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The story won several awards, including First Prize in the Maclean's fiction contest, and became the basis for Execution. McDougall wrote Execution between 1952 and 1957, keeping copious notes on its development that are now preserved in the McDougall Papers at the Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Libraries.
Execution is a 1958 war novel by Canadian novelist and Second World War veteran Colin McDougall (1917–1984). Although it won McDougall the 1958 Governor General's Award for English-language fiction , it was his only novel, and after publishing it to wide acclaim he retreated into a quiet life as Registrar of McGill University in Montreal .
Night is the first in a trilogy—Night, Dawn, Day—marking Wiesel's transition during and after the Holocaust from darkness to light, according to the Jewish tradition of beginning a new day at nightfall. "In Night," he said, "I wanted to show the end, the finality of the event. Everything came to an end—man, history, literature, religion, God.
The following story is recorded in the 13th-century halakhic work Or Zarua, which attributes it to Ephraim of Bonn (a compiler of Jewish martyrologies, died ca. 1200): [5]. I found in a manuscript written by Rabbi Ephraim of Bonn that Rabbi Amnon of Mainz wrote Untanneh Tokef about the terrible event which befell him, and these are his words: "It happened to Rabbi Amnon of Mainz, who was the ...
A 1947 Harold Halma photograph used to promote the book showed a reclining Capote gazing fiercely into the camera. Gerald Clarke, in Capote: A Biography (1988), wrote, "The famous photograph: Harold Halma's picture on the dustjacket of Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) caused as much comment and controversy as the prose inside. Truman claimed ...
Fire Lash [15] Mike Newton 48 June: Dead Center Mel Odom 211: July: Steel Claws [16] Mike Newton 212: August: Ride the Beast [17] Mike Newton 49 August: Tooth and Claw Mike McQuay 213: September: Blood Harvest Mel Odom 214: October: Fission Fury David North 50 October: Red Heat Jerry VanCook 215: November: Fire Hammer Tim Somheil 216: December ...
The Night Fire is the 33rd novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the twenty-second novel featuring Los Angeles Police Department detective Harry Bosch. It is the third to feature Renee Ballard. The book was published by Little, Brown and Company in 2019.
Marie Manning, an image from the contemporary popular press Marie Manning in The Chronicles of Newgate. Marie Manning (née de Roux; c. 1821 – 13 November 1849) [1] was a Swiss domestic servant who was hanged on the roof of London's Horsemonger Lane Gaol on 13 November 1849, after she and her husband were convicted of the murder of her lover, Patrick O'Connor, in the case that became known ...