Author: Ruth RendellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engelse fiksie
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Collection of mystery stories.
The Copper Peacock and Other Stories
Author: Ruth RendellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engelse fiksie
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Collection of mystery stories.
The Copper Peacock and Other Stories
Author: Ruth RendellPublisher:
ISBN: 9780745133836
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Copper Peacock and Other Stories
Author: Ruth RendellPublisher:
ISBN: 9780745174440
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Why Peacocks?
Author: Sean FlynnPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982101083
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Until Flynn’s neighbor in North Carolina offered him one, he had never considered whether he wanted a peacock. His family became the owners of not one but three charming yet fickle birds: Carl, Ethel, and Mr. Pickle. Here he chronicles their first year as peacock owners, from struggling to build a pen to assisting the local bird doctor in surgery to triumphantly watching a peahen lay her first egg. He also examines the history of peacocks, from their appearance in the Garden of Eden. And Flynn travels across the globe to learn more about the birds firsthand. His book offers surprising lessons about love, grief, fatherhood, and family. -- adapted from jacket.
A Dictionary of Writers and their Works
Author: Christopher RichesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019251850X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 1431
Book Description
Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.
Short Story Index
Author: Women Authors of Detective Series
Author: Moira Davison ReynoldsPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078645069X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
While the roots of the detective novel go back to the 19th century, the genre reached its height around 1925 to 1945. This work presents information on 21 British and American women who wrote during the 20th century. As a group they were largely responsible for the great popularity of the detective novel in the first half of the century. The British authors are Dora Turnbull (Patricia Wentworth), Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Elizabeth Mackintosh (Josephine Tey), Ngaio Marsh, Gladys Mitchell, Margery Allingham, Edith Pargeter (Ellis Peters), Phyllis Dorothy James White (P.D. James), Gwendoline Butler (Jennie Melville), and Ruth Rendell, and the Americans are Patricia Highsmith, Carolyn G. Heilbrun (Amanda Cross), Edna Buchanan, Kate Gallison, Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky, Nevada Barr, Patricia Cornwell, Carol Higgins Clark, and Megan Mallory Rust. A flavor of each author's work is provided.
The Hoodlum Band, and Other Stories
Author: Francis Bret HarteThe Works of John Ruskin: Deucalion, and other stories in Rocks and stones
Author: John RuskinMother Box and Other Tales
Author: Sarah BlackmanPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 1573661740
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
The eleven stories and one novella of Mother Box, and Other Tales bring together everyday reality and something that is dramatically not in compelling narratives of new possibilities. In language that is both barb and bauble, bitter and unbearably sweet, Sarah Blackman spins the threads of stories where everything is probable and nothing is constant. The stories in Mother Box, and Other Tales occur in an in-between world of outlandish possibility that has become irrefutable reality: a woman gives birth to seven babies and realizes at one of their weddings that they were foxes all along; a girl with irritating social quirks has been raised literally by cardboard boxes; a young woman throws a dinner party only to have her elaborate dessert upstaged by one of the guests who, as it turns out, is the moon. Love between mothers and children is a puzzling thrum that sounds at the very edge of hearing; a muted pulse that, nevertheless, beats and beats and beats. In these tales, the prosaic details of everyday life—a half-eaten sandwich, an unopened pack of letters on a table—take on fevered significance as the characters blunder into revelations that occlude even as they unfold.