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Mrs Osmond is a novel by the Irish author John Banville, published in 2017. It is based on the 1881 novel The Portrait of a Lady by the American-British author Henry James . The Henry James novel describes how a young American heiress Isabel Archer marries Gilbert Osmond, a widower.
Eileen is a 2015 novel by Ottessa Moshfegh, published by Penguin Press. [1] [2] It is Moshfegh's first novel. [3]It won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for debut fiction and was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize and the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award.
Mrs. Mike, the Story of Katherine Mary Flannigan is a novel by Benedict and Nancy Freedman set in the Canadian wilderness during the early 1900s. Considered by some a young-adult classic, Mrs. Mike was initially serialized in the Atlantic Monthly [ 1 ] and was the March 1947 selection of the Literary Guild . [ 1 ]
The Second Mrs. Giaconda, later The Second Mrs. Gioconda, [1] is a historical novel for children by E. L. Konigsburg. Set primarily in Milan, Italy, it features Leonardo da Vinci, his servant Salai, and duchess Beatrice d'Este. Through the experiences of Salai narrated in third person, it explores the background of da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
Writing in the New Statesman in 1971, Kingsley Amis identified "loneliness, old age and approaching death" as the main subjects of the book. [1] While their material circumstances are relatively comfortable, the elderly Claremont residents are subject to loneliness and boredom, and depend on family visits to prove to themselves and others that they have not been abandoned by their loved ones.
Mrs. Bridge is the debut novel by American author Evan S. Connell, published in 1959. In 117 brief episodes, it tells the story of an upper middle-class, bourgeois family in Kansas City in the period between the First and Second World War, mostly from the perspective of the mother, the Mrs. Bridge of the title.
Miss Rumphius is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Barbara Cooney and originally published by the Viking Press in 1982. It features the life story of fictional Miss Alice Rumphius, a woman who sought a way to make the world more beautiful and found it in planting lupines in the wild.
After the other girls tease her and Mrs. Quimby comforts her, she finally decides to eat a slice of cake. Ramona discovers she feels sorry for Susan, whose mother expects her to always be perfect. Ramona gives the leftover cake to Yard Ape and his friends, who were also playing at the park, and she decides this is a perfect day - well, not ...