Since the first installment of Dunnett’s series was published in 1961, Francis Crawford of Lymond, the swashbuckling protagonist of the stories, has been captivating his fellow characters and readers alike.Rather than approaching the books primarily as historical fiction, Richardson unravels the complexities of the main character by exploring his psychology, positioning the books within the genre of espionage, and examining Dunnett’s strategy of using games in her writing. Richardson’s insight and passion for his subject will inspire fans to revisit Dunnett’s series.
The correspondence of these two prominent women reveals their concerns with love, career, and marriage. Their letters tell the story of the first generation of women to come of age during the twentieth century, as they tried to cope with problems that still face women today.
In this anthology, renowned murder mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers tackles faith, doubt, human nature, and the most dramatic story ever told. For almost a century, a series of labyrinthine murder mysteries have kept fans turning pages hungrily as Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane discover whodunit, again and again. Detective novel enthusiasts may not know that for almost as many years, Christian thinkers have appreciated the same Dorothy L. Sayers for her acumen as an essayist, playwright, apologist, and preeminent translator of Dante's Divine Comedy. Now, for the first time, an anthology brings together the best of both worlds. The selections uncover the gospel themes woven throughout Sayers's popular fiction as well as her religious plays, correspondence, talks, and essays. Clues dropped throughout her detective stories reveal an attention to matters of faith that underlies all her work. Those who know Sayers from her nonfiction writings may wonder how she could also write popular genre fiction. Sayers, like her friend G. K. Chesterton, found murder mysteries a vehicle to explore the choices characters make between good and evil. Along with C. S. Lewis and the other Inklings, with whom she maintained a lively correspondence, Sayers used her popular fiction to probe deeper questions. She addressed not only matters of guilt and innocence, sin and redemption, but also the cost of war, the role of the conscience, and the place of women in society. None of these themes proved any hindrance to spinning a captivating yarn. Her murder mysteries are more reminiscent of Jane Austen than Arthur Conan Doyle, with all the tense interpersonal exploration of the modern novel.
How do you cope when your best attempt to do a good deed simply shows you how un-good you really are? Dorothy is contented with her life as a wedding seamstress. She loves her two adult children, her husband, and her church. She is gifted with the ability to turn heaps of pink satin, lemon-yellow chiffon, and white lace into exquisite gowns. Her clients are beautiful, well-bred, and pay her well. Timid Dorothy doesn't like change, but even volunteering at the crisis pregnancy clinic doesn't shake her peaceful life too much. Then Bailey wanders into the clinic: pregnant, angry, abrasive, and hiding the pain of a dark secret. In a wild moment of compassion and uncertainty, Dorothy convinces her supportive husband, Gary, that they should invite Bailey to live with them until the baby is born. Let the story begin
The finale in a trilogy of books about ordinary people whose lives are touched by an extraordinary God Dorothy McGuire, having been a victim of child abuse, finally overcomes her past and the prospect of marriage to the love of her life, David Osborne, zooms in.Raymond Littleton is a naive, immature aristocrat, who has deserted Mary Osborne and married Susan. Over time he realises his grave error and becomes full of remorse, leading to drunkenness and a mugging A drama unfolds when he is confronted by the counsel of an old lady from the unlikeliest circumstances, and his life is never the same.Jennifer Townsend is separated from her husband and now lives with her sister, Betty. She is challenged by Dorothy to confront the authoritarian, religious upbringing that has held her in bondage since childhood.Two young teenagers -Robert Templeman and Sarah Manning- tussle with the pulls of young love
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