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Oct 22, 2019
Classic Horror
A classic "horror" film with complex characterization. Do not be looking for "boo scares" here. Just good old-fashioned storytelling.
May 21, 2017
Norton Critical Edition
Henry James' novella, Turn of the Screw, in this format, is a scholarly edition. College and graduate students in literature will find this latest edition by Norton Critical helpful if they are students looking for the primary work along with scholarly essays which are helpful in understanding this challenging novel. One might consider the Penguin classics edition if this weighty volume might be too cumbersome for the casual reader.
Aug 05, 2012
The third Beresford whodunit-spy-thriller from 1941 remains entertaining.
This review focuses on the Ulverscroft Large Print edition published in 1984.
Agatha Christie's N or M? (1941) was one of two books Christie worked on during wartime. In her autobiography, she writes: "I had decided to write two books at once, since one of the difficulties of writing a book is that it suddenly goes stale on you. Then you have to put it by, and do other things--but I believed that if I wrote two books, and alternated the writing of them, it would keep me fresh at the task."
In this third appearance of Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, both having appeared in The Secret Adversary (1922) and the short story anthology, Partners in Crime (1929), The Beresfords travel to a seaside resort, Sans Souci, in search of two spies, one male and one female, named respectively, N or M. A boarding house full of guests may be housing a spy or two and the Beresfords ferret out the guilty parties in time. Like any good Christie novel, it remains a kind of whodunit saving a reveleation for the final moments when both Tommy and Tuppence have avoided certain danger as a result of their sleuthings.
Christie fans will also appreciate the return of the minor yet colorful character, Albert Batt, whom we first meet in The Secret Adversary. Now married and a proprietor of a pub in Kennington, a south London suburb, he is not so busy that he cannot offer a lending hand to the Beresfords, whom he assists with his usual enthusiasm.
In this novel, we also return to one of Christie's favorite themes of children's stories and nursury rhymes as a clue reflective of her other novels: the Poirot mystery, Hickory, Dickory, Dock (1955) and the Miss Marple whodunit, A Pocketful of Rye (1953).
Christie fans should consider N or M? if they enjoy the Beresfords as detectives. They are in their mid-forties in this novel and their high spirits coupled with a strong sense of adventure remain despite feeling dismissed by government officials for their age. The process by which Tuppence comes to Sans Souci, which happens early in the novel, is characteristic of the humor Christie utilized when writing the Beresford mysteries. She gives them a lighter touch which in this case, makes for enjoyable reading.
The large print edition runs 328 pages and makes reading easier for those whose vision may be impaired.