<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">That image I sent was from "Goodreads", which I don't think has a habit of tricking the reader.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">And I found it listed with three different names in various places. But the third name, "Winter's Tale" (without the leading "A"), is the majority. Google search for that produces a different Goodreads page and pages at Wikipedia and other places.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 9:42 PM cjhi <a href="http://newcastle2.com">newcastle2.com</a> <<a href="mailto:cjhi@newcastle2.com">cjhi@newcastle2.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-6621446714407689357">
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Fascinating -- I can't find the Amazonesque entry even if I search directly for it, or Google "new york winter's tale". (I thought it might have been a retitling for marketing; cf
<i>Murder at the War</i>, which somebody reissued as <i>Knightfall</i>.) Somebody's having us on....</div>
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<div dir="auto">The novel is:<br>
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<div>“Winter’s Tale”, written by Mark Helprin, copyright ©️ 1983. <br>
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Ah, I see that it is listed as "A Winter's Tale" in Mark Helprin booklist. But see the attached, which was the first thing that a google search produced.</div>
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<div>Here is the list of the three books I am putting forward to be voted on during our November Reading Group. <br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">1924</span><span style="font-size:15px"><br>
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<h1 style="font-style:normal"><span style="color:rgb(30,25,21)"><b><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">The King of Elfland's Daughter</span></span></b></span><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br>
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<h3 style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;line-height:200%"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9172.Lord_Dunsany" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(30,25,21)"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">Lord
Dunsany</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color:rgb(30,25,21)"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">, </span></span></span></span></span><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1221698.Neil_Gaiman" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(30,25,21)"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">Neil
Gaiman (Introduction)</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:137%"><span style="color:rgb(30,25,21)"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">The poetic style and
sweeping grandeur of The King of Elfland's Daughter has made it one of the most beloved fantasy novels of our time, a masterpiece that influenced some of the greatest contemporary fantasists. The heartbreaking story of a marriage between a mortal man and an
elf princess is a masterful tapestry of the fairy tale following the "happily ever after."</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:137%"><span style="color:rgb(30,25,21)"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">1979</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br>
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<h1 style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;line-height:200%"><span style="color:rgb(30,25,21)"><b><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">Bloody Chamber and Other Stories</span></span></span></b></span><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br>
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<h3 style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;line-height:200%"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/27500.Angela_Carter" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(30,25,21)"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">Angela
Carter</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:137%"><span style="color:rgb(30,25,21)"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">Angela Carter was a storytelling
sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, Kelly Link, and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber—which includes the story that is the basis of Neil
Jordan’s 1984 movie The Company of Wolves—she spins subversively dark and sensual versions of familiar fairy tales and legends like “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Bluebeard,” “Puss in Boots,” and “Beauty and the Beast,” giving them exhilarating new life in a style
steeped in the romantic trappings of the gothic tradition.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:137%"><b><span style="color:rgb(30,25,21)"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">1983</span></span></span></span></b><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(30,25,21)"><b><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">Winter's Tale</span></span></b></span><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br>
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<h3 style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;line-height:200%"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8146.Mark_Helprin" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(30,25,21)"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">ark
Helprin</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(30,25,21)"><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">New York City is subsumed in arctic winds, dark nights, and white lights, its life unfolds, for it is an extraordinary hive of the imagination,
the greatest house ever built, and nothing exists that can check its vitality. One night in winter, Peter Lake, orphan and master-mechanic, attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side.</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(30,25,21)"><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">Though he thinks the house is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the love between Peter Lake, a middle-aged Irish
burglar, and Beverly Penn, a young girl, who is dying.</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(30,25,21)"><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">Peter Lake, a simple, uneducated man, because of a love that, at first he does not fully understand, is driven to stop time and bring
back the dead. His great struggle, in a city ever alight with its own energy and besieged by unprecedented winters, is one of the most beautiful and extraordinary stories of American literature.</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br>
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