Book-of-the-Month Club

Richard Gidez feels that this book represents P. D. James at her best. Reviewers were full of praise for this long but well-plotted novel. They appreciated its evocative descriptions of setting, its believable and...

Critics gave this book a good deal of positive critical attention, and it reached a wider audience than James's usual mystery novels simply because it was not of that genre. Many readers responded to it...

Critics received this book positively: they enjoyed its entertainment value, considered the pace good, the plot steady, the writing stylish, and the solution surprising and satisfying. It became a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Richard Gidez insisted...

Fighting Angel relies heavily on the reminiscences which PSB 's father divulged to her in the last years of his life, when his former reticence was at last dissolved and in turn dissolved her resentment...

Dorothy Canfield Fisher contributed an introduction. Blixen had begun writing in earnest on her Kenyan farm, and from at least 1926 had entertained the idea of publication as a means of alleviating her financial...

In her use of the diary form with prosaic narrator, EMD was probably influenced by George and Weedon Grossmith 's The Diary of a Nobody (1892). The autobiographical fiction, set in a small Devon village...