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  2. The Wench Is Dead - Wikipedia

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    The Wench Is Dead is a historical crime novel by Colin Dexter, the eighth novel in the Inspector Morse series. ... And besides, the wench is dead.

  3. Portrait of a Lady (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The poem's epigraph is a famous quotation from Christopher Marlowe's play The Jew of Malta: "Thou hast committed - / Fornication: but that was in another country, / And besides, the wench is dead." The poem is one of the two main Boston poems written by Eliot, the other being "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". It shows upper class society ...

  4. A Farewell to Arms - Wikipedia

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    One of the possible titles Hemingway considered was In Another Country and Besides. This comes from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe. The poem Portrait of a Lady by T. S. Eliot also starts off by quoting this Marlowe work: "Thou hast committed / Fornication: but that was in another country, / And besides, the wench is dead." Hemingway's ...

  5. Inspector Morse - Wikipedia

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    In The Dead of Jericho and The Wench Is Dead it is noted that his initial is E. [2] [3] [4] At the end of Death Is Now My Neighbour, his name is revealed to be Endeavour. [5] Two-thirds of the way through the television episode based on the book, he gives the cryptic clue "My whole life's effort has revolved around Eve, nine letters". [6]

  6. Another Country (1984 film) - Wikipedia

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    Barabas: Fornication– but that was in another country; / And besides, the wench is dead. Here "the wench" may refer to Martineau. Most of the students are more interested in covering up a potential scandal than worrying about the actual death.

  7. Margaret Wetherby Williams - Wikipedia

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    Doris Margaret Wetherby Williams (2 May 1901 – 9 July 1984), [2] who wrote under the pseudonym Margaret Erskine, was a British writer of mysteries.Her more than 20 novels featured the same leading character, Inspector Septimus Finch. [3]

  8. Category:Novels by Colin Dexter - Wikipedia

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    The Wench Is Dead This page was last edited on 14 February 2024, at 16:09 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...

  9. Vesper Lynd - Wikipedia

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    And besides, the wench is dead. Later books in the series suggest that Bond still has feelings for Vesper, however. Fleming's tenth novel, On Her Majesty's Secret Service , reveals that Bond makes an annual pilgrimage to Royale-Les-Eaux to visit her grave.