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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.
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.
Category: Book series by year of introduction. ... Book series introduced in 2021 (3 P) This page was last edited on 19 February 2023, at 20:12 (UTC). ...
First issue of the first Superman comic book series, owned by Tony Arnold Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. 1939 January 2022 [54] $13.5 $5.80 Northumberland Bestiary. Previously owned by the Dukes of Northumberland. Purchased by an anonymous buyer; resold in June 2007 for an unknown amount to the J. Paul Getty Museum. – c. 1250–1260 an ...
Cover illustration for Randolph Caldecott's picture book Sing a Song for Sixpence (1880) The sixpence also features in other works of British popular culture and literature. It appears in the title of the writer W. Somerset Maugham 's 1919 novel, The Moon and Sixpence , and appears in both the title and as a plot device in Michael Paraskos 's ...
Under Colburn's influence, the published novels adopted a standard format of three volumes in octavo, [note 3] priced at one-and-a-half guineas (£1 11s. 6d.) or ten shillings and sixpence (half a guinea) a volume. [note 4] The price and format remained unaltered for nearly 70 years, until 1894. [8]
The Adventure series is a collection of children's adventure novels by Willard Price.The original series, comprising 14 novels, was published between 1949 and 1980, and chronicles the adventures of teenagers Hal and Roger Hunt as they travel the world collecting exotic and dangerous animals.
Traces is a series of novels written by British author Malcolm Rose, about the adventures of Forensic Investigator Luke Harding and his Mobile Aid To Law And Crime, Malc. The first book, Framed! , has been selected by the United States Board on Books for Young People and the Children's Book Council as an Outstanding International Book for 2006.