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Hind died from cancer, aged 79, on 21 February 2008. He had been due to appear on 7 March 2008 with famous writers from around the world at the Aye Write! literary festival in Glasgow's Mitchell Library to mark the reprinting of The Dear Green Place, along with the Fur Sadie manuscript and examples of his writing.
Wanda von Dunajew, the novel's central female character, was modelled after Fanny Pistor, who was an emerging literary writer. [1] The two met when Pistor contacted Sacher-Masoch, under the assumed name and fictitious title of Baroness Bogdanoff, for suggestions on improving her writing to make it suitable for publication.
"Allerleirauh" (English: "All-Kinds-of-Fur", sometimes translated as "Thousandfurs") is a fairy tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm. Since the second edition published in 1819, it has been recorded as Tale no. 65. [1] Andrew Lang included it in The Green Fairy Book. [2] It is Aarne–Thompson folktale type 510B, unnatural love.
Madonna in a Fur Coat (Turkish: Kürk Mantolu Madonna) is a novel written by Turkish author Sabahattin Ali.It was published in 1943. The book tells the story of Raif, who is living a purposeless life until he meets a woman named Maria Puder. Initially, the book was criticized by many critics because "it was just another love story", [1] but it became a bestseller in time, a
In his 1997 collection of essays on children's literature, A Child's Delight, Noel Perrin noted that the book is very different from (and in his opinion far superior to) the movie, commending the book for its inventive plot and for the "ease and freedom", "elegance", and "irony" of Sharp's writing. [2]
Little Fur Family is a 1946 picture book written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Garth Williams. It tells the story of a little fur child's day in the woods. The day ends when his big fur parents tuck him in bed "all soft and warm," and sing him to sleep with a bedtime song.
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However, a wily trickster figure, the Fur Queen, watches over the boys as they fulfill their destiny to become artists. [2] The novel, a fictionalized account of the real-life childhood of Tomson Highway and his brother René, [2] was a nominee for the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award and the Books in Canada First Novel Award in 1998.