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The Green Man
Author | : Michael Bedard |
Publsiher | : Tundra Books |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2014-11-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781770495111 |
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When Ophelia's father heads off to Italy for the summer to finish work on his book on the poet Ezra Pound, O - as she prefers to be called - is sent by train to stay with her Aunt Emily, who runs a secondhand bookshop back east called The Green Man. Emily has recently suffered a heart attack. Part of the reason O is sent to stay with her is to see if she can help out with the shop. Part mystery, part fantasy, this compelling and beautifully written novel slips between the real world, and that of the creative imagination. Cloaked in the simple story of a young woman taking over a bookstore from her aged aunt, The Green Man is an eerie story about finding voice and courage, and about suspending disbelief!
The Land of the Green Man
Author | : Carolyne Larrington |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2017-12-15 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780857729347 |
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Beyond its housing estates and identikit high streets there is another Britain. This is the Britain of mist-drenched forests and unpredictable sea-frets: of wraith-like fog banks, druidic mistletoe and peculiar creatures that lurk, half-unseen, in the undergrowth, tantalising and teasing just at the periphery of human vision. How have the remarkably persistent folkloric traditions of the British Isles formed and been formed by the psyches of those who inhabit them? In this sparkling new history, Carolyne Larrington explores the diverse ways in which a myriad of fantastical beings has moulded the nation's cultural history. Fairies, elves and goblins here tread purposefully, sometimes malignly, over an eerie landscape that also conceals brownies, selkies, trows, knockers, boggarts, land-wights, Jack o'Lanterns, Barguests, the sinister Nuckleavee and Black Shuck: terrifying hell-hound of the Norfolk coast with eyes of burning coal. Ranging from Shetland to Jersey and from Ireland to East Anglia, while evoking the Wild Hunt, the ghostly bells of Lyonesse and the dread fenlands haunted by Grendel, this is a book that will captivate all those who long for the wild places: the mountains and chasms where giants lie in wait
The Green Man
Author | : Kingsley Amis |
Publsiher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2013-05-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781590176160 |
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The owner of a haunted country inn contends with death, fatherhood, romantic woes, and alcoholism in this humorous and “rattling good ghost story” from a Booker Prize–winning author (The New York Times) Maurice Allington has reached middle age and is haunted by death. As he says, “I honestly can’t see why everybody who isn’t a child, everybody who’s theoretically old enough to have understood what death means, doesn’t spend all his time thinking about it. It’s a pretty arresting thought.” He also happens to own and run a country inn that is haunted. The Green Man opens as Maurice’s father drops dead (had he seen something in the room?) and continues as friends and family convene for the funeral. Maurice’s problems are many and increasing: How to deal with his own declining health? How to reach out to a teenage daughter who watches TV all the time? How to get his best friend’s wife in the sack? How to find another drink? (And another.) And then there is always death. The Green Man is a ghost story that hits a live nerve, a very black comedy with an uncannily happy ending: in other words, Kingsley Amis at his best.
Green Man
Author | : William Anderson,Clive Hicks |
Publsiher | : Harper San Francisco |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0062500759 |
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Traces the origins and evolution of the concept of the Green Man, a symbol of renewal and oneness with nature, from prehistory to the present, in the myths, folklore, and art of cultures around the world
In the Shadow of Green Man
Author | : Reginald Haslett-marroquin |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2017-01-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1601731388 |
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The Green Man
Author | : Kathleen Basford |
Publsiher | : D. S. Brewer |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0859914976 |
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Delightful, oft-reprinted guide to the foliate heads so common in medieval sculpture. This was the first-ever monograph dedicated to the Green Man.
Uprooted
Author | : Nina Lyon |
Publsiher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2016-03-01 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780571318032 |
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Who, or what, is the Green Man, and why is this medieval image so present in our precarious modern times? An encounter with the Green Man at an ancient Herefordshire church in the wake of catastrophic weather leads Nina Lyon into an exploration of how the foliate heads of Norman stonemasons have evolved into today's cult symbols. The Green Man's association with the pantheistic beliefs of Celtic Christianity and with contemporary neo-paganism, with the shamanic traditions of the Anglo-Saxons and as a figurehead for ecological movements, sees various paths crossing into a picture that reveals the hidden meanings of twenty-first-century Britain. Against a shifting backdrop of mountains, forests, rivers and stone circles, a cult of the Green Man emerges, manifesting itself in unexpected ways. Priests and philosophers, artists and shamans, morris dancers, folklorists and musicians offer stories about what the Green Man might mean and how he came into being. Meanwhile, in the woods, strange things are happening, from an overgrown Welsh railway line to leafy London suburbia. Uprooted is a timely, beautifully written and joyfully provocative account of this most enduring and recognisable of Britain's folk images.
Lucy and the Green Man
Author | : Linda Newbery |
Publsiher | : David Fickling Books |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2010-11-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780375895296 |
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Lucy knew Lob was there, from the way she felt inside. There was a sparking of mischief in her head, a tingle of energy in her arms and legs. She wanted to run, jump, climb, be everywhere at once. You have to be a special person to see Lob, that’s what Lucy’s Grandpa Will says. Lucy’s parents don’t believe in him. But Lucy does. And then she finally catches sight of the Green Man in Grandpa’s garden. And then she knows. Lob is here, and he is real—now and forever and ever!