Overview
You used to have everything and now you have nothing. Who's madder than you? Old King Lear has decided to retire from his royal duties. He calls his three daughters to him, and asks each to tell him how much they love him. The eldest two, Goneril and Regan, flatter him with their words. Cordelia the youngest and, until now, his favourite only says that she loves him as a daughter must love her father. Furious, he disinherits her and divides his kingdom between her two sisters. But Goneril and Regan soon turn against Lear, forcing him to wander in the wilderness with only his court jester for company, desperately hoping for a reconciliation with Cordelia.
Full Product Details
Author: Melania G. Mazzucco ,
Emanuela Orciari ,
Virginia Jewiss ,
Emanuela Orciari
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Imprint: Pushkin Children's Books
Dimensions:
Width: 19.40cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 25.00cm
Weight: 0.544kg
ISBN: 9781782690207
ISBN 10: 1782690204
Pages: 104
Publication Date: 11 September 2014
Recommended Age: From 9 to 11 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children's (6-12)
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Language: Italian
Reviews
Praise for the Save the Story series: Enticing, generously sized and dashingly illustrated ... brilliantly told by top-flight novelists, they are fresh, idiosyncratic and winning - Guardian; This handsomely illustrated series... offers younger readers vivid, accessible first encounters with some literary heavyweights Metro The atmospheric watercolour illustrations by Emanuela Orciari enhance this eloquent retelling Outside In World A refreshing and curiously uplifting take... when you add wonderful illustrations by Emanuela Orciari to the mix, the result is a book that should be your choice if you have to pick just a single Save the Story volume Upcoming4Me
Praise for the Save the Story series: Enticing, generously sized and dashingly illustrated ... brilliantly told by top-flight novelists, they are fresh, idiosyncratic and winning - Guardian; This handsomely illustrated series... offers younger readers vivid, accessible first encounters with some literary heavyweights Metro Praise for Vita: Commanding and moving... Full of pungent fictional details New Yorker
Author Information
Melania G. Mazzucco was born in Rome in 1966, and studied Italian literature and cinema. She has written award-winning novels and works for the cinema, theatre and radio, and is a contributor to The New York Times, El Pais and la Repubblica, among many others. Her novel Vita (published in English by Picador in 2006) won Mazzucco the 2003 Strega Prize, Italy's leading literary award.
