Editorial Leonard Levy
Venezuelan gastronomic literature.
View Rights PortalYour Search Results
-
-
Leopold - Ploegsma - Condor
Leopold was founded in 1923 and evolved into a children's-and young-adult publishing house in the 1950's. Leopoldestablishes a lot of collaborations with museums, different organizations and the government. The first children's book ever published is still in print: Johan Fabricius'Java Ho! The Adventures of Four Boys Amid Fire, Storm, and Shipwreck. Leopold hosts a lot of famous Dutch authors, for example the classic works of Tonke Dragt (The Letter for the King, The Secrets of the Wild Wood).Several popular brands are also published by Leopold, likeFrog(Max Velthuijs) andAlfie the Werewolf(Paul van Loon). The beautiful Leopold picture books by renowned illustrators like Annemarie van Haeringen, Wouter van Reek and Ingrid Godon are taking a flight due to the fantastic teamwork with museums. Not only classic authors and popular brands are a big part of Leopold. A younger generation of authors and illustrators is building a vast oeuvre. Books like Zeb.(Gideon Samson, Joren Joshua) andFright Night(Maren Stoffels) shake up the world of children's literature. Ploegsma has been part of the Dutch publishing scene for well over a hundred years. The publishing house was founded in 1905 by Johannes Ploegsma and has been specialising in children's books since the 1960's: adventurous and humorous fiction and non-fiction books for children of all ages. These include many classic titles, such as the books by Astrid Lindgren (Pippi Longstocking) and Arnold Lobel (Frog and Toad), as well as books by contemporary and very popular authors like Mirjam Oldenhave(Mister Twister), Marjon Hoffman (Flora), Yvon Jaspers (Tess and Tommy), Reggie Naus (The Pirates Next Door), Vivian den Hollander, Janny van der Molen and Caja Cazemier. Many of these authors have been translated. Even though a lot has changed the past hundred years, Ploegsma's love for beautiful books is still going strong.
View Rights Portal
-
Promoted Content
The ArtsNovember 2018Leonora Carrington and the international avant-garde
by Jonathan P. Eburne, Catriona McAra
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was an English surrealist artist and writer who emigrated to Mexico after the Second World War. This volume approaches Carrington as a major international figure in modern and contemporary art, literature and thought. It offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the intellectual, literary and artistic currents that animate her contribution to experimental art movements throughout the Western Hemisphere, including surrealism and magical realism. The book contains nine chapters from scholars of modern literature and art, each focusing on a major feature in Carrington's career. It also features a visual essay drawn from the 2015 Tate Liverpool exhibition Leonora Carrington: Transgressing Discipline, and two experimental essays by the novelist Chloe Aridjis and the scholar Gabriel Weisz, Carrington's son. This collection offers a resource for students, researchers and readers interested in Carrington's works.
-
Promoted Content
History of Art / Art & Design StylesJanuary 2017Leonora Carrington and the international avant-garde
by Edited by Jonathan P. Eburne, Catriona McAra
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was an English surrealist artist and writer who emigrated to Mexico after the Second World War. As the first comprehensive examination of Carrington's writing and art, this volume approaches her as a major international figure in modern and contemporary art, literature and thought. It offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the intellectual, literary and artistic currents that animate her contribution to experimental art movements throughout the Western Hemisphere, including surrealism and magical realism. In addition to a substantive editorial introduction, the book contains nine chapters from scholars of modern literature and art, each focusing on a major feature in Carrington's career. It also features a visual essay drawn from the 2015 Tate Liverpool exhibition Leonora Carrington: Transgressing Discipline, and two experimental essays by the novelist Chloe Aridjis and the scholar Gabriel Weisz, Carrington's son. This collection offers a resource for students, researchers and readers interested in Carrington's works, and contributes to her continued rise in global recognition.
-
Trusted Partner
April 2008Das Haus der Angst
by Leonora Carrington, Edmund Jacoby, Heribert Becker, Christiane Meyer-Thoss
"Wo kommen auf einmal diese beiden sonderbaren Gestalten her, die langsam die Straße entlanggehen, gefolgt von tausend Zwergen? Ist das der Mann, den man wegen seiner sanften und grimmigen Gemütsart Loplop, den obersten der Vögel, nennt? ... Und die Frau, um deren Oberarm sich eine dünne Blutspur windet – sollte das etwas die Windsbraut sein?" So fragt Max Ernst in seiner Einleitung zur Titelgeschichte dieses 1988 von der "Windsbraut" zusammengestellten Bandes, der fünf weitere Erzählungen und zwei Romane ("Der kleine Francis" und "Unten") enthält. Leonora Carrington (geboren 1917) entfloh früh dem großbürgerlichen Milieu, um mit Max Ernst, "Loplop", nach Paris und dann weiter nach Südfrankreich zu ziehen. Ihr Schlüsselroman "Der kleine Francis" (hier zum ersten Mal auf deutsch) schildert, phantastisch verkleidet, die Erlebnisse des Sommers 1937 im provenzalischen Saint-Martin-d’Ardèche. Max Ernst wurde nach Ausbruch des Krieges interniert. Als Carringtons Befreiungsbemühungen fehlschlugen, floh sie nach Spanien. Unterwegs wurde sie wahnsinnig. Unten, ihr berühmter Bericht, beschreibt den Abstieg in das Reich des Wahns und wie sie ihm unter Aufbietung aller Willenskräfte entkam – und endet mit einem Postskriptum aus dem Jahr 1987. Da wohnte Leonora Carrington, die Malerin, Autorin, Surrealistin, schon seit vielen Jahren, hochberühmt und kaum erreichbar, in Mexiko.
-
Trusted Partner
-
Trusted Partner
May 2012Frau des Windes
by Elena Poniatowska, Maria Hoffmann-Dartevelle
Schon als Kind sieht sie die Welt mit eigenen Augen, hält sich für ein Pferd und bewohnt einen Kosmos aus Fabelwesen. Den Konventionen ihrer reichen englischen Familie mißtraut Leonora, sie sagt sich von allen Zwängen los und erkämpft sich das Recht, eine in der Gesellschaft und an der Staffelei absolut freie Frau zu werden. In der wahnwitzigen Liebe zu dem Maler Max Ernst stürzt sie in wonnevolle Abgründe. Mit ihm zusammen ergibt Leonora sich in Paris dem Sinnestaumel des Surrealismus, ist eng befreundet mit Dalí, Miró und Picasso. Als Max Ernst im Zweiten Weltkrieg interniert wird, verliert Leonora den Verstand und wird in eine Anstalt eingewiesen. Nach Ausbruch und Flucht über den Atlantik erobert sie, unterstützt durch ihre Freundin Peggy Guggenheim, die Kunstwelt New Yorks. Vertrieben, getrieben und besessen – in ihrer letzten Heimat Mexiko schafft sie, beseelt durch eine letzte große Liebe, Meisterwerke so singulär wie ihre Geschichte selbst. Das außergewöhnliche Leben der Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) wird in den Händen Elena Poniatowskas zu einem weltumspannenden Abenteuer, einem Schrei nach Freiheit und einem Zeugnis von bedingungsloser Leidenschaft.
-
Trusted Partner
May 2012Frau des Windes
by Elena Poniatowska
Schon als Kind sieht sie die Welt mit eigenen Augen, hält sich für ein Pferd und bewohnt einen Kosmos aus Fabelwesen. Den Konventionen ihrer reichen englischen Familie mißtraut Leonora, sie sagt sich von allen Zwängen los und erkämpft sich das Recht, eine in der Gesellschaft und an der Staffelei absolut freie Frau zu werden. In der wahnwitzigen Liebe zu dem Maler Max Ernst stürzt sie in wonnevolle Abgründe. Mit ihm zusammen ergibt Leonora sich in Paris dem Sinnestaumel des Surrealismus, ist eng befreundet mit Dalí, Miró und Picasso. Als Max Ernst im Zweiten Weltkrieg interniert wird, verliert Leonora den Verstand und wird in eine Anstalt eingewiesen. Nach Ausbruch und Flucht über den Atlantik erobert sie, unterstützt durch ihre Freundin Peggy Guggenheim, die Kunstwelt New Yorks. Vertrieben, getrieben und besessen – in ihrer letzten Heimat Mexiko schafft sie, beseelt durch eine letzte große Liebe, Meisterwerke so singulär wie ihre Geschichte selbst. Das außergewöhnliche Leben der Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) wird in den Händen Elena Poniatowskas zu einem weltumspannenden Abenteuer, einem Schrei nach Freiheit und einem Zeugnis von bedingungsloser Leidenschaft.
-
Trusted Partner
-
Trusted Partner
-
Trusted Partner
History of Art / Art & Design StylesSeptember 2016Intersections
Women artists/surrealism/modernism
by Series edited by Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon, Patricia Allmer
Featuring new essays by established and emerging scholars, Intersections: Women artists/surrealism/modernism redefines conventional surrealist and modernist canons by focusing critical attention on women artists working in and with surrealism in the context of modernism. In doing so it redefines critical understanding of the complex relations between all three terms. The essays address work produced in a wide variety of international contexts and across several generations of surrealist production by women closely connected to the surrealist movement or more marginally influenced by it. Intersections explores work in a wide range of media, from painting and sculpture to film and fashion, by artists including Susan Hiller, Maya Deren, Birgit Jurgenssen, Aube Elléouët, Dorothea Tanning, Claude Cahun, Elsa Schiaparelli, Joyce Mansour, Leonor Fini, Mimi Parent, Lee Miller, Leonora Carrington, Ithell Colquhoun and Eileen Agar.
-
Trusted Partner
Biography & True StoriesMay 2023The invisible painting
by Gabriel Weisz Carrington, Jonathan P. Eburne
-
Trusted Partner
Children's & YASeawalkers (2). Rescuing Shari
by Katja Brandis/ Claudia Carls
For the attention of all Seawalker fans: the marine shapeshifters are back, with Volume 2 of this bestselling, shapeshifter series about Tiago, the young tiger shark, and his friends! Tiago is happy because he’s not only been admitted to Blue Reef High School, but also because at last he’s found a friend in Shari, a dolphin shapeshifter. The young tiger shark really needs a friend, because not everyone is happy to have him around. He is constantly clashing with the shady lawyer Lydia Lennox, and he has made himself unpopular by trying to track down the rubbish gangsters who are poisoning the nature reserve near the school. The situation reaches a climax during an anthropological research trip to Miami. When Shari gets into serious difficulties, Tiago as both human and shark takes a huge gamble in order to save her and her dolphin friends. The Seawalker books are published every six months. Previous publication: Seawalkers (1). Dangerous Shapes.
-
Thriller / suspenseRosalind
by Quentin Cope
Rosalind Escaping an oppressive childhood and an abusive father, the stunningly beautiful Rosalind McKinley leaves the chilly lifeless, economically depressed state of Indiana and travels east. The excitement of the bright lights and the allure of New York’s Manhattan are all the incentive she needs to change the direction of her life. Stripping off the last remnants of her old self, she changes her identity and emerges as Leonora Carrington-Jones. Her new life is complete when a handsome Saudi Arabian Prince lavishes her with attention. He promises her romance in the distant, desert sheikdom of Dubai. Following her heart and ignoring the warnings of her mentor, Madame Durand, she goes with her Sheik into what she visualises will be the accumulation of all her dreams only to find this illusion shattered within days. The new world she imagined is nothing more than a male dominated, corrupt society where women have no worth other than as chattels and sexual objects. Leonora quickly discovers her life is spiralling downwards, finding herself moved from a top suite in a five star hotel to isolation in the degrading, filthy confines of a brothel ruled over by a gross, sadistic North African Madam. With the desperate need to escape from imposed sexual slavery, she meets Susan, a fellow American woman who has the right connections. With new passport for Leonora and airline tickets in hand, they plan a flight back to America and freedom. Leonora’s pulse races as the aircraft door is reopened and police enter to remove her. An inconsolable Susan can simply only watch, helpless as the cruel distressing scene is played out before her. Taken forcibly back to Dubai and a now raging Saudi Prince, Leonora is physically disciplined and with one unthinking, careless, sickening blow it is obvious that the unrestrained violence has gone too far. Susan holds a letter from Leonora in the event that her hopes of escape are dashed; the letter is to be opened and instructions followed. In New York, with the help of Madame Durand, Susan makes a heart breaking discovery about the woman she left behind in Dubai. With a cool head, careful preparation and vengeful determination, she plans to confront the wealthy, diplomatically protected Arab businessman. The ultimate encounter between one frighteningly resolute woman and the influential, sadistic Arab Prince leaves a scene of carnage, as in the final count, only one person can walk away. But will there be more than one survivor … and will one of them be Rosalind’s sister? Set in the world financial depression of the 1970's, this is the sometimes heartbreaking story of two powerfully portrayed characters that will become more and more a part of you with every turn of the page.
-
RomanceAugust 2014Hiding from Love
by Barbara Cartland
"Lively Leonora Cressy and her school friend, Isobel, have sworn never to fall in love. They prefer learning and books to men and scorn other girls whose heads are full of storybook romance. But Leonora is suddenly plucked from the safety of her all girls’ school and thrown into an adventure that forces her to reconsider her childhood vows. Returning home to meet the new stepfather who has taken her beloved father’s role as protector and provider, Leonora has two fateful encounters – one with an arrogant gentleman in a carriage, and one with a suave but appealing foreigner, Señor de Guarda. Excited and angered in equal parts, Leonora is shocked to discover that her sweet Mama has married a man that she cannot admire. Horrified when he announces that he has arranged her marriage to a wealthy but unknown man, Lord Merton, she swaps the comfort of home for a passage on a cargo ship headed for Brazil, and her friend Isobel. As the long voyage begins, Leonora congratulates herself on successfully evading Lord Merton and a loveless marriage. But upon meeting mysterious, but seemingly protective Mr Chandos, and faced with the passionate attentions of Señor de Guarda she is confused. Both men hold secrets that could ruin her reputation, but only one stirs her heart and soul. Alone apart from her faithful servant, Finny, and unsure of where to place her trust, Leonora realises that she has done the one thing that she swore never to do – fall in love. As Brazil grows ever nearer she has important decisions to make that will change her life, and those close to her, forever. "
-
August 2018A Superior Spectre
by Angela Meyer
Jeff is dying. Haunted by memories and grappling with the shame of his desires, he runs away to remote Scotland with a piece of experimental tech that allows him to enter the mind of someone in the past. Instructed to only use it three times, Jeff – self-indulgent, isolated and deteriorating – ignores this advice. In the late 1860s, Leonora lives a contented life in the Scottish Highlands, surrounded by nature, her hands and mind kept busy. Contemplating her future and the social conventions that bind her, a secret romantic friendship with the local laird is interrupted when her father sends her to stay with her aunt in Edinburgh – an intimidating, sooty city; the place where her mother perished. But Leonora’s ability to embrace her new life is shadowed by a dark presence that begins to lurk behind her eyes, and strange visions that bear no resemblance to anything she has ever seen or known… A Superior Spectre is a highly accomplished debut novel about our capacity for curiosity, and our dangerous entitlement to it, and reminds us the scariest ghosts aren’t those that go bump in the night, but those that are born and create a place for themselves in the human soul.
-
November 2018It's burning. Mordechai Gebirtig, the father of Yiddish Song
Es brennt. Mordechai Gebirtig, Vater des jiddischen Liedes
by Uwe von Seltmann
This is the first biography of Yiddish poet and songwriter Mordechai Gebirtig (1877–1942) in the past twenty years, in addition, the first in German and, in the case of a translation, the very first in English. It’s burning is a comprehensive book based on the latest knowledge about this icon of Yiddish culture and chronicler of the Shoah, full of important new discoveries. In addition to Gebirtig’s life and work, this biography covers a wide range of topics – from the Yiddish language to the city of Krakow and East Jewish music, culture and history. It is richly illustrated with more than 200 photographs, facsimiles and time-related documents.
-
Más allá - El arte
by Liébana Goñi
A girl explores fantastic, imaginary and imagined worlds that will surprise us when we find out who created them. Art is recreated in works of art. A very careful illustrated album that aims to bring artistic creation and its protagonists closer to the little ones, and not so young, to the curious. A book to discover works of art and to dream about it through an exciting adventure, a story that is supported by careful illustrations that make a nod to different masterpieces in a subtle and original way.
-
Biography: literaryDestination Shanghai
18 true stories of those who went…
by Paul French
For the privileged a cosmopolitan pleasure ground; for the desperate a port of last resort. A pot of gold at the end of an Oriental rainbow; a thick slice of hell denounced from the pulpit. The start of a journey for many; the end of the road for some. A place to find fame, or to seek anonymity; rogues, chancers, showgirls, criminals… For so many people from so many lands, there was one phrase that sent a tingle of hope or a shiver of anticipation down every spine: “DESTINATION SHANGHAI”
-
Biography & True StoriesDecember 2020Amazonas con pincel
by Victoria Combalía
This book proposes a fascinating, clear and didactic journey through the life and work of women artists. Camille Claudel, Frida Kahlo or Dora Maar, among others, occupy the pages of this book illustrating a wide time period and their corresponding styles, from Impressionism to the 1940s of the 20th century.This work constitutes a corrected and enlarged part of Amazonas con brush, a book published in 2006. The texts seek a balance between the historical importance of the creators and the interest in their life, which sheds much light on the difficulties of being a woman and artist at the same time. For this reason, special attention has been paid to their working conditions, their success or neglect of their careers, and those who were able to encourage them or, on the contrary, silence them. They fought, like men, to express their vision of the world and renew artistic language, but in a social context far removed from equal opportunities. This book written by Victoria Combalía was in 2006 the first publication that was published in Spain focused on women artists.
-
November 202010 IN SCIENCE – THE STORY OF LIFE ON EARTH
by Giuliano Menghini
10 questions, 10 games, 10 topics to discover the secrets about living beings that have inhabited the earth in the last 4 billion years! The notebook consists of 10 sections, each dedicated to a different phase of the evolution of living beings on Earth. What is a living being? How did life on Earth appear? Why did dinosaurs dominate the world but then go extinct? These are some of the questions you will need to try to answer by LOOKING, EXPERIMENTING, AND PLAYING. In the worksheets accompanying the notebook you will find all the materials needed to assemble the 10 SCIENTIFIC GAMES with your own hands. A journey through time that allows you to explore the history of our wonderful planet from the window of an exceptional means of transport also used by great scientists from all over the world, the EXPERIMENTAL METHOD, and all from your home and without the need for special tools.
-
FictionMarch 2020Night and ocean
by Raquel Taranilla
Winner of the 2020 Biblioteca Breve Prize.Bea Silva is shocked when she comes across an article in the newspaper that says someone has stolen the embalmed skull of the legendary silent film director F.W. Murnau. What’s most surprising is that Bea is convinced she knows who the thief is: Quirós, an underemployed filmmaker who one day showed up at her enormous ramshackle house.At almost thirty-two, Beatriz is a somewhat aloof college professor, weary of life and almost pathologically erudite. The arrival of Quirós brings out her lucid, hyperactive side and sets her up for a wildly unhinged fall.
