![]() According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. She wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in Romance. ![]() Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.ĭame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie is the best-selling author of all time. ![]()
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![]() Cabo de Gata by Eugen Ruge, translated from the German by Anthea Bell.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous, translated from the Middle English by Simon Armitage, audiobook narrated by Bill Wallis.She likes to pretend she’s the fiercest cat in the world, but when someone else comes into my apartment she’s the fiercest cat in the closet. She got over her nervousness fairly quickly on Monday evening and was back to her usual self by bedtime. Mina must have thought that he would reappear at any minute because when I got home she was still hanging out in the closet and only came out when I shook the jar of her treats. The maintenance guy came by on Monday, fixed the things that morning, and then left. ![]() I had to have a bit of maintenance work done in my apartment. ![]() ![]() Some had their passports taken away, while others were jailed for refusing to give the names of other communists. “… the paranoid hunt for infiltrators was notoriously difficult on writers and entertainers, many of whom were labeled communist sympathizers and were unable to continue working. His witch-hunts destroyed a great many careers, and even resulted in suicides by some of his victims. It was the heyday of “McCarthyism,” named after Senator Joe McCarthy, who went on a crusade to root out alleged Communists and homosexuals both inside and outside government. ![]() America was clouded by an atmosphere of paranoia, suspicion, and the fearful sense of a world rushing toward a nuclear holocaust. ![]() Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury in 1953 during the height of the Cold War, cannot be fully understood outside of its historical context. ![]() ![]() ![]() They keep in touch during Kim's education, and Kim also keeps in touch with the spies, doing little jobs occasionally. The monk urges the boy to obey the winds of fate, and the boy is taken back to town, to a British boarding school in Lucknow. Then, a friend of Kim's father identifies him and separates him from the monk. On the journey, Ali charges him with a mission, to deliver intelligence to the British in Umballa. He believes if he can find the "River of the Arrow" that he will be enlightened. ![]() ![]() Kim meets a Tibetan Lama, a monk who is on a sacred quest to transcend the wheel of human fortune and fate. As an boy raised in India, he is culturally very Indian, so he lives in community with the local people and the British alike. He takes odd jobs for Mahbub Ali, a horse trader, a local spy for the British. Kim's family lives in India, so when he is orphaned, he becomes a beggar in Lahore. Kimbrall O'Hara is a recent orphan, following the deaths of his father, an Irish soldier, and his Irish mother, who died as a result of their desperate poverty. Written by Ancy Johnson, kriti Banerjee and other people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even with her best friend Lucy’s help, there is NO way she will get everything done in time. Watson, Mercy is not just a pig she's a porcine wonder. BooksEdit Mercy Watson to the Rescue (2005) Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride (2006) Mercy Watson Fights Crime (2006) Mercy Watson, Princess in Disguise (2007). Branches books help readers grow!Eva Wingdale gets in over her head when she offers to organize a spring festival at school. Mercy Watson to the Rescue by Kate DiCamillo (Author), Chris Van Dusen (Illustrator) (2,886) The first adventure of this NEW YORK TIMES best-selling porcine wonder is now available as an e-book. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. This adorable early chapter book series is perfect for young girls who love friendship stories starring animal characters!This series is part of Scholastic’s early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. ![]() ![]() In this sense novelistic discourse undermines absolute or authoritative (monologic) language, which is revealed to be merely one form of ideological expression operating within an essentially intersubjective medium. The novel, unlike other literary forms, embraces heterogeneity in discourse and meaning: it re-creates a reality that is based on the interactions of a variety of subjective consciousnesses and ways of thinking and speaking about the world. ![]() The title refers to the central place of the concept of dialogue in Bakhtin's theory of the novel. According to Holquist, the unifying theme of the essays is "the novel and its relation to language." Holquist and Emerson chose the essays from a collection of six essays by Bakhtin published in Moscow under the title Вопросы литературы и естетиҡи ( Voprosy literatury i estetiki Problems of Literature and Aesthetics). It was edited and translated into English by Michael Holquist and Caryl Emerson, who gave the work its English title. ![]() Bakhtin) is a book on the nature and development of novelistic prose, comprising four essays by the twentieth century Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin. ![]() The Dialogic Imagination (full title: The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. ![]() ![]() ![]() But countless doctors, endless therapy, every kind of drug later, she still doesn’t know what’s wrong, why she spends days unable to get out of bed or alienates both strangers and her loved ones with casually cruel remarks. When she was seventeen, a little bomb went off in her brain and she was never the same. Because there’s something wrong with Martha, and has been for a long time. But she must leave, now that her husband Patrick-the kind who cooks, throws her birthday parties, who loves her and has only ever wanted her to be happy-has just moved out. Now she lives in a gated community in Oxford, the only person she knows without a PhD, a baby or both, in a house she hates but cannot bear to leave. She used to live in a pied-à-terre in Paris. ![]() ![]() Once, she worked at Vogue and planned to write a novel. While I was reading it, I was making a list of all the people I wanted to send it to, until I realized that I wanted to send it to everyone I know." - Ann Patchett The internationally bestselling sensation, a compulsively readable novel-spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark, and tender-that Emma Straub has named one of her favorite books of the year Martha Friel just turned forty. Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction! "Brilliantly faceted and extremely funny. ![]() ![]() But rather than surrender to despair, you have sworn to uncover the secrets of a defiled land and fight the Apocalypse. You are one of the few who remember the oaths you swore to the living earth - which has made you an exile. You swore to protect Gaia, but the werewolves turned on each other, slaughtered their allies, fell into despair or mad Rage. ![]() Pollution chokes the cities and mad spirits rampage through the wild places. Werewolves are the living earth's last guardians, created by Gaia, given the gift of shifting between human and wolf forms, and called to stop humanity from destroying the world. ![]() You are a werewolf, and you are all these things. It's entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Werewolf: The Apocalypse - The Book of Hungry Names is an interactive novel by Kyle Marquis set in the World of Darkness. ![]() Save the living earth with Rage and spirit! Awaken ancient mysteries, rebuild your fallen pack, and unleash your fearsome might to heal a shattered land. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Amazon says it will reveal additional details, including launch timing, at a later date.Īlthough Amazon Studios produces “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” for Prime Video, Amazon says the show is unrelated to this upcoming MMO game in development with Amazon Games. Amazon Games will publish the game globally for PC and consoles. The game is in early stages of production with the Amazon Games Orange County studio, which is the same studio behind the MMO New World. The upcoming game will be an open-world MMO adventure set in Middle-earth, featuring the stories of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” literary trilogy. Amazon has reached a deal with Embracer Group, the company that holds the IP rights for “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit,” to release a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game based on the works of J.R.R. ![]() ![]() ![]() The fact that he's an aging eunach but the love of his life has been reborn as a child is neatly dealt with by him having his 'manroot' regrown and finding the font of youth just as she reaches maturity. The Big Bad is built up constantly through the book only for him to beat her in two pages. The plot isn't nearly as engaging as his other plots. ![]() If you're going to write fantasy, write fantasy don't start a series with historical fiction and end it with fantasy, with a random modern adventure story in the middle. However, The Quest treats magic as totally real and goes into far fetched stuff like astral projection and talking in each others minds. ![]() I loved Warlock, and I loved the manner with which the supernatural was dealt it could be real, but it could also be coincidence and natural phenomena that the people of those times would interpret as real. ![]() |