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The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, first published on 15 April 1919.It is told in episodic form by a first-person narrator providing a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character, Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker, who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist.
Penguin books in Australia recently had to reprint 7,000 copies of a now-collectible book because one of the recipes called for "salt and freshly ground black people." 9 misprints that are worth a ...
The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon 's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
Category: Book series by year of introduction. ... Book series introduced in 2014 (1 C, 17 P) Book series introduced in 2015 (22 P) Book series introduced in 2016 (12 P)
Some works in a series can stand alone—they can be read in any order, as each book makes few, if any, reference to past events, and the characters seldom, if ever, change. Many of these series books may be published in a numbered series. Examples of such series are works like The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and Nick Carter.
A Song of Sixpence is a novel by A. J. Cronin about the coming to manhood of Laurence Carroll and his life in Scotland. [1] It was published in 1964. Its sequel is A Pocketful of Rye. As with several of his other novels, Cronin drew on his own experiences growing up in Scotland for this book.
In 2004, Black Water made The New York Times ' weekly nationwide top-ten list in the category "Children's Paperback Books," [3] and a month later, for the first time, the series as a whole ranked in the category of "Children's Best Sellers: Series." [4] The remaining five books, The Rivers of Zadaa (2005), The Quillan Games (2006), The Pilgrims ...
The Royal Book of Oz (1921) by Ruth Plumly Thompson, an official continuation novel of Oz books after the death of the original writer. A continuation novel is a sequel novel with continuity in the style of an established series, produced by a new author after the original author's death. [1]