Books with title The Deadly 7

Alfie has decided to learn to read at St Giles Ragged School. But the school is set on fire and idealistic teacher Mr Elmore perishes in the flames. Alfie and his gang are certain that this was no accident and are determined to find the murderer. Together, they must sift clues and shadow suspects through the mean streets of Victorian London which they know so well – until the shocking truth is revealed.

Firestone Books (2013 Edition) - Gabriel Conroy attends the Morkan sisters' annual dance, but a series of awkward moments, and a revelation about his wife’s past lead him to wonder if, rather than to live a long life and then be forgotten, it is better to die young and be remembered. The Dead, first published in 1914 as part of the short story collection, The Dubliners, is widely regarded as James Joyce’s finest shorter work.

The spirit of Tara s deceased former stepmother, Kali, seeks revenge through her daughter, Layla. And so begins a series of carefully orchestrated events to cast suspicion on Tara: a dead dog in the village temple, contaminated well water, and whispers that Tara is still possessed. Layla fuels the villagers blind superstitions and fears, and soon all of Morni is against Tara, even her own family. Death seems to be the only way to stop her evil stepsister. Tara turns to Lord Yama and his deadly conch for help. He takes her to the Underworld to seek advice, but when she returns, she has only twenty-four hours to prove her innocence and to save the village before she must go back to the World of the Dead. Forever. Can Tara believe in herself once more to defeat Layla, or will Lord Yama and his deadly conch claim their next victim? The harrowing conclusion to the thrilling Tara Trilogy answers these questions and more.

Sprocket’s lost his memory; Amy’s lost her dad. So now the two of them are on a quest that will take them to the weirdest nudist colony in the world—a hidden community whose dangerous experiments are keeping the nudists alive artificially. Now that their secret is out, are Amy and Sprocket’s lives in peril?Shortlisted for the Young Australia Best Book Award (YABBA) 2001 & 2002.

It is now more than one hundred years since the first publication of The Dead and this wonderful story continues to fascinate readers, even prompting in recent times a film adaptation and a stage play. There are many who feel it is the finest short story/novella ever written. Beautifully executed in so many ways, multilayered and possessing an ineffable delicateness in subtlety throughout, it may indeed be James Joyce’s finest writing. There is something so captivating in the way The Dead unfolds that even peripheral characters such as Lily the caretaker’s daughter, Miss Ivors and Bartell D’Arcy take on a very definite existence and linger with the reader taken through this tale of tussle between the living and the dead. Critical interest in the story has remained active with scholars still debating the meaning of the title, still searching out the meaning of Gabriel’s ‘journey westward’, and continuing identifying thematic significances. One fact that there is unanimity upon is that Gabriel Conroy is James Joyce—and the twenty-five year-old James Joyce writing the story in Trieste in the spring and summer of 1907 is harsh on himself: ‘A shameful consciousness of his own person assailed him. He saw himself as a ludicrous figure, acting as a pennyboy for his aunts, a nervous well-meaning sentimentalist, orating to vulgarians and idealizing his own clownish lusts, the pitiable fatuous fellow he had caught a glimpse of in the mirror. Instinctively he turned his back more to the light lest she might see the shame that burned upon his forehead.’ The ending of the story where Gabriel looks out the window of his room in the Gresham Hotel and watches the snow — ‘His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.’ — is quite unforgettable. This lavishly illustrated version of The Dead contains fifty-six illustrations of the contemporary Dublin world depicted in the novella. Many of the photos, including photos of the opera singers mentioned, are seen for the first time in Joycean material.

This edition of Joyce's classic short story from Dubliners presents the 1969 Viking critical edition, prepared by Robert Scholes, along with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised for a student audience - that read "The Dead" from five contemporary critical perspectives.Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective, and a bibliography that promotes further exploration of that approach.The text and essays are further complemented by an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts to Joyce and "The Dead," a survey of critical responses to the story since its initial publication, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its highly controversial successor Finnegans Wake (1939), as well as the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). Although he spent most of his adult life outside Ireland, Joyce's fictional universe is firmly rooted in Dublin, providing the settings and much of the subject matter for all his fiction. In particular, his tempestuous early relationship with the Irish Roman Catholic Church is reflected through a similar inner conflict in his recurrent alter ego Stephen Dedalus. As the result of his minute attentiveness to a personal locale and his self-imposed exile and influence throughout Europe, Joyce became simultaneously one of the most cosmopolitan and one of the most local of all the great English language writers.

The Dead is the last story in James Joyce's collection of stories entitled Dubliners and also the longest piece in the book. Appreciated by critics and often called one of the finest short stories in English literature, The Dead surprises both with its plot and its wonderful, poetic language, so characteristic to Joyce.The main character of the story is Gabriel Conroy, a professor. At the beginning, he arrives late at the party held by the Morkan sisters to celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany. Then, the story continues with the events at the party as they are experienced by Conroy - the conversations he has before dinner, including a confrontation with an Irish nationalist that will define Conroy's mood for most of the evening, the music he listens to, the dinner, the snow that has just started to fall and will soon be covering all Ireland, then the end of the party and the night spent with his wife in a hotel. Though Conroy hopes to spend a passionate night with his wife, Gretta, the woman is way too preoccupied with her thoughts. Conroy insists to find out what is bothering Gretta, who tells him about a man she was very much in love with when she was young, but who died before they could get married. Gretta soon falls asleep and Gabriel contemplates the important role that the memory of dead people plays in our life and how every one of us will eventually become a memory. This beautiful short story influenced many authors, including Joyce Carol Oates, and it was adapted for the stage and for the big screen, too. It was first staged in 1967 as a one-act play, then it was made into a movie first in 1987, with Anjelica Huston in the role of Gretta, an it was also adapted as a musical that won a Tony Award.