Dorothy L. Sayers
Born
in Oxford, England
June 13, 1893
Died
December 17, 1957
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Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
955 editions
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1923
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Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey, #6)
73 editions
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1930
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Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)
52 editions
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1935
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Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
240 editions
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1927
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Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)
307 editions
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published
1933
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Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
332 editions
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1926
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Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)
70 editions
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1937
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The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)
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70 editions
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1934
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The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
262 editions
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1928
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Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)
32 editions
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1932
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“Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night
“A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of male friends? I replied that, on the contrary, I was an only child and had practically never seen or spoken to any men of my own age till I was about twenty-five. "Well," said the man, "I shouldn't have expected a woman (meaning me) to have been able to make it so convincing." I replied that I had coped with this difficult problem by making my men talk, as far as possible, like ordinary human beings. This aspect of the matter seemed to surprise the other speaker; he said no more, but took it away to chew it over. One of these days it may quite likely occur to him that women, as well as men, when left to themselves, talk very much like human beings also.”
― Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
― Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
Polls
April 2021 New School Poll
The Giver by Lois Lowry, 1993, 208 pages
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers, 1923, 212 pages
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1932, 453 pages
The Bone People by Keri Hulme, 1984, 450 pages
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth, 1932, 363 pages
The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi, 1957, 203 pages
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