Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.39 | Fiction literature | 9 September 2010
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A Pocket Full of Rye is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 9, 1953 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The book features her detective Miss Marple.
Like several of Christie’s novels (e.g. Hickory Dickory Dock, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe) the title and substantial parts of the plot reference a nursery rhyme, in this case, Sing a Song of Sixpence.
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Fiction literature | 9 September 2010
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Critical essays discuss the works of major dramatists of the Elizabethan age in this comprehensive volume. This title, Elizabethan Drama, part of Chelsea House Publishers' Period Studies series, features a selection of critical essays analyzing the writers and works that defined the Elizabethan era. In addition to a chronology of the important cultural, literary, and politcal events that shaped this period, this text includes an introduction and editor's note written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
Mid-grade ghost story Shaya Solen's walk home from school takes her past an eerie pond, where one day she finds an old bracelet made of raven feathers. Soon, strange events begin to unfold: a shadowy figure glimpsed across the water, omnious nightmares haunting Shaya, and rumours of a witch who once drowned in the pond. With the discovery of a strange family connection to the witch, Shaya is drawn in a mystery that must be solved before the approaching Halloween, which is the thirteenth anniversary of the witch's death, and Shaya's birthday.