Fêtes worse than death? — Village festivals in fiction

Beskrivning
From cosy murder via simple adultery and pandemonium right through to ritual slaughter, novelists have had fun using the idea of a small community getting together on a big project to drive their plots. What are your favourite stories based on the idea of a village festival, fête, pageant, or whatever?
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Before the Feast
av Saša Stanišić
282 medlemmar
10 recensioner
3.8
3 Members
thorold, Dilara86, spiphany
Förklaringar
thorold: The night before the festival in a Brandenburg village
2
En midsommarnattsdröm
av William Shakespeare
19,787 medlemmar
177 recensioner
4
3 Members
thorold, Dilara86, ManWithAnAgenda
3
Herrskap och häxor : en roman om Skivvärlden
av Terry Pratchett
9,709 medlemmar
125 recensioner
4
2 Members
Dilara86, ManWithAnAgenda
4
Harvest Home
av Thomas Tryon
1,134 medlemmar
37 recensioner
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
5
Festival at Farbridge
av J. B. Priestley
61 medlemmar
1 recension
3.8
Member
thorold
6
The Virgin in the Garden
av A.S. Byatt
1,749 medlemmar
32 recensioner
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
Förklaringar
thorold: A Yorkshire community putting on a play in the gardens of a stately home
7
The Lottery
av Shirley Jackson
1,163 medlemmar
43 recensioner
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
8
One Part Woman
av Perumal Murugan
201 medlemmar
4 recensioner
½ 3.7
Member
Dilara86
9
Harvest
av Jim Crace
1,070 medlemmar
71 recensioner
3.9
Member
spiphany
10
Smith of Wootton Major: Extended Edition
av J. R. R. Tolkien
173 medlemmar
2 recensioner
4
Member
spiphany
Förklaringar
spiphany: In which a village holds a feast, a very special cake is baked, and one child gets a key to faery. The first chapter of Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" would also fit this list.
11
Grenzgang: Roman
av Stephan Thome
71 medlemmar
4 recensioner
½ 3.4
Member
spiphany
Förklaringar
spiphany: Every seven years the residents gather to walk the boundaries of a Hessian village.
12
The Liquid Land
av Raphaela Edelbauer
52 medlemmar
5 recensioner
3.9
Member
spiphany
Förklaringar
spiphany: An oddly difficult-to-find Austrian village prepares for a major event.
13
Class Trip II
av Bebe Faas Rice
12 medlemmar
½ 3.5
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
14
Ovan hav under sten
av Susan Cooper
6,576 medlemmar
139 recensioner
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
15
Blandings Castle
av P. G. Wodehouse
1,163 medlemmar
22 recensioner
4.1
Member
thorold
Förklaringar
thorold: Nominated for "Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend", one of the most nearly perfect Wodehouse short stories.
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August Folly
av Angela Thirkell
384 medlemmar
23 recensioner
3.9
Member
thorold
Förklaringar
thorold: Most Thirkell novels have some sort of big event three-quarters of the way through: this one centres around amateur theatricals
17
Barbie i TV
av Marianne Duest
8 medlemmar
½ 2.5
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
18
Död mans fåfänga
av Agatha Christie
3,152 medlemmar
53 recensioner
½ 3.6
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thorold