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"H" Is for Homicide is the eighth novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels [1] and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In this novel, Kinsey Millhone goes under cover to help break up an insurance fraud ring in Los Angeles led by Raymond Maldonado. [ 4 ]
The philosophy of the book is summed up in the quote "Sometimes one has suffered so much that he has the right never to be able to say, ‘I am too happy.’" (p. 204 The Black Tulip). The novel was originally published in three volumes in 1850 as La Tulipe Noire by Baudry (Paris).
November 1 – Charles Dickens's novel David Copperfield – The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account) – concludes serial publication and on November 14 appears complete in book form from Bradbury and Evans in London.
The book is set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1640s. After giving birth to a baby whose father is unknown, HESTER Prynne is required to wear a scarlet "A" for the rest of her life.
White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is the fifth book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1850. [1] The book is based on the author's fourteen months' service in the United States Navy, aboard the frigate USS Neversink (actually USS United States).
The book is the inspiration behind the unusual name of the village of Westward Ho! in Devon, the only place name in the United Kingdom that contains an exclamation mark. [ 10 ] J. G. Ballard , in an interview with Vanora Bennett , claimed that being forced to copy lines from the novel as a punishment at the age of eight or nine was the moment ...
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The novel took two years for Thackeray to write and, in line with other Thackeray works, most notably Vanity Fair, it offers an insightful and satiric picture of human character and aristocratic society. The characters include the snobbish social hanger-on Major Pendennis and the tipsy Captain Costigan.