Return to the Enchanted Island

Return to the Enchanted Island
Author: Johary Ravaloson
Publsiher: AmazonCrossing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Antananarivo (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
ISBN: 1542093511

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In this exhilarating prize-winning novel--only the second to be published in English from Madagascar--a young man comes of age amidst the enchanted origin myths of his island country. Named after the first man at the creation of the world in Malagasy mythology, Ietsy Razak was raised to perpetuate the glory of his namesake and expected to be as illuminated as his Great Ancestor. But in the chaos of modernity, his young life is marked only by restlessness, maddening insomnia, and an adolescent apathy. When an unexpected tragedy ships him off to a boarding school in France, his trip to the big city is no hero's journey. Ietsy loses himself in the immediate pleasures of body and mind. Weighed down by his privilege and the legacy of his name, Ietsy struggles to find a foothold. Only a return to the "Enchanted Island," as Madagascar is lovingly known, helps Ietsy stumble toward his destiny. This award-winning retelling of Madagascar's origin story offers a distinctly twenty-first-century perspective on the country's place in an ever-more-connected world.

No One Returns From the Enchanted Forest

No One Returns From the Enchanted Forest
Author: Robin Robinson
Publsiher: First Second
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021-05-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781250841773

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In this fantasy adventure graphic novel, a shy goblin must play the role of hero. They say no one returns from the Enchanted Forest—but that won’t discourage Pella. Earthquakes are destroying her village, and worst of all, they’ve caused the Midsummer Festival to be canceled. According to legend, the Earth Queen is to blame for these violent quakes—and the Earth Queen’s tower lies at the heart of the Enchanted Forest. Late one night, Pella sneaks away to find the Earth Queen and give her a piece of her mind. But she’s not afraid—she’s never afraid. It’s Bix, Pella’s sister, who does the worrying for both of them. She’s the one, after all, who was tasked with keeping her sister safe after they lost their parents. But despite her fears and the very real dangers that lie ahead, Bix will do anything to protect her little sister—even walk into the Enchanted Forest with only a ball of yarn to guide them home. They say no one returns from the Enchanted Forest. Will Bix and Pella be the first?

Enchanted Islands

Enchanted Islands
Author: Allison Amend
Publsiher: Anchor
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2017-04-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780804172042

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Born to immigrant parents in Minnesota just before the turn of the century, Frances Frankowski grew up coveting the life of her best friend, Rosalie Mendel. And yet, decades later, when the women reconnect in San Francisco, their lives have diverged. Rosalie is a housewife and mother, while Frances works for the Office of Naval Intelligence and has just been given a top-secret assignment: marry handsome spy Ainslie Conway and move to the Galápagos Islands to investigate the Germans living there in the build-up to World War II. Amid active volcanoes, forbidding wildlife and flora, and unfriendly neighbors, Ainslie and Frances carve out a life for themselves. But the secrets they harbor—from their friends, from their enemies, and even from each other—may be their undoing.

The Enchanted Island

The Enchanted Island
Author: Fannie Louise Apjohn
Publsiher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2022-09-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: EAN:8596547233008

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Enchanted Island" by Fannie Louise Apjohn. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Enchanted Islands

Enchanted Islands
Author: Mary D. Sheriff
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2018-08-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780226483245

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In Enchanted Islands, renowned art historian Mary D. Sheriff explores the legendary, fictional, and real islands that filled the French imagination during the ancien regime as they appeared in royal ballets and festivals, epic literature, paintings, engravings, book illustrations, and other objects. Some of the islands were mythical and found in the most popular literary texts of the day—islands featured prominently, for instance, in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso,Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata, and Fénelon’s, Telemachus. Other islands—real ones, such as Tahiti and St. Domingue—the French learned about from the writings of travelers and colonists. All of them were imagined to be the home of enchantresses who used magic to conquer heroes by promising sensual and sexual pleasure. As Sheriff shows, the theme of the enchanted island was put to many uses. Kings deployed enchanted-island mythology to strengthen monarchical authority, as Louis XIV did in his famous Versailles festival Les Plaisirs de l’île enchantée. Writers such as Fénelon used it to tell morality tales that taught virtue, duty, and the need for male strength to triumph over female weakness and seduction. Yet at the same time, artists like Boucher painted enchanted islands to portray art’s purpose as the giving of pleasure. In all these ways and more, Sheriff demonstrates for the first time the centrality of enchanted islands to ancient regime culture in a book that will enchant all readers interested in the art, literature, and history of the time.

The Enchanted Island of Yew

The Enchanted Island of Yew
Author: L. Frank Baum
Publsiher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2017-01-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9789176393536

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Three young girls wander into an enchanted forest at meet a fairy woman, who is bored with her perfect, immortal life. She convinces them to turn her into a human and decides to become a prince because boys have more fun. His/her new existence exploring the surrounding kingdoms is fast and adventurous from the get-go. What unfolds in an interesting story of problems solved by a woman’s mind in the luxury of a man’s body. ‘The Enchanted Island of Yew‘ (1903) was written by L. Frank Baum, the author of ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’, but is separate from the Oz series. This story clearly comes from the same imagination, however, with the added bonus of some interesting gender-bender elements. L. Frank Baum (1956-1919) was an American author, actor, and filmmaker best known for his children’s books, particularly ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ (1900) and its thirteen sequels. He started writing young and created a journal with his brother, which they handed out for free.

The Enchanted Island of Yew

The Enchanted Island of Yew
Author: Lyman Frank Baum
Publsiher: Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
Total Pages: 29
Release: 2011-12-15
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9182736450XXX

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A beautiful fairy is transformed into a human prince for one year. He and his friends have many adventures.

The Enchanted Island of Yew

The Enchanted Island of Yew
Author: L. Frank Baum
Publsiher: VM eBooks
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2016-01-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9182736450XXX

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Table of Contents 1. "Once on a Time" 2. The Enchanted Isle 3. The Fairy Bower 4. Prince Marvel 5. The King of Thieves 6. The Troubles of Nerle 7. The Gray Men 8. The Fool-Killer 9. The Royal Dragon of Spor 10. Prince Marvel Wins His Fight 11. The Cunning of King Terribus 12. The Gift of Beauty 13. The Hidden Kingdom of Twi 14. The Ki and the Ki-Ki 15. The High Ki of Twi 16. The Rebellion of the High Ki 17. The Separation of the High Ki 18. The Rescue of the High Ki 19. The Reunion of the High Ki 20. Kwytoffle, the Tyrant 21. The Wonderful Book of Magic 22. The Queen of Plenta 23. The Red Rogue of Dawna 24. The Enchanted Mirrors 25. The Adventurers Separate 26. The End of the Year 27. A Hundred Years Afterward