Publisher's Synopsis
Stories of Faith, Hope and Inspiration! A sampling of short stories included in this ebook: PAINTING RENOIRBorn in 1841 to a working class family, Pierre Auguste Renoir loved to paint but his parents could not afford to buy paint for their son. Undeterred and determined to pursue his passion, the boy found work in a porcelain factory. Impressed with his hard work and creative mind, he was eventually chosen to paint designs on fine China. As you already know, Renoir was destined to become the well-known, French Impressionist.Renoir spent the last few years of his life in a wheel chair. He developed painful and progressive deformities in his shoulders and hands. His fingers became paralyzed. Towards the end of his life, he continued to create masterful art by strapping brushes to his paralyzed fingers with leather straps. In 1990, Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre brought $78,000,000.00 at auction. Imagine what you could accomplish with such passion and determination.THE INFLUENCE OF SHAKESPEAREWilliam Shakespeare, the third of eight children, acclaimed English poet and playwright, husband and father. Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway at the age of 18. She was 26. Together, they had three children (Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith). Hamnet died at the age of 11. A sad, yet ordinary life in the late 1500
