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Richard Marsh (12 October 1857 – 9 August 1915) was the pseudonym of the English author born Richard Bernard Heldmann.A best-selling and prolific author of the late 19th century and the Edwardian period, Marsh is best known now for his supernatural thriller novel The Beetle, [2] which was published the same year as Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897), and was initially even more popular, outselling ...
The Beetle (or The Beetle: A Mystery) is an 1897 fin de siècle horror novel by British writer Richard Marsh, in which a shape-shifting ancient Egyptian entity seeks revenge on a British member of Parliament. The novel initially sold more copies than Bram Stoker's Dracula, a similar horror story published in the same year.
Free Lunch is a Junior Library Guild selection [2] and was generally well-received, including starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, [3] Publishers Weekly, [4] and School Library Journal. [5] Kirkus Reviews called the book "A mighty portrait of poverty amid cruelty and optimism."
First edition (publ. Tor Books) Cover art by Stephan Martiniere. The Free Lunch is a 2001 novel by Spider Robinson.The title is a reference to the adage "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch", popularized by science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein in his 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.
Still Alive is a more recent version of Klüger's first memoir, written in German called weiter leben. Eine Jungend (Going on Living). This memoir, written in 1992, is considered by Klüger to be the precursor to Still Alive.
Lunch has been, at best, a break-even for many restaurants ever since the industry slowly and then suddenly stopped day drinking — hospitality veterans say this occurred sometime between the new ...
But in “When The Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day,” Graff weaves together hundreds of eyewitness accounts to create a history that stands alongside those works, expanding readers ...
Owen King came up with the title after reading in an article that Herman Wouk was still alive and writing despite being in his mid-nineties. [2] King conceived of the story after reading about the 2009 Taconic State Parkway crash. [3] "Herman Wouk Is Still Alive" was first published in The Atlantic in May 2011.