• Paying Guests is a 1929 comedy novel by the British writer E.F. Benson, best known as the author of the Mapp and Lucia series. The story takes place at...
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  • The Paying Guests is a 2014 novel by Welsh author Sarah Waters. It was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and named "Fiction Book of...
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    haunting novel evokes the claustrophobia of postwar Britain", The Herald (Glasgow), p. 9. Chevalier, Tracy (7 September 2014). "The Paying Guests review...
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    The Paying Guest is a satirical novella by George Gissing, first published in 1895 by Cassell, as part of their Pocket Library series. It recounts the...
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  • Fingersmith is a 2002 historical crime novel set in Victorian-era Britain by Sarah Waters. Sue Trinder, an orphan raised in "a Fagin-like den of thieves"...
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  • siblings, Tanay and Anuja, who fall in love with their paying guest at their house in Pune. The novel deals with the theme of sexuality, family and society...
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  • the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath. Originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963, the novel is supposedly...
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  • historical fiction novel by Sarah Waters. It was shortlisted for both the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the 2006 Orange Prize. The novel, which is told backward...
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  • Tipping the Velvet is a 1998 debut novel by Welsh novelist Sarah Waters. A historical novel set in England during the 1890s, it tells a coming-of-age story...
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  • children. 1,211 TBA Peniel Joseph Italy's Silvio Berlusconi was convicted of paying for sex with an underage prostitute, which means it could be months before...
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    The Little Stranger (category 2009 British novels)
    Studios. It is also the 2018 film adaptation of Waters' novel. The Little Stranger is a 2009 gothic novel written by Sarah Waters. It is a ghost story set in...
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  • Vatican Library is digitizing its archives. So that the next Dan Brown novel will just be Robert Langdon alone with an iPad. April 22 9247 The U.S. Postal...
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  • A Paying Ghost (Marathi : अ पेईंग घोस्ट) is a Marathi language film, released in 2015. The story is based on the novel Badli, by V. P. Kale. It was directed...
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    lunch, dinner, and sometimes even tea. Rather than paying for the room and each meal separately, guests select a plan that either comprises overnight accommodation...
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  • house is If Winter Comes. One of the novels that Sarah Waters read as background for her 2014 novel The Paying Guests was If Winter Comes. "AFI Catalog:...
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  • Hotel is a 1965 novel by Arthur Hailey. It is the story of an independent New Orleans hotel, the St. Gregory, and its management's struggle to regain...
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    was televised in 2005. The story is an adaptation of Sarah Waters' 2002 novel of the same name and follows a con man who plans to seduce and defraud a...
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    descendants of "hero pulps"; pulp magazines often featured illustrated novel-length stories of heroic characters, such as Flash Gordon, The Shadow, Doc...
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  • arrives and sings with his guests late into the night, and Francie observes his uncle with admiration. Eventually the guests leave, and Benny, drunk as...
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    Dracula (redirect from Dracula (novel))
    Dracula is a 1897 gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. An epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper...
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    Jake Schreier's romantic comedy-drama film Paper Towns, based on the 2008 novel of the same name by John Green. In 2017, Abrams co-starred in Kyle Wilamowski's...
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    Instead, she published two thousand copies of the novel at her own expense, retaining the copyright and paying a 10% commission to Murray. The publication in...
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  • Spartacus is a 1951 historical novel by American writer Howard Fast. It is about the historic slave revolt led by Spartacus around 71 BC. The book inspired...
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    October 2015, the Pelican Book Group released Bernsen's debut novel. The book, Rust: the Novel, is an adaptation of Bernsen's 2010 feature film, Rust, in...
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    Noli Me Tángere (Latin for "Touch Me Not") is a novel by Filipino writer and activist José Rizal and was published during the Spanish colonial period...
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    with the makers of Nosferatu, an unauthorized film based on her husband's novel Dracula. The daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel James Balcombe of 1 Marino Crescent...
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  • British spy thriller television series based on the Slough House series of novels by Mick Herron. The series, Slow Horses, premiered on Apple TV+ on 1 April...
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    [ˈdoktər ʐɨˈvaɡə]) is a novel by Russian poet, author and composer Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957 in Italy. The novel is named after its protagonist...
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    Dead Souls (category 1842 Russian novels)
    души) is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. The novel chronicles...
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    Pride and Prejudice is the second novel by English author Jane Austen, published in 1813. A novel of manners, it follows the character development of...
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