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About 112 pages (33,687 words) in 6 products |
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P. D. James | | Variant Name: |
Phyllis Dorothy James | | Birth Date: |
August 3, 1920 | | Place of Birth: |
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 Biography of P. D. James
12470 words, approx. 41.6 pages
 The coming-of-age of a mature crime fiction in England, to which P. D. James has contributed prominently, can be attributed to a variety of disparate causes: the rapid changes in a society that had appeared for so long as monolithic; the end of the death... summary from source:
 Biography of Phyllis Dorothy James White
11974 words, approx. 39.9 pages
[This entry was updated by Ann Sanders Cargill (Columbia, S.C.) from the entry by Bernard Benstock (University of Miami) in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 180-199.] The coming-of-age of a mature crime fiction in Engla... summary from source:
Biography of Phyllis Dorothy James White
5045 words, approx. 16.8 pages
P. D. James is the inheritor of some of the most distinguished literary mantles in popular fiction, those previously worn by detective-story writers who achieved near perfection in their craft. James's works hearken back to Agatha Christie's ingenious pl...
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426 words, approx. 1 pages
 Devices and Desires is a 1989 detective novel in the Adam Dalgliesh series by P. D. James. It takes place on Larksoken, an isolated headland in...
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 Independent Review Democratic Devices and Desires. (book review)
06/22/2001: 1,501 words, approx. 5 pages Democratic Devices and Desires By Geoffrey Brennan and Alan Hamlin New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 267. $54.95 cloth, $22.95 paper My main complaint about Geoffrey Brennan and Alan Hamlin's new book is its title, which supplies a... summary from source:
American Political Science Review Democratic Devices and Desires.(Review) (book review)
12/01/2000: 612 words, approx. 2 pages By Geoffrey Brennan and Alan Hamlin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 267p. $59.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. The central argument of this book is that the standard rational actor model is an impoverished representation of individual motivation. To replace it, the authors use...
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