Bibliograph

X.Y.Z., Anna Katharine Green ; çeviri: Füsun Dikmen

Type

Label

X.Y.Z., Anna Katharine Green ; çeviri: Füsun Dikmen

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

X.Y.Z.

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Anna Katharine Green ; çeviri: Füsun Dikmen

Summary

This early work by Anna Katharine Green was originally published in 1883 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'X Y Z' is one of Green's novels of crime and mystery. Anna Katharine Green was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA in 1846. She aspired to be a writer from a young age, and corresponded with Ralph Waldo Emerson during her late teens. When her poetry failed to gain recognition, Green produced her first and best-known novel, The Leavenworth Case (1878). Praised by Wilkie Collins, the novel was year's bestseller, establishing Green's reputation. Green wrote at a time when fiction, and especially crime fiction, was dominated by men. However, she is now credited with shaping detective fiction into its classic form, and developing the trope of the recurring detective

Target audience

adult

Contributor