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The Great Fire (2003) is a novel by the Australian author Shirley Hazzard. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction [ 1 ] and a Miles Franklin literary award (2004). The novel was Hazzard's first since The Transit of Venus , published in 1980.
The Great Fire is a story for children and young adults, written by Jim Murphy about the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which caused the destruction of most of the city of Chicago. The Great Fire was a Newbery Medal honor book in 1996.
More recent cultural works featuring the Great Fire include the 1841 novel Old St. Paul's [167] (and the 1914 film adaptation), [168] the 2006 novel Forged in the Fire, [169] the 2014 television drama The Great Fire, [170] and the musical Bumblescratch, which was performed as part of the commemorations of the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire ...
With season 5 of ‘The Crown’ about to debut on Netflix, here is the story behind the great fire at Queen Elizabeth II's beloved Windsor Castle in 1992.
Here, 25 of the best classic winter books to read by the fire this winter: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino's postmodernist novel is a masterfully crafted puzzle.
The Great Fire of London is a novel by the English author Peter Ackroyd.. Published in 1982, it is Ackroyd's first novel. It established themes which Ackroyd returns to again and again in his fiction: [citation needed] London, English literature and the intertwining (and blurring) of literary, historical and contemporary events.
$28.99 at amazon.com. Mothers and Sons, by Adam Haslett This beautifully written novel about the power of stories to redeem the past and reclaim the future is itself a tapestry of such narratives.
The Transit of Venus won the 1980 National Book Critics Circle Award [18] and was included in The Australian Collection, a compendium of Australia's greatest books. [19] The Great Fire garnered the 2003 National Book Award, [4] the 2004 Miles Franklin Award, and the 2005 William Dean Howells Medal; it was also shortlisted for the Orange Prize ...