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Vida Winter originally tells her story through a third-person point of view, but then changes to first person, which causes Lea to speculate about the truthfulness of her story. This change is later explained in the book, when the idea of a cousin is introduced. Towards the end of the book it is found that Vida is half sister to the twins.
The Octoroon is a play by Dion Boucicault that opened in 1859 at The Winter Garden Theatre, New York City. Extremely popular, the play was kept running continuously for years by seven road companies. [2] Among antebellum melodramas, it was considered second in popularity only to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Both were anti-slavery works. [3]
Brian's Winter is a 1996 young adult novel by Gary Paulsen. It is the third novel in the Hatchet series, but second in terms of chronology as an alternate ending sequel to Hatchet . It was also released as Hatchet: Winter by Pan Macmillan on February 9, 1996.
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The Garden of Evening Mists is the second English-language novel by Malaysian novelist Tan Twan Eng, first published in November 2011. The book follows protagonist Teoh Yun Ling, who was a prisoner of the Japanese during the World War II , and later became a judge overseeing war crimes cases.
Beth and Mary get into a bit of a tussle but Mary is clearly panicked and not much of a killer, picking up a bread knife and cutting Beth's arm with a swipe, before helping her with the wound.
David Pringle, in the book Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels, praised Winter's Tale as "a haunting piece of North American magic realism". [2] According to Benjamin Nugent in n+1, the book describes how a political conservative feels, saying: "It’s one thing to understand Reaganism by reading an op-ed about the restoration of patriotism. It ...