[Rear window and other stories]
Year:
1942
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
Penguin
Year of publication:
2001
Pages:
304
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
Transmits values:
Sexual content:
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Ideas that contradict Church teaching:
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
Collection of crime short stories, characterized by the suspense, the unexpected, the horror of the situation. The best-known novel from this book is It Had to Be Murder, which was adapted to film in 1954 by Hitchcock, under the name Rear Window. The history Three O'Clock is also very good, and was also adapted to cinema.
There are others stories from this book. For example, Post-mortem, Changed murder, or Impulse.
Author: Jorge Gaspar, Portugal
Update on: Nov 2018