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	The Wild Swans. Andersen, Hans Christian. 1909-14. Tales. The Harvard Classics
		When the sun was just about to set, Eliza saw eleven wild swans, with crowns on their heads, flying toward the land: they swept along one after the other, so that they looked like a long white band.
		Her brothers were again enchanted, and they flew in wide circles and at last far away; but one of them, the youngest, remained behind, and the swan laid his head in her lap, and she stroked his wings; and the whole day they remained together.
		On this net Eliza lay down; and when the sun rose, and her brothers were changed into wild swans, they seized the net with their beaks, and flew with their beloved sister, who was still asleep, high up towards the clouds.
	www.bartleby.com /17/3/6.html (5717 words)

	Trumpeter Swans
		Swan eggs have an exact incubation period of 28 days, during which the female rarely leaves the nest.
		Unlike tundra swans, trumpeter swans are not managed for hunting as they are slightly diminished in some areas of their range.
		Swans usually return to the place of their birth to breed and nest, so this system of repopulation has a good chance of success.
	www.alaskazoo.org /willowcrest/trumpeter_swans.htm (481 words)

	Bird Flu Confirmed in Wild Swans Across Europe
		In Slovenia, a wild swan tested positive for the disease at the Slovenian Laboratory for Avian influenza, and samples have been sent to the EU Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza in Weybridge, UK for further tests.
		In Italy, the five infected wild swans were detected on the eastern coast of Sicily, in Taranto and in Calabria.
		The disease was detected last week in wild swans in the Bulgarian wetland region of Vidin, close to the Romanian border.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/feb2006/2006-02-13-03.asp (1283 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Wild Swans
		(Swans are a mythological metaphor for spiritual transcendence; birds in general typically represent ethereal messengers, angels, or the soul itself.) Holding Eliza beneath them in a net, together the swans fly from England to the New World in search of safe haven.
		An example is the offering a strawberry that serves as a sort of "fruit of knowledge" -- in Eliza's case it points to the discovery of her brothers, while for Elias it leads to a fuller realization of his sexuality.
		Although the level of Kerr's craftsmanship is as equally deserving of attention as these other authors, The Wild Swans doesn't get the same press coverage and most likely will get tucked away in the fantasy aisle, and that's only in the megastores that have the shelf space.
	www.sfsite.com /07a/wild60.htm (1375 words)

	Amazon.de: Wild Swans. Three Daughters of China.: English Books: Jung Chang,Chang Jung (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In Wild Swans Jung Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century.
		Wild Swans is a compelling account of how Jung Chang and her family endured the brutality, torture, censorship and terror of China's modern history.
		'Wild Swans' not only informed me of the uncountable tragedies Chinese endured during their tulmultuous 20th century, but helped me understand behaviours and traditions of the Chinese that I had difficulty understanding while living there.
	www.amazon.de /Wild-Swans-Three-Daughters-China/dp/0743254392 (1157 words)

	Wild Swans - smh.com.au
		Wild Swans, Meryl Tankard's first full-length work for the Australian Ballet, is rich in wondrous stage effects that are disconcertingly grounded from time to time.
		The story is Hans Christian Andersen's tale of the princess whose 11 brothers were turned into swans and destined to stay that way unless she knitted each a jumper from stinging nettles, keeping silent as she worked.
		Wild Swans is essentially a visual experience, with Elena Kats-Chernin's vivid music acting as a soundtrack.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/05/04/1051987603945.html (690 words)

	Hans Christian Andersen : The Wild Swans :: www.andersen.sdu.dk :: The Hans Christian Andersen Center
		He lets the wild crab apples grow to feed the hungry, and he led her footsteps to a tree with its branches bent down by the weight of their fruit.
		Here the wild horses gallop across the moors as we saw them in our childhood, and the charcoal-burner sings the same old songs to which we used to dance when we were children.
		Elisa lay down upon it and, when the sun rose and her brothers again became wild swans, they lifted the net in their bills and flew high up toward the clouds with their beloved sister, who still was fast asleep.
	www.andersen.sdu.dk /vaerk/hersholt/TheWildSwans_e.html (5963 words)

	Orange Book Haven. Wild Swans, Jung Chang (NCR Book Award Winner)(Highly Recommended!)
		The story of three generations in twentieth-century China, it is an engrossing record of Mao's impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love.
		Wild Swans is epic in it's historical backdrop moving untirelessly through the last century of China, roughly between the years 1911 and 1976, but this is no textbook.
		Jung Chang explores her family so deeply that her subjects, such as her stoic father, a true beliver in the Communist cause, and her grandmother, a veritable symbol through her bound feet of a time and place long gone, become indelibly etched upon the mind of the reader.
	www.orangebookhaven.com /pd_wild.cfm (501 words)

	Possible bird flu -- but not most worrisome version -- found in U.S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		WASHINGTON — Scientists have discovered possible bird flu in two wild swans on the shore of Lake Erie — but it does not appear to be the much-feared Asian strain that has ravaged poultry and killed at least 138 people elsewhere in the world.
		Wild birds, especially waterfowl, are flu's natural reservoir — they carry a multitude of influenza viruses.
		Twenty mute swans from a Monroe County, Mich., game area were among the first new batches of tests — because, coincidentally, they were part of a state program to lower overcrowding of the nonnative species.
	www.startribune.com /1244/story/613180.html (848 words)

	Hans Christian Andersen: The Wild Swans
		It is God who makes the wild apples grow in the wood, to satisfy the hungry, and He now led her to one of these trees, which was so loaded with fruit, that the boughs bent beneath the weight.
		Her brothers were again changed to swans, and they flew in circles wider and wider, till they were far away; but one of them, the youngest swan, remained behind, and laid his head in his sister’s lap, while she stroked his wings; and they remained together the whole day.
		Towards evening, she heard at the grating the flutter of a swan’s wing, it was her youngest brother—he had found his sister, and she sobbed for joy, although she knew that very likely this would be the last night she would have to live.
	hca.gilead.org.il /wild_swa.html (5650 words)

	GradeSaver: The Wild Swans at Coole Essay: A Poem Without Therapy: A Reading of The Wild Swans at Coole
		The swans, we discover, are sublimely unconcerned: either the birds have grown accustomed to the speaker's presence in the intervening years, or part of the loss the poem laments is figured in this inability to disturb a natural order, some lapsed vigor and accompanying threat.
		For the first two stanzas the description of the swans is neutral, but admiration emerges in line thirteen, accompanied by the poem's central act of disclosure: "I have looked upon those brilliant creatures, / And now my heart is sore." The disclosure stops the poem: this is the only sentence that ends mid-stanza.
		Importantly, though, the swans have been transformed: while before they were merely "clamorous", now the sound of their wings is a "bell-beat".
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/wild/essay1.html (1602 words)

	The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen
		He it was who made the wild crab-trees grow in order to feed the hungry, and who showed her a tree whose boughs bent under the weight of their fruit.
		Elise lay down upon it, and when the sun rose, and the brothers were again transformed into wild swans, they seized the mat with their beaks and flew up high among the clouds with their dear sister, who was still sleeping.
		She asked if this was the country to which they were flying, but the swans shook their heads, for what she saw was the beautiful airy castle of the fairy Morgana, where no human being was admitted.
	www.whimsy.org.uk /wild_swans.html (5371 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China: Books: Jung Chang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		"Wild Swans: Three daughters of China" is one of the greatest books I know.
		Jung Chang beautifully traces the history of the women in her family almost a hundred years back into China's past, at the same time portraying all the awful things this country, its people and its women have had to go through.
		Wild Swans (Three daughters of China) is really a story of awakening, a journey through the lives of a Grandmother, daughter and grand daughter (the author).
	www.amazon.co.uk /Wild-Swans-Three-Daughters-China/dp/0006374921 (1576 words)

	Wild Swans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China is an autobiographical family history by Chinese writer Jung Chang.
		First published in 1992, it is the story of her grandmother, her mother and herself, and in telling their stories gives a unique perspective on 20th century Chinese history.
		Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wild_Swans (306 words)

	Wild Swans - Jung Chang - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Wild Swans - Jung Chang : "If this is Paradise, what then is Hell?"
		Wild Swans - Jung Chang : Truth is more tumultuous than fiction
		Wild Swans - Jung Chang : Three Daughters of China.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/wild-swans-jung-chang (293 words)

	Wild Swans: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		The Wild Swans' Space Flower follows XTC (masquerading as the Dukes of Stratosphear) and the Damned into the more pop-oriented side of the '60s: the sort of area that could produce a three-minute single and a ten-minute hallucinogenic mind-blower.
		Liverpool, England's the Wild Swans ventured into U2 territory on their 1988 debut album, Bringing Home the Ashes, while sustaining their distinctive sound.
		The haunting voice of Paul Simpson injects every track with emotional weight; whether he is trying to convey joy or sorrow, his icy baritone chills to the bone.
	www.music.com /group/wild_swans/1 (409 words)

	The Wild Swans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wild Swans (De vilde svaner) is a fairy tale written by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen.
		The children were happy until the king married a wicked queen who sent Elisa away and turned her brothers into wild swans.
		The youngest still had a swan wing instead of one of his arms for the shirt was not completed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Wild_Swans (533 words)

	Wild Swans Summary & Essays - Edna St. Vincent Millay
		The speaker expresses traditionally feminine feelings of heartache and despair, but she is less traditional in that she is harsh toward her own heart.
		In only eight lines, Millay describes an episode in which the speaker recalls observing the flight of wild swans and then longs for their return.
		In response to seeing the birds, the speaker essentially makes a choice between her “tiresome” heart and the swans, and she chooses the swans.
	www.enotes.com /wild-swans (291 words)

	SparkNotes: Yeats's Poetry: "The Wild Swans at Coole"
		With the trees "in their autumn beauty," the speaker walks down the dry woodland paths to the water, which mirrors the still October twilight of the sky.
		Though he was a famous and successful writer in his youth, his poetic reputation today is founded almost solely on poems written after he was fifty.
		The speaker, caught up in the gentle pain of personal memory, contrasts sharply with the swans, which are treated as symbols of the essential: their hearts have not grown old; they are still attended by passion and conquest.
	www.sparknotes.com /poetry/yeats/section3.rhtml (197 words)

	ARTSZONE: Wild Swans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Wild Swans is a harrowing account of modern Chinese history, seen through the eyes of three women.
		In her book Wild Swans, she documents the tumultuous events of the Japanese occupation; the Civil War that carried Mao to power; and the Cultural Revolution, during which teachers, writers and artists were among those vilified by Mao and his Red Guards.
		The book Wild Swans was published by Simon and Schuster (1991) and is available in a paperback edition from Anchor, Doubleday (1992).
	www.ovationtv.com /artszone/programs/wildswans (169 words)

	The Wild Swans - www.ezboard.com
		Regarding retellings, I'd also recommend Peg Kerr's beautiful treatment of the tale, The Wild Swans, which tells two diasynchronous versions of the tale, one set in the 16th century which seems close to the original, and one dealing with the issues of the early eighties, particularly AIDS.
		I illustrated the Wild Swans a few years ago and it's very close to my heart.
		The King's crown was based on a marble engraving I saw at Kolossi Castle, and details for his horse (bridle, saddle etc) were based on illuminated manuscripts.
	www.surlalunefairytales.com /boardarchives/2004/apr2004/wildswans.html (1260 words)

	Hans Christian Andersen - Eleven Wild Swans
		The eleven swans dived as one, and at the very moment they landed, their feathers disappeared.
		By the time the swans flew home at sunset, she was already spinning thread.
		The crowd gaped up as eleven wild swans flew low over their heads, and landed in a circle around the stake.
	www.wilani.com /aobrien/swans.html (1479 words)

	WHI Kid's Zone Bedtime Stories: The Wild Swans
		And with a wave of her cloak, she turned them into wild swans - but because they were princes, each had a gold crown on his head.
		At sunset, she heard the beating of wings, and, sure enough, down from the sky came eleven wild swans wearing crowns.
		Then, as the sun rose and the princes turned back into swans, they gently lifted her up and flew away.
	www.yesicankids.gov /bedtime/swann.html (1399 words)

	Wild Swans MP3 Downloads - Wild Swans Music Downloads - Wild Swans Music Videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Wild Swans' Space Flower follows XTC (masquerading as the Dukes of Stratosphear) and the Damned into the more pop-oriented side of the '60s: the sort of area that could produce a three-minute...
		Songs about war and religious faith were not exclusive to U2 in the '80s.
		Liverpool, England's the Wild Swans ventured into U2 territory on their 1988 debut album, Bringing Home the Ashes, while...
	www.mp3.com /wild-swans/artists/11238/discography.html (478 words)

	eBay.co.uk - Wild Swans, Prints, Non-Fiction Books, Trains Railway Models items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Wild Swans three daughters of China J Chang H/B VGC
		WILD SWANS Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang 1993
		New Century on the South East and Chatham Rly Wild Swan
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	Starhawk's Books: The Twelve Wild Swans
		If this fictional spellbook were ever to be made real it might be the The Twelve Wild Swans: A Journey to the Realm of Magic, Healing, and Action.
		It's a difficult, complicated and challenging story of a young princess, Rose, whose mother made a wicked vow that caused all of Rose's brothers to be turned into swans.
		As the story unravels, she discovers a guide in the Old Woman, her connection to the Wild via her swan brothers, her true self, and inner and outer powers.
	www.starhawk.org /writings/twelvereview.html (1031 words)

	Wild Swans Custom Essay samples, World Literature - Free samples: college essays, admission, argumentive essays - Essay ...
		Wild Swans Custom Essay samples, World Literature - Free samples: college essays, admission, argumentive essays - Essay Empire
		Imagine a disease that was usually fatal and could spread each and every time two people have sex.
		...A story "Wild Swans" by Jung Chang is an epic that covers the lives of three generations of Chinese women who lived in China's most politically vibrant times.It begins with the story about the author's grandmother.
	www.essayempire.com /samples/worldliterature/chinesewildswans (413 words)

	RFA: 'Wild Swans' Author Rushes To Produce Mao Book in Chinese
		HONG KONG—Former Red Guard and internationally renowned author Jung Chang is hurrying to translate her latest book on Mao Zedong into Chinese, because she says she’s eager to challenge the popular histories that justify Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule.
		Chang, whose autobiographical Wild Swans was an international best-seller, told RFA’s Mandarin service in a recent interview that the book resulted from 12 years’ intensive research.
		The couple’s investigations included taped interviews with surviving members of Mao’s inner circle, previously unpublished handwritten notes by Mao’s first wife, and archives of the former Soviet Union in Russia.
	www.rfa.org /english/news/arts/2005/10/12/china_mao (987 words)

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