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The Octoroon is a play by Dion Boucicault that opened in 1859 at The Winter Garden Theatre, New York City. Extremely popular, the play was kept running continuously for years by seven road companies. [2] Among antebellum melodramas, it was considered second in popularity only to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Both were anti-slavery works. [3]
Winter's Tale was published in 1983. It was praised on the front cover of the New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) as "funny, thoughtful, passionate...large-souled." [1] Reviewing the novel in Interzone magazine, Mary Gentle described Winter's Tale as "a faerie family saga" and "the first specifically capitalist fantasy". [2]
Here, 25 of the best classic winter books to read by the fire this winter: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino's postmodernist novel is a masterfully crafted puzzle.
Vida Winter originally tells her story through a third-person point of view, but then changes to first person, which causes Lea to speculate about the truthfulness of her story. This change is later explained in the book, when the idea of a cousin is introduced. Towards the end of the book it is found that Vida is half sister to the twins.
Winter is a young adult novel by John Marsden in 2000. [1] Winter, the protagonist of the story, returns to the family estate which she left at the age of four when her parents died. She finds that everything is not as it seems when she visits her parents' graves, and she is determined to uncover the answers.
Beth and Mary get into a bit of a tussle but Mary is clearly panicked and not much of a killer, picking up a bread knife and cutting Beth's arm with a swipe, before helping her with the wound.
At the very end of the final episode, “The Perfect Couple” flashes forward six months, revealing that Amelia now works at a zoo in London. As she shows some penguins to a couple of children ...
Winter in Sokcho (French: Hiver à Sokcho) is the first novel by Swiss-Korean writer Elisa Shua Dusapin published in 2016. It was translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins into English in 2021. The story follows the interactions of the narrator and a French comic writer during the writer's visit to Sokcho in search for inspiration.