Author :Laurel A. Young Publisher :McFarland Release Date :2017-05-31 ISBN 10 :9780786497911 Pages :287 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4.9/5 (791 users download)
Summary Book Review P.D. James by Laurel A. Young:
Download or read book P.D. James written by Laurel A. Young and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British National Health Service employee Phyllis Dorothy James White (1920-2014) reinvented herself at age 38 as P.D. James, crime novelist. She then became long known as England's "Queen of Crime." Sixteen of her 20 novels feature one or both of her series detectives, Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard and private eye Cordelia Gray. Stand-alone works include the dystopian The Children of Men (1992) and Death Comes to Pemberley (2011), a sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. James's careful plotting has earned comparison with Golden Age British detective writers such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. Yet James's work is thoroughly modern, with realistic descriptions of police procedures and the echoes and aftereffects of crime. This literary companion includes more than 700 encyclopedic entries covering the characters, settings and themes of her published writing, along with a career chronology, chronological and alphabetical listings of her works, and an exhaustive index.
Author :P.D. James Publisher :Simon and Schuster Release Date :2015-02-23 ISBN 10 :9781501117558 Pages :1872 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4.1/5 (755 users download)
Summary Book Review P. D. James's Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries by P.D. James:
Download or read book P. D. James's Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries written by P.D. James and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 1872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English police detective Adam Dalgliesh solves crime in this ebook collection that includes six of your favorite P.D. James mysteries!
Author :P.D. James Publisher :Simon and Schuster Release Date :2015-02-23 ISBN 10 :9781501117565 Pages :704 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4.1/5 (756 users download)
Summary Book Review P. D. James's Cordelia Gray Mysteries by P.D. James:
Download or read book P. D. James's Cordelia Gray Mysteries written by P.D. James and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private investigator Cordelia Gray inherits the Pryde Detective Agency in London and solves mysteries after her boss’s suicide in this compelling ebook collection that includes An Unsuitable Job for a Woman and The Skull Beneath the Skin.
Summary Book Review P.D. James by Norma Siebenheller:
Download or read book P.D. James written by Norma Siebenheller and published by Ungar Publishing Company. This book was released on 1981 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on interviews with the author, this study provides biographical and critical information about James's personal life, mystery writings, novels, complex characterizations, and attitudes toward justice, retribution, and the effects of crime
Summary Book Review British Women Mystery Writers by Mary Hadley:
Download or read book British Women Mystery Writers written by Mary Hadley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many aspects of British detective fiction are intriguingly different from the American detective fiction. And, confusingly, many of the British women detectives who have made it to American television are far from typical of the latest women detectives. This work is a study of British detective fiction with female protagonists written by women. Authors included are P.D. James, Jennie Melville, Liza Cody, Val McDermid, Joan Smith and Susan Moody. Special attention is paid to the evolution of the British female sleuth from the 1960s to the year 2000, particularly the 1980s, and how this shaped and altered detective fiction. Also discussed is the effect of the British judicial system and gun laws on detective fiction and real life, the types of crimes women detectives usually investigate, why certain directions have been taken and which ones may be taken in the future, issues being raised by the authors, and new women authors of detective fiction with female protagonists.
Summary Book Review Collections of the Worcester Society of Antiquity by :
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Summary Book Review New Perspectives on Detective Fiction by Casey Cothran:
Download or read book New Perspectives on Detective Fiction written by Casey Cothran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection establishes new perspectives on the idea of mystery, as it is enacted and encoded in the genre of detective fiction. Essays reclaim detective fiction as an object of critical inquiry, examining the ways it shapes issues of social destabilization, moral ambiguity, reader complicity, intertextuality, and metafiction. Breaking new ground by moving beyond the critical preoccupation with classification of historical types and generic determinants, contributors examine the effect of mystery on literary forms and on readers, who experience the provocative, complex process of coming to grips with the unknown and the unknowable. This volume opens up discussion on publically acclaimed, modern works of mystery and on classic pieces, addressing a variety of forms including novels, plays, graphic novels, television series, films, and ipad games. Re-examining the interpretive potential of a genre that seems easily defined yet has endless permutations, the book closely analyzes the cultural function of mystery, the way it intervenes in social and political problems, as well as the literary properties that give the genre its particular shape. The volume treats various texts as meaningful subjects for critical analysis and sheds new light on the interpretive potential for a genre that creates as much ambiguity as it does clarity. Scholars of mystery and detective fiction, crime fiction, genre studies, and cultural studies will find this volume invaluable.
Author :Julie H. Kim Publisher :McFarland Release Date :2014-04-03 ISBN 10 :9780786473236 Pages :239 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4.7/5 (323 users download)
Summary Book Review Class and Culture in Crime Fiction by Julie H. Kim:
Download or read book Class and Culture in Crime Fiction written by Julie H. Kim and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crime fiction world of the late 1970s, with its increasingly diverse landscape, is a natural beginning for this collection of critical studies focusing on the intersections of class, culture and crime--each nuanced with shades of gender, ethnicity, race and politics. The ten new essays herein raise broad and complicated questions about the role of class and culture in transatlantic crime fiction beyond the Golden Age: How is "class" understood in detective fiction, other than as a socioeconomic marker? Can we distinguish between major British and American class concerns as they relate to crime? How politically informed is popular detective fiction in responding to economic crises in Scotland, Ireland, England and the United States? When issues of race and gender intersect with concerns of class and culture, does the crime writer privilege one or another factor? Do values and preoccupations of a primarily middle-class readership get reflected in popular detective fiction?
Summary Book Review Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English 1 for updated exam Student's Book without answers by Cambridge ESOL:
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Summary Book Review History of the Town of Henniker, Merrimack County, New Hampshire by Leander Winslow Cogswell:
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Summary Book Review British Women Writing Fiction by Abby H.P. Werlock:
Download or read book British Women Writing Fiction written by Abby H.P. Werlock and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2000-02-09 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original essays by American and British scholars offer a reader-friendly introduction to the work of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, and a dozen other British women writers. British women in the second half of the 20th century have produced a body of work that is as diverse as it is entertaining. This book offers an informal, jargon-free introduction to the fiction of sixteen contemporary writers either brought up or now living in England, from Muriel Spark to Jeanette Winterson. British Women Writing Fiction presents a balanced view comprising women writing since the 1950s and 1960s, those who attracted critical attention during the 1970s and 1980s, and those who have burst upon the literary scene more recently, including African-Caribbean and African women. The essays show how all of these writers treat British subjects and themes, sometimes from radically different perspectives, and how those who are daughters of immigrants see themselves as women writing on the margins of society. Abby Werlock's introduction explores the historical and aesthetic factors that have contributed to the genre, showing how even those writers who began in a traditional vein have created experimental work. The contributors provide complete bibliographies of each writer's works and selected bibliographies of criticism. Exceptional both in its breadth of subjects covered and critical approaches taken, this book provides essential background that will enable readers to appreciate the singular merits of each writer. It offers an approach toward better understanding favorite authors and provides a way to become acquainted with new ones.
Author :Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis Publisher :Genealogical Publishing Com Release Date :2005 ISBN 10 :0806317566 Pages :286 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4.0/5 (631 users download)
Summary Book Review Albemarle Parish Vestry Book, 1742-1786 by Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis:
Download or read book Albemarle Parish Vestry Book, 1742-1786 written by Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2005 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vestry Book of Albemarle Parish is one of the priceless original public records of the Old Dominion that has survived the vicissitudes of time, wars, invasions, fire, and neglect. Now, for the first time, the Vestry Book is widely available to researchers owing to the transcription efforts of Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis and Andrew Wilburn Hogwood.
Summary Book Review XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference by Michael Kay:
Download or read book XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference written by Michael Kay and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-11-11 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is this book about? XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference is the only authoritative reference on XPath, a sub-language within XSLT that determines which part of an XML document the XSLT transforms. Written for professional programmers who use XML every day but find the W3C XPath specifications tough to slog through, this book explains in everyday language what every construct in the language does and how to use it. It also offers background material on the design thinking behind the language, gentle criticism of the language specification when appropriate, and a diverse range of interesting examples in various application areas.
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Summary Book Review The Constables' Accounts of the Manor of Manchester from the Year 1612 to the Year 1647, and from the Year 1743 to the Year 1776: From the year 1633 to 1647, with several important appendices by Manchester (England):
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Summary Book Review A history of Kilmarnock, from an early period to the present time; including biographical notices of the more eminent individuals belonging to the locality. [With a plate and illustrations.] by Archibald M'Kay:
Download or read book A history of Kilmarnock, from an early period to the present time; including biographical notices of the more eminent individuals belonging to the locality. [With a plate and illustrations.] written by Archibald M'Kay and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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