Books with title Ginger and Giles

When Gypsy and Ginger got married--Oh, but before that I ought to say that those were not their names.Hers was the name of the most beautiful of women, and his the name ofthe most victorious of men. But they were not a bit like that really.Parents make these mistakes, and the false prophecies they invent fortheir infants at the font continue to be their delusions through life.But nobody else’s. As they grow up the children find their level, andare called according to their deserts. And so Gypsy was called Gypsybecause his hair wasn’t really quite as black as a gypsy’s; and Gingerwas called Ginger because her hair was the sort of hair that those whoadore it love to insult. It was anything but ginger; or rather, itwas everything besides. Such as mace, and cinnamon, and nutmeg, andcayenne, and ochre, and burnt sienna, and vandyke brown and a touch ofchrome no. 3; and one hair, named Vivien, was pure vermilion. It wasa ridiculous mixture really, and resembled the palette of an artisttrying to paint beechwoods in Autumn. No, it didn’t; it resembled thebeechwoods. In thinking of Ginger’s hair you must begin again, and washout all the above colours, which are not really colours, but paints.Ginger’s hair, like all the colours of earth and sky, was made offire and light. That is why colours can never be painted. I’m sorryto have gone on so long about Ginger’s hair, but I couldn’t help it;yet I should have been able to, for the hair itself was short. Whenshe combed it over her head and face it hung as low as her upper lip,and so on all the way round, very smooth on the top, very thick at thebottom, and doing a lovely serpentine in and out just below the levelof her eyebrows. When it got to her lip it did another one in, andnever came out again. . .

Helen Beatrix Potter (1866 - 1943) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children's books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life. Born into a privileged Unitarian family, Potter, along with her younger brother, Walter Bertram (1872-1918), grew up with few friends outside her large extended family. Her parents were artistic, interested in nature and enjoyed the countryside. As children, Beatrix and Bertram had numerous small animals as pets which they observed closely and drew endlessly. Summer holidays were spent in Scotland and in the English Lake District where Beatrix developed a love of the natural world which was the subject of her painting from an early age. Although she was provided with private art lessons, Potter preferred to develop her own style, particularly favouring watercolour. Along with her drawings of her animals, real and imagined, she illustrated insects, fossils, archeological artefacts, and fungi. In the 1890s her mycological illustrations and research on the reproduction of fungi spores generated interest from the scientific establishment. Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it first privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-colour illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. Potter published over twenty-three books; the best known are those written between 1902 and 1922. She died on 22 December 1943 at her home in Near Sawrey at age 77, leaving almost all her property to the National Trust. She is credited with preserving much of the land that now comprises the Lake District National Park. Potter's books continue to sell throughout the world, in multiple languages. Her stories have been retold in song, film, ballet and animation.

Excerpt from Gypsy and GingerTherefore Ginger knew that the cottage had got to be hers. She went to the Pub to ask about it, and the Pub gave her shandygaff and cheese and said it belonged to the Blacksmith.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.