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Lädt ... The Daughters of Cain (1998. Auflage)1,227 | 17 | 15,881 |
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HTML: Audacious and amusing . . . may be the best book yet in this deservedly celebrated series.The Wall Street Journal
It was only the second time Inspector Morse had ever taken over a murder enquiry after the preliminaryinvariably dramaticdiscovery and sweep of the crime scene. Secretly pleased to have missed the blood and gore, Morse and the faithful Lewis go about finding the killer who stabbed Dr. Felix McClure, late of Wolsey College. In another part of Oxford, three womena housecleaner, a schoolteacher, and a prostituteare playing out a drama that has long been unfolding. It will take much brain work, many pints, and not a little anguish before Morse sees the startling connections between McClure's death and the daughters of Cain. . . . Praise for The Daughters of Cain Very cleverly constructed. . . Dexter writes with an urbanity and range of reference that is all his own.Los Angeles Times You dont really know Morse until youve read him. . . . Viewers who have enjoyed British actor John Thaw as Morse in the PBS Mystery! anthology series should welcome the deeper character development in Dexters novels.Chicago Sun-Times
A masterful crime writer whom few others match.Publishers Weekly.… (mehr) |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. Oxford is the Latin quarter of Cowley (Anon) Prolegomena: Natales grate numeras? (Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?) (Horace, Epistles II) Chapter 1: Pension: generally understood to mean monies grudgingly bestowed on aging hirelings after a lifetime of occasional devotion to duty (Small's Enlarged English Dictionary, 12th Edition) Chapter 2: Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough, A-top on the topmost twig -- which the pluckers forgot somehow -- Forgot it not, nay, but got it not, for none could get it till now (D. G. Rossetti, Translations from Sappho) Chapter 3: Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went (Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam) Chapter 4: Krook chalked the letter upon the wall -- in a very curious manner, beginning with the end of the letter, and shaping it backward. It was a capital letter, not a printed one. "Can you read it?" he asked me with a keen glance (Charles Dickens, Bleak House) Chapter 5: O quid solutis est beatius curis, Cum mens onus reponit, ac peregrino Labore fessi venimus larem ad nostrum, Desideratoque acquiescimus lecto? (What bliss! First spot the house -- and then Flop down -- on one's old bed again) (Catullus, 31) Chapter 6: Envy and idleness married together beget curiosity (Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia) Chapter 7: For 'tis in vain to think or guess At women by appearances (Samuel Butler, Hudibras) Chapter 8: Caeli, Lesbia nostra, Lesbia illa, Illa Lesbia, quom Catullus unam Plus quam se atque suos amavit omnes, Nunc in quadriviis et angiportis Glubit magnanimi Remi nepotes (Catullus, Poems LVII) Chapter 9: And like a skylit water stood The bluebells in the azured wood (A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XLI) Chapter 10: A long time passed -- minutes or years -- while the two of us sat there in silence. Then I said something, asked something, but he didn't respond. I looked up and saw the moisture running down his face (Eduardo Galeano, The Book of Embraces) Chapter 11: You; my Lady, certainly don't dye your hair to deceive the others, nor even yourself; but only to cheat your own image a little before the looking-glass (Luigi Pirandello, Henry IV) Chapter 12: To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice, and while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics) Chapter 13: Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death (Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Two Voices) Chapter 14: Everyone can master a grief but he who has it (Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing) Chapter 15: Say, for what were hop-yards meant Or why was Burton built on Trent? Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man (A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, LXII) Chapter 16: And sidelong glanced, as to explore, In meditated flight, the door (Sir Walter Scott, Rokeby) Chapter 17: Examination: trial; test of knowledge and, as also may be hoped, capacity; close inspection (especially med.) (Small's Enlarged English Dictionary, 1812 Edition) Chapter 18: Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honor (Ecclesiastes, ch. 10, v. 1) Chapter 19: The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife (Cyril Connolly) Chapter 20: When you live next to the cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone (Russian proverb) Chapter 21: Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it. A child who fears becomes an adult who hates (Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave) Chapter 22: We all wish to be of importance in one way or another (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals) Chapter 23: One night I contrived to stay in the Natural History Museum, hiding myself at closing time in the Fossil Invertebrate Gallery, and spending an enchanted night alone in the museum, wandering from gallery to gallery with a flashlight (Oliver Sacks, The Observer, January 9, 1994) Chapter 24: Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kind of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty (G. K. Chesterton, All Things Considered) Chapter 25: The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom (H. L. Mencken) Chapter 26: Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead (Benjamin Franklin) Chapter 27: Men will pay large sums to whores For telling them they are not bores (W. H. Auden, New Year Letter Chapter 28: I do not love thee, Doctor Fell, The reason why I cannot tell, But this one thing I know full well: I do not love thee, Doctor Fell (Thomas Brown, I Do Not Love Thee, Doctor Fell) Chapter 29: My predestinated lot in life, alas, has amounted to this: a mens not particularly sana in a corpore not particularly sano (Viscount Mumbles, Reflections on My Life) Chapter 30: Randolph, you're not going to like this, but I was in bed with your wife (Murder Ink: Alibis we never want to hear again) Chapter 31: There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern (Samuel Johnson, Obiter Dictum, March 21, 1776) Chapter 32: These are, as I began, cumbersome ways to kill a man. Simpler, direct and much more neat is to see he is living somewhere in the middle of the twentieth century, and leave him there (Edwin Brock, Five Ways to Kill a Man) Chapter 33: It is an inexorable sort of festivity -- in September 1914 they tried to cancel it, but the Home Secretary himself admitted that he was powerless to do so (Jan Morris, Oxford) Chapter 34: The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea (Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II) Chapter 35: In me there dwells No greatness, save it be some far-off touch Of greatness to know well I am not great (Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine) Chapter 36: Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle towards my hand? (Shakespeare, Macbeth) Chapter 37: I enjoy convalescence; it is the part that makes the illness worth while (George Bernard Shaw) Chapter 38: The museum has retained much of its Victorian character. Painstakingly hand-written labels can still be found attached to some of the artefacts in the crammed black cases there (The Pitt Rivers Museum, A Souvenir Guide) Chapter 39: Yes You have come upon the fabled lands where myths Go when they die (James Fenton, "The Pitt Rivers Museum") Chapter 40: Thursday is a bad day. Wednesday is quite a good day. Friday is an even better one. But Thursday, whatever the reason, is a day on which my spirit and my resolution, are at their lowest ebb. Yet even worse is any day of the week upon which, after a period of blessed idleness, I come face to face with the prospect of a premature return to my labours (Diogenes Small, Autobiography) Chapter 41: His failing powers disconcerted him, for what he would do with women he was unsure to perform, and he could rarely accept the appearance of females who thought of topics other than coitus (Peter Champkin, The Sleeping Life of Aspern Williams) Chapter 42: You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think (Attributed to Dorothy Parker) Chapter 43: The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it (Alexander Woollcott) Chapter 44: No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary to keep awake all day for that purpose (Frederick Nietzsche) Chapter 45: Keep careful watch too on the moral wants of your patients, which may cause them to tell untruths about things prescribed -- and things proscribed (Corpus Hippocraticum) Chapter 46: I once knew a person who spoke in dialect with an accent (Irvin Cobb) Chapter 47: Given a number which is a square, when can we write it as the sum of two other squares? (Diophantus, Arithmetic) Chapter 48: It'll do him good to lie there unconscious for a bit. Give his brain a rest (N. F. Simpson, One-Way Pendulum) Chapter 49: I sometimes wonder which would be nicer -- an opera without an interval, or an interval without an opera (Ernest Newman, Berlioz, Romantic and Classic) Chapter 50: There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's headdress: within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees (Joseph Addison, The Spectator) Chapter 51: Needles and pins, needles and pins When a man marries his trouble begins (Old nursery rhyme) Chapter 52: I said this was fine utterance and sounded well though it could have been polished and made to mean less (Peter Champkin, The Sleeping Life of Aspern Williams) Chapter 53: "Jo, my poor fellow!" "I hear you, sir, in the dark, but I'm a-gropin' -- a-gropin' -- let me catch hold of your hand." "Jo, can you say what I say?" "I'll say anythink as you say, sir, for I know it's good." "OUR FATHER." "Our Father! -- yes, that's wery good, sir!" (Charles Dickens, Bleak House) Chapter 54: Cambridge has espoused the river, has opened its arms to the river, has built some of its finest Houses alongside the river. Oxford has turned its back on the river, for only at some points downstream from Folly Bridge does the Isis glitter so gloriously as does the Cam (J. J. Smithfield-Waterstone, Oxford and Cambridge: A Comparison) Chapter 55: It's a strong stomach that has no turning (Oliver Herford) Chapter 56: He could not be a lighterman or river-carrier; there was no clue to what he looked for, but he looked for something with a most intent and searching gaze (Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend) Chapter 57: Karl Popper teaches that knowledge is advanced by the positing and testing of hypotheses. Countless hypotheses, I believe, are being tested at once in the unconscious mind; only the winning shortlist is handed to our consciousness (Matthew Paris, The Times, March 7, 1994) Chapter 58: Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews, ch. 11, v. 1) Chapter 59: St. Anthony of Egypt (c. 251-356 AD): hermit and founder of Christian monastecism. An ascetic who freely admitted to being sorely beset by virtually every temptation, and most especially by sexual temptation. Tradition has it that he frequently invited a nightly succession of naked women to parade themselves in front of him as he lay, hands manacled behind his back, in appropriately transparent but not wholely claustrophobic sacking (Simon Small, An Irreverent Survey of the Saints) Chapter 60: When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail. For the female of the species is more deadly than the male (Rudyard Kipling, The Female of the Species) Chapter 61: The total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution (Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals) Chapter 62: dactyloscopy (n): the examination of fingerprints (Early Twentieth Century) (The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary) Chapter 63: Fingerprints do get left at crime scenes. Even the craftiest of perpetrators sometimes forget to wipe up everywhere (Murder Ink, Incriminating Evidence) Chapter 64: Gestalt (n): chiefly Psychol. An integrated perceptual structure or unity conceived as functionally more than the sum of its parts (The New Shorter Oxford Dictionary) Chapter 65: Behold, I shew you a mystery (St. Paul, I Corinthians, ch. 15, v. 51) Chapter 66: The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven (John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I) Chapter 67: We can prove whatever we want to; the only real difficulty is to know what we want to prove (Emile Chartier, Système de beaux arts) Chapter 68: She turned away, but with the autumn weather Compelled my imagination many days, Many days and many hours (T. S. Eliot, La Figlia che Piange) Chapter 69: Amongst the tribes of Central Australia, every person has, besides a personal name which is in common use, a secret name which was bestowed upon him or her soon after birth, and which is known to none but the fully initiated (James Frazer, The Golden Bough) Chapter 70: Then grief forever after; because forever after nothing less would ever do (J. G. F. Potter, Anything to Declare?) Epilogue: Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment (Samuel Johnson, in Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson) | |
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Mystery.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:Audacious and amusing . . . may be the best book yet in this deservedly celebrated series.The Wall Street Journal
It was only the second time Inspector Morse had ever taken over a murder enquiry after the preliminaryinvariably dramaticdiscovery and sweep of the crime scene. Secretly pleased to have missed the blood and gore, Morse and the faithful Lewis go about finding the killer who stabbed Dr. Felix McClure, late of Wolsey College. In another part of Oxford, three womena housecleaner, a schoolteacher, and a prostituteare playing out a drama that has long been unfolding. It will take much brain work, many pints, and not a little anguish before Morse sees the startling connections between McClure's death and the daughters of Cain. . . . Praise for The Daughters of Cain Very cleverly constructed. . . Dexter writes with an urbanity and range of reference that is all his own.Los Angeles Times You dont really know Morse until youve read him. . . . Viewers who have enjoyed British actor John Thaw as Morse in the PBS Mystery! anthology series should welcome the deeper character development in Dexters novels.Chicago Sun-Times
A masterful crime writer whom few others match.Publishers Weekly. ▾Bibliotheksbeschreibungen Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. ▾Beschreibung von LibraryThing-Mitgliedern
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Structurally the author's erudition is on display with apposite quotations heading up each of the chapters. I found the old style of narrative where there is an omniscient author who occasionally intrudes very obviously into the text, together with the constant head hopping whereby we are told what every character in a scene is thinking, rather off putting. Also Morse is made rather unlikeable himself in this novel with even Lewis looking askance at him at one point. Afterwards I viewed the TV adaptation and found it had been considerably streamlined and the whole subplot of Morse's ill health and decline towards a projected retirement in a couple of years omitted. Of course there are a lot more episodes than novels so the character could not be killed off so quickly on TV. On the whole though, some of the more questionable and unconvincing parts of the novel such as Morse's reciprocated and unrequited love with the prostitute daughter of one character were well advisedly excised from the TV version with no loss as far as I was concerned. All in all, I would rate this at 3 stars. ( )