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Sylvia Angus (1921–1982)

Auteur van Contemporary American Short Stories

5+ Werken 301 Leden 4 Besprekingen

Werken van Sylvia Angus

Great Modern European Short Stories (1969) — Redacteur — 112 exemplaren
Dead to Rites (1978) 17 exemplaren
Death of a Hittite (1969) 5 exemplaren

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Geboortedatum
1921
Overlijdensdatum
1982
Geslacht
female

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When fellow tour group members begin to die in circumstances mimicking ancient Mayan rituals, avid mystery reader Mrs. Wagstaff puts to use the knowledge she has acquired from reading mystery novels. I enjoyed the references to various mystery writers and fictional detectives. However, most of the characters in this novel were either caricatures or simply underdeveloped. I read this while on vacation in Yucatan, and most of the action takes place near Chichen Itza. Reading the book “on location” will be the most memorable aspect for me. I didn't like the book well enough to search out any of the author's other books, but if another one crosses my path, I'll probably read it.… (meer)
 
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cbl_tn | 1 andere bespreking | Dec 31, 2011 |
the heroine the "irrepressible" mrs. wagstaff is a little too perfect, the murders a little too weird, and the plight of the woman in the wheelchair a little too disturbing for this book to be good.
 
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mahallett | 1 andere bespreking | Nov 27, 2008 |
If you don't already own "Why I Live at the P.O." by Eudora Welty, "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" by Delmore Schwartz, and "Sex Education" by Dorothy Canfield, you might as well get them here. Not that there's anything wrong with the rest of the stories, but those three you've gotta read.
 
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szarka | Aug 26, 2006 |
Contents:

The Kiss by Anton Chekhov
Her First Ball by Katherine Mansfield
Araby by James Joyce
The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
The Infant Prodigy by Thomas Mann
The Horse Dealer’s Daughter by D. H. Lawrence
The Colonel’s Lady by W. Somerset Maugham
The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Adulterous Woman by Albert Camus
Jackals and Arabs by Franz Kafka
Sorrow-Acre by Isak Dinesen
In the Basement by Isaac Babel
Bitter Honeymoon by Alberto Moravia
The Last Judgement by Karel Čapek
Gimpel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer
War by Luigi Pirandello
A World Ends by Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Journey Through the Night by Jakov Lind
The New Apartment by Heinz Huber
Murke’s Collected Silences by Heinrich Böll
Gogol’s Wife by Tomasso Landolfi
Autumn in the Oak Woods by Yuri Kazakov
Isaac Starbuck by Alan Sillitoe
First Confession by Frank O’Connor
The Great Wave by Mary Lavin
… (meer)
 
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lulaa | May 11, 2014 |

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Werken
5
Ook door
2
Leden
301
Populariteit
#78,062
Waardering
½ 3.5
Besprekingen
4
ISBNs
15

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