Extraordinary Women is Compton Mackenzie's twentieth novel published in 1928. It is a satire set on the island of Sirene, a fictionalized version of the...
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Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire (英雄王、武を極めるため転生す ~そして、世界最強の見習い騎士♀~, Eiyū-Ō, Bu o Kiwameru Tame Tensei-Su: Soshite, Sekai...
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Percival Everett (redirect from The Water Cure (Everett novel))
novels Erasure (2001), I Am Not Sidney Poitier (2009), and The Trees (2021), which was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, as was his 2024 novel James...
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Booker Prize and the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction. The novel consists of two parallel narratives about two fictional women. One is about the disappeared...
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century is the third volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, written by Alan Moore and illustrated...
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ˈmœʁdɐs] ) is a 1985 literary historical fantasy novel by German writer Patrick Süskind. The novel explores the sense of smell and its relationship with...
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Lisa Cornick notes that the novel is an example of "premise fiction," wherein Haushofer introduces a "single extraordinary premise by revising the realism...
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by Ann Patchett: Fifty-seven men—and one extraordinary woman—are held hostage by guerrillas in the latest novel by the author of The Magician's Assistant"...
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young women, who derived from it the courage to call themselves artists and 'bachelor girls,' to smoke cigarettes and drink Chianti." The novel has been...
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Retrieved August 28, 2022. Felton, Mark (2010). The Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese. Pen & Sword Military. ISBN 9781848840485...
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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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readable novel", as well as in Financiele Dagblad's assessment that "Donna Tartt is an extraordinary writer and Het puttertje is a beautiful and rich novel."...
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Kate Atkinson (writer) (category 20th-century English women writers)
is an English writer of novels, plays and short stories. She has written historical novels, detective novels and family novels, incorporating postmodern...
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The Giver of Stars (category Novels set in Kentucky)
Stars is the story of five extraordinary women and their journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond. The women deliver library books to people...
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Anthony Hyde of The Washington Post wrote, The Last Ship is "An extraordinary novel of men at war" and a "superb portrait of naval command". John R....
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University Press, 1982. Stefan Buczacki, My Darling Mr Asquith: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Venetia Stanley. Cato and Clarke, 2016. "When Asquith’s...
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Symons wrote in 1993 that "the shock effect [of the novel] has gone," although "it remains an extraordinary document." A 2009 essay on the book by Ewan Morrison...
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Jane Eyre (redirect from Jane Eyre (novel))
fill the eyes with tears." A review in The Era praised the novel, calling it "an extraordinary book", observing that "there is much to ponder over, rejoice...
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The Lost Bookshop (category 2023 Irish novels)
benign will of its own and extraordinary magical powers; and eventually the enigma of the lost bookshop is resolved. The novel was shortlisted for page-turner...
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period was novel for the Ottoman Empire but not without precedent since the Seljuk rulers, the predecessors to the Ottomans, often let noble women play an...
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A Little Life (category 2015 American novels)
Nicole Lee described Yanagihara's novel as "a witness to human suffering pushed to its limits, drawn in extraordinary detail by incantatory prose". She...
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Kiss the Girls (1997 film) (category Films based on American novels)
screenplay by David Klass is based on James Patterson's best-selling 1995 novel of the same name. A sequel titled Along Came a Spider was released in 2001...
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Mo Hayder (redirect from Gone (Mo Hayder novel))
Are You Being Served? She went on to write novels as Mo Hayder. She won an Edgar Award in 2012. Her novels have sold more than 6.5 million copies, as...
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Kane and Abel is a 1979 novel by British author Jeffrey Archer. Released in the United Kingdom in 1979 and in the United States in February 1980, the...
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Sabbath's Theater (redirect from Sabbath’s Theater (novel))
Sabbath's Theater is a novel by Philip Roth about the exploits of 64-year-old Mickey Sabbath. It won the 1995 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. The...
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (French: Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec) is a gaslamp fantasy comic book series first...
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powerful to erase the powerless", concluding that the novel and its translation are "extraordinary masterclass in how to do things with words and the lacunae...
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Pudd'nhead Wilson (redirect from Those Extraordinary Twins)
He planned for them to be the central characters of a novel to be titled Those Extraordinary Twins. During the writing process, however, Twain realized...
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An Extraordinary Union is a 2017 romance novel by American author Alyssa Cole. It was received favorably by critics and named to multiple best-of lists...
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Northanger Abbey (redirect from Northanger Abbey (novel))
Northanger Abbey (/ˈnɔːrθæŋər/ NOR-thang-ər) is a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic novels written by the English author Jane Austen. Although the title...
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