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Author: Ruth Rendell Publisher: ISBN: 9781863407656 Category : Detective and mystery stories Languages : en Pages : 141
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Almost everyone on Linchester hated Patrick Selby, including his wife. And they all had good cause. There was almost no one who had been at that fateful party who wouldn't have been happy to see Patrick Selby dead. But was that enough to assume murder? And if so, which of all the people Patrick Selby had caused to suffer was the one desperate enough to go one step further than just wishing him dead?
Author: Ruth Rendell Publisher: Fawcett ISBN: 0307829561 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 192
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He was young, arrogant, wealthy and in the bloom of health—or was he? “Undoubtedly one of the best writers of English mysteries and chiller-killer plots.”—The Los Angeles Times Like any small community, Linchester has its intrigues: love affairs, money problems, unhappy marriages. But the gossip is elevated to new heights when young Patrick Selby dies on the very night of his beautiful wife’s birthday party. The whole neighborhood was there, witness to the horrible attack of wasp stings Patrick suffered at the end of the evening. But did Patrick die of a wasp sting? Dr. Greenleaf thinks not. Heart failure, more likely. Still, Greenleaf isn’t at peace about his death. After all, everyone in Linchester hated Patrick. With the help of a certain naturalist, Dr. Greenleaf begins to think about murder. . . . “Rendell is awfully good.”—The New York Times Book Review
Author: Arjun Raina Publisher: Partridge Publishing ISBN: 1482816776 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 133
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This is a unique and enlightened insight into mental illness. This book has taken the author over two decades to write. A must-read for all interested in not just the working of the human brain but also its breakdown. This is an exciting new work that uses the latest ideas of the functioning of the human brain to tell a dark but true story of its dysfunction. This is his first novel,his first work of fiction.
Author: Daniel Swift Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199977038 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 300
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Societies and entire nations draw their identities from certain founding documents, whether charters, declarations, or manifestos. The Book of Common Prayer figures as one of the most crucial in the history of the English-speaking peoples. First published in 1549 to make accessible the devotional language of the late Henry the VIII's new church, the prayer book was a work of monumental religious, political, and cultural importance. Within its rituals, prescriptions, proscriptions, and expressions were fought the religious wars of the age of Shakespeare. This diminutive book--continuously reformed and revised--was how that age defined itself. In Shakespeare's Common Prayers, Daniel Swift makes dazzling and original use of this foundational text, employing it as an entry-point into the works of England's most celebrated writer. Though commonly neglected as a source for Shakespeare's work, Swift persuasively and conclusively argues that the Book of Common Prayer was absolutely essential to the playwright. It was in the Book's ambiguities and its fierce contestations that Shakespeare found the ready elements of drama: dispute over words and their practical consequences, hope for sanctification tempered by fear of simple meaninglessness, and the demand for improvised performance as compensation for the failure of language to fulfill its promises. What emerges is nothing less than a portrait of Shakespeare at work: absorbing, manipulating, reforming, and struggling with the explosive chemistry of word and action that comprised early modern liturgy. Swift argues that the Book of Common Prayer mediates between the secular and the devotional, producing a tension that makes Shakespeare's plays so powerful and exceptional. Tracing the prayer book's lines and motions through As You Like It, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Othello, and particularly Macbeth, Swift reveals how the greatest writer of the age--of perhaps any age--was influenced and guided by its most important book.
Author: Ruth Rendell
Author: Ruth Rendell
Author: Ruth Rendell
Author: Ruth Rendell
Author: Edwin Gordon Lawrence
Author: Arjun Raina
Author: Daniel Swift
Author: William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare