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"From award-winning biographer Claire Harman, [this book] is the fascinating story of a Victorian-era murder that rocked literary London, leading Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, and Queen Victoria herself to wonder: Can a novel kill? Early in the morning of May 6, 1840, on a highly respectable Mayfair street, a footman answered the door to a panic-stricken maid from a nearby house. Her elderly master, Lord William Russell, was lying in bed with...
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Murder-a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange obsession. But where did this fixation develop? And what does it tell us about ourselves?
Our fascination with crimes like these became a form of national entertainment, inspiring novels and plays, prose and paintings, poetry and true-crime journalism. At a point during the birth of the modern era, murder entered the popular psyche, and...
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Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 77
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An examination and study of the novel Native son and why it holds a singular position in American literature.
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Introduction / Kenneth Kinnamon -- Giving Bigger a Voice: The Politics of Narrative in Native Son /. John M. Reilly -- Native Sons and Foreign Daughter / Trudier Harris -- Richard Wright and the Dynamics of Place in Afro-American Literature / Houston A. Baker, Jr. -- Bigger's Blues: Native Son and the Articulation of Afro-American Modernism -- Notes on Contributors -- Selected Bibliography.
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"A real-life detective story, investigating how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction, writing books casting new light on unsolved murders whilst hiding clues to their authors' darkest secrets."--Publisher's description.
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