James McClure's 1975 police procedural "Snake" is part of his #KramerAndZondi series of detective novels set in his native #SouthAfrica
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"Snake" by #AustralianWriter and poet Kate Jennings is a short & sharp novel about 20 years of marital displeasure, a mis-matched and doomed relationship in 1950s and 60s #Australia
#AustralianLiterature #AustralianStudies #YearOfTheSnake
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"The Essex Serpent" by Sarah Perry is a 2017 #NeoVictorian #Gothic novel set in 1890s Essex, detailing a woman's search for a mythical sea-serpent. The #EssexSerpent was made into a 2022 TV show with Claire Danes & Tom Hiddleston
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2x #VictorianLiterature:
#MaryElizabethBraddon's "The Trail of the Serpent" (1861), maybe the 1st British #detectivenovel & #BramStoker's "The Snake's Pass", his 1890 precursor to #Dracula
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"River of Snake" is the 1996 debut novel of #AustralianWriter Chris McLeod, featuring #angels, #snakes and crows and other religious symbolism
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Set in Greece, "God's Snake" by Irini Spanidou tells the story of a young, courageous girl growing up after the Greek Civil War, between people and animals
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Final entry for today is this wonderful collection of #snake -related stories edited by Willee Lewis, w stories from a variety of eras - from the Bible to exotic settings, to folklore or more symbolic, literary usages in #EnglishLiterature
đ More snake books tomorrow! đ
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