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The Trail of the Serpent is the first sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, first published in 1861 as Three Times Dead; or, The Secret of the Heath.The story concerns the schemes of the orphan Jabez North to acquire an aristocratic fortune, and the efforts of Richard Marwood, aided by his friends, to prove his innocence in the murder of his uncle.
Wives and Daughters, An Every-Day Story is a novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. It was partly written whilst Gaskell was staying with the salon hostess Mary Elizabeth Mohl at her home on the Rue de Bac in Paris. [ 1 ]
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Half in Shadow is a collection of stories by author Mary Elizabeth Counselman. Most of the stories had macabre or horror themes, and appeared previously in the magazine Weird Tales from the late 1930s through the 1950s. It includes the story "The Three Marked Pennies" one of the most popular in the magazine's history based on reader response. [1]
Born in Germany, to Walter and Elizabeth Moak, she came to the US with her family, was raised and educated in Cleveland, Ohio. [1] Liesel graduated from Wells College , Aurora, New York , and went on to Yale University where, while studying philosophy, she met a scholar named Erling Skorpen .
Mary Elizabeth Vroman (c. 1924 – April 29, 1967) was an American author of several books and short stories, including "See How They Run", a short story published in 1951. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Background
Every Day is about the story of A, a genderless person who wakes up occupying a different body each day of a sixteen-year-old living in the East Coast. As described by Frank Bruni of The New York Times, "A. doesn't have a real name, presumably because they don't have a real existence: they're not a person, at least not in any conventional sense, but they have a spirit, switching without choice ...
In a rave review for The New York Times, Joan Didion called Sleepless Nights an "extraordinary and haunting book". [4] Writing for The New York Times in 2018, Lauren Groff referred to the book as "brilliant, brittle and strange". [5] In 1979, Sleepless Nights was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. [6]