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"The Landlady" is a short horror story by Roald Dahl. It initially appeared in The New Yorker , as did other short stories that would later be reprinted in the 1960 anthology, Kiss Kiss . [ 1 ]
The Landlady (Russian: Хозяйка, romanized: Khozayka) is a novella by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, written and published in 1847.Set in Saint Petersburg, it tells of an abstracted young man, Vasily Mikhailovich Ordynov, and his obsessive love for Katerina, the wife of a dismal husband whom Ordynov perceives as a malignant fortune-teller or mystic.
Mark Tapley, the good-humoured employee of the Blue Dragon Inn and suitor of Mrs Lupin, the landlady of the inn, leaves to find work that might be more of a credit to his character: that is, work sufficiently miserable that his cheerfulness will be more of a credit to him. He eventually joins young Martin Chuzzlewit on his trip to the United ...
Tales of the City (1978) is the first book in the Tales of the City series by American novelist Armistead Maupin, originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle.Set in 1970s San Francisco, it follows the residents of a small apartment complex at 28 Barbary Lane, including the eccentric landlady, Anna Madrigal.
Mary Pearl receives a note from her recently deceased husband, William, a man given to emotional abuse due to his controlling nature. The letter tells how Landy, a doctor, approached William about his cancer six weeks before William's death.
Her story begins with a stranger, Owen Legate, arriving in the small town of Dodson and making his way to the Starr boarding house, where a loud birthday party is in progress for the landlady, Mrs. Hazel "Mama" Starr. He meets Willie, the youngest daughter of the house, and rents a room for the week, while remaining mysterious about his motives ...
The Notorious Landlady is a 1962 American comedy mystery film starring Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, and Fred Astaire. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The film was directed by Richard Quine , with a script by Blake Edwards and Larry Gelbart based on the short story "The Notorious Tenant" by Margery Sharp .
Then her landlady turns up and gives her a letter hoping that it would be the rent, but it is note from an employment agency, saying they will get back to her. The landlady walks out with the letter. Then Miss Moss goes for a walk in the streets of London; she sees a milkboy; she walks into a café where a waitress is saying to the cashier that ...