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History of Wolves is a psychological fiction novel published in 2017 written by American author Emily Fridlund. [2] The novel blends the genres of bildungsroman and thriller to tell the story of a teen navigating through life-altering events. [ 3 ]
Fridlund's debut novel, History of Wolves, was a finalist for the 2017 Man Booker Prize (one of six novels to be named to the shortlist) and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. [4] [5] In 2018, History of Wolves won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. Her 2017 collection of short stories, Catapult, won the Mary McCarthy ...
Rule of Wolves is a fantasy novel written by the Israeli–American author Leigh Bardugo, published by Imprint in 2021. It is the seventh overall novel in Bardugo's Grishaverse and the final novel in the King of Scars duology. [ 2 ]
SparkNotes, originally part of a website called The Spark, is a company started by Harvard students Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Coyne, and Eli Bolotin in 1999 that originally provided study guides for literature, poetry, history, film, and philosophy.
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase is a children's novel by Joan Aiken, first published in 1962. [1] Set in an alternative history of England, it tells of the adventures of cousins Bonnie and Sylvia and their friend Simon the goose-boy as they thwart the evil schemes of their governess Miss Slighcarp, and their so-called "teacher" at boarding school, Mrs. Brisket.
The book is set in Canada in the 1860s. It starts with the discovery of the murder of a trapper, and then follows various events that occur as the murderer is sought. As Stef Penney suffered from agoraphobia [2] at the time of writing this novel, she did all the research in the libraries of London and never visited Canada.
The story is unusual for its point-of-view: Of the many books and stories on werewolves, few are written from the perspective of wolves.Le Guin goes to great lengths to conceal the nature of the narrator, fully exploiting the reader's assumptions to purposefully heighten the plot twist at the story's denouement.
Publishers Weekly described the book as a "tightly plotted, swiftly paced tale", [1] while the School Library Journal called it "[b]eautifully written". In a starred review, Booklist said it was a "compelling, poignant story" and that "Bauer precisely and vividly conveys the wolves' wild world".