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‘The Ice Palace’ is a short story by the American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), originally published in the Saturday Evening Post in May 1920. The story is about a southern belle who becomes engaged to a man from the North; however, she almost freezes to death in an ice palace at a winter carnival and this leads her to rethink the ...
Sally Carrol Happer, a young woman from the fictional city of Tarleton, Georgia, United States of America, is bored with her unchanging environment. Her local friends are dismayed to learn she is engaged to Harry Bellamy, a man from an unspecified town in the northern United States of America.
The Ice Palace (Nynorsk: Is-slottet) is a novel by the Norwegian author Tarjei Vesaas, first published in 1963. An English translation was published by Peter Owen Publishers , London. It and was scheduled for reissue with them in Christmas of 2017 was part of their Cased Classics series.
- Tarjei Vesaas
- 1963
She sees the ice palace as a primitive, heathen place – “the North offering sacrifice on some mighty altar to the gray pagan God of Snow. She is fearfully overwhelmed when lost in the palace, experiencing “some deep terror far greater than any fear of being lost”.
The Ice Palace: With Dean Jones, Carol Lawrence, Johnny Mathis, Leslie Uggams. In 1971, when 95% of all TV shows were still family-friendly, CBS trotted out this pleasant, 8-episode Sunday night summer series.
- Family, Musical
- 60
- 1971-05-23
- Dean Jones, Carol Lawrence, Johnny Mathis
The Ice Palace (Is-slottet) is a Norwegian novel written in 1963, by Tarjei Vesaas. The novel is one of the most known stories written in the "nynorsk" mode of Norwegian, and is considered a modern classic. The story tells of two girls, Siss and Unn.
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The “Ice Palace,” which chronicles the cultural conflict between a Southern woman and her Northern lover, is an example of one of Fitzgerald’s more serious and effective short pieces. As it...
