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Dangerous Men is a 2005 American action thriller film written, directed, and produced by Jahangir Salehi Yeganehrad, under the pseudonym John S. Rad. [1] [2] The film took twenty-one years to make and release, production beginning in 1984 and edits being made throughout the intervening years.
The House of Sixty Fathers is a 1956 children's novel by Meindert DeJong. Illustrations were provided by Maurice Sendak. The novel was based on the author's own experiences as a military flier in China during the second world war. [1] The book won the Josette Frank Award (then named the Children's Book Award of the Child Study Association) in ...
In Part II, the war is over and Chavel is alive and free, but virtually destitute. He returns to the house he sold for his life and finds it occupied by Janvier's mother and sister, Thérèse. Assuming the false name Charlot, he becomes their servant. Part III sees the arrival of an impostor, named Carosse, who claims to be Chavel.
The book consists of three sections: Things That Are True is a collection of previously published interviews with new introductions and footnotes; Things That Might Be True collects previously published opinion articles that include new footnotes and are preceded by hypothetical questions, a literary device Klosterman used in Sex, Drugs, and ...
A work of Gothic fiction depicting London as a murky city swathed in fog, Bleak House is credited with introducing urban fog to the novel, which would become a frequent characteristic of urban Gothic literature and film. [5] Released in 1901, the Bleak House-inspired The Death of Poor Joe is the earliest filmed adaptation of a Dickens work. [6] [7]
Solito explores themes such as longing for the family he left behind in El Salvador, the journey of migration, and the relationships formed along the way. [4] The desert, a recurring motif in his writing, is depicted with dual significance: as a source of sustenance and concealment for those undertaking the journey, and as a site of profound danger and hardships.
Dangerous Games is a 2017 political-thriller romance novel by author Danielle Steel. The book centers on 39-year-old Alix Phillips, a television reporter who is investigating claims made against the Vice President of the United States .
Peril at End House is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by the Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1932 [1] and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in March of the same year. [2] The US edition retailed at $2.00 [1] and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). [2]