"4 production of Ibsen's ""John Gabriel Borkman"". Susannah Harker is a great-great-granddaughter of Joseph Harker, a prominent artist and theatrical scene designer who was a contemporary of actor-manager Henry Irving and a friend of his business partner, Dracula author Bram Stoker. She was married to Iain Glen from 1993 to 2004; they have one son, Finlay (born 1994). She was later in a relationship with Paul McGann from 2006 to 2008. Susannah Harker Susannah Harker (born ) is an English film, television, and theatre actor. She was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award in 1990 for her role as Mattie"
"media side with the black rioters, revealing that the government official would have been double-crossed had he attempted to strike his deal. Yeager and the other members of the group, now under increasing government scrutiny, resolve to continue their efforts and to go ""underground"" to continue the fight against the system. Hunter (Pierce novel) Hunter is a 1989 novel written by William Luther Pierce, the founder and chairman of the National Alliance, a white nationalist group, under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. Pierce also used this pseudonym to write the better-known ""The Turner Diaries"", a 1978 novel with similar themes. Some"
"Hyde and shock upon the discovery of Jekyll's dual personality. In Bram Stoker's ""Dracula"" (1897), Jonathan Harker travels to Count Dracula's castle. Dracula inquires about buying a house in England, but soon Jonathan finds himself Dracula's prisoner. Harker escapes, but Dracula, recognized as a vampire, soon ventures away from his castle and begins to torment others close to Jonathan. Dracula is endowed with the power to turn into a bat, command wolves, and have incredible strength among other traits. However, Dracula and other vampires in the novel are weakened during the day and are repulsed by garlic and the crucifix."
"of the jacket is printed black, with white letters printed vertically across the jacket from bottom to top, in the same style of writing as the title on the cover. They read ""WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR INSPIRATION?"" Diary (novel) Diary is a 2003 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. The book is written like a diary. Its protagonist is Misty Wilmot, a once-promising young artist currently working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt. According to the description on the back of ""Diary"", Misty ""soon finds herself a pawn in"
"A Prison Diary A Prison Diary is a series of three books of diaries written by Jeffrey Archer during his time in prisons following his convictions for perjury and perverting the course of justice. Each volume is named after the parts of Dante's ""The Divine Comedy"". The volumes become progressively longer due to his stay being longer and longer at each prison he went to. This book, written under the nom de plume ""FF 8282"", documents Archer's introduction to the prison system. He was to spend the first 22 days and 14 hours in HMP Belmarsh, a double A-Category high-security"
"From Hermann Hesse's Diary"". The novel was later released in 1927. The first English edition was published in 1929 by Martin Secker in the United Kingdom and by Henry Holt and Company in the United States. That version was translated by Basil Creighton. The book is presented as a manuscript written by its protagonist, a middle-aged man named Harry Haller, who leaves it to a chance acquaintance, the nephew of his landlady. The acquaintance adds a short preface of his own and then has the manuscript published. The title of this ""real"" book-in-the-book is ""Harry Haller's Records (For Madmen Only)""."
"dress for much of the novel. The two join together, and Henry narrates his encounters with Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and the events at John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. The book is narrated in the first person through Henry. The novel received positive to mixed reviews from critics, with several reviewers comparing it to ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1884). In a review for the ""Los Angeles Times"", Héctor Tobar called the novel ""laugh-out-loud funny and filled with many wonderfully bizarre images"", but noted the lack of humanity in comparison to ""Huckleberry Finn"" or ""Middle Passage"" (1990). Tobar went on"
"Helen's diary; and in turn, Helen's diary includes Arthur's autobiographical reminiscences. Anne Brontë starts her novel in a social comedy manner, reminiscent of Jane Austen. Like ""Pride and Prejudice"", ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" starts with the arrival of a new person in a neighbourhood — a source of curiosity for a small rural community. Unlike Austen, Brontë makes a woman the center of interest. Reticent Mrs. Graham with her views on alcohol consumption and girls’ education, controversial for the 19th century, soon becomes an outcast. Tess O'Toole calls ""The Tenant"" ""the most unusual example of 19th century domestic fiction"","
"prayed every day in the Moran household, and the event is a repeating motif throughout the novel. The novel opens with an elderly, weak, and depressed Michael Moran being taken care of by his daughters. Although they have busy lives and families of their own in Dublin and London, they have never really left the family home because they feel more important there. They have decided to recreate ""Monaghan Day,"" an event Moran always seemed to enjoy, hoping that this will somehow reverse his failing health. Monaghan Day was a market day, when Moran's friend McQuaid used to visit and"
"in 1948, but the dates were changed by the publisher). The frame story sees Mina Harker and Allan Quatermain - now immortal after bathing in the fire of youth from """" - on their quest to recover the ""Black Dossier"", which contains the secret history of the now-disbanded League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The book starts with Mina Murray (going by the name Odette O'quim) at a bar in London, where MI5 Agent James ""Jimmy"" Bond (grandson of Campion Bond) attempts to seduce her, taking her to the decaying remains of the ""Ministry of Love"", once one of Big Brother's government"
"Hunter (Pierce novel) Hunter is a 1989 novel written by William Luther Pierce, the founder and chairman of the National Alliance, a white nationalist group, under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. Pierce also used this pseudonym to write the better-known ""The Turner Diaries"", a 1978 novel with similar themes. Some consider ""Hunter"" a prequel to the ""Turner Diaries"", detailing the rise of the racist paramilitary group termed 'The Organization', which would play a dominant role in the book. ""Hunter"" portrays the actions of Oscar Yeager (anglicization of ""Jäger"", German for ""hunter""), a Vietnam veteran F-4 Phantom pilot and Washington, D.C.-area Defense"
"in the old sanitorium owned by Dr. Seward, which was being used as a hospital during the war. Mary remembers seeing John at a garden party several years before, and wants to help him. She reads his journal that he brought with him to the hospital, and learns about the strange and seemingly impossible feats Harker had done. Meanwhile, John is still delirious from the fever, thinking he is still in the trenches instead of back in England. Soon, however, his fever breaks and he becomes lucid. Quincey Harker comes to England, and Lily Shaw, John's sister, invites him to"
"help. Dracula then appears to greet Harker and guide him to his room, where he locks him in. Jonathan starts to write in his diary, and his true intentions are revealed: he is a vampire hunter and has come to kill Dracula. Freed sometime later, Harker again is confronted by the desperate woman. She begs him for help, but quickly reveals herself as a vampire and bites his neck. Just as she does, Dracula – fangs bared and lips bloody – arrives and pulls her away, attacking her violently. Harker tries to stop him but Dracula quickly overpowers him and"
"an infamous attempt to steal the British crown jewels is off by a few hundred years. The Book of Life (Harkness novel) The Book of Life is a 2014 fantasy novel by American scholar Deborah Harkness, the third book in the All Souls trilogy. As the sequel to the 2012 bestseller, ""Shadow of Night"", it follows the final steps in the story of Diana Bishop, a historian who comes from a long line of witches, and Matthew Clairmont, a long-lived vampire, as they unlock the secrets of an ancient manuscript. Having returned from their refuge in 16th century London to"
"brothers' own home experiences, and that Weedon, ""something of a scapegrace compared with his perfectionist brother"", was the model for Lupin. The diary begins on 3 April of an unstated year, and runs for approximately 15 months. In a short prologue, readers are informed that Charles Pooter and his wife Caroline (Carrie) have just moved to a new home at ""The Laurels"", Brickfield Terrace, Holloway. Mr Pooter is a City of London clerk with Perkupps, possibly an accountancy or private banking firm (though their business is not explicitly stated). The couple's 20-year-old son William works as a bank clerk in"
"Diary (novel) Diary is a 2003 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. The book is written like a diary. Its protagonist is Misty Wilmot, a once-promising young artist currently working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt. According to the description on the back of ""Diary"", Misty ""soon finds herself a pawn in a larger conspiracy that threatens to cost hundreds of lives."" ""Diary"" loosely falls into the modern horror genre, putting aside violence and shock tactics in favour of psychological scares and dark humor. The audio version of ""Diary"" is"
"reveals this ideology more didactically and directly than did ""The Turner Diaries"". At the novel's beginning, the protagonist is a nonideological racist unattached to antisemitism. He gradually develops his ideology and perspectives during his campaign and through contact with the allies that he meets. Much of the story's dialogue consists of discussion and debate on the ""Jewish question."" In contrast to ""The Turner Diaries"", Pierce decided to write a ""more realistic novel, ""Hunter"", which shifted away from the idea of an organized group to what an exceptional individual can do. ""Hunter"" ""serves a real educational process."" Pierce dedicated ""Hunter"" to"
"also an ""Art-Type Edition"" which includes a preface and contains an Editorial Note. Stevenson stated in a letter that he made this change because he wanted to draw a portrait of a real-life friend of his upon whom the acquaintance in the preface is based. In the many reprintings since then the preface has sometimes been included and sometimes not. Nothing in the preface, however, has any direct relevance to the story. The novel is presented as the memoir of one Ephraim Mackellar, steward of the Durrisdeer estate in Scotland. The novel opens in 1745, the year of the Jacobite"
"After the injection, he blinked a few times, breathed heavily a few times, and swallowed hard, the witnesses said. The heaving of his chest slowed, and finally stopped, they said. White supremacist William L. Pierce wrote a novel, ""Hunter"" (1989), published under the pseudonym Andrew MacDonald, which chronicles the story of serial killer Oscar Yeager, a fictional racist who commits the murders of numerous interracial couples. Pierce, founder of the National Alliance and author of another racist novel, ""The Turner Diaries"", dedicated the book to Joseph Paul Franklin. Joseph Paul Franklin Joseph Paul Franklin (born James Clayton Vaughn Jr.; April"
"as I can remember anything at all, the vivid stories she would tell me stand out so clearly that they obscure the real facts of my life."" The book begins with Jack Colder recounting his life in a Jesuit boarding school, where he ends up meeting his best friend Jim. The novel has a pretty grim outlook on the boarding school with most of the attendees featuring almost and endless supply of money as well as a sense of entitlement. Conan Doyle also attended a Jesuit boarding school in England for seven years and was very critical of it. Conan"
"narrative. The novel opens with the protagonist, Hilary, a sixteen-year-old boy arriving at a grim East Anglian boarding school in 1962 after being twice expelled from previous institutions. He has no interest in study, no aptitude for sports and a great dislike of both pupils and teachers. He compares the school to a prison and finds life there unbearable. While slacking on a school cross-country run, he meets Finn, who lives alone in a beachside shack and sustains himself by fishing and working at the market. Hilary thinks Finn has an ideal life, and admires and envies him. He begins"
"Bob's affair with Kristina, a Croatian refugee, had come to an end. The novel divided opinion: The Light of Day (Graham Swift novel) The Light of Day is a 2003 novel by English author Graham Swift, published seven years after his previous novel, the Booker Prize winner ""Last Orders"". The book is set in 1997 in Wimbledon, the narrator George preparing to visit the grave of Bob Nash in Putney Vale Cemetery on the two year anniversary of his death, and then to visit Sarah who was convicted of his murder and with whom George has fallen in love. George"
"Seward's residence, holding nightly meetings and providing reports based on each of their various tasks. Mina discovers that each of their journals and letters collectively contain clues to which they can track him down. She tasks herself with collecting them, researching newspaper clippings, fitting the most relevant entries into chronological order and typing out copies to distribute to each of the party which they are to study. Jonathan Harker tracks down the shipments of boxed graves and the estates which Dracula has purchased in order to store them. Van Helsing conducts research along with Dr. Seward to analyze the behaviour"
"course, writers. Some similarities between Auster and a supporting character in ""Oracle Night""—John Trause—are also apparent. Trause, an anagram of Auster, also lived in Paris for a period of his life. Oracle Night Oracle Night is a 2003 novel by American author Paul Auster. The novel is about a writer named Sidney Orr (a short, Americanized version of the Polish surname Orlovsky), who, after making a miraculous recovery from near fatal illness, buys a new notebook and starts writing a story about a man who completely changed his life when he realised how much his existence was ruled by randomness."
"is set in third-person point of view. The novel opens with Jack Reacher, whose nose is broken from his last adventure (Worth Dying For), trying to get a ride out of Nebraska, hitch-hiking in the middle of the night, without any car stopping for him. Only after an hour and a half of waiting, two men and a woman let him climb in and even drive some part of the way. They introduce themselves as Donald McQueen, Alan King, and Karen Delfuenso. Reacher notices that the car's occupants tell him lies and that the woman is very nervous. They insist"
"and the Miracle Man"". The autobiographical coming-of-age novel is written as a diary that starts in 1952 with an 11-year-old protagonist, Daisy Fay Harper. Daisy uses diary entries to tell the story of her alcoholic father's get-rich-quick schemes and her well-mannered mother. The book stayed on the ""New York Times"" bestseller list for 10 weeks. Perhaps her best-known novel, ""Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe"" was published in 1987 and remained on the ""New York Times"" bestseller list for 36 weeks. It was praised by both Harper Lee and Eudora Welty. The novel is told in both past"
"a novel in 1996, ""Bridget Jones's Diary"". The plot is very loosely based on ""Pride and Prejudice"" by Jane Austen. Critics assert that Fielding's book arguably began the popular fiction movement known as chick lit. The second book, """", was published on 1998, and was based on the plot of another of Austen's novels, ""Persuasion"". Fielding named the character of Mark Darcy after the ""Pride and Prejudice"" character Fitzwilliam Darcy and described him exactly like Colin Firth, who played Mr Darcy in the 1995 BBC adaptation. Mark Darcy was also partly modelled on a friend of Fielding's called Mark Muller,"
"The Book of Life (Harkness novel) The Book of Life is a 2014 fantasy novel by American scholar Deborah Harkness, the third book in the All Souls trilogy. As the sequel to the 2012 bestseller, ""Shadow of Night"", it follows the final steps in the story of Diana Bishop, a historian who comes from a long line of witches, and Matthew Clairmont, a long-lived vampire, as they unlock the secrets of an ancient manuscript. Having returned from their refuge in 16th century London to find a family member dead, Diana and Matthew embark on a mission of understanding and revenge,"
"diary on behalf of her former husband. Fernandes willingly relinquishes both the diary and his research notes to Rita. The Book of Secrets (novel) The Book of Secrets is a novel by M. G. Vassanji, published in 1994. It was the winner of the very first Giller Prize for Canadian fiction. Vassanji also became the award's first-ever repeat winner in 2003 for his novel ""The In-Between World of Vikram Lall"". In Dar es Salaam in the late 1980s, a retired school teacher named Pius Fernandes was given an English language diary by one of his former students, now a shopkeeper."
"investigation reversed the decision and he finished his sentence inside D-category HMP Hollesley Bay without opportunity for outside work, summarised in an epilogue. A Prison Diary A Prison Diary is a series of three books of diaries written by Jeffrey Archer during his time in prisons following his convictions for perjury and perverting the course of justice. Each volume is named after the parts of Dante's ""The Divine Comedy"". The volumes become progressively longer due to his stay being longer and longer at each prison he went to. This book, written under the nom de plume ""FF 8282"", documents Archer's"
"their dramatic adventures, Harker reports on the group's return to Transylvania: The first description is given by Jonathan Harker when the calèche reaches the courtyard of the Castle: The ruined state of the castle is confirmed by the Count's words: The interior decoration, on the other hand, is still in good shape and the library is well equipped: Harker's window opens into the courtyard, but soon he sets out for a little expedition: All other doors are locked, however. The Count warns him not to sleep outside the rooms he already knows, including the library and the dining room; it"
"by Jay Snyder, as part of its ""Modern Vanguard"" line of audiobooks. Falconer (novel) Falconer is a 1977 novel by American short story writer and novelist John Cheever. It tells the story of Ezekiel Farragut, a university professor and drug addict who is serving time in Falconer State Prison for the murder of his brother. Farragut struggles to retain his humanity in the prison environment, and begins an affair with a fellow prisoner. In a 1977 book review by ""Kirkus Reviews"" called Cheever's prose ""an amazingly flexible instrument"" and summarized the novel as ""a strong fix—a statement of the human"
"that at the next table was sitting a young girl, rather plain of feature, with tired, listless eyes and a general air of uncomplaining forlornness. In the latter part of the novel, Jonathan Harker recalls stopping at the Aerated Bread Company for a cup of tea, after having spent the afternoon searching for Count Dracula's lair. It was now dark, and I was tired and hungry. I got a cup of tea at the Aerated Bread Company and came down to Purfleet by the next train. In the Virginia Woolf novel, ""Night and Day"", Katherine Hilbery goes into an A.B.C."