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Night is the first in a trilogy—Night, Dawn, Day—marking Wiesel's transition during and after the Holocaust from darkness to light, according to the Jewish tradition of beginning a new day at nightfall. "In Night," he said, "I wanted to show the end, the finality of the event. Everything came to an end—man, history, literature, religion, God.
Night Shift is the first book for which King wrote a foreword. The introduction was written by one of King's favorite authors, John D. MacDonald. MacDonald writes that "Stephen King is a far, far better writer at thirty than I was at thirty, or at forty.
The Night Battles is divided into four chapters, preceded by a preface written by Ginzburg, in which he discusses the various scholarly approaches that have been taken to studying Early Modern witchcraft, including the rationalist interpretation that emerged in the 18th century and the Witch-cult hypothesis presented by Margaret Murray. He ...
Tender Is the Night is the fourth and final novel completed by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the French Riviera during the twilight of the Jazz Age , the 1934 novel chronicles the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychiatrist , and his wife, Nicole, who is one of his patients.
The novel received positive reviews. [4] In a review for The Seattle Times , Jordan Snowden praised the novel as "[...] a stunning modern feminist fable that shouldn’t be missed". [ 5 ] In her review of the book for The Guardian , Lara Feigel referred it as "an important contribution to the engagement with motherhood that rightly dominates ...
Chapter 3: "The Night Before Battle" Chapter 4: "A Skirmish in Daedalus Street" Interlude: "Three Orphans, a Cry in the Night, and a Bloody Maze" Chapter 5: "Ultra Soul!"
Gaudy Night (1935) is a mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the tenth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, and the third including Harriet Vane. The dons of Harriet Vane's alma mater , the all-female Shrewsbury College, Oxford (based on Sayers' own Somerville College ), have invited her back to attend the annual Gaudy celebrations.
Nevernight received mostly positive reviews from critics, with praise for its worldbuilding, heroine and writing style. [2] [3] The book earned Kristoff his second David Gemmell Awards nomination, [4] and won the 2016 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel.