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Hi all I wondered if anyone could help with a query on a 'classic' book series, particularly The Great Writers Library, a collection from Marshall Cavendish. They seem to be mostly classic authors(Kipling, Shakespeare, Hemingway, Twain...). The set of 52 leather bound books was recently gifted to my wife and I, however neither of us have any experience with these things and the internet is offering limited information. The cover of each books looks similar to this: https://goo.gl/images/rpwrJe They were published in the 1980's, from the ones I've seen. I'll get a pic shortly of the spines for the set. If anyone has any information on the series, whether it's a well recognised collection, or if there's a market for such things today, I'd be most grateful. Cheers!
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I'm not sure if this should go here or in crime, but they were written long enough ago and have an iconic enough standing that I'm going to chance it and put them here. Feel free to move me if I am in the wrong! I started reading the first Tom Ripley novel the other day and due to various commitments am only half-way through, but I am enjoying it much more than I expected. Despite, or perhaps because of, the remote tone of the novel, which offers only a very thin internal narrative from the main character, I find it very engaging, a unique and unexpected portrait of a sociopath. Ripley is far from the confident con-man I was expecting from what I knew of the story, but is instead a refreshing mixture of a man both daring and riddled with self-doubt. The books were written long enough ago that the style is no longer in line with those common to modern crime or thriller novels, but the enigmatic psychological portrait is definitely keeping me engaged despite any stylistic reservations I have! Has anyone else read the books? What do you think in general of Highsmith's writing, or her main character?
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Why does the Penguin Classic version of Dracula state that Henry Irving died in Sheffield in the "Bram Soker: A Chronology section"? When the internet says it's in Bradford. Who's right ?
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Perhaps you guys can give me some pointers. I'm gonna have my first little one in a few month, and I want to start early with a little library. Can't get them hooked too early. Since the little one is supposed to be brought up bilingual, I want to include some English picture book classics too. But I can barely think of any. Dr. Seuss obviously, and the very hungry caterpillar, but that's about all I know. So what would you consider must-haves? Which do you remember fondly from your childhood?
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The portrait of Dorian Gray Headless horseman The thorn birds Gone with the wind (the 2nd book.Loved the 1st one) Memoirs of a geisha The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Chocolat (I've already read The Lollipop Shoes because i didn't know it was the sequel) Which one is the best in your opinion ? -
I just completed reading Christie's Partners In Crime - a collection of 14 short-stories with Tommy and Tuppence as the leads. While the stories are not her best ones, it is a light-hearted read, with each short-story mimicking the style of a famous fictional detective of the period - 1920s. I was tempted to read the originals, and picked up the list from this wiki link. This is the list of the 14 authors and their detectives (and in some cases the exact book alluded to): Herbert George Jenkins - detective Malcolm Sage (1921) R. Austin Freeman - Dr Thorndyke Valentine Williams - detective brothers Francis and Desmond Okewood (The Man with the Clubfoot : 1918) Isabel Ostrander - detectives Tommy McCarty and Denis Riordan (The Clue in the Air : 1917) Arthur Conan Doyle's - Sherlock Holmes (The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax : 1911) Clinton H. Stagg - the blind detective Thornley Colton G. K. Chesterton - Father Brown Edgar Wallace Baroness Orczy - Polly Burton and Bill Owen (The Old Man in the Corner : 1909) A. E. W. Mason - French detective Inspector Hanaud Freeman Wills Crofts - detective Inspector Joseph French Anthony Berkeley - detective Roger Sherringham H. C. Bailey - detectives Dr. Reginald Fortune and Superintendent Bell Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot (The Big Four) Most of them seem to be available as free e-books on the internet - which makes it easy. I hope to enjoy this challenge, and re-visit "Partners In Crime", to fully appreciate the parodies. If you could make any sense of this, and it interests you, do join in!
