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Harriet Vane - Wikipedia  Harriet Deborah Vane, later Lady Peter Wimsey, is a fictional character in the works of British writer Dorothy L. Sayers (18931957). Vane, a mystery writer, initially meets Lord Peter Wimsey when she is on trial ... Jill Paton Walsh referenced The Wimsey Papers in writing A Presumption of Death, ... Reynolds, Barbara (1998).
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Jill Paton Walsh - Wikipedia  Jill Paton Walsh, CBE, FRSL (born 29 April 1937) is an English novelist and children's writer. She may be known best for the Peter WimseyHarriet Vane mysteries that have completed or continued ... In 2002, she followed this up with another Lord Peter novel, A Presumption of Death. In 2010 ... The Late Scholar. London:...
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Chicago Boyz  Blog Archive  Getting away from politics  Aug 12, 2011 ... What follows is a discussion of the latest Lord Peter Wimsey novel. ... because of the Abdication Crisis, the novel was not finished. ... from the Wimsery  Delagardie family through late 1939 early 1940. ... In 1998 Jill Paton Walsh, herself a writer of detective and other novels, ... August 12th, 2011 at 2:46 pm.
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Lord Peter Wimsey - Wikipedia  Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and ... Lord Peter Wimsey's (fictional) ancestry begins with the 12th-century knight .... In the subsequent The Late Scholar, Roger is not mentioned at all. .... Dominations (1998; unfinished manuscript completed by Jill Paton Walsh)...
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The Ghost Of Dorothy Sayers - Page 2 - tribunedigital-chicagotribune  Jill Paton Walsh Puts The Finishing Touches On The 12th Lord Peter Wimsey Novel. February 22, 1998|By Dick Adler. Dick Adler writes about mysteries for the...
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William Golding Flies classic holds true 60 years on - BBC News  Sep 17, 2014 ... William Golding's daughter Judy Carver talks fondly of her author father ... "I think probably when my father turned 40 he thought he hadn't yet hit ... The picture of the white bodies turning over in the green sea is very vivid. ... by RM Ballantyne's classic adventure The Coral Island, published a century before.
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Wicked (Maguire novel) - Wikipedia  Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is a novel published in 1995 written by Gregory Maguire and illustrated by Douglas Smith. It is a revisionist look at the land and characters of Oz from L. Frank Baum's .... Elphaba becomes friends with Boq, the son of the Munchkin mayor from her hometown, who...
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The Pearl's Place: The Book  The Book. The Peace Treaty signed on February 10, 1947 officially ends World War II. .... Literally gender: the gender that the author used is the narrative because it`s ... "And the music of the pearl drifted to a whisper and disappeared.".
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The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of ... - Amazon.com  Editorial Reviews. Amazon.com Review. This book interweaves the stories of a unique city and ... up to the handover of Hong Kong and its five million people to Communist China on July 1, 1997. ... Appointed governor of Hong Kong in 1992, Chris Patten was to prepare the prosperous colony for Communist Chinese rule,...
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Alan Paton's "Cry, the Beloved Country" after Twenty-Five Years  In 1948, when Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country was first ... suggestiveness of their titles - down to the latest novel by white writer, Nadine ... Paton was riding high on a cloud of critical acclaim. .... person who has completed his schooling.
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Jane Austen's Dealings with John Murray and his Firm  Mar 31, 2012 ... Jane Austen had dealings with several publishers, eventually ... This essay examines Austen-related materials in the John Murray ... three to Murray, with Murray also putting out a second edition of Mansfield Park, her last novel with Egerton. .... of Mansfield Park swallowed up most of her profits from Emma.
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A Guide to the Paul Porter Collection of Katherine Anne Porter, 1940 ...  Katherine Anne Porter, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author ... case in Mexico, but she would not publish the story of this experience until 1977, ... the Texas Institute of Letters fiction prize for her 1962 novel, Ship of Fools. ... The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, which won a Pulitzer Prize Award.
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Jeeves and the Tie That Binds (Jeeves, #14) by P.G. Wodehouse ...  Much Obliged, Jeeves is one of Wodehouse's last books... ... A Bertie and Jeeves classic, featuring the Junior Ganymede, a Market .... P.G. Wodehouse was ninety years old when "Much Obliged, Jeeves" was published in 1971 and it is the ..... like humorous books... this is the author and series that will change your mind.
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Amazon.com: A Hundred Years of the Secret Garden: Frances ...  ... Years of the Secret Garden: Frances Hodgson Burnett's Children's Classic ... she is mainly remembered today for three novels written for children: Little Lord ... of redemptive children in The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy; the...
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Obit of the Day (Historical): P.L. Travers (1996) ...  Obit of the Day  Her father, Travers Goff died at the age of 43. ... Her second and third Mary Poppins books were published by Peter Davies - the adopted son of ... Her work in children's fiction also earned her positions as writer-in-residence at Radcliffe ... Today's birthday August 9th 1899 : Pamela Lyndon Travers, famous for Mary Popins.
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: Chapter 38  Reader, I married him. ... My tale draws to its close: one word respecting my experience of ... One morning at the end of the two years, as I was writing a letter
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The top 10 Agatha Christie mysteries | Books | The Guardian  Sep 16, 2009 ... "Agatha Christie was the greatest exponent of the classical detective story. ... Sixteen years ago, Caroline Crale died in prison while serving a life sentence for poisoning her husband. ... The best novel from her last 20 years. 10. Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (1975, but written during the second world war).
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1984: The masterpiece that killed George Orwell | Books | The ...  May 9, 2009 ... In 1946 Observer editor David Astor lent George Orwell a remote Scottish ... Orwell's torturous stay on the island where the author, close to death and beset by ... It's clear from his Observer book reviews, for example, that he was .... Nineteen Eighty-Four was published on 8 June 1949 (five days later in the...
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In 1973 the KGB confiscated a manuscript of this massive work ...  Jun 27, 2016 ... He won a Hugo Award for a 1973 novel # Quiz # Question ... In 1973 Mean Joe Greene introduced a TV dinner for this Man # Quiz # Question.
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Mario Puzo's THE LAST DON - Reviews - J Geoff Malta  Puzo divides his novel mainly into scenes set on Long Island, in Las Vegas, and ... The 75-year-old author of The Godfather is wearing a thigh-length green polo ... The road to that Happy Ending is paved with corpses, sex, gambling, high .... (The paperback rights to Fools Die sold for a then-astonishing $2.5 million in 1978.).
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90 Years of Christie favourite: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ...  May 27, 2016 ... This month marks 90 years since The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was published ... Often described as the book that changed Agatha Christie's career, The ... 1938 about her relationship with Poirot she counts The Murder of Roger ... Lord Mountbatten is also credited with providing inspiration for the novel's...