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Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was an American author and lawyer, best known for the Perry Mason series of legal detective stories.Gardner also wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces as well as a series of nonfiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other regions in Mexico.
Psittacism refers to repetitive parrot-like speech. Psittacism is speech or writing that appears mechanical or repetitive in the manner of a parrot. [1] More generally it is a pejorative description of the use of words which appear to have been used without regard to their meaning.
An Almond for a Parrot was published in 2016 by English author Sally Gardner (who writes children’s fiction) under the pseudonym Wray Delaney, [1] this is an adult novel set in London in 1756, and has been described as an erotic fairytale. [2] It takes its title from a tract by Elizabethan writer Thomas Nashe. [2]
One of the central themes of the novel is subjectivism.The novel provides three sequential chronologies of Flaubert's life: the first is optimistic (citing his successes, etc.), the second is negative (citing the deaths of his friends/lovers, his failures, illnesses etc.) and the third compiles quotations written by Flaubert in his journal at various points in his life.
The boys soon discover that his parrot was one of a group of seven, trained by their former owner to each repeat a specific message. The focus of the investigation shifts from finding the single lost parrot to discovering the secret behind these cryptic messages. The boys aren't the only ones who want to hear the dead man's secret.
Sworn testimony is evidence given by a witness who has made a commitment to tell the truth.If the witness is later found to have lied whilst bound by the commitment, they can often be charged with the crime of perjury.
A woman who faced eviction from her Manhattan apartment over her three emotional support parrots will be paid $165,000 in damages plus $585,000 for her apartment under a consent decree announced ...
This is a list of episodes for Perry Mason, an American legal drama series that aired on CBS television for nine seasons (September 21, 1957 – May 22, 1966). The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner.