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))
story within a story of Ralph, a baby who chooses not to speak but has extraordinary muscle control and an IQ nearing 500. He writes notes to his mother...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lives of the Mayfair Witches (redirect from Taltos (Rice novel))
Lives of the Mayfair Witches is a trilogy of supernatural horror/fantasy novels by American novelist Anne Rice. It centers on a family of witches whose...
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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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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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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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Juliet E. McKenna (category English women novelists)
Juliet E. McKenna (born 1965) is a British fantasy author. Her novels mostly form part of series, five series as of 2022. McKenna was born in Lincolnshire...
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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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Martha Gellhorn (category 20th-century American women writers)
A Novel Hardy Dorman, Angelia (2012). Martha Gellhorn: Myth, Motif and Remembrance. Mackrell, Judith (2021). Going with the Boys: Six Extraordinary Women...
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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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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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Dracula (redirect from Dracula (novel))
Dracula is a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker, published on 26 May 1897. An epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries...
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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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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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Inverted World (redirect from The Inverted World (novel))
some editions) is a 1974 science fiction novel by British writer Christopher Priest (1943–2024). The novel's basic premise was first used in the short...
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Judith Rossner (redirect from His Little Women)
credentials," but her three novels had not sold well. Following Any Minute I Can Split, Rossner began a novel about two women who marry conjoined twins...
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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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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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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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