The Chrysanthemums

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0718196473
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chrysanthemums written by John Steinbeck and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elisa Allen is tending her chrysanthemums. Strong, with a handsome face she skilfully and proudly cultivates the best in the valley. Tonight, her husband is taking her to town. While she works, a squeak of heels and a plod of hoofs bring a curious vehicle, curiously drawn: a tradesman looking for directions and a job. He is met with curt replies and a hardened resistance. Then he notices her chrysanthemums. With his characteristic insight and evocative language, John Steinbeck creates a short story of a brief but striking encounter. Set in Salinas Valley, where he grew up, it dissects the myriad complexities of humanity, society and hidden longings.

Author : Kevin Henkes
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061119741
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chrysanthemum Big Book written by Kevin Henkes and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was a perfect baby, and she had a perfect name. Chrysanthemum. Chrysanthemum loved her name—until she started school. A terrific read-aloud for the classroom and libraries!

Author : Katherine Paterson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0064402320
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sign of the Chrysanthemum written by Katherine Paterson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1988-06-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muna has never known his father -- a samurai, a noble warrior. But Muna's mother has told Muna how he will know him one day: by the sign of the chrysanthemum. When his mother dies, Muna travels to the capital of twelfth-century Japan, a bewildering city on the verge of revolution. He finds a haven there, as servant to the great swordsmith, Fukuji. But Muna cannot forget his dream: He must find his father. Only then will he have power and a name to be reckoned with. Only then will he become a man.

Author : Pat Stockett Johnston
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781482534399
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mums the Word written by Pat Stockett Johnston and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mums the Word clearly describes how anyone can grow large, beautiful mum flowers successfully. It provides step-by-step directions on how to buy rooted mum cuttings or take cuttings from stolen (new growth) from mums grown the previous year. The chapters are organized by monthly tasks. It's a great book for new growers plus offers tips for experienced mum growers.

Author : Mary Lynn Bracht
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 073521445X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Chrysanthemum written by Mary Lynn Bracht and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Lisa Wingate’s Before We Were Yours and Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko, a deeply moving novel that follows two Korean sisters separated by World War II. Korea, 1943. Hana has lived her entire life under Japanese occupation. As a haenyeo, a female diver of the sea, she enjoys an independence that few other Koreans can still claim. Until the day Hana saves her younger sister from a Japanese soldier and is herself captured and transported to Manchuria. There she is forced to become a “comfort woman” in a Japanese military brothel. But haenyeo are women of power and strength. She will find her way home. South Korea, 2011. Emi has spent more than sixty years trying to forget the sacrifice her sister made, but she must confront the past to discover peace. Seeing the healing of her children and her country, can Emi move beyond the legacy of war to find forgiveness? Suspenseful, hopeful, and ultimately redemptive, White Chrysanthemum tells a story of two sisters whose love for each other is strong enough to triumph over the grim evils of war.

Author : David Herbert Lawrence
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781691644230
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Odour of Chrysanthemums written by David Herbert Lawrence and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-09-07 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Was this what it all meant - utter, intact separateness, obscured by heat of living?' D. H. Lawrence's short stories portray complex, flawed interior lives, showing individuals facing momentous emotional events. In these two stories of fragile happiness and failed dreams, a tragedy forces a woman to acknowledge that she has never known her husband, and a man blinded in the First World War discovers an unexpected peace. This book includes "Odour of Chrysanthemums" and "The Blind Man".

Author : Andrea Cheng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781600608896
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goldfish and Chrysanthemums written by Andrea Cheng and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Chinese American girl puts her goldfish into a fish pond that she creates and borders with chrysanthemums in order to remind her grandmother of the fish pond she had back in China.

Author : Matthew Fraleigh
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684175658
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plucking Chrysanthemums written by Matthew Fraleigh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plucking Chrysanthemums is a critical study of the life and works of Narushima Ryūhoku (1837–1884): Confucian scholar, world traveler, pioneering journalist, and irrepressible satirist. A major figure on the nineteenth-century Japanese cultural scene, Ryūhoku wrote works that were deeply rooted in classical Sinitic literary traditions. Sinitic poetry and prose enjoyed a central and prestigious place in Japan for nearly all of its history, and the act of composing it continued to offer modern Japanese literary figures the chance to incorporate themselves into a written tradition that transcended national borders. Adopting Ryūhoku’s multifarious invocations of Six Dynasties poet Tao Yuanming as an organizing motif, Matthew Fraleigh traces the disparate ways in which Ryūhoku drew upon the Sinitic textual heritage over the course of his career. The classical figure of this famed Chinese poet and the Sinitic tradition as a whole constituted a referential repository to be shaped, shifted, and variously spun to meet the emerging circumstances of the writer as well as his expressive aims. Plucking Chrysanthemums is the first book-length study of Ryūhoku in a Western language and also one of the first Western-language monographs to examine Sinitic poetry and prose (kanshibun) composition in modern Japan.

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780146000980
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chrysanthemums and Other Stories written by John Steinbeck and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nancy Baker
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504095049
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood and Chrysanthemums written by Nancy Baker and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to The Night Inside, a vampire couple’s relationship is tested by the modern world as a mysterious stranger hunts them down. With a dark embrace from five-hundred-year-old vampire Dimitri Rozokov, Ardeth Alexander left behind her mortal life in Toronto. Now they are attempting to forge a new life in Banff, Alberta.—and They share an unspoken agreement not to feed on humans and hunt wild animals off the beaten paths of the national park instead. However, their new reality is far from easy, and elk blood can never fully satisfy their hunger. Angry and unhappy, Ardeth longs for the life she left behind and returns to Toronto. But the machinations of a century-old Japanese vampire soon reunite the couple. Once a feudal lord, now a yakuza boss, Sademori Fujiwara shares his extraordinary life story. It is a tale that can answer the questions of love, mortality, and morality threatening to tear Ardeth and Dimitri apart for good. But the price for those answers is dangerously high . . . “Baker writes about the vampires next door . . . they bicker over petty, everyday things. They are jealous when a partner flirts with someone. They worry about paying the rent . . . ‘They’re Canadian,’ she says.” —The Vancouver Sun “Baker evokes the various figures from Japanese culture familiar in the West—yakuza, samurai and medieval court ladies and their pillow books—but she goes beyond clichés and invests these characters with a solidity and poignancy that contrast sharply with the simpler Canadian horror of The Night Inside. This is a more contemplative offering.” —Paragraph