![]() ![]() In 1975, Christie received a letter from a woman in Latin America who had thus saved a woman from slow poisoning by her husband and in 1977, a nurse who had been reading The Pale Horse correctly suggested that a baby in her care was suffering from thallium poisoning. ![]() This novel is notable among Christie's books as it is credited with having saved at least two lives after readers recognised the symptoms of thallium poisoning from the description in the book. The other reintroduced Christie's earlier thoughts about "Voodoo etc., White Cocks, Arsenic? Childish stuff - work on the mind and what can the law do to you? Love Potions and Death Potions, - the aphrodisiac and the cup of poison. One, a book "would start somehow with a list of names. The Pale Horse combined two ideas that Agatha Christie had been considering. ![]()
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Here, at her most provacative and intensely personel, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() A historian of the City and University of Oxford, he annotated many of the ballads in his collection with the date of his purchase and sometimes with commentaries on the historical events referred to in the verses. He was an internationally recognized scholar on John Keats, and he edited the authoritative two-volume edition of Keats' letters." "Anthony Wood was an Oxford resident who collected contemporary ballads from an early age: his collection covers many subjects and dates from the period from about 1640 until his death. He was a prolific author of articles and books on Elizabethan poetry, broadside ballads, and Romantic poets. "Hyder Edward Rollins (8 November 1889 25 July 1958) was an American scholar and English professor. 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Parini was asked to look after him while his translator was unexpectedly called away. There, through unlikely circumstances, he met famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges.īorges was in his seventies, blind and frail. ![]() He was in frantic flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search of his adult life. In this evocative work of what the author in his Afterword calls 'autofiction' or 'a kind of novelised memoir', Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United States for Scotland. The renowned biographer, novelist, and poet recounts his transformative youthful. ![]() ![]() OL11884W Page_number_confidence 89.63 Pages 166 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200704135123 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 568 Scandate 20200622080839 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780192754844 Tts_version 4. 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