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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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The plot summary reads like a short version of the Wikipedia article on the fire, Great Chicago Fire. More strangely, this text book is used as a source in that Wikipedia article, for the point about the sidewalks and many streets being made of wood, as well as the homes being built of wood. --Prairieplant 23:57, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
144 years ago, the Great Fire of Chicago took over the city, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
David is very curious about Gawain's fire tear in this book and uses G'reth to try to find out more about it. Suzanna Martindale (Zanna) – Zanna is a Goth college student that falls in love with David and knows a great deal about dragons. She is a descendant of Gwendolen, and a girl with the markings of a sibyl (the Mark of Oomara).