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Thirteen Doors, Wolves Behind Them All received starred reviews from School Library Journal [1] and Booklist. [2] School Library Journal's Liz Overber wrote that "powerful plotting, masterful character development, and a unique narrative device set this work apart." [1] She compared the novel to Code Name Verity and The Book Thief. [1]
Phonaesthetics (also spelled phonesthetics in North America) is the study of the beauty and pleasantness associated with the sounds of certain words or parts of words.The term was first used in this sense, perhaps by J. R. R. Tolkien, [1] during the mid-20th century and derives from Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ) 'voice, sound' and αἰσθητική (aisthētikḗ) 'aesthetics'.
The title-page of the first edition of The Sphinx, with decorations by Charles Ricketts. The Sphinx is a 174-line poem by Oscar Wilde, written from the point of view of a young man who questions the Sphinx in lurid detail on the history of her sexual adventures, before finally renouncing her attractions and turning to his crucifix.
A message etched into an ancient sphinx has proven to be, well, sphinx-like. The “mysterious” inscription has long been an enigma, puzzling scholars for over a century.
On the finished stone monument the small angel behind the ear has been removed and replaced by an elaborate headdress, the crucified figure and the phallic sphinx have been removed, and in their place is a personification of fame being trumpeted. [15] This may have been Epstein landing on a less sentimental, carved and angular alternative. [3]
Falkor appears much like a Chinese dragon but whereas on the cover of the book, Dan Craig illustrated Falkor as lion-like; in the 1984 film adaptation of the novel, Falkor is dog-like with white fur, pearly white scales that glitter pink, ruby-colored eyes, and is pleased by affectionate scratchings behind his ear. Luckdragons possess neither ...
This novel is of some significance in the field of the Golden Age mystery because of its treatment of a sexual theme, that of nymphomania.This is one of a few Carr mystery novels to deal with such a psycho-sexual theme (others are The Judas Window, where a woman character poses for obscene photographs for her lover, and The Sleeping Sphinx, which deals with sexual hysteria).
The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the first detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie, introducing her fictional detective Hercule Poirot.It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 [1] and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head (John Lane's UK company) on 21 January 1921.