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Mags is the District 4 female tribute in the 75th Hunger Games. She was the oldest tribute, about 80 years old, and had won the 11th Hunger Games. Mags was frail and spoke fragmented words that Katniss did not understand, though Katniss did understand her body language (in the film, this is all changed to her being a mute).
The book has also been released in e-book format and topped sales in the week ending with August 29, 2010, beating out The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which had held the top spot since April. [17] The other Hunger Games books have also made it in the top ten, with the first book at fifth and the second book taking eighth. [ 17 ]
Catching Fire is a 2009 dystopian young adult fiction novel by the American novelist Suzanne Collins, the second book in The Hunger Games series.As the sequel to the 2008 bestseller The Hunger Games, it continues the story of a now 17 year old Katniss Everdeen and the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem.
By February 2010, the book had sold 800,000 copies, [15] and rights to the novel had been sold in 38 territories worldwide. [15] A few months later, in July, the book was released in paperback. [16] The Hunger Games entered the New York Times Best Seller list in November 2008, [17] where it would feature for over 100 consecutive weeks. [18]
On 22 August 2012, Lionsgate announced that Claflin had been cast as Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games film series, starting with The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. [11] [12] The director of Catching Fire, Francis Lawrence, stated of Claflin's performance during filming: "Finnick's an interesting character. At first he feels like a bit of a flirt ...
Asymptote - an earlier, but fictional, avant garde literary magazine - features in the A. A. Milne short story A Rattling Good Yarn, published in 1950 in his collection A Table Near the Band. The story is summed up on the dust wrapper as " a hilarious spoof about an extremely popular writer and an avant garde literary critic ."
The Magus was the first book John Fowles wrote, but his third to be published, after The Collector (1963) and The Aristos (1964). He started writing it in the 1950s, under the original title of The Godgame. He based it partly on his experiences on the Greek island of Spetses, where he taught English for two years at the Anargyrios School.
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