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1 day ago · Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. Her reputation rests on 66 detective novels and 15 short-story collections that have sold over two billion copies, an amount surpassed only by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare. [1] She is also the most translated individual author in ...
- The Man in The Brown Suit
The Man in the Brown Suit is a work of detective fiction by...
- The Under Dog and Other Stories
The Under Dog and Other Stories is a short story collection...
- They Came to Baghdad
They Came to Baghdad is an adventure novel by Agatha...
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the first detective novel...
- The Moving Finger
The Moving Finger is a detective novel by British writer...
- The Pale Horse
The Pale Horse is a work of detective fiction by British...
- Tommy and Tuppence
Tommy and Tuppence are two fictional detectives, recurring...
- List of Penguin Classics
This is a list of books published as Penguin Classics. In...
- The Man in The Brown Suit
1 day ago · "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization" novel, short story, essay, translation 2009: Herta Müller (b. 1953) Germany Romania: German: 56 "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed"
2 days ago · George Orwell (born June 25, 1903, Motihari, Bengal, India—died January 21, 1950, London, England) was an English novelist, essayist, and critic famous for his novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949), the latter a profound anti- utopian novel that examines the dangers of totalitarian rule. Born Eric Arthur Blair, Orwell ...
- What did George Orwell write?George Orwell wrote the political fable Animal Farm (1944), the anti-utopian novel Nineteen Eighty-four (1949), the unorthodox political treatise T...
- Where was George Orwell educated?George Orwell won scholarships to two of England’s leading schools, Wellington and Eton colleges. He briefly attended the former before transferrin...
- What was George Orwell’s family like?George Orwell was brought up in an atmosphere of impoverished snobbery, first in India and then in England. His father was a minor British official...
- Why was George Orwell famous?George Orwell wrote two hugely influential novels: Animal Farm (1944), a satire that allegorically depicted Joseph Stalin’s betrayal of the Russian...
4 days ago · Other authors on this list have created some of the most beloved and widely read series in history, including Louisa May Alcott and George R. R. Martin. The greatest American writers are some of the tops in their fields, producing some of the best novels, essays, films, short stories, stage plays, and poems of all time.
3 days ago · 1927–1938. 1927: "Cup of Gold" —A historical fiction based loosely on the life of the 17th-century pirate Henry Morgan. 1932: "The Pastures of Heaven" —Twelve interconnected stories about the people in a valley in Monterrey, California, a place that would become central in many of his later works.
1 day ago · v. t. e. The Old Testament ( OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites. [1] The second division of Christian Bibles is the New Testament, written in Koine Greek .
