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Dylan Thomas described Nightwood as "one of the three great prose books ever written by a woman", while William S. Burroughs called it "one of the great books of the twentieth century". It was number 12 on a list of the top 100 gay and lesbian novels compiled by The Publishing Triangle in 1999.
In the Völundarkviða, Wayland Smith and his brothers marry valkyries who dress in swan skins.. The "swan maiden" story is a name in folkloristics used to refer to three kinds of stories: those where one of the characters is a bird-maiden, in which she can appear either as a bird or as a woman; those in which one of the elements of the narrative is the theft of the feather-robe belonging to a ...
The book is considered one of the leading examples by some scholars and educators of a postmodern picture book. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Part of this is because of its metafictional aspect, [ 7 ] something Macaulay himself spoke of in his Caldecott Medal acceptance speech, "the subject of this book is the book.
Another version tells that she was a beautiful young woman who received a curse, turning her into this being. The young woman would appear normal at first, but when she approached was approached, her face would become that of a horse, frightening everyone away, condemning her to never find true love and be alone forever.
After a tortured and torturously long journey to the big screen, The Woman in the Window -- 20th Century's adaptation of A.J. Finn's best-selling thriller -- instead lands on Netflix, met with ...
The novel was published in 1967. Christie later said she normally wrote her books in three to four months but wrote Endless Night in six weeks. [5] The novel is dedicated "To Nora Prichard from whom I first heard the legend of Gipsy's Acre." Nora Prichard was the paternal grandmother of Mathew, Christie's only grandson.
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 contemporary feminism". [6] Writing for The Washington Post , Bethanne Patrick describes how "Rachel Yoder’s debut novel, 'Nightbitch,' may feel as if the author stuck her hand into your ...
She is best known, in English, for her book A Woman in the Polar Night about her stay on Svalbard in 1933. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Originally published in 1938, and translated into English in 1954 by Jane Degras, her book is one of the few accounts written from a female perspective detailing life outside civilizations before the 20th century.