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Burning Bright

Following the accidental death of their middle son, the Kellaways, a Dorsetshire chair maker and family, arrive in London's Lambeth district during the anti-Jacobin scare of 1792. Thomas Kellaway talks his way into set design work for the amiable circus impresario Philip Astley, whose fireworks displays provide the same rallying point that the guillotine is providing in Paris. Astley's libertine horseman son, John, sets his sights on Kellaway's daughter, Maisie (an attention she rather demurely returns). Meanwhile, youngest surviving Kellaway boy Jem falls for poor, sexy firebrand Maggie Butterfield. Blake, who imagined heaven and hell as equally incandescent and earth as the point where the two worlds converge, is portrayed as a murky Friar Laurence figure whose task is to bind and loosen the skeins of young love going on around him that is, until a Royalist mob intrudes into his garden to sound out his rather advanced views on liberty, equality and fraternity.

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  • "Burning bright"@pl
  • "Burning bright"@it

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  • "Following the accidental death of their middle son, the Kellaways, a Dorsetshire chair maker and family, arrive in London's Lambeth district during the anti-Jacobin scare of 1792. Thomas Kellaway talks his way into set design work for the amiable circus impresario Philip Astley, whose fireworks displays provide the same rallying point that the guillotine is providing in Paris. Astley's libertine horseman son, John, sets his sights on Kellaway's daughter, Maisie (an attention she rather demurely returns). Meanwhile, youngest surviving Kellaway boy Jem falls for poor, sexy firebrand Maggie Butterfield. Blake, who imagined heaven and hell as equally incandescent and earth as the point where the two worlds converge, is portrayed as a murky Friar Laurence figure whose task is to bind and loosen the skeins of young love going on around him that is, until a Royalist mob intrudes into his garden to sound out his rather advanced views on liberty, equality and fraternity."@en
  • "From the bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring comes a stirring eighteenth-century coming-of- age tale Tracy Chevalier, author of the international bestseller Girl With a Pearl Earring , returns with another brilliantly rendered historical tale set in the waning days of eighteenth-century London. Poet, artist, and printer William Blake works in obscurity as England is rocked by the shock waves of the French Revolution. Next door, the Kellaway family has just moved in, and country boy Jem Kellaway strikes up a tentative friendship with street'savvy Maggie Butterfield. As their stories intertwine with Blake's, the two children navigate the confusing and exhilarating path to adolescence, and inspire the poet to create the work that enshrined his genius."@en
  • "General Adult. A latest work by the best-selling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Lady and the Unicorn is a sweeping and romantic tale set against the historical backdrop of William Blake's London, as England is rocked by the events of the French Revolution and the stories of country boy Jem Kellaway and street-savvy Maggie Butterfield intertwine with that of Blake. Reprint."@en
  • "Against the backdrop of a city jittery over increasingly bloody French Revolution, a surprising bond forms between Jem, the youngest Kellaway boy, and streetwise Londoner Maggie Butterfield. Their friendship takes a dramatic turn when they become entangled in the life of their neighbour, the printer, poet and radical, William Blake. (Buchdeckel verso)."
  • "Londres 1792. Thomas Kellaway, ébéniste de son état, sa femme Anne et leurs enfants, Maisie et Jem, encouragés par la proposition du directeur de cirque Astley, sont venus tenter leur chance dans cette ville tumultueuse et impitoyable."
  • "ELondon, 1792. The Kellaways move from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of a cramped, unforgiving city. Against the backdrop of a city jittery over the increasingly bloody French Revolution, a surprising bond forms between Jem, the youngest Kellaway boy, and streetwise Londoner Maggie Butterfield. Their friendship takes a dramatic turn when they become entangled in the life of their neighbour, the printer, poet and radical, William Blake. He is a guiding spirit as Jem and Maggie navigate the unpredictable, exhilarating passage from innocence to experience. Their journey influences one of Blake's most entrancing works."
  • "Author of Girl with a Pearl Earring, set in the home/studio of Vermeer, and other novels, Chevalier turns in an oblique look at poet and painter William Blake (1757?1827). Following the accidental death of their middle son, the Kellaways, a Dorsetshire chair maker and family, arrive in London's Lambeth district during the anti-Jacobin scare of 1792. Thomas Kellaway talks his way into set design work for the amiable circus impresario Philip Astley, whose fireworks displays provide the same rallying point that the guillotine is providing in Paris. Astley's libertine horseman son, John, sets his sights on Kellaway's daughter, Maisie (an attention she rather demurely returns). Meanwhile, youngest surviving Kellaway boy Jem falls for poor, sexy firebrand Maggie Butterfield. Blake, who imagined heaven and hell as equally incandescent and earth as the point where the two worlds converge, is portrayed as a murky Friar Laurence figure whose task is to bind and loosen the skeins of young love going on around him?that is, until a Royalist mob intrudes into his garden to sound out his rather advanced views on liberty, equality and fraternity. While the setting is dramatically fertile, there's no spark to the dialogue or plot, and allusions to Blake's work and themes are overbaked."@en
  • "Een 12-jarige jongen, wiens vader in het 18e eeuwse Londen als timmerman gaat werken in het circus, raakt samen met zijn vriendinnetje bevriend met de dichter/schilder William Blake."
  • "London, 1792. Die englische Metropole ist durch revolutionäre Unruhen erhitzt. Auf den lauten und schmutzigen Strassen der Stadt fühlt sich die junge Maggie zu Hause. Dann lernt sie den grossen Dichter, Maler und Visionäre William Blake kennen, der ihr die Tür zu ganz neuen Welten aufstösst."
  • "Presents a sweeping and romantic tale set against the historical backdrop of William Blake's London."@en
  • "Presents a sweeping and romantic tale set against the historical backdrop of William Blake's London."
  • ""Burning bright" is a novel about the 18th-century English poet/painter William Blake and the children who sparked his "Songs of innocence" and "Songs of experience." In March of 1792, young Jem Kellaway and his family move from their small rural village in the Piddle Valley to the bustling city of London. Jem's father, a chairmaker, has agreed to hire on as a carpenter with Astley's Circus."@en
  • ""Burning bright" is a novel about the 18th-century English poet/painter William Blake and the children who sparked his "Songs of innocence" and "Songs of experience." In March of 1792, young Jem Kellaway and his family move from their small rural village in the Piddle Valley to the bustling city of London. Jem's father, a chairmaker, has agreed to hire on as a carpenter with Astley's Circus."
  • "Set in Georgian London in 1792, this is the story of the Kellaway family's experiences after they move there from their home in rural Dorset - Their lives become entangled with that of their neighbour, the poet, William Blake."

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  • "Popular literature"
  • "English fiction"
  • "Historické romány"
  • "Powieść historyczna angielska"@pl
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Historical novels"
  • "Fiction"@he
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Anglické romány"
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Biographical fiction"@en
  • "Biographical fiction"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"

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  • "El Mestre de la innocència"@ca
  • "Oskuld och erfarenhet"@sv
  • "L'innocence"
  • "Ártatlanok"
  • "Płonął ogień twoich oczu"@pl
  • "De onschuld"
  • "Płonął ogień twoich oczu--"
  • "Brændende ild : roman"@da
  • "Das Mädchen mit den funkelnden Augen : historischer Roman"
  • "L'Innocence : roman"
  • "Innocence"
  • "Plamen cjaj"
  • "Das Mädchen mit den funkelnden Augen historischer Roman"
  • "BURNING BRIGHT"
  • "Kutsal ışığın altında"
  • "시인과 서커스 = Burning bright"
  • "Ohnivý tygr : román"
  • "Siin kwa sŏk'ŏsŭ = Burning bright"
  • "Die Lieder des Mr. Blake : Roman"
  • "El mestre de la innocencia"
  • "Boʻer be-or"
  • "Burning Bright"
  • "Burning Bright"@en
  • "Die Lieder des Mr. Blake Roman"
  • "Das Mädchen mit den funkelnden Augen : Historischer Roman"
  • "El Maestro de la inocencia"
  • "Burning bright"@en
  • "Burning bright"
  • "El maestro de la inocencia"
  • "El maestro de la inocencia"@es
  • "Plameni sjaj"
  • "Brændende ild"@da
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "Ártatlanok : regény"@hu
  • "L'innocenza"
  • "L'innocenza"@it
  • "בוער באור"
  • "L'innocence : roman"

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