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(The last question is a reference to the paschal sacrifice which was fire-roasted). [2] The Babylonian Talmud quotes four questions; why matzah is eaten, why maror is eaten, why meat that is eaten is exclusively roasted, and why food is dipped twice. [3] The version in the Jerusalem Talmud is also the one most commonly found in manuscripts. [4]
Night is the first in a trilogy—Night, Dawn, Day—marking Wiesel's transition during and after the Holocaust from darkness to light, according to the Jewish tradition of beginning a new day at nightfall. "In Night," he said, "I wanted to show the end, the finality of the event. Everything came to an end—man, history, literature, religion, God.
Tender Is the Night is the fourth and final novel completed by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the French Riviera during the twilight of the Jazz Age , the 1934 novel chronicles the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychiatrist , and his wife, Nicole, who is one of his patients.
Gaudy Night (1935) is a mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the tenth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, and the third including Harriet Vane. The dons of Harriet Vane's alma mater , the all-female Shrewsbury College, Oxford (based on Sayers' own Somerville College ), have invited her back to attend the annual Gaudy celebrations.
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All the Wrong Questions is a four-part children's book series and prequel to A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (the pen name of American author Daniel Handler). The series explores Snicket's childhood apprenticeship to the secret society V.F.D and expands the fictional universe introduced in the novel The Bad Beginning , the ...
The Night Land is a horror and fantasy novel by English writer William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912. As a work of fantasy it belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre . Hodgson also published a much shorter version of the novel, titled The Dream of X (1912).
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