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Reception | P. D. James | Richard Gidez
feels that this book represents P. D. James at her best. Gidez, Richard. P. D. James. Twayne. 87 |
Reception | P. D. James | 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... |
Reception | P. D. James | 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... |
Textual Production | Pearl S. Buck | |
Textual Production | Isak Dinesen | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | E. M. Delafield | 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... |
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