him from her ever-bickering grandparents, Laura tries to build the swan boy a wing so he can fly home. But the task is too difficult to accomplish herself. Little does Laura know that her struggle to find help for her new friend parallels that of her grandparents, who are desperate for a distant relative’s financial aid to save the family store. As he explores themes of class, isolation, family, and the dangerous yearning to be saved by a power greater than ourselves, Gregory Maguire conjures a haunting, beautiful tale of magical realism that illuminates one young woman’s heartbreak and hope as she begins the inevitable journey to adulthood.

• Author : Jung Chang
• Publisher : William Collins
• File Size : 18,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2012
• Total pages : 688
• ISBN : 0007463405
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Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more than 13 million copies and a critically acclaimed history of China; a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and an uplifting story of bravery and survival. Through the story of three generations of women in her own family - the grandmother given to the warlord as a concubine, the Communist mother and the daughter herself - Jung Chang reveals the epic history of China's twentieth century. Breathtaking in its scope, unforgettable in its descriptions, this is a masterpiece which is extraordinary in every way.

• Author : Diane Zahler
• Publisher : Harper Collins
• File Size : 19,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2012-01-31
• Total pages : 240
• ISBN : 9780062102027
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Based on Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Wild Swans,” this enchanting fantasy by Diane Zahler, author of The Thirteenth Princess and A True Princess, is a tale of family, bravery . . . and a terrible spell. Princess Meriel’s brothers have been cursed. An evil enchantment cast by their conniving new stepmother has transformed the handsome princes into swans. They now swim forlornly on a beautiful heart-shaped lake that lies just beyond the castle walls. Meriel will do whatever it takes to rescue her beloved brothers. But she must act quickly. If Heart Lake freezes, her brothers will be forced to fly south or perish. With help from her newfound friends Riona and Liam—a beautiful half-witch and her clever brother—Meriel vows to finish a seemingly impossible task. If she completes it, her brothers may be saved. But if she fails . . . all will be lost.

• Author : Jung Chang
• Publisher : Knopf
• File Size : 30,6 Mb
• Release Date : 2019-10-29
• Total pages : 434
• ISBN : 9780451493507
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Download Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

In a group biography, the author reveals the lives of three extraordinary women who helped shape the history of 20th-century China. Red Sister, Ching-ling, married the "Father of China," Sun Yat-sen, and rose to be Mao's vice-chair. Little Sister, May-ling, became Madame Chiang Kai-shek, first lady of pre-Communist Nationalist China. Big Sister, Ei-ling, became Chiang's main adviser and one of China's richest women.

• Author : Hans Christian Andersen
• Publisher : Pushkin Children's Books
• File Size : 18,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2017-03-21
• Total pages : 64
• ISBN : 9781782691402
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A princess has eleven brothers. The twelve siblings live happily and well, until their father decides to remarry. Their new stepmother is a wicked woman, and she turns all the brothers into swans and banishes the princess from the palace. And so it is left to Elisa to endure countless hardships alone in order to save her beloved brothers from the spell. This edition also contains a new translation of Hans Christian Andersen's beloved story The Nightingale, a story about a Chinese emperor who prefers the song of a mechanical nightingale to that of the real bird. When he falls ill, it is the nightingale who saves him. The story has been adapted for stage, opera, muscial theatre and television many times.

• Author : Ricciardi / Nugent
• Publisher : Lulu.com
• File Size : 47,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2023
• Total pages : 113
• ISBN : 9781329184404
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PDF book entitled The Wild Swans Screenplay written by Ricciardi / Nugent and published by Lulu.com which was released on 2023 with total hardcover pages 113, the book become popular and critical acclaim.

• Author : Starhawk,Hillary Valentine
• Publisher : Harper Collins
• File Size : 30,6 Mb
• Release Date : 2001-10-02
• Total pages : 354
• ISBN : 9780062516695
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The long-awaited continuation of the bestselling classic The Spiral Dance