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Hace 1 día · Allen & Unwin, $32.99. Dementia is particularly cruel to the intelligent, and especially to lovers of words: think of Terry Pratchett, Iris Murdoch, Robin Williams. Wordsmiths who are also ...
Hace 4 horas · Dorothy L. Sayers, too, has her own kind of wit, and it is that which makes the Peter Wimsey books often so charming. Her observations of class differences never fail to feel sharp, and her depiction of Lord Peter’s mother often has a trenchant edge.
Hace 1 día · Like Wilkie Collins’ landmark detective novel The Moonstone and Margaret Cole’s Burglars in Bucks and Dorothy L. Sayers’s The Documents in the Case, both published a few years earlier in 1930, S. S. Murder is also an epistolary mystery novel.
Hace 3 días · When Dorothy L. Sayers stopped writing Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane novels, she did write a few letters featuring Wimsey family members during the Second World War. Jill Paton Walsh was already a successful author when she was entrusted by Sayers’ estate to use these letters to write continuation novels.
Hace 4 días · Usa un estilo directo, potente, franco. Las palabras estallan, se mueven, se levantan del libro para tocar al lector y abrazarlo sin darle tregua alguna. En 1952, la escritora Dorothy L. Sayers diría:” Para los jóvenes de mi generación, G.K.C era una especie de libertador cristiano.
Hace 2 días · Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers My rating: 4 of 5 stars I'm on a bit of a run of reading century-old crime novels at the moment, largely for lack of anything good that's come out recently. I'd heard that the Wimsey novels had a bit more depth than most, and could easily believe it, having read some of the author's dramatic work years ago.
Hace 3 días · Strong Poison (1930) by Dorothy L. Sayers [5] The unabridged version of the essay actually goes into a discussion of the authors’ writing technique and the rationale for each inclusion, which I found the most interesting part. There’s some genre history I was completely unaware of, and analysis of what makes each writer tick.
