A Dick Francis companion : characters, horses, plots, settings and themes / / Stephen Sugden
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| Autore: |
Sugden Stephen <1950->
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| Titolo: |
A Dick Francis companion : characters, horses, plots, settings and themes / / Stephen Sugden
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| Pubblicazione: | Jefferson, North Carolina : , : McFarland & Co., , [2008] |
| ©2008 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823.914 |
| Soggetto topico: | Detective and mystery stories, English |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (page 273) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | A Dick Francis Companion; Acknowledgments; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Characters, Horses, Plots, Settings and Themes; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This exhaustive reference work examines the complete fictional works of Dick Francis, a former steeplechase jockey to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and an accomplished British novelist. As of 2007, Francis had written one volume of collected short stories and 40 novels, most of which contain one or more elements related to British horse racing. Organized in a dictionary format, the book lists and discusses both the major and the peripheral characters in Francis's novels and short stories, along with the horses, plots, locations and themes employed throughout. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A Dick Francis companion |
| ISBN: | 0-7864-5218-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910824696203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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