"a Dickensian way, they bump into each other and are affected by the decisions of those around them. It is a story of love and deceit, family drama, wealth and poverty, of friendship and courage. Nora O'Donoghue and Aidan Dunne also appear in ""Quentins"", another novel by Maeve Binchy, and play a more significant role in ""Heart and Soul"". The novel heavily inspired the plot of the Danish feature film ""Italian for Beginners"" (2000), which won a Silver Berlin Bear and several other major international awards. Maeve Binchy was not paid, credited nor informed of this, but was later paid"
"that his money be sent back to his family in Hungary. The Class (Erich Segal novel) The Class is Erich Segal's 6th novel, published in 1985. The class of the title is the Harvard Class of 1958, and particularly refers to five fictional members of this class: Andrew Eliot, Jason Gilbert, Theodore Lambros, Daniel Rossi and George Keller. ""The Class"" follows the diverse fates of five members of Harvard's Class of 1958, recording the way their lives intertwine, and coming to a dramatic conclusion at their class reunion, twenty-five years later. Andrew Eliot comes from the Boston Brahmin Eliot family."
"The Class (Erich Segal novel) The Class is Erich Segal's 6th novel, published in 1985. The class of the title is the Harvard Class of 1958, and particularly refers to five fictional members of this class: Andrew Eliot, Jason Gilbert, Theodore Lambros, Daniel Rossi and George Keller. ""The Class"" follows the diverse fates of five members of Harvard's Class of 1958, recording the way their lives intertwine, and coming to a dramatic conclusion at their class reunion, twenty-five years later. Andrew Eliot comes from the Boston Brahmin Eliot family. Due to his background, he always feels the pressure of high"
"Angels family vault in Haworth. Notes Footnotes Bibliography Emily Brontë Emily Jane Brontë (, ; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, ""Wuthering Heights"", now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third-eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell. Emily Brontë was born on 30 July 1818 in Market Street in the village of Thornton on the outskirts of Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in Northern"
"from those of Emerson and Thoreau. Millen Brand Millen Brand (January 19, 1906 – March 19, 1980) was an American writer and poet. His novels ""Savage Sleep"" and ""The Outward Room,"" which addressed mental health institutions, were bestsellers in the 1960s and 1930s, respectively. Millen was born on January 19, 1906, in Jersey City, New Jersey, into a working-class family. He was of Pennsylvania German descent on his mother’s side. He graduated from Columbia University. After graduation (circa 1926), he began to work as a psychiatric aide and also a copywriter before accepting faculty posts at New York University and"
"CJ Daugherty CJ Daugherty (born 30 October 1974), also known as Christi Daugherty, is an American novelist best known for ""Night School"", a series of bestselling young adult romantic thrillers set in a fictional boarding school called Cimmeria Academy. She began her career as a journalist, writing for publications such as the Dallas Morning News, Reuters and Time Out. After a brief period working for the British government, she began writing novels in 2010. In 2016 it was announced that Daugherty had signed a deal with Minotaur Books/St. Martin's Press in the U.S., and Harper Collins in the UK, to"
"Eugene O'Neill Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into U.S. drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The drama ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" is often numbered on the short list of the finest U.S. plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams's ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" and Arthur Miller's ""Death of a Salesman"". O'Neill's plays were among the first to include speeches in"
"Night School (novel) Night School is a 2016 novel by Lee Child. This is the twenty-first book in the Jack Reacher series. It is written in the third person. In 1996, U.S. Army Major Jack Reacher is in Virginia to receive a medal for eliminating two militants in the Balkans when he receives orders from his superior officer and trusted friend, Leon Garber, to attend a special ""inter-agency cooperation"" school alongside Casey Watterman, an FBI agent, and John White, a CIA officer. Reacher quickly realizes that there is no school: the entire thing is an elaborate joint-agency operation overseen by"
"Elisabeth Ogilvie Elisabeth Ogilvie (May 20, 1917 – September 9, 2006) was an American writer. She was born in Boston and grew up in Dorchester, Quincy, and Roxbury. She spent her summers on the coast of Maine. She attended schools in Dorchester and Mount Wollaston, graduating from North Quincy High School in 1934. Later she took writing courses at Harvard University. Elisabeth Ogilvie wrote ""High Tide at Noon"" in 1944 her first of nine novels in the Bennett Island families series. She would write over 40 novels and books in her prolific career. Many of her novels dealt with life"
"write a new series of adult crime thrillers, starting with the Echo Killing in 2018. The first book in the Night School series was published by Little, Brown in the UK in 2012. ""Endgame"", the fifth book in the series, is due out in 2015. The Night School series has been translated into 22 languages. The series has been a bestseller in multiple countries. ""Night School: Resistance"", the fourth book in the series, reached number two on the Spiegel Bestseller list in Germany in May 2014. It was also a number one bestseller in Poland. ""Night School: Fracture"", the third"
"Emily Brontë Emily Jane Brontë (, ; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, ""Wuthering Heights"", now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third-eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell. Emily Brontë was born on 30 July 1818 in Market Street in the village of Thornton on the outskirts of Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in Northern England, to Maria Branwell and an Irish father,"
"Millen Brand Millen Brand (January 19, 1906 – March 19, 1980) was an American writer and poet. His novels ""Savage Sleep"" and ""The Outward Room,"" which addressed mental health institutions, were bestsellers in the 1960s and 1930s, respectively. Millen was born on January 19, 1906, in Jersey City, New Jersey, into a working-class family. He was of Pennsylvania German descent on his mother’s side. He graduated from Columbia University. After graduation (circa 1926), he began to work as a psychiatric aide and also a copywriter before accepting faculty posts at New York University and New Hampshire University. On May 1,"
"Edwin Abbott Abbott Edwin Abbott Abbott (20 December 1838 – 12 October 1926) was an English schoolmaster and theologian, best known as the author of the novella ""Flatland"" (1884). Edwin Abbott Abbott was the eldest son of Edwin Abbott (1808–1882), headmaster of the Philological School, Marylebone, and his wife, Jane Abbott (1806–1882). His parents were first cousins. He was educated at the City of London School and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took the highest honours in classics, mathematics and theology, and became a fellow of his college. In particular, he was 1st Smith's prizeman in 1861. In"
"The Evenings The Evenings (Dutch: ""De avonden"") is a debut novel by Dutch author Gerard Reve released in November 1947 under the pseudonym ""Simon van het Reve"". The full title of the book was ""De avonden: Een winterverhaal"" (English: ""The Evenings: A Winter's Tale""). The novel describes ten evenings out of the life of the 23-year-old office clerk Frits van Egters living in Amsterdam. It is partitioned into ten chapters, of which each describes an evening between 22 and 31 December 1946. The novel was written very shortly after World War II. Though the war itself is hardly mentioned, the"
"short films. Edwin Abbott Abbott Edwin Abbott Abbott (20 December 1838 – 12 October 1926) was an English schoolmaster and theologian, best known as the author of the novella ""Flatland"" (1884). Edwin Abbott Abbott was the eldest son of Edwin Abbott (1808–1882), headmaster of the Philological School, Marylebone, and his wife, Jane Abbott (1806–1882). His parents were first cousins. He was educated at the City of London School and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took the highest honours in classics, mathematics and theology, and became a fellow of his college. In particular, he was 1st Smith's prizeman in"
"Evening (film) Evening is a 2007 American drama film directed by Lajos Koltai. The screenplay by Susan Minot and Michael Cunningham is based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Susan Minot. The film alternates between two time periods, the 1950s and the present, in which a dying Ann Grant Lord (Vanessa Redgrave) reflects on her past. Her confusing comments about people she never mentioned before - leave her daughters, reserved Constance (Natasha Richardson) and restless Nina (Toni Collette), wondering if their mother is delusional. As a young woman in her early twenties, cabaret singer Ann (Claire Danes)"
"Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American journalist, novelist, and short-story writer. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two non-fiction works. Three of his novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of"
"The Evening and the Morning and the Night ""The Evening and the Morning and the Night"" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Octavia Butler. It was first published in ""Omni"" in May 1987, and subsequently republished in ""The Year's Best Science Fiction"" (fifth edition); in ""Best New SF 2""; in ""Omni Visions One""; in ""The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy By Women""; in ""Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora""; in ""Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century""; in ""Crucified Dreams""; in Butler's collection ""Bloodchild and Other Stories"", and as a"
"Larry""). Evening (film) Evening is a 2007 American drama film directed by Lajos Koltai. The screenplay by Susan Minot and Michael Cunningham is based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Susan Minot. The film alternates between two time periods, the 1950s and the present, in which a dying Ann Grant Lord (Vanessa Redgrave) reflects on her past. Her confusing comments about people she never mentioned before - leave her daughters, reserved Constance (Natasha Richardson) and restless Nina (Toni Collette), wondering if their mother is delusional. As a young woman in her early twenties, cabaret singer Ann (Claire"
"Gerard Woodward Gerard Woodward (born 1961) is a British novelist, poet and short story writer, best known for his trilogy of novels concerning the troubled Jones family, the second of which, ""I'll Go to Bed at Noon"", was shortlisted for the 2004 Man-Booker Prize. Woodward was born in North London and attended St Ignatius College, a Jesuit comprehensive school, leaving at 16 to work for two years in a variety of jobs before studying painting at Falmouth School of Art in Cornwall. He later attended the London School of Economics, where he studied Social Anthropology, and Manchester University, where he"
"Maxwell Perkins William Maxwell Evarts ""Max"" Perkins (September 20, 1884 – June 17, 1947), was an American book editor, best remembered for discovering authors Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe. Perkins was born on September 20, 1884, in New York City, to Elizabeth (Evarts) Perkins, a daughter of William M. Evarts, and Edward Clifford Perkins, a lawyer. He grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey, attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire and then graduated from Harvard College in 1907. Although an economics major in college, Perkins also studied under Charles Townsend Copeland, a literature professor who helped"
"The Ruling Class (novel) The Ruling Class is a teen novel by Francine Pascal, released in 2004. When a new girl moves to Highland Park High School, she encounters a difficult clique and dramatic situations. The book centers on a 16-year-old girl, Twyla Gay Stark. She soon transfers to a new town and a new school in a wealthy neighborhood, Highland Park High, where the rich and nasty strut around in designer labels. The worst happens when Twyla Gay runs afoul of the resident bitch clique, led by the beautiful, intimidating and rich Jeanette Sue and bringing in the rear"
"Hall of Fame. Other Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American journalist, novelist, and short-story writer. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two non-fiction works. Three of his novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works were"
"E. W. Hornung Ernest William Hornung (7 June 1866 – 22 March 1921) was an English author and poet known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th-century London. Hornung was educated at Uppingham School; as a result of poor health he left the school in December 1883 to travel to Sydney, where he stayed for two years. He drew on his Australian experiences as a background when he began writing, initially short stories and later novels. In 1898 he wrote ""In the Chains of Crime"", which introduced Raffles and his sidekick,"
"have received grants. In some cases, these grants have been controversial due to their requiring research or teaching related to Rand. Novels: Other fiction: Non-fiction: Ayn Rand Ayn Rand (; born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her two best-selling novels, ""The Fountainhead"" and ""Atlas Shrugged"", and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935 and 1936. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful, she achieved fame with"
"Gillian Gill Gillian Catherine Gill (born June 12, 1942) is a Welsh-American writer and academic who specializes in biography. She is the author of ""Agatha Christie"" (1990), ""Mary Baker Eddy"" (1998), ""Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale"" (2004), and ""We Two: Victoria and Albert, Rulers, Partners, Rivals"" (2009). Gill (née Scobie) was born in Cardiff, Wales. She attended Cardiff High School for Girls, and graduated from the University of Cambridge with a first-class honours degree in French, Italian, and Latin. She obtained her Ph.D. in March 1972, also from Cambridge, for a thesis entitled ""André"
"Ayn Rand Ayn Rand (; born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her two best-selling novels, ""The Fountainhead"" and ""Atlas Shrugged"", and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935 and 1936. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, ""The Fountainhead"". In 1957, Rand published her best-known work, the novel ""Atlas Shrugged"". Afterward, she turned to non-fiction to promote her philosophy,"
"Laurence Stallings Laurence Tucker Stallings (November 25, 1894 - February 28, 1968) was an American playwright, screenwriter, lyricist, literary critic, journalist, novelist, and photographer. Best known for his collaboration with Maxwell Anderson on the 1924 play ""What Price Glory"", Stallings also produced a groundbreaking autobiographical novel, ""Plumes"", about his service in World War I, and published an award-winning book of photographs, ""The First World War: A Photographic History"". Stallings was born Laurence Tucker Stallings in Macon, Georgia, to Larkin Tucker Stallings, a bank clerk, and Aurora Brooks Stallings, a homemaker and avid reader who inspired her son's love of literature."
"Evenings at Home Evenings at Home, or The Juvenile Budget Opened (1792–1796) is a collection of six volumes of stories written by John Aikin and his sister Anna Laetitia Barbauld. It is an early example of children's literature. The late Victorian children's writer Mary Louisa Molesworth named it as one of the handful of books that was owned by every family in her childhood and read enthusiastically. In their introduction, the authors explain the title in these words: The book was translated into French. W. S. Gilbert took the title for one of his plays, ""Eyes and No Eyes"" (1875),"
"The Boat in the Evening The Boat in the Evening () is a 1968 novel by the Norwegian writer Tarjei Vesaas. It has a fragmentary and meditative narrative which centres on a child who observes a crane colony perform its breeding ritual. It was the author's final book. It was published in English in 1971, translated by Elizabeth Rokkan. ""Kirkus Reviews"" critic wrote: ""From the work of the late Norwegian writer (this is his last book), there always seems to emanate that curious fiery chill of snow defining the edge of dark fjords, and this 'novel,' really a series of"
"Opening Night (novel) Opening Night is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the sixteenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1951. It was published in the United States as Night at the Vulcan. The novel is one of the theatrical ones for which Marsh was best known, and concerns the murder of an actor backstage on opening night of a new play in London. The play is being performed at the Vulcan Theatre; it was formerly known as the Jupiter Theatre, renamed after an infamous murder recounted in the Alleyn short story ""I Can"
"Eleanor Dark Eleanor Dark AO (26 August 190111 September 1985) was an Australian author whose novels included ""Prelude to Christopher"" (1934) and ""Return to Coolami"" (1936), both winners of the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for literature, and her best known work ""The Timeless Land"" (1941). Eleanor Dark was born in Sydney, the second of three children of the poet, writer and parliamentarian Dowell Philip O'Reilly and his wife, Eleanor McCulloch O'Reilly. She studied at the Redlands College for Girls at Cremorne, and was known as Pixie O'Reilly. On finishing school and unable to enter university, having failed mathematics, she"
"Evening's Empire Evening's Empire is a science fiction novel by American writer David Herter in 2002. It is the author's second novel after 2000's ""Ceres Storm"". The book follows the travels of a man to the small town of Evening, Oregon, where his beloved wife was killed in a freak accident the year before. The novel relies heavily on surrealism and a lolling suspense that is never realized in any sort of actual climax. Nonetheless, the book retains a small following of fans that greatly admire its ""mature"" style and few reviewers have considered it a poor effort. Regina Schroeder"