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Bluebeard, his wife, and the key in a 1921 illustration by W. Heath Robinson. In one version of the story, Bluebeard is a wealthy and powerful nobleman who has been married six times to beautiful women who have all mysteriously vanished.
The Castle in the Attic is a children's fantasy novel by Elizabeth Winthrop and illustrator Trina Schart Hyman, first published in 1985. The novel has won the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award and the California Young Reader Medal. [1] It has also been nominated for twenty-three state book awards. [2]
The Castle (German: Das Schloss, also spelled Das Schloß [das ˈʃlɔs]) is the last novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1926.In it a protagonist known only as "K." arrives in a village and struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities who govern it from a castle supposedly owned by Graf Westwest.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle was named by Time magazine as one of the "Ten Best Novels" of 1962. [9] In March 2002, Book magazine named Mary Katherine Blackwood the seventy-first "best character in fiction since 1900". [10] On Goodreads, the novel ranks #4 on the list of "Most Popular Books Published in 1962", as voted for by the website ...
The Glass Key is a novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett. First published as a serial in Black Mask magazine in 1930, it then was collected in 1931 (in London; the American edition followed 3 months later).
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne is a gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe, first published in London by Thomas Hookham in 1789. In her introduction to the 1995 Oxford World Classic's edition of the text, Alison Milbank stated that the novel's plot "unites action of a specifically Scottish medieval nature with the characterization and morality of the eighteenth-century cult of sensibility."
Roman à clef (French pronunciation: [ʁɔmɑ̃n‿a kle], anglicised as / r oʊ ˌ m ɒ n ə ˈ k l eɪ /) (French for novel with a key) is a novel about real-life events that is overlaid with a façade of fiction. [1] [2] The fictitious names in the novel represent real people and the "key" is the relationship between the non-fiction and the ...
Peveril of the Peak is the longest novel by Sir Walter Scott.Along with Ivanhoe, Kenilworth, and Woodstock this is one of the English novels in the Waverley novels series, with the main action taking place around 1678 in the Peak District, the Isle of Man, and London, and centring on the Popish Plot.