Priscilla Hauser's Book of Bottles: 11 Designs to Paint on Glass Bottles with Folkart Enamels
11 Designs to Paint on Glass Bottles with Enamels. The edition is illustrated with color photographs with detailed explanations of the process, step-by-step help you learn this beautiful form of decorative art. In addition, provides information about tools and materials that will be needed to achieve high professional results.
Victorian Glassworlds - Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830 - 1880
Isobel Armstrong's startlingly original and beautifully illustrated book tells the stories that spring from the mass-production of glass in nineteenth-century England. Moving across technology, industry, local history, architecture, literature, print culture, the visual arts, optics, and philosophy, it will transform our understanding of the Victorian period.
Added by: susan6th | Karma: 3133.45 | Fiction literature | 21 October 2010
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The Glass Palace
Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, a young woman in the court of the Burmese Queen, whose love will shape his life. He cannot forget her, and years later, as a rich man, he goes in search of her. The struggles that have made Burma, India, and Malaya the places they are today are illuminated in this wonderful novel by the writer Chitra Divakaruni calls “a master storyteller.”
Through the Looking Glass (Webster's Thesaurus Edition)
There are many editions of Through the Looking Glass. This educational edition was created for self-improvement or in preparation for advanced examinations. The bottom of each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text, including synonyms and antonyms. Designed for school districts, educators, and students seeking to maximize performance on standardized tests, Webster’s paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings.
Added by: imans | Karma: 134.75 | Fiction literature | 28 September 2010
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The Dome of Many Coloured Glass
The Dome of Many Coloured Glass contains sonnets and lyrics, chiefly reflective and contemplative, somewhat remote and approaching a tonal twilight, but rhythmic in quality.
Amy Lowell (1874—1925) entitled her first book of poems A Dome of Many- Coloured Glass (1912), a phrase taken from Adonais, Shelley's elegy for Keats. Heavily influenced by Keats's poetry (whose biography Lowell was to write late)