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Formato
Kindle
Pagine
83
Lingua
Inglese
Pubblicato
Oct 29, 2015
Descrizione
“Scarlet Sails” is the story-fantasy of Alexander Green’s about unwavering belief in miracles and conquering, sublime dream.
The novel “Scarlet Sails” was written in Petrograd (the name of St. Petersburg in 1914-1924) . Alexander Green created it in 1922, drawing romantic moods and ideas precisely on banks of the Neva, Nevsky Prospect.
Perhaps that the Assol’s portrait he “had copied” with a stranger of the advertising lights on Nevsky Prospect, which he remembered in time of his first visit to St. Petersburg in 1906. A. Green identified himself with Captain Gray.
It happened in a small fishing village. The former seaman Longren raises his daughter Assol alone after losing his beloved wife, making a meager living by selling the toy boats he carves from wood. As a child, Assol encounters an old man who claims to be a wizard and promises the girl that one day a prince will come on a ship with scarlet sails to carry her away. The villagers scoff but Assol believes her dream will come true one day....
The novel “Scarlet Sails” was written in Petrograd (the name of St. Petersburg in 1914-1924) . Alexander Green created it in 1922, drawing romantic moods and ideas precisely on banks of the Neva, Nevsky Prospect.
Perhaps that the Assol’s portrait he “had copied” with a stranger of the advertising lights on Nevsky Prospect, which he remembered in time of his first visit to St. Petersburg in 1906. A. Green identified himself with Captain Gray.
It happened in a small fishing village. The former seaman Longren raises his daughter Assol alone after losing his beloved wife, making a meager living by selling the toy boats he carves from wood. As a child, Assol encounters an old man who claims to be a wizard and promises the girl that one day a prince will come on a ship with scarlet sails to carry her away. The villagers scoff but Assol believes her dream will come true one day....
Generi
Romanzo
Bambini
Fantasy