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The Bean Trees is a coming-of-age novel. Barbara Kingsolver uses a nonstandard perspective to share the characters' adventures and the world they live in. The use of nonwhite mythology, anti-western sentiment , and not using the typical form of male adventure, allowed the author to explore the world where women were powerful and had a voice.
Pigs in Heaven (ISBN 9780060168018) is a 1993 novel by Barbara Kingsolver; it is the sequel to her first novel, The Bean Trees. It continues the story of Taylor Greer and Turtle, her adopted Cherokee daughter. It highlights the strong relationships between mothers and daughters, with special attention given to the customs, history, and present ...
It appeared as "The Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean" in 1734 [1] and as Benjamin Tabart's moralized "The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk" in 1807. [2] Henry Cole , publishing under pen name Felix Summerly, popularized the tale in The Home Treasury (1845), [ 3 ] and Joseph Jacobs rewrote it in English Fairy Tales (1890). [ 4 ]
The stories take place in an enchanted wood in which a gigantic magical tree grows – the eponymous 'Faraway Tree'. The tree is so tall that its topmost branches reach into the clouds and it is wide enough to contain small houses carved into its trunk. The wood and the tree are discovered by three children who move into a house nearby.
Chase was born near Huntsville, Alabama and graduated Antioch College in 1929. He lived in California from 1964 to 1975 and was a regular at the Southern Renaissance Pleasure Faire, created by Ron and Phyllis Patterson, in Ventura, California where is remembered for holding court under a large oak tree.
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Prodigal Summer tells the story of a small town in Appalachia during a single, humid summer, when three interweaving stories of love, loss and family unfold against the backdrop of the lush wildness of Virginia mountains.
An ancient tree from India is now thriving in groves where citrus trees once flourished in Florida, and could help provide the nation with renewable energy. As large parts of the Sunshine State ...