Swamp Angel
Title | Swamp Angel PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Isaacs |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 42 |
Release | 1994-09-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0525452710 |
Working in an American primitive style animated by the humor and storytelling genius for which he is renowned, Caldecott Winner artist Paul O. Zelinsky puts oils to cherry and maple for this tall-tale competition between a Tennessee woods-woman extraordinaire and a hungry, fearsome bear.Thundering Tarnation has a bottomless appetite for settler's grub. When word goes out about a competition to hunt this four-legged forest of stubble, a young woman, second to none in buckskin bravery, signs up. "How about baking a pie, Angel?" the other hunters taunt. "I aim to," says Swamp Angel. "A bear pie."What follows is as witty a round of roughhousing as ever jostled the ranks of Americana. Anne Isaacs' original text unfolds in a crackling combination of irony, exaggeration, and bold image-making. Zelinsky's paintings respond with deft yet hilarious expressions, rhythmic shapes, and a sense of monumental motion, as benefits a heroine who can wield a tornado like a lasso, drink a lake dry, and snore down a forest. In the course of these grand shenanigans, the Great Smoky Mountains are stirred up, Montana's short-grass prairie laid down, and Thundering Tarnation's fate proves to have no less a reach than the starry heavens.Swamp Angel marks the debut of a promising new storyteller and adds to the tall-tale traditions a pictorial counterpart that will entertain and endure for a long time to come.
The Swamp Angel
Title | The Swamp Angel PDF eBook |
Author | Prentice Mulford |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 118 |
Release | 1888 |
Genre | Conduct of life |
ISBN |
Swamp Angel
Title | Swamp Angel PDF eBook |
Author | Ethel Wilson |
Publisher | New Canadian Library |
Total Pages | 242 |
Release | 2010-06-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1551994100 |
Walking out on a demoralizing second marriage, Maggie Lloyd leaves Vancouver to work at a fishing lodge in the interior of British Columbia. But the serenity of Maggie’s new surroundings is soon disturbed by the irrational jealousy of the lodge-keeper’s wife. Restoring her own broken spirit, Maggie must also become a healer to others. In this, she is supported by her eccentric friend, Nell Severance, whose pearl-handled revolver – the Swamp Angel – becomes Maggie’s ambiguous talisman and the novel’s symbolic core. Ethel Wilson’s best-loved novel, Swamp Angel first appeared in 1954. It remains an astute and powerful study of one woman’s integrity and of the redemptive power of compassion.
The Days of the Swamp Angel
Title | The Days of the Swamp Angel PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Hall Leonard |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | American fiction |
ISBN |
Swamp Angel
Title | Swamp Angel PDF eBook |
Author | Colleen Boyd |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013-12-03 |
Genre | Angels |
ISBN | 9781937053765 |
When Rylan Forester discovers that the monster that has been haunting his dreams is real, he develops a friendship with the uncanny green girl that starts to become something more as he works to keep her safe.
Freckles
Title | Freckles PDF eBook |
Author | Gene Stratton-Porter |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | 376 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780253324719 |
When orphaned Freckles gets a job watching Mr. McLean's valuable Limberlost timber, he thinks that he has at last found a home. But the Limberlost gives him much more than that--a lasting knowledge of nature, a woman who loves him, and the secret of his noble birth. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
The "Swamp Angel."
Title | The "Swamp Angel." PDF eBook |
Author | William Watts Hart Davis |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 2 |
Release | 1881* |
Genre | |
ISBN |