Fêtes worse than death? — Village festivals in fiction

Beschrijving
From cosy murder via simple adultery and pandemonium right through to ritual slaughter, novelists have had fun using the idea of a small community getting together on a big project to drive their plots. What are your favourite stories based on the idea of a village festival, fête, pageant, or whatever?
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Nacht voor het feest
door Saša Stanišić
284 leden
10 besprekingen
3.8
3 Members
thorold, Dilara86, spiphany
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thorold: The night before the festival in a Brandenburg village
2
A Midsummer Night's Dream
door William Shakespeare
19,817 leden
177 besprekingen
4
3 Members
thorold, Dilara86, ManWithAnAgenda
3
Edele Heren en Dames
door Terry Pratchett
9,720 leden
125 besprekingen
4
2 Members
Dilara86, ManWithAnAgenda
4
Harvest Home
door Thomas Tryon
1,138 leden
37 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
5
Festival at Farbridge
door J. B. Priestley
61 leden
1 bespreking
3.8
Member
thorold
6
The Virgin in the Garden
door A.S. Byatt
1,749 leden
32 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
Verklaringen
thorold: A Yorkshire community putting on a play in the gardens of a stately home
7
De loterij [kort verhaal]
door Shirley Jackson
1,167 leden
43 besprekingen
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
8
One Part Woman
door Perumal Murugan
202 leden
4 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Member
Dilara86
9
Oogst
door Jim Crace
1,070 leden
71 besprekingen
3.9
Member
spiphany
10
Smith of Wootton Major: Extended Edition
door J. R. R. Tolkien
175 leden
2 besprekingen
4
Member
spiphany
Verklaringen
spiphany: In which a village holds a feast, a very special cake is baked, and one child gets a key to faery. The first chapter of Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" would also fit this list.
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Weidmanns redding roman
door Stephan Thome
71 leden
4 besprekingen
½ 3.4
Member
spiphany
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spiphany: Every seven years the residents gather to walk the boundaries of a Hessian village.
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The Liquid Land
door Raphaela Edelbauer
52 leden
5 besprekingen
3.9
Member
spiphany
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spiphany: An oddly difficult-to-find Austrian village prepares for a major event.
13
Class Trip II
door Bebe Faas Rice
12 leden
½ 3.5
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
14
Boven zee, onder steen
door Susan Cooper
6,591 leden
139 besprekingen
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
15
Blandings Castle, Omnibus : Nieuwe bezems, De ontvoerde zeug, Liefdesperikelen op Blandings Castle
door P. G. Wodehouse
1,165 leden
22 besprekingen
4.1
Member
thorold
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thorold: Nominated for "Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend", one of the most nearly perfect Wodehouse short stories.
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August Folly
door Angela Thirkell
383 leden
23 besprekingen
3.9
Member
thorold
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thorold: Most Thirkell novels have some sort of big event three-quarters of the way through: this one centres around amateur theatricals
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Barbie in Television
door Marianne Duest
8 leden
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
18
Zoek de moordenaar
door Agatha Christie
3,159 leden
53 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Member
thorold