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Some literary historians believe that Dracula's Guest is an excerpt excised from the original manuscript of Bram Stoker's masterpiece Dracula by an overzealous editor. This short novel recounts the travels of an unnamed Englishman who crosses paths with a foreboding wolf-like creature on his way to Count Dracula's castle. The story is currently being developed into a television series that is slated to air on the CW network in 2010. A must-read for...
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William Crimsworth escapes the brutal employment of his brother in a Yorkshire mill town, changes profession and takes a position as tutor in a boys' school in Brussels.
The authoress is unusually frank, for the time, in her scrutiny of the relationship between the teacher and the domineering headmistress of the adjoining girls' school, Zoraide Reuter. Crimsworth manages to avoid the older woman's manipulation and begins a relationship with a poor...
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If there is a literary gene, then the Waugh family most certainly has it-and it clearly seems to be passed down from father to son. And it now comes down to Alexander to tell the story of four generations of Waughs.
The first of the literary Waughs was Arthur, who, when he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry at Oxford in 1888, broke with the family tradition of medicine. He went on to become a distinguished publisher and an immensely influential book...
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Invitato a recarsi in Francia per proteggere un uomo minacciato da un pericolo ignoto, all'arrivo Poirot scopre che il suo cliente è già stato assassinato. E scopre anche che il crimine è stato compiuto seguendo lo stesso metodo di un assassinio di molti anni prima e che l'uomo ucciso, pur amando teneramente la moglie, era legato a una donnaaffascinante ed enigmatica. L'arrogante e iperattivo ispettore Giraud ha i suoi sospetti ma, come al solito,...
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Known to millions as the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey and the bestselling author of a dozen detective novels, Dorothy Leigh Sayers was in reality a complex woman——moved, she said, by "a careless rage for life." It is this complex Sayers, brilliant student, controversial apologist, witty, bawdy, intolerant of fools——the woman "terrified of emotion"——who is revealed in this new biography.
The production of Sayers' radio play on the life...
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"In the age of artificial intelligence, drafting an essay is as simple as typing a prompt and pressing enter. What does this mean for the art of writing? According to longtime writing teacher John Warner: not very much. More Than Words argues that generative AI programs like ChatGPT not only can kill the student essay but should, since these assignments don't challenge students to do the real work of writing. To Warner, writing is thinking— discovering...
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Merlin, the enchanter series volume 2
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Keeping watch over the young Arthur Pendragon as he grows, the prince and prophet Merlin Ambrosius is haunted by a vision of a magical sword--the fabled sword Caliburn, hidden for centuries. Sheathed in fire and stone, water and ice, the sword of the Emperor Maximus is destined to reveal the true High King. When Uther Pendragon is killed in battle, the time of destiny is at hand, and Arthur must claim the sword from a perilous chapel to claim his...
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"Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) was a renowned crime novelist who achieved fame and fortune during a period that historian Mo Moulton calls 'the day after the revolution.' In a time when just as many doors were closed to women as open, Sayers found professional success with her Lord Peter Wimsey novels. Yet she never could have done it without the cohort of remarkable women she met at university -- all of whom would go on to challenge societal norms...
