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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.
Mrs. Hudson, the landlady of Sherlock Holmes, was a long-suffering woman. Not only was her first-floor flat invaded at all hours by throngs of singular and often undesirable characters but her remarkable lodger showed an eccentricity and irregularity in his life which must have sorely tried her patience.
A landlady is a female landlord. Landlady or The Landlady may also refer to: The Landlady, an 1847 story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky "The Landlady" (short story), a 1959 story by Roald Dahl; Bariwali (The Landlady), a 2000 Indian Bengali-language film "Landlady", a 2017 song by U2 from Songs of Experience
I: Landlady's Daughter") US: Pictorial Review, May 1916 (as "A Man of Means: The Episode of the Landlady's Daughter") Plot. Roland Bleke, an ordinary young man, is a clerk in a seed-merchant’s office in the town of Bury St. Edwards. Roland inadvertently got engaged to his landlady's daughter, Muriel Coppin, and does not want to marry her.
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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 .
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 ...