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Day was one of a handful of blind authors familiar to American readers in mid-nineteenth-century. [3] She wrote two memoirs, Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl (1859) and The World as I Have Found It (1878). She sold copies of Incidents to support herself, traveling the United States with a companion, [4] and making personal appearances.
This is a list of best-selling fiction authors to date, in any language. While finding precise sales numbers for any given author is nearly impossible, the list is based on approximate numbers provided or repeated by reliable sources. "Best selling" refers to the estimated number of copies sold of all fiction books written or co-written by an ...
12. ‘James’ by Percival Everett. Percival Everett’s novel James puts the escaped slave Jim from Mark Twain’s 1884 novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at the centre of a droll, wise and ...
The book was published to wide acclaim from literary critics. On BookBrowse, the book was rated 5 out of 5 from "Critics' Opinion". [6] The critic reviews on BookBrowse remained solely at a 5 out of 5 score. [6] On Metacritic, the book received a 87 out of 100 based on 28 critic reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [7]
Martin has been criticized by some of his readers for the long periods between books in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, notably the six-year gap between the fourth volume, A Feast for Crows (2005), and the fifth volume, A Dance with Dragons (2011), and the fact that The Winds of Winter, the next volume in the series, is still unpublished as ...
Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by English author George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans.It appeared in eight installments (volumes) in 1871 and 1872.
Mary J. Blige was born in the Bronx in the early ’70s, much like hip-hop itself. By the time she came of age in the projects of Yonkers, she was singing backup for rappers like Father MC […]
Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy is an omnibus edition of the first three novels in Mary Stewart's Arthurian Saga: The Crystal Cave (1970), The Hollow Hills (1973), and The Last Enchantment (1979). The omnibus was published in 1980 by William Morrow and Company. In 1983, Stewart published a fourth instalment in the series: The Wicked Day.