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"The Blue Bird" (French: L’oiseau bleu) is a French literary fairy tale by Madame d'Aulnoy, published in 1697. [1] An English translation was included in The Green Fairy Book, 1892, collected by Andrew Lang. [2] [3] [4] The tale is Aarne–Thompson type 432, The Prince as Bird.
The story is about a girl called Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl seeking happiness, represented by The Blue Bird of Happiness, aided by the good fairy Bérylune. Maeterlinck also wrote a relatively little known sequel to The Blue Bird titled The Betrothal; or, The Blue Bird Chooses. The play has been adapted for several films and a TV series
Four Little Blue Books. Little Blue Books are a series of small staple-bound books published from 1919 through 1978 by the Haldeman-Julius Publishing Company of Girard, Kansas. [1] They were extremely popular, and achieved a total of 300-500 million booklets sold over the series' lifetime. [2] A Big Blue Book range was also published.
The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his Edith Van Dyne pseudonym, [1] then continued by at least three others, all using the same pseudonym. Baum wrote the first four books in the series, possibly with help from his son, Harry Neal Baum, on the ...
Bluebird, Bluebird is a 2017 novel by Attica Locke. Its main character is an African-American Texas Ranger , Darren Matthews, from the eastern part of the state . He investigates the death of another African-American, a Chicago lawyer named Michael Wright, in the town of Lark.
Little Birds is Anaïs Nin's second published work of erotica, which appeared in 1979 two years after her death, [1] but was apparently written in the early 1940s when she was part of a group "writing pornography for a dollar a day." [2] The book is a collection of thirteen short stories.
The Blue Bird is a 1976 American-Soviet children's fantasy film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Hugh Whitemore , Alfred Hayes , and Aleksei Kapler is based on the 1908 play L'Oiseau bleu by Maurice Maeterlinck .
Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (né Emanuel Julius) (July 30, 1889 – July 31, 1951) was a Jewish-American socialist writer, atheist thinker, social reformer and publisher.He is best remembered as the head of Haldeman-Julius Publications, the creator of a series of pamphlets known as "Little Blue Books," total sales of which ran into the hundreds of millions of copies.