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The Attic Nights found many readers in antiquity. Writers who used this compilation include Apuleius , Lactantius , Nonius Marcellus , Ammianus Marcellinus , the anonymous author of the Historia Augusta , Servius , and Augustine ; but most notable is how Gellius' work was mined by Macrobius , "who, without mentioning his name, quotes Gellius ...
A Night in the Lonesome October is a novel by American writer Roger Zelazny published in 1993, near the end of his life. It was his last book, and one of his five personal favorites. [1] The book is divided into 32 chapters, each representing one "night" in the month of October (plus one "introductory" chapter).
The novel explains the origin of Olivia Winfield (the grandmother in Flowers in the Attic), the events that cause her to become the cold, domineering mistress of Foxworth Hall, and Corinne's childhood and eventual betrayal. It is the fifth novel of the Flowers in the Attic series but considered the prequel, as the story told takes place prior ...
Something Upstairs is about a twelve-year-old boy, Kenny Huldorf, who tells a story to Avi who had visited the school on a book tour. He moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island. He lives in a house of past events, built in 1789. Kenny's room is in the attic. One night Kenny wakes to a scraping noise in the old slave room.
The Animal Rebellion:: While staying at his uncle's farm, Winston discovers that the animals on the farm are planning to overthrow their human master. The Locked Room: : Brittany and her younger brother are wary of their mother's new husband—and more scared when they find out that there's a connection between him and a locked room in their house.
A woman heard weird noises in her home in the middle of the night, and soon learned a stranger was living in her attic.
Winter is a 2015 young adult science fiction novel written by American author Marissa Meyer and published by Macmillan Publishers through their subsidiary Feiwel & Friends. [2] It is the fourth and final book in The Lunar Chronicles series and the sequel to Cress .
Rabbit Hill is a children's novel by Robert Lawson that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1945. [1] In 1954 he wrote a sequel, The Tough Winter . Plot introduction