China Governess
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Author |
: Margery Allingham |
Publisher |
: Open Road Media |
Total Pages |
: 332 |
Release |
: 2023-04-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781504087247 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1504087240 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The China Governess by : Margery Allingham
“Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light. And she has another quality, not usually associated with crime stories, elegance.” —Agatha Christie Timothy Kinnit is rich, handsome, and successful, but his past is a mystery to him. When he learns, on the eve of his elopement, that he is adopted, he must question everything he thought he knew. In desperate search of answers, Kinnit calls on private detective Albert Campion to shed some light on his past, and how it connects him to the notorious Turk Street Mile slum. Meanwhile, his illustrious adopted family has a sinister secret of its own—involving a murderous nineteenth-century governess—that must also be brought to light by Campion’s investigations. “Allingham is very, very good and those who are not familiar with her have a discovery awaiting them.”—Los Angeles Times
Author |
: Margery Allingham |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 266 |
Release |
: 1965 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:223630868 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The China Governess by : Margery Allingham
Author |
: Margery Allingham |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 1962 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSD:31822038216289 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis The China Governess by : Margery Allingham
Author |
: Margery Allingham |
Publisher |
: Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2024-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1504091752 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781504091756 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis The China Governess by : Margery Allingham
"Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light. And she has another quality, not usually associated with crime stories, elegance." --Agatha Christie Timothy Kinnit is rich, handsome, and successful, but his past is a mystery to him. When he learns, on the eve of his elopement, that he is adopted, he must question everything he thought he knew. In desperate search of answers, Kinnit calls on private detective Albert Campion to shed some light on his past, and how it connects him to the notorious Turk Street Mile slum. Meanwhile, his illustrious adopted family has a sinister secret of its own--involving a murderous nineteenth-century governess--that must also be brought to light by Campion's investigations. "Allingham is very, very good and those who are not familiar with her have a discovery awaiting them."--Los Angeles Times
Author |
: M. Allingham |
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: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:870077096 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis China Governess by : M. Allingham
Author |
: Margery Allingham |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 1963 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0701105038 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780701105037 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis The China Governess by : Margery Allingham
Author |
: Margery Allingham |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
Release |
: 1972 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:15498525 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis The China governess : a mystery by : Margery Allingham
Author |
: Margery Allingham |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 1963 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:316119702 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The China Governess, Etc by : Margery Allingham
Author |
: Curtis Evans |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 634 |
Release |
: 2016-04-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476616087 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476616086 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mysteries Unlocked by : Curtis Evans
In honor of the 70th birthday of Professor Douglas G. Greene, mystery genre scholar and publisher, this book offers 24 new essays and two reprinted classics on detective fiction by contributors around the world, including ten Edgar (Mystery Writers of America) winners and nominees. The essays cover a myriad of authors and books from more than a century, from J.S. Fletcher's The Investigators, originally serialized in 1901, to P.D. James' Death Comes to Pemberley, published at the end of 2011. Subjects covered include detective fiction in the Edwardian era and the "Golden Age" between the two world wars; hard-boiled detective fiction; mysteries and intellectuals; and pastiches, short stories and radio plays.
Author |
: Arnhilt Johanna Hoefle |
Publisher |
: University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2017-11-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780824872083 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0824872088 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis China’s Stefan Zweig by : Arnhilt Johanna Hoefle
During his lifetime Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) was among the most widely read German-language writers in the world. Always controversial, he fell into critical disfavor as writers and critics in a devastated postwar Europe attacked the poor literary quality of his works and excoriated his apolitical fiction as naïve Habsburg nostalgia. Yet in other parts of the world, Zweig’s works have enjoyed continued admiration and popularity, even canonical status. China’s Stefan Zweig unveils the extraordinary success of Zweig’s novellas in China, where he has been read in an entirely different way. During the New Culture Movement of the 1920s, Zweig’s novellas were discovered by intellectuals turning against Confucian tradition. In the 1930s, left-wing scholars criticized Zweig as a decadent bourgeois writer, yet after the communist victory in 1949 he was re-introduced as a political writer whose detailed psychological descriptions exposed a brutal and hypocritical bourgeois capitalist society. In the 1980s, after the Cultural Revolution, Zweig’s works triggered a large-scale “Stefan Zweig fever,” where Zweig-style female figures, the gentle, loving, and self-sacrificing women who populate his novels, became the feminine ideal. Zweig’s seemingly anachronistic poetics of femininity allowed feminists to criticize Maoist gender politics by praising Zweig as “the anatomist of the female heart.” As Arnhilt Hoefle makes clear, Zweig’s works have never been passively received. Intermediaries have actively selected, interpreted, and translated his works for very different purposes. China’s Stefan Zweig not only re-conceptualizes our understanding of cross-cultural reception and its underlying dynamics, but proposes a serious re-evaluation of one of the most successful yet misunderstood European writers of the twentieth century. Zweig’s works, which have inspired recent film adaptations such as Xu Jinglei’s Letter from an Unknown Woman (2005) and Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), are only beginning to be rediscovered in Europe and North America, but the heated debate about his literary merit continues. This book, with its wealth of hitherto unexplored Chinese-language sources, sheds light on the Stefan Zweig conundrum through the lens of his Chinese reception to reveal surprising, and long overlooked, literary dimensions of his works.