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Crispin: The Cross of Lead is a 2002 children's novel written by Avi. It was the winner of the 2003 Newbery Medal . [ 2 ] Its sequel, Crispin: At the Edge of the World , was released in 2006.
Crispin – The title character. He is a 13-year-old peasant boy, living in rural England in the year 1377. Bear (Orson Hrothgar) – A traveling jester and entertainer who takes Crispin and eventually Troth under his wing. He is also Crispin's teacher. Troth – A girl with a cleft lip who lives with Aude. She joins with Bear and Crispin in ...
He has a monkey named Schim. Crispin promises to take this boy with him to Iceland and helps him escape the thieves. Crispin – The title character. He is a 13-year-old peasant boy, living in rural England in the year 1377. He is a brave and courageous boy. Troth – A girl with a cleft lip who travels with Crispin. The word troth means to ...
Swan Song is a 1947 detective novel by the British writer Edmund Crispin, the fourth in his series featuring the Oxford Don and amateur detective Gervase Fen. [1] It was the first in a new three-book contract the author has signed with his publishers. It received a mixed review from critics. [2]
The Glimpses of the Moon is a 1977 detective novel by the British writer Edmund Crispin. [1] It was the ninth and last novel in his series featuring Gervase Fen, an Oxford professor and amateur detective. Written from the 1960s onwards [2] on publication it was the first novel in the series to be released since The Long Divorce in 1951.
Crispin's Times obituary of 1978 detected within The Case of the Gilded Fly the influence of his favourite authors John Dickson Carr, Gladys Mitchell and Michael Innes together with – in his own words – "a dash of Evelyn Waugh". The obituarist placed the novel within the "highly improbable but wholly delightful" academic detective genre in ...
The book provided the source for the famous merry-go-round sequence at the climax of Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train. [2] All the major elements of the scene – the two men struggling, the accidentally shot attendant, the out-of-control merry-go-round, and the crawling under the moving merry-go-round to disable it – are present in Crispin's novel, [3] though he received no screen ...
Crispin rival de son maître, a one-act farce by Alain-René Lesage that was first produced in 1707; Order of the Knights of St. Crispin, American labor union of shoeworkers; Saint Crispin's Day, the feast day of the Christian saints Crispin and Crispinian; St Crispin Street Fair, annual fun fair held in town centre streets of Northampton, England