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Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Over the past fifty years, fiction in English has never looked more various. Books bulkier than Victorian three-deckers appear alongside works of minimalist brevity, and experiments with form have produced everything from verse novels to Twitter-thread narratives. This is truly a golden age. But what unites this kaleidoscopic array of genres and styles? Celebrated writer and critic Peter Kemp shows how modern writers are obsessed with the past. In...
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"An anthology of classic murder mysteries - the unfamiliar, the unjustly forgotten, and little-known gems by the most famous practitioners A Penguin Classic These are not the usual suspects. When Edgar finalist Michael Sims formed the line-up for The Penguin Book of Murder, he did not include the familiar classics that you can find anywhere. Although he wanted to explore the first century of murder mysteries (from 1827 to 1924), he sought out the...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carre's new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover and traveling companion, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has vanished from the scene of the crime. Tessa's much older husband, Justin, a career diplomat at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets...
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Alma
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"Una Habitaci�on Propia" esconde la reflexi�on que la autora hizo para un ciclo de conferencias sobre la literatura y la mujer. El ensayo recorre la historia literaria de la mujeres, cuyo fin �ultimo es el de reivindicar para el g�enero femenino la posibilidad de ser admitido en una cultura que hasta entonces se hab�ia mostrado como uso exclusivo de los hombres, en una sociedad inglesa de una pronunciada idiosincrasia patriarcal.En "Una...
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Rex Fortescue, the boss of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his office, when he suffered a painful and sudden death. When the police checked the victim's pockets, they found grain. Miss Marple knows one of the servants in Rex Fortescue's house and comes to help solve the mystery. She soon starts to suspect that she is dealing with a case of crime by rhyme ...
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