Adventures of the Wishing-Chair (1937). As a woman on the make, Becky is the perfect blend of wit, cunning and cold-hearted ruthlessness. People queuing for the autograph of Enid Blyton at a store in Brompton on 2 January 1945, Illustration of Noddy and Big Ears by Harmsen van der Beek (Sotheby's London), Enid Blyton has sold 600 million books worldwide (Rex). Foreshadowing the antisemitism of Nazi-occupied Europe, as well as the methods of the Stasi, KGB, and StB, it’s an unsettling, at times bewildering, tale with chilling resonance. I pitied her.”, Imogen's daughter Sophie, Enid's granddaughter, offered a kinder assessment of Blyton’s work in 2009, telling The Guardian: “Her writing is that of an intelligent 12-year-old. Famous Five and Secret Seven Sinhala Translations Click on the link to buy books on-line Famous five Sinhala translation Panpasinduwan lohitha kulune abhirahasa Kondurana doopathata giya panpasinduwo Meedum mitiyawathe abhirahasa Andakaraye pemini soradetuwa Wawa pathule sangawunu nidanaya Secret Seven Sinhala translations Abirahas Bimgeya (Eha Gedara Lama Kollaya) (Pasidu Pasdenage … If you haven’t read PG Wodehouse in a hot bath with a snifter of whisky and ideally a rubber duck for company, you haven’t lived. Secret Seven was, I think, aimed at younger children which they were meant to read before progressing to Famous Five. In an astonishing act of literary ventriloquism, Mantel inhabits a fictionalised version of Thomas Cromwell, a working-class boy who rose through his own fierce intelligence to be a key player in the treacherous world of Tudor politics. The delicate original illustrations by Dutchman Harmsen van der Beek deserve a greater share of the credit than is usually given. And how much”. –the great Russian novelist captures the erotic charge between the married Anna and the bachelor Vronsky, then drags his heroine through society’s scorn as their affair takes shape, without ever suggesting we move from her side. They never suggest new and exciting fields to conquer.”. Scrap the wartime prologue, and Charles’s entire relationship with Sebastian’s sister Julia (Dear Evelyn, thank you for your latest manuscript, a few suggested cuts…) and you’re looking at one of the most affecting love affairs in the English language. In Anna Karenina – enormous, too! Dedicated to the “Sixty Million and more” Africans and their descendants who died as a result of the slave trade, this is a cultural milestone and a Pulitzer-winning tour de force. Secret Seven on the Trail (1952) A trick by Susie and her infuriating Famous Five group send George and Jack on a trek to Tigger's Barn. It only takes one sentence, written in the first person, for Salinger’s Holden Caulfield to announce himself in all his teenage nihilism, sneering at you for wanting to know his biographical details “and all that David Copperfield kind of crap”. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? 4. It’s not hard to read the Count as a shadowy sexual figure surprising straitlaced Victorian England in their beds, but in Stoker’s hands he’s also bloody creepy.