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Riders in the Chariot was singled out for praise by the Nobel Prize in Literature committee when White was named a laureate in 1973. The panel described it as "a sacrificial drama, tense, yet with an everyday setting, in the midst of current Australian reality." [5] The novel won the Miles Franklin Award in 1961.
The original Japanese edition was released in three parts, which make up the three "books" of the single volume English language version. Book of the Thieving Magpie (泥棒かささぎ編, Dorobō kasasagi hen) Book of the Prophesying Bird (予言する鳥編, Yogen suru tori hen) Book of the Bird-Catcher Man (鳥刺し男編, Torisashi otoko hen)
Asterix and the Chariot Race (French: Astérix et la Transitalique, "Asterix and the Trans-Italic") is the 37th book in the Asterix series, and the third to be written by Jean-Yves Ferri and illustrated by Didier Conrad. The book was released worldwide in more than 20 languages on 19 October 2017 with an initial print run of 5 million copies.
The Diamond Chariot (Russian: Алмазная Колесница, the Russian term for the "Diamond Vehicle" (kongōjō) school of Tantric Buddhism) is a historical mystery novel by internationally acclaimed Russian detective story writer Boris Akunin, published originally in 2003.
Salwa Bakr, June 2021. Salwa Bakr (Arabic: سلوى بكر; born 1949) is an Egyptian critic, novelist and author. [1] She is the author of seven volumes of short stories (including The Wiles of Men, AUC Press, 1997), seven novels, and a play.
English 43 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas: John Boyne: 2006: 52: English 44 The House at Pooh Corner: A. A. Milne: 1928: 52 [47] languages, with 97 translations in total: English 45 Autobiography of a Yogi: Paramahansa Yogananda: 1946 50 [48] [49] English 46 Heidi: Johanna Spyri: 1880: 50 [50] German 47 Out Stealing Horses: Per Petterson: 2003 ...
Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 – A Personal Choice is an essay by British writer Anthony Burgess, published by Allison & Busby in 1984. It covers a 44-year span between 1939 and 1983. Burgess was a prolific reader, in his early career reviewing more than 350 novels in just over two years for The Yorkshire Post. In the ...
Hekhalot literature (sometimes transliterated as Heichalot), from the Hebrew word for "Palaces," relates to visions of ascents into heavenly palaces.The genre overlaps with Merkabah or "Chariot" literature, which concerns Ezekiel's chariot, so the two are sometimes referred together as "Books of the Palaces and the Chariot" (ספרות ההיכלות והמרכבה ).