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The Cider House Rules (1985) is a novel by American writer John Irving, a Bildungsroman that was later adapted into a 1999 film and a stage play by Peter Parnell.The story, set in the pre– and post–World War II era, tells of a young man, Homer Wells, growing up under the guidance of Dr. Wilbur Larch, an obstetrician and abortion provider.
That evening, the house recites to the absent hostess a random selection by her favorite poet, "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Sara Teasdale. A windstorm blows a tree branch through a window in the kitchen, starting a fire. The house's systems desperately attempt to put out the fire, but the doomed home burns to the ground in a night.
And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, who described it as the most difficult of her books to write. [2] It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1939, as Ten Little Niggers, [3] after an 1869 minstrel song that serves as a major plot element.
The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S.E. Hinton published in 1967 by Viking Press. The book details the conflict between two rival gangs of White Americans divided by their socioeconomic status: the working-class "Greasers" and the upper-middle-class "Socs" (pronounced / ˈsoʊʃɪz / —short for Socials ).
1408 (short story) " 1408 " is a short story by Stephen King. It was first published in the audiobook collection Blood and Smoke, released in 1999. [ 1] In 2002, "1408" was collected in written form in King's Everything's Eventual. [ 1] In the introduction to the story, King says that "1408" is his version of what he calls the "Ghostly Room at ...
Lolita. Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov that addresses the controversial subject of hebephilia. The protagonist is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert. He describes his obsession with a 12-year-old "nymphet", Dolores Haze, whom he ...
Lord Edgware Dies. Peril at End House is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by the Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1932 [ 1] and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in March of the same year. [ 2] The US edition retailed at $ 2.00 [ 1] and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6).
The Russia House is a spy novel by British writer John le Carré published in 1989. The title refers to the nickname given to the portion of the British Secret Intelligence Service that was devoted to spying on the Soviet Union. A film based on the novel was released in 1990 starring Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer, and directed by Fred ...