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George Ronald Rougier. . . ( m. 1925) . Georgette Heyer ( / ˈheɪ.ər /; 16 August 1902 – 4 July 1974) was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Regency romance and detective fiction genres. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story conceived for her ailing younger brother into the novel The Black Moth.
A best-selling author, Heyer's writing career saw her produce works from a variety of genres; in total she published 32 novels in the romance genre, 6 historical novels, 4 contemporary novels, and 12 in the detective fiction genre. [ 1][ 2] Born in Wimbledon, London, the nineteen-year-old Heyer published her first novel, The Black Moth, in 1921 ...
The Great Books (second edition) Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952, by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., to present the great books in 54 volumes. The original editors had three criteria for including a book in the series drawn from Western Civilization: the book must be ...
0-7434-3167-7. Followed by. A Murder of Quality. Call for the Dead is John le Carré 's first novel, published in 1961. It introduces George Smiley, the most famous of le Carré's recurring characters, in a story about East German spies inside Great Britain. [ 1] It also introduces a fictional version of British Intelligence, called "the Circus ...
Homer launches bottle rockets at George's window and George puts up a banner reading "Two Bad Neighbors". Next, Homer and Bart use cardboard likenesses of George's sons, George Jr. and Jeb, to lure him out of the house, where they glue a clown wig to his head. George retaliates by destroying the Simpsons' lawn with his car.
How to Read a Book is a book by the American philosopher Mortimer J. Adler. Originally published in 1940, it was heavily revised for a 1972 edition, co-authored by Adler with editor Charles Van Doren. The 1972 revision gives guidelines for critically reading good and great books of any tradition. In addition, it deals with genres (including ...
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 ...
978-1338843415. Melissa, previously published as George until April 2022, is a children's novel about a young transgender girl written by American author Alex Gino. [ 1][ 2] The novel tells the story of Melissa, a fourth-grade girl who is struggling to be herself to the rest of the world. The rest of the world sees Melissa as George, a boy. [ 3]