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My Lady Love, My Dove" is a short story by British writer Roald Dahl, originally published in The New Yorker in April 1952. [1] It later appeared in the collection Someone Like You (1953). [ 2 ] The story concerns a wealthy middle-aged couple who entertain a younger couple for dinner and games of Bridge , which they all play at a high level.
Gooey butter cake is generally served as a type of coffee cake and not as a formal dessert cake. There are two distinct variants of the cake: the original St. Louis, MO Bakers' gooey butter and a cream cheese and commercial yellow cake mix variant. The original St. Louis, MO Bakers' gooey butter is believed to have originated in the 1930s.
The two works were published together as a book in 1961, having originally appeared in The New Yorker in 1955 and 1957 respectively. The book focuses on siblings Franny and Zooey, the two youngest members of the Glass family, which was a frequent focus of Salinger's writings. Franny tells the story of Franny Glass, Zooey's sister, a college ...
The book [12] opens with the narrator telling readers about a little old woman nicknamed "The Lupine Lady" who "lives in a small house overlooking the sea." The story of her Great Aunt, Miss Rumphius, begins to unfold, starting from when her aunt was just a little girl named Alice. Miss Rumphius and her Grandfather; illustrated by Barbara Cooney.
In the context of Wilder's books, the "Nellie Oleson" here is the one from On the Banks of Plum Creek, although her character was a conflation of three girls Wilder knew: Nellie Owens in Plum Creek, Genevieve Masters in De Smet and and Stella Gilbert in De Smet. In reality, she never saw the "Nellie" from Plum Creek again after her family left ...
Mrs. Pepperpot (Norwegian: Teskjekjerringa, translation: the teaspoon lady) is a fictional character in a series of children's books created by the Norwegian author Alf Prøysen. The first book in the series was printed in 1956 in Sweden and in Norway from 1957. [1] [2]
"Mrs. Todd's Shortcut" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the May 1984 issue of Redbook magazine, and collected in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew. Plot summary [ edit ]
The setting for Crazy Lady! is a small, working-class neighborhood in northern Baltimore, Maryland named Tenley Heights. The neighborhood consists mainly of brick row houses and Memorial Stadium is its centerpiece. The story, which begins sometime around 1983 or 1984, is told in flashback form by the protagonist, Vernon Dibbs.