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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is a story of moral corruption. A gothic melodrama, it is full of subtle impression and epigram. It touches on many of Wilde's recurring themes, such as the nature and spirit of art, aestheticism and the dangers inherent in it.In the wealthy and vain hedonist Dorian Gray, London painter Basil Hallward has found his muse. Only when the portrait of Dorian begins to age, while the man himself remains untouched by time, do they realize they may have...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Browsing an antiques shop in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait-identified as the doomed Tudor queen, Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better. The subject is Mary Seymour, the daughter of Katherine Parr, who was taken to Wolf Hall in 1557 and presumed dead after going missing as a child. And Alison knows this because she, too, lived at Wolf Hall and knew Mary...more than four hundred years ago.
The painting of Mary...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Milan, 1492: When a sixteen-year old beauty becomes the mistress of the Duke of Milan, she must fight for her place in the palace, and against those who want her out. Soon, she finds herself sitting before Leonardo da Vinci, who wants to ensure his own place in the ducal palace by painting his most ambitious portrait to date. Munich, World War II: After a modest conservator unwittingly places a priceless Italian Renaissance portrait into the hands...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Separated by 500 years, two women--Anne Guichard, a young archivist at the Louvre, who at the dawn of WWII must keep treasures safe from the Nazis; and house servant, Bellina Sardi, who is tasked with keeping an impossible secret--each hide Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa with unintended consequences.
8) The portrait
Author
Publisher
Gallic Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Avid antiques collector Pierre-François Chaumont unearths the find of a lifetime at a Paris auction house: an eighteenth-century portrait of a gentleman who looks just like him. Researching into the painting's history, he has the chance to abandon his tedious existence and walk into a brand new life"--Amazon.com.
9) Girl reading
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A kaleidoscopic tale follows the experiences of seven women models from different historical periods, the artists for whom they sit, the factors that shape the creations of their portraits, and the ties that connect them to each other.
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
An incredibly handsome young man in Victorian England retains his youthful appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corruption.
Author
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Wilde's story about a youth of exceptional beauty who gets his wish to remain untouched by the passage of time when it is arranged that his portrait will age in his place.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Sylvie dreams of being a prima ballerina. When the Franco-Prussian war begins in 1870, Sylvie is thrown into turmoil and tragedy. Sylvie must rely on the strength that ballet gives her in order to survive and acheive her goal.
Author
Publisher
Fall River Press
Pub. Date
2014, c2006
Language
English
Description
Oscar Wilde was one of the most distinguished men of British letters in the nineteenth century. An accomplished and versatile writer of fiction, drama, poetry, essays, and criticism, he was known for his bitting wit and fearless challenges to the aesthetic and literary conventions of his day. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Works collects Wildes complete fiction and plays, including The Picture of Dorian Gray, a novel condemned in its day as...
Author
Publisher
Heritage Press
Pub. Date
[1958, c1957]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
An exquisitely beautiful young man in Victorian England retains his youthful and innocent appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corruption.
Author
Publisher
ABDO Pub
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An incredibly handsome young man in Victorian England retains his youthful appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corruption.
Author
Publisher
Anne Schwartz Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Worms don't take good family photos, do they? Find out in this hilarious picture book from a Caldecott Honor illustrator and debut author about a young worm who comes to appreciate her very unusual family for who they are."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
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Description
1838: Northumberland, England. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands has been Grace Darling’s home for all of her twenty-two years. When she and her father rescue shipwreck survivors in a furious storm, Grace becomes celebrated throughout England, the subject of poems, ballads, and plays. But far more precious than her unsought fame is the friendship that develops between Grace and a visiting artist. Just as George Emmerson captures Grace with...
20) Remy and Lulu
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A down-on-his-luck painter with poor eyesight teams up with a dog with a knack for painting portraits.