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"A Vendetta" (French: Une vendetta) is a short story by French writer Guy de Maupassant (1799-1893), first published in 1824 in the newspaper Le Gaulois, and included in his 1885 collection Contes du jour et de la nuit (Tales of Day and Night).
Title page of an early edition of Vendetta.. Vendetta!, or The Story of One Forgotten is an 1886 romance by Marie Corelli.Corelli's second novel, it tells the story of an Italian count who, after being mistakenly declared dead, returns home to find his wife romantically involved with his best friend and seeks revenge on them both.
La Vendetta (The Vendetta) is a novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac. It is the eighth of the Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes of Private Life) in La Comédie humaine. The novel was first published in 1830 by Mame et Delaunay-Vallée. In 1842 it appeared in the first Furne edition of La Comédie humaine.
Richard Gambino grew up in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, New York; his father was an Italian immigrant. [1] He earned a Ph.D. in philosophy at New York University. [2]In 1973, Gambino founded the Italian-American Studies program at CUNY/Queens College. [3]
Others have dismissed the book on grounds that Booker is too rigid in fitting works of art to the plot types above. For example, novelist and literary critic Adam Mars-Jones wrote, "[Booker] sets up criteria for art, and ends up condemning Rigoletto , The Cherry Orchard , Wagner , Proust , Joyce , Kafka and Lawrence —the list goes on—while ...
Vendetta is a 1990 novel by Michael Dibdin, and is the second book in the popular Aurelio Zen series. [1]Zen has earned a return to the fold of actual police work, but now officials in a high government ministry are desperate to finger someone—anyone—for the murder of an eccentric billionaire, whose corrupt dealings have enriched some of the most exalted figures in Italian politics.
Evey Hammond is a fictional character of the comic book series V for Vendetta, created by Alan Moore, David Lloyd, and Tony Weare. She becomes involved in V's life when he rescues her from a gang of London's secret police, ultimately succeeding him as V. Evey made her first live appearance in the 2005 film V for Vendetta played by Natalie Portman.
Donald Eugene Pendleton (December 12, 1927 – October 23, 1995) was an American author of fiction and non-fiction books, best known for his creation of the fictional character Mack Bolan, which have sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide since the character's 1969 debut. Since 1980 the Bolan adventure-espionage books were written by ...