The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright is a novella published in April 2021, the truncated form of which was published as a short story in Wright’s Eight Men collection. Written in the early 1940’s, Wright’s publisher declined to publish it in its full form, fearing it was too graphic and controversial. While many …
Part One Part Two Part Three This is a summary for the novel The Man Who Lived Underground, which was published in 2021. (This is NOT a summary for the short story version of this which had previously been published.) Part One Part 1, Chapter 1 Fred Daniels, 29, is a manual laborer who works …
When the Stars Go Dark is author Paula McLain’s first foray into writing a thriller. She’s known for her historical fiction titles, most notably The Paris Wife, which is about Hemingway and his wife Hadley. Pretty much all of her other novels have covers that are adorned in bright colors, pastels, and happy, fashionable women. …
Prologue The book opens by describing various mothers and how they reacted to news of their dead or missing children. Detective Anna Louise Hart then thinks about herself and her own grief after learning about the death of her child. Part 1: Signs and Vapors Chapters 1 – 5 Anna Hart leaves San Francisco and …
Introduction The book opens by setting the scene in the Autumn of 1939. Hitler seems unstoppable and the Germans are encrypting their communications with a cipher device called Enimga which they deemed “unbreakable”, but “they were wrong”. Prologue (November 8, 1947) Years after the war, the wedding of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip is soon …
