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2013 — Mina Mindre Mord och Mysterier (English translation: An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good: Stories, tr. Marlaine Delargy, 2018) 2014— Jaktmark (English translation: Hunting Game, tr. Paul Norlen 2019); Detective Inspector Embla Nyström series #1
A Worn Path" follows an elderly African American woman named Phoenix Jackson as she ventures toward a town. [3] The story is set in Natchez, Mississippi during the Great Depression era. [ 4 ] As Phoenix journeys along the Natchez Trace , she periodically encounters many obstacles, including thorny bushes, barbed wire, and a large dog, among others.
The story opens with the town of Güllen (a name evoking "liquid manure" in German) preparing for the arrival of famed billionaire Claire Zachanassian, who grew up there. . Güllen has fallen on hard times, and the townspeople hope that Claire will provide them with much-needed fun
In the mornings, the two old women complain about their pains in the joints. Finally they reach their familiar river and set up a winter camp there. However, they hide inland from The People, another tribe, for fear of cannibalism. Fortunately, the two old women succeed in building up a generous supply of food made up of smoked musquashes and ...
Lady Slane's 86-year-old French maid and companion, who has served Lady Slane her entire adult life. Mr Bucktrout. The elderly and eccentric owner and agent of Lady Slane's cottage, who forms an understanding and regular friendship with Lady Slane. Mr Gosheron. A builder, of advanced years, introduced by Mr Bucktrout to renovate Lady Slane's ...
Kind Lady is a play written by Edward Chodorov and first performed on stage in 1935 (on April 23). It was based in part on a short story called The Silver Mask by Hugh Walpole. It was produced frequently on the summer theater circuit. [1] [2] The play has been adapted for film twice by MGM: as the December 1935 film Kind Lady and the 1951 film ...
19. “The lady is quite the treasure. Do try not to bungle it up.” — Lady Danbury. 20. "I am a gentleman. My father raised me to act with honor, but that honor is hanging by a thread that ...
Fanny By Gaslight is written in the narrative form of alternating person.Initially set in France (in the fictional Ile de France village of Les Yvelines-la-Carriére [1]) in the 1930s, and written in the third person, it tells of an encounter between a middle-aged book publisher, Gerald Warbeck, and an elderly lady whom he first assumes is called Mme Oupére, but discovers is English, and ...