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As the story begins, the hero is beset by reflections on his being ill-suited for the world of everyday, regular people, specifically for frivolous bourgeois society. In his aimless wanderings about the city he encounters a person carrying an advertisement for a magic theatre who gives him a small book, Treatise on the Steppenwolf. This ...
A quick synopsis of the book's story was provided in the book jacket: The sole tenant in a run-down tenement, Harry Lesser is struggling to finish a novel, but his solitary pursuit of the sublime grows complicated when Willie Spearmint, a black writer ambivalent toward Jews, moves into the building.
The book was a Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. [1] It was also a Finalist for the Indies Choice Book Award in the category "Book of the Year - Adult Fiction." [ 2 ] The story "The Summer People" won the 2011 Shirley Jackson Awards for best novelette.
Spearmint essential oil has had success as a larvicide against mosquitoes. Using spearmint as a larvicide would be a greener alternative to synthetic insecticides due to their toxicity and negative effect to the environment. [31] Used as a fumigant, spearmint essential oil is an effective insecticide against adult moths. [32]
Origin is a 2017 mystery thriller novel by American author Dan Brown and the fifth installment in his Robert Langdon series, [1] following Inferno. The book was released on October 3, 2017, by Doubleday. [2] [3] The book is predominantly set in Spain and features minor sections in Sharjah and Budapest.
Gingermint is a naturally occurring hybrid indigenous throughout the overlapping native regions of cornmint and spearmint in Europe and Asia. It was first introduced to North America by a gardener in Wisconsin in 1908; due to the Scottish origin of the variety and its similarity in flavour to spearmint, it is known there as Scotch spearmint. [3]
The novel explains the origin of Olivia Winfield (the grandmother in Flowers in the Attic), the events that cause her to become the cold, domineering mistress of Foxworth Hall, and Corinne's childhood and eventual betrayal. It is the fifth novel of the Flowers in the Attic series but considered the prequel, as the story told takes place prior ...
The Halloween Tree is a 1972 fantasy novel by American author Ray Bradbury, which traces the history of Samhain and Halloween. The novel was adapted as a 1993 film , and an annual Halloween Tree has been exhibited at Disneyland in California since 2007.