Anthony Verrastro Mr. O’Brien English Short Fiction L3 21 December 2012 Duchess of Death‚ Queen of Crime‚ Master of Murder The most sold fiction author is not William Shakespeare‚ not Edgar Allen Poe‚ nor is it J.K. Rowling. Agatha Christie is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the “Best Selling Fiction Author of All-Time” in 2007. As an author‚ she also holds a place in being called the “second best-selling author of all time” and “the second most translated book” only behind William
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as C. Auguste Dupin After reading two famous amateur detective stories by Edgar Allan Poe and two by Arthur Conan Doyle‚ I found myself questioning the originality of Doyle’s stories as compared to Poe’s stories. The stories in question are "The Purloined Letter" and "Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Poe and "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" and "A Scandal in Bohemia" by Doyle. All four of these stories had very exciting story lines and had very interesting mysterious aspects . Since the Poe stories
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NAME: Ishita Chaudhary [ishichaudhary@gmail.com] ROLL No.: 016 CLASS: SYBA ‘A’ I have taken up the brand of ‘Sherlock Holmes’‚ the character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle‚ from its inception in the 19th century till present day. INTRODUCTION AND HISTORY When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first introduced Sherlock Holmes to the reading public in 1887‚ nothing could have prepared him for the fact he had created a character who was destined to become the most famous detective in the world
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maintain a clean appearance‚ but they live extremely differently. Poirot has a reputation for being tidy and coordinating his house to be “arranged with formal precision” (Christie‚ 75)‚ whereas Holmes’ is described as “one of the most untidy men” (Doyle‚ 585). Another difference between the two men is how social they are. Poirot is exceedingly friendly and can blend himself with all those he encounters‚ whether it be a group of gossiping women‚ the investigating police‚ or highly esteemed clients
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the form reveals. This course fulfills GenEd Global requirement. Required texts (available in the University bookstore): * Deane Mansfield-Kelley and Lois Marchino‚ eds. The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2005) * Arthur Conan Doyle‚ The Sign of Four‚ ed. Peter Ackroyd (Penguin) * Vikram Chandra‚ Love and Longing in Bombay (Back Bay) * Miyuki Miyabe‚ All She was Worth (Houghton Mifflin) * Boris Akunin‚ The Winter Queen (Random House) Note: Other editions (print
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Unknown Anomaly In the not so distant future‚ humanity has expanded its reach to distant planets‚ seeking refuge from Earth’s depleted resources. Among these colonies is Terra Nova‚ a swarming settlement on the outskirts of known space. Captain Brian Laurier leads the exploration vessel‚ the Mercury X‚ on a mission to scout new planetary systems for colonization. During a routine mission‚ the Mercury X encounters a peculiar anomaly—a rift in space-time that defies all known laws of physics. Its
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The article I read was Children: A Protected Species in Palliative Care by Brian Nyatanga. The article describes palliative care as a death process in which the patient‚ family‚ and friends benefit from being involved throughout the tough situation. The article mainly focuses on how children are usually not involved or even informed of the patient’s health issue(s). Children are commonly not involved for varies reasons‚ but generally because the parents don’t want the child to become affected in
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strived to accommodate the spiritual and paranormal within the domain of science and reason. At the same time‚ the Victorian era was marked by the rising awareness of the foreign influence and its consequences. In The Hound of the Baskervilles Conan Doyle explores both subjects to depict guilt as a force that stems from within and is spurred from without. As far as the family history goes‚ the Baskervilles are an old and cursed line haunted by the sins of their ancestor in form of a hellish beast. However
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In the essay (Ex)isles in the Harlem Renaissance‚ Brian Russel Roberts is under the assumption that it is possible the intended narrator of The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman is hidden within the novel itself. Roberts also discusses how the focuses on black communities and “the black internalization of white prejudice” (93) in the United States during the 1920’s. His essay also addresses the effects of being a black person surrounded by a “sea of white faces” (101) and how Emma Lou learned
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Irish Bagpipes (Brian Boru pipe) The bagpipes have been a huge part of Irish music for many years. Today the bagpipe is synonymous with Scotland‚ but the pipes really came from Ireland. The earliest bag pipes date back to 4000 B.C. in the Middle East‚ where a bagpipe is found in Chaldean sculptures. This evidence shows it is ancient‚ certainly as old as the harp and nearly as old as the drum. Greeks‚ Egyptians and Romans all marched to the sound of the pipes to battle. As
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