{"product_id":"three-ladies-beside-the-sea-isbn-9781681379524","title":"Three Ladies Beside the Sea","description":"Wickedly funny and delightfully sad, \u003ci\u003eThree Ladies Beside the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e is a tale of love found, love lost, and love never-ending. Edward Gorey’s off-kilter Edwardian maidens are the perfect accompaniment to Rhoda Levine’s lilting rhymes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe place is remote:\u003cbr\u003eThree houses beside the sea.\u003cbr\u003eThe Characters are Few:\u003cbr\u003eLaughing Edith of Ecstasy,\u003cbr\u003eEdith so happy and gay.\u003cbr\u003eSmiling Catherine of Compromise,\u003cbr\u003eShe smiles her life away.\u003cbr\u003eAnd then there is Alice of Hazard,\u003cbr\u003eA dangerous life leads she.\u003cbr\u003eThe question in the plot is quite simple:\u003cbr\u003eWhy is Alice up in a tree?\u003cbr\u003eThe answer can be discovered:\u003cbr\u003eEdith and Catherine do.\u003cp\u003e\"A rhymed story of charming eccentricity, Rhoda Levine's \u003ci\u003eThree Ladies Beside the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e has a fable-like quality. Three friends — Edith of Ecstasy, Catherine of Compromise and Alice of Hazard — live in harmony, doing their chores, drinking tea and playing chamber music. (Once you've seen Edward Gorey's pictures of their elongated figures and their odd, tower-shaped cottages, it's impossible to imagine them otherwise.) Alice has a disturbing habit of climbing a tree — in all weather! — and gazing intently out at the sky. It's a compulsion, she explains when her friends confront her about it...Ah, then why does she do it? There's the question, to which Levine and Gorey's answer seems to be: One has to accept all kinds of mysteries in friends.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ms. Levine's wry imagination and Mr. Gorey's powerfully epicene drawings (figure  that one out) constitute a whole new country for a child to visit or for a lucky  grandfather to act as tour guide. ...This is, of course, a must for the many Edward  Gorey fans of all ages, and a chance to discover the fine poetry of Rhoda Levine.  I read this one to my five year old grand-daughter because it is just long enough  to be engaging and just short enough to be wiggle proof, and just wise enough to  set a young imagination free as a bird.\" –Sherman Yellen, \u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThree  Ladies by the Sea \u003c\/i\u003econsists of more nonsense about the formal activities of the three  ladies of nobility with the exception of Alice who insists upon in a tree where she  seeks a bird she saw long ago.” —Charlotte Jackson, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRhoda Levine \u003c\/b\u003e(1932-2026), the author of seven children’s books, was an accomplished director and choreographer. In addition to working for major opera houses in the United States and Europe, she has choreographed shows on and off Broadway, and in London’s West End. Among the world premieres she directed are\u003ci\u003e Der Kaiser von Atlantis\u003c\/i\u003e by Viktor Ullmann and \u003ci\u003eX—The Life and Times of Malcolm X\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003eWakonda’s Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, both by Anthony Davis. In Cape Town she directed the South African premiere of\u003ci\u003ePorgy and Bess \u003c\/i\u003ein 1996, and she premiered the New York City Opera productions of Janácek’s \u003ci\u003eFrom the House of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, Zimmermann’s \u003ci\u003eDie Soldaten\u003c\/i\u003e, and Adamo’s \u003ci\u003eLittle Women\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLevine taught acting and improvisation at the Yale School of Drama, the Curtis Institute of Music, and Northwestern University, and the Manhattan School of Music and the Mannes College of Music. \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdward Gorey\u003c\/b\u003e (1925–2000) was born in Chicago. He studied briefly at the Art Institute of Chicago, spent three years in the army testing poison gas, and attended Harvard College, where he majored in French literature and roomed with the poet Frank O’Hara. In 1953 Gorey published \u003ci\u003eThe Unstrung Harp\u003c\/i\u003e, the first of his many extraordinary books, which include \u003ci\u003eThe Curious Sofa\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Haunted Tea-Cosy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Epiplectic Bicycle\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to illustrating his own books, Edward Gorey provided drawings to countless books for both children and adults. Of these, New York Review Books has published \u003ci\u003eThe Haunted Looking Glass\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of Gothic tales that he selected and illustrated; \u003ci\u003eThe War of the Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e by H. G. Wells; \u003ci\u003eMen and Gods\u003c\/i\u003e, a retelling of ancient Greek myths by Rex Warner; in collaboration with Rhoda Levine, \u003ci\u003eThree Ladies Beside the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHe Was There from the Day We Moved In\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Unrest-Cure and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of tales by Saki.","brand":"NYRB Kids","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233782214885,"sku":"NP9781681379524","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681379524.jpg?v=1767742573","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/three-ladies-beside-the-sea-isbn-9781681379524","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}