The Death of Woman Wang
The Death of Woman Wang

Author: Jonathan D. Spence

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1979-03-29

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 014005121X

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“Spence shows himself at once historian, detective, and artist. . . . He makes history howl.” (The New Republic) Award-winning author Jonathan D. Spence paints a vivid picture of an obscure place and time: provincial China in the seventeenth century. Life in the northeastern county of T’an-ch’eng emerges here as an endless cycle of floods, plagues, crop failures, banditry, and heavy taxation. Against this turbulent background a tenacious tax collector, an irascible farmer, and an unhappy wife act out a poignant drama at whose climax the wife, having run away from her husband, returns to him, only to die at his hands. Magnificently evoking the China of long ago, The Death of Woman Wang also deepens our understanding of the China we know today.

The Death of a Woman
The Death of a Woman

Author: Jane Hollister Wheelwright

Publisher: St Martins Press

Published: 1981-01-01

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 9780312187446

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A Jungian analyst records the last few months of therapeutic meetings between herself and a thirty-sevenyear-old woman dying of cancer, providing a moving portrait of one woman's confrontation with death

Death of a Greedy Woman
Death of a Greedy Woman

Author: M. C. Beaton

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2011-07-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0446585505

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Travel to the Scotland Highlands with this classic Hamish Macbeth cozy mystery from the author of the Agatha Raisin series. Death of a Greedy Woman: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery There's not a cloud in Constable Hamish Macbeth's sky, just plenty of warm sunshine and not quite enough of beautiful Priscilla Halburton-Smythe. But as eight hopeful members of the Checkmate Singles Club converge on Tommel Castle Hotel for a week of serious matchmaking, the clouds roll in. The four couples, carefully matched by dating director Maria Worth, immediately dislike each other. The arrival of Maria's gross, greedy partner, Peta, kills the last vestige of romance. And as love goes out the window, murder comes in the door. Peta soon slurps up her last meal, and Hamish is left with a baffling puzzle: Who shared the fateful outing that left Peta dead with a big red apple in her mouth? Surely not of those singles...

Women and the Material Culture of Death
Women and the Material Culture of Death

Author: Maureen Daly Goggin

Publisher: PHP研究所

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 9781409444169

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Women and the Material Culture of Death is a book that is at once ambitious, compelling and poignant. The nineteen, cross-disciplinary, generously illustrated essays that comprise this collection reveal the hidden history of women's role in mourning the dead through a range of material practices from the early modern period to the present."--Publisher's description.

Death and the Joyful Woman
Death and the Joyful Woman

Author: Ellis Peters

Publisher: Mysterious Press

Published: 1995-10

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780446400688

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A millionaire is murdered and Inspector Felse, after sifting through the few shreds of evidence, finally arrests Kitty Norris, his teenaged son Dominic's first love. A young man's infatuation soon becomes something far more dangerous, though, as Dominic takes on Kitty's cause--in direct opposition to his father's investigation.

This Woman is Death
This Woman is Death

Author: Hank Janson

Publisher:

Published: 2013-09-28

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 9781845838713

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Only recently out of the Army and back in the USA after fighting the Japanese in the Far East, Hank Janson is in no mood to just sit back and take it when his old friend Lola gets caught in the crossfire of a bar-room shooting. He sets out to avenge her death, finding himself up against a vicious gangster - and three even more dangerous women ... With their erotic pin-up covers and hardboiled crime tales, the Hank Janson pulp paperbacks were a British publishing sensation in the 1940s and 1950s, selling millions of copies to readers craving escapism from post-war austerity. Prosecutions under Britain's then-harsh obscenity laws dealt them a severe blow, however, and today they are highly sought after by collectors. The tough, uncompromising This Woman is Death was the very first novel in the regular Hank Janson series, originally published in 1948. It is reissued by Telos Publishing complete with its original Reginald Heade cover.

Women and Death in Film, Television, and News
Women and Death in Film, Television, and News

Author: Joanne Clarke Dillman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-11-26

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1137452285

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Dead women litter the visual landscape of the 2000s. In this book, Clarke Dillman explains the contextual environment from which these images have arisen, how the images relate to (and sometimes contradict) the narratives they help to constitute, and the cultural work that dead women perform in visual texts.

Women and Death 3
Women and Death 3

Author: Clare Bielby

Publisher: Camden House

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1571134395

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Studies representations of women and death by women to see whether and how they differ from patriarchal versions.

The Death of Mrs. Westaway
The Death of Mrs. Westaway

Author: Ruth Ware

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2018-05-29

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1501156225

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A “perfectly executed suspense tale very much in the mode of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca” (The Washington Post) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Turn of the Key. On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person—but also that the cold-reading skills she’s honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money. Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased…where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance at the center of it. Full of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware’s signature suspenseful style, this is a “captivating and eerie page-turner” (The Wall Street Journal) from the Agatha Christie of our time.

Secrets of Life and Death
Secrets of Life and Death

Author: Renate Siebert

Publisher: Verso

Published: 1996-11-17

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781859840238

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This volume focuses on women whose lives are entangled in the workings of the Mafia, drawing on courtroom testimonies, interviews, contemporary journalism and recent research. Individual narratives illuminate women's experiences, both as victims or active opponents.