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Nina convinces Thomas to allow her to take back her role. Towards the end of the ballet's second act, Nina is distracted by a hallucination and loses her balance during a lift, causing a male dancer to drop her, infuriating Thomas. Nina returns to her dressing room and finds Lily preparing to play Odile.
Dorothy Sayers' co-author, under the pseudonym of Robert Eustace, was Dr Eustace Barton, a physician who also wrote medico-legal thrillers. Barton suggested to Sayers the scientific theme crucial to the novel's dénouement, which concerns the difference between a naturally produced organic compound and the corresponding synthetic material, and ...
This story is notable for its inaccurate depiction of right/left mirror image twins, and more generally for its use of popular science to explore the subject of inversion. [ 2 ] A man who states that his body is a mirror image of the normal body plan confesses to Lord Peter Wimsey that he is worried he is going mad, due to blackouts in which he ...
The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1944–1950, A Noble Daring: 1999: The Dorothy L Sayers Society: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1951–1957, In the Midst of Life: 2000: The Dorothy L Sayers Society: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: Child and Woman of Her Time: 2002: The Dorothy L Sayers Society: A supplement to the letters
Cournos pressed Sayers to have sex with contraception, but she, a High Anglican, resisted to avoid what she called "the taint of the rubber shop". [6] Their relationship foundered on the mismatch of expectations, [ 6 ] and within two years Cournos – apparently not believing in the ideas he had professed – had married somebody else. [ 7 ]
Writing in 1990 Katherine Kenny described the book as the most successful of Sayers' early fiction, coupling a slick detective plot with vivid details of post-war English life. "The book is a tightly constructed little drama based upon the old joke about an Englishman's club so stuffy that its dead members cannot be differentiated from the ...
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First edition. Hangman's Holiday [1] is a collection of short stories, mostly murder mysteries, by Dorothy L. Sayers.This collection, the ninth in the Lord Peter Wimsey series, was first published by Gollancz in 1933, [2] and has been reprinted a number of times since, for example the 1995 paperback: ISBN 978-0-06-104362-8).