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Emily Dickinson Is Dead by Langton, Jane is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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First arson, then murder strike Emily Dickinsons hometownAlthough she spent her life withdrawn from the people of Amherst, Massachusetts, every man, woman, and English professor in this small university town claims ownership of poet Emily Dickinson. They give tours in her house, lay flowers on her grave, and now, as the hundredth anniversary of her death approaches, they organize festivals in her name. Dickinson scholar Owen Kraznik has just been railroaded into organizing the festival when Amherst starts to burn.As the fire consumes a fourteen-story university dormitory, transcendentalist scholar and occasional sleuth Homer Kelly considers that it may have been set on purpose. Two students die in the blaze, but neither was the arsonists target. Emily Dickinson wrote countless poems on the nature of mortality, but before Amherst can celebrate her words, death will leap off the page.

Who reads Emily Dickinson Is Dead?

Author

Langton, Jane

Publisher

Penguin Books

Published

1985

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Thriller, Fiction