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Patrick McGrath in The Guardian praises Jordan's depiction of Dublin characters and places, particularly Kevin's parents "These familial scenes are deftly, warmly done, and here the novel breathes with life" but he is less impressed by the more gothic aspects of the story "The problem with Mistaken is a doom-laden cloud of insinuation that hovers over the story and saps its vitality...
In his preface to Yayati, Khandekar states that he was drawn to the original story from the Mahabharata at multiple levels, and for many reasons. [1] The resulting novel is a modern retelling of the story of the Hindu king, who enjoyed all the pleasures of the flesh for a millennium only to realise how empty of meaning was his pursuit of desire.
Sadasiva wrote over 425 books in various languages and translated books into Telugu from Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit, Marathi, Persian, English and others. He was instrumental in including a lesson on Girijan leader Komaram Bheem in the school syllabus in Andhra Pradesh. Some of his works include Urdu Sahithya charitra, Amzad Rubayilu ...
Philip Aegidius Walshe (actually Montgomery Carmichael), The Life of John William Walshe, F.S.A., London, Burns & Oates, (1901); New York, E. P. Dutton (1902). This book was presented as a son’s story of his father’s life in Italy as “a profound mystic and student of everything relating to St. Francis of Assisi,” but the son, the father and the memoir were all invented by Montgomery ...
Jonathan Lee (born 24 April 1981) is a British writer known for his novels Who Is Mr Satoshi?, Joy, High Dive, and The Great Mistake. Jonathan Lee was born in Surrey, England in 1981, and graduated from the University of Bristol with a First in English Literature. [1] He was working as a solicitor when he wrote his debut novel Who Is Mr ...
Grave Mistake is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the thirtieth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1978. The plot concerns the supposed suicide of a wealthy widow in a chic rest spa, and involves a rare and famous postage stamp .
The story follows English professor Adam Snell as he realizes that someone is trying to kill both him and his book, Sovrana Sostrata, a book about truth.As a metafiction work the novel parodies literary forms—each chapter is told in a different style ranging from traditional linear drama, to newspaper reports, to a playwright's script, to a carefully annotated scholarly work from the 19th ...
The Ask narrates the story of middle-aged schlemiel Milo Burke, a solicitor of donations in the development office of the third-rate college he dubs ‘the Mediocre University at New York City’. Early in the text, Milo is fired for impugning the artistic talent of a self-entitled daughter of a wealthy donor to the university, and for having ...