Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 9780312349387
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Agatha Christie is the world's most popular writer in modern times and her books have only been outsold by the Bible and Shakespeare. Best remembered for such classic crime novels as Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There Were None, and Death on the Nile, her works have been cherished by generations of readers. Christie, however, was also a master of the shorter crime story and this volume collects some of her finest short stories. Each of these thirty-nine stories features one of Christie's famous detectives - Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, Parker Pyne, and Harley Quin - in some of their most baffling and intriguing cases, as these ingenious Christie tales show how satisfying and compelling the crime short story can be.
Masterpieces in Miniature: The Detectives
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 9780312349387
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Agatha Christie is the world's most popular writer in modern times and her books have only been outsold by the Bible and Shakespeare. Best remembered for such classic crime novels as Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There Were None, and Death on the Nile, her works have been cherished by generations of readers. Christie, however, was also a master of the shorter crime story and this volume collects some of her finest short stories. Each of these thirty-nine stories features one of Christie's famous detectives - Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, Parker Pyne, and Harley Quin - in some of their most baffling and intriguing cases, as these ingenious Christie tales show how satisfying and compelling the crime short story can be.
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 9780312349387
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Agatha Christie is the world's most popular writer in modern times and her books have only been outsold by the Bible and Shakespeare. Best remembered for such classic crime novels as Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There Were None, and Death on the Nile, her works have been cherished by generations of readers. Christie, however, was also a master of the shorter crime story and this volume collects some of her finest short stories. Each of these thirty-nine stories features one of Christie's famous detectives - Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, Parker Pyne, and Harley Quin - in some of their most baffling and intriguing cases, as these ingenious Christie tales show how satisfying and compelling the crime short story can be.
Masterpieces in Miniature
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780739460177
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Short stories featuring Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, Parker Pyne, and Harley Quin, four fictitious detectives created by Agatha Christie.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780739460177
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Short stories featuring Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, Parker Pyne, and Harley Quin, four fictitious detectives created by Agatha Christie.
Masterpieces in Miniature
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780739460177
Category : Pyne, Parker (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780739460177
Category : Pyne, Parker (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
Between the Covers
Author: Margo Hammond
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0786727004
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
With wit and wisdom, the bibliophile's Ebert & Roeper recommend more than 600 books based on what women care about most. Between the Covers is organized around their wide-ranging curiosity—about themselves, friends and family, the larger world—and their concerns, from health to sex to managing their finances. With such sections as “Babes We Love” (Role Models Real and Imagined), “The Babe Inside” (Focusing on Body and Soul), and “Love, Sex & Second Chances,” this unique collection of fiction and nonfiction reflects how women really read.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0786727004
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
With wit and wisdom, the bibliophile's Ebert & Roeper recommend more than 600 books based on what women care about most. Between the Covers is organized around their wide-ranging curiosity—about themselves, friends and family, the larger world—and their concerns, from health to sex to managing their finances. With such sections as “Babes We Love” (Role Models Real and Imagined), “The Babe Inside” (Focusing on Body and Soul), and “Love, Sex & Second Chances,” this unique collection of fiction and nonfiction reflects how women really read.
Cassette Books
Author: Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Talking books
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Talking books
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The Complete Short Stories
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780007284207
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A boxed set of three bumper volumes containing every Agatha Christie story published in her UK books - a total of 159 stories, including a few rarities exclusive to these volumes.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780007284207
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A boxed set of three bumper volumes containing every Agatha Christie story published in her UK books - a total of 159 stories, including a few rarities exclusive to these volumes.
Strange Jest: A Miss Marple Short Story
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007452039
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007452039
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.
Art by Women in Florence
Author: Jane Fortune
Publisher: B'gruppo
ISBN: 9788897696001
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Publisher: B'gruppo
ISBN: 9788897696001
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Somewhere in the Night
Author: Nicholas Christopher
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439137617
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Film noir is more than a cinematic genre. It is an essential aspect of American culture. Along with the cowboy of the Wild West, the denizen of the film noir city is at the very center of our mythological iconography. Described as the style of an anxious victor, film noir began during the post-war period, a strange time of hope and optimism mixed with fear and even paranoia. The shadow of this rich and powerful cinematic style can now be seen in virtually every artistic medium. The spectacular success of recent neo-film noirs is only the tip of an iceberg. In the dead-on, nocturnal jazz of Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, the chilled urban landscapes of Edward Hopper, and postwar literary fiction from Nelson Algren and William S. Burroughs to pulp masters like Horace McCoy, we find an unsettling recognition of the dark hollowness beneath the surface of the American Dream. Acclaimed novelist and poet Nicholas Christopher explores the cultural identity of film noir in a seamless, elegant, and enchanting work of literary prose. Examining virtually the entire catalogue of film noir, Christopher identifies the central motif as the urban labyrinth, a place infested with psychosis, anxiety, and existential dread in which the noir hero embarks on a dangerously illuminating quest. With acute sensitivity, he shows how technical devices such as lighting, voice over, and editing tempo are deployed to create the film noir world. Somewhere in the Night guides us through the architecture of this imaginary world, be it shot in New York or Los Angeles, relating its elements to the ancient cultural archetypes that prefigure it. Finally, Christopher builds an explanation of why film noir not only lives on but is currently enjoying a renaissance. Somewhere in the Night can be appreciated as a lucid introduction to a fundamental style of American culture, and also as a guide to film noir's heyday. Ultimately, though, as the work of a bold talent adeptly manipulating poetic cadence and metaphor, it is itself a superb aesthetic artifact.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439137617
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Film noir is more than a cinematic genre. It is an essential aspect of American culture. Along with the cowboy of the Wild West, the denizen of the film noir city is at the very center of our mythological iconography. Described as the style of an anxious victor, film noir began during the post-war period, a strange time of hope and optimism mixed with fear and even paranoia. The shadow of this rich and powerful cinematic style can now be seen in virtually every artistic medium. The spectacular success of recent neo-film noirs is only the tip of an iceberg. In the dead-on, nocturnal jazz of Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, the chilled urban landscapes of Edward Hopper, and postwar literary fiction from Nelson Algren and William S. Burroughs to pulp masters like Horace McCoy, we find an unsettling recognition of the dark hollowness beneath the surface of the American Dream. Acclaimed novelist and poet Nicholas Christopher explores the cultural identity of film noir in a seamless, elegant, and enchanting work of literary prose. Examining virtually the entire catalogue of film noir, Christopher identifies the central motif as the urban labyrinth, a place infested with psychosis, anxiety, and existential dread in which the noir hero embarks on a dangerously illuminating quest. With acute sensitivity, he shows how technical devices such as lighting, voice over, and editing tempo are deployed to create the film noir world. Somewhere in the Night guides us through the architecture of this imaginary world, be it shot in New York or Los Angeles, relating its elements to the ancient cultural archetypes that prefigure it. Finally, Christopher builds an explanation of why film noir not only lives on but is currently enjoying a renaissance. Somewhere in the Night can be appreciated as a lucid introduction to a fundamental style of American culture, and also as a guide to film noir's heyday. Ultimately, though, as the work of a bold talent adeptly manipulating poetic cadence and metaphor, it is itself a superb aesthetic artifact.
Talking Book Topics
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Talking books
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Talking books
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description