"The First Casualty The First Casualty (2005) is a historical crime novel by English author Ben Elton, set during the First World War. In June 1917, whilst recovering from shell shock inside a military hospital, beloved war poet and dedicated soldier Viscount Abercrombie is inexplicably shot dead. Meanwhile, Douglas Kingsley, a liberal Inspector for Scotland Yard, has refused national service because he considers the war to be an affront to his highly prized sense of logic. As a result, he's hauled before a judge, branded a coward by those who love him - including his wife Agnes - and thrown"
"Junior High School Girl Detective (1978) The Memory Tap (1989) My Famous Father (1990) Hester Bidgood (1994) Non-fiction: Word for Word: The Rewriting of Fiction (1965) Writing With Care (1967) A Close Look at Television and Sound Broadcasting (1967) Thirteen Types of Narrative (1968) Children and Fiction (1970) Edmund Wallace Hildick Edmund Wallace Hildick (1925–2001) was a prolific children's book author, who wrote under the name E. W. Hildick. He wrote, amongst others, the Ghost Squad, Jim Starling, Birdy Jones, Jack McGurk and Lemon Kelly series. He was born in Bradford, England in 1925. After two years service in the"
"Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), author of the epistolary novels ""Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded"" (1740) and ""Clarissa"" (1747–48); Henry Fielding (1707–1754), who wrote ""Joseph Andrews"" (1742) and ""The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling"" (1749); Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), who published ""Tristram Shandy"" in parts between 1759 and 1767; Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774), author of ""The Vicar of Wakefield"" (1766); Tobias Smollett (1721–1771), a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as ""The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle"" (1751) and ""The Expedition of Humphry Clinker"" (1771), who influenced Charles Dickens; and Fanny Burney (1752–1840), whose novels ""were enjoyed and admired by Jane"
"Sir Walter Scott published ""Kenilworth"". Fyodor Dostoevsky was born. In 1822, Alexander Pushkin published ""Ruslan and Ludmila"", his first poem.Thomas De Quincey published ""Confessions of an English Opium Eater"". Percy Shelley published ""Hellas"". In 1823 Mary Shelley published ""Valperga"". Byron published ""The Age of Bronze"" and ""The Island"". Charles Lamb published ""Essays of Elia"". Sir Walter Scott published ""Quentin Durward"". An English translation of Jacob Grimm, ""Grimms' Fairy Tales"" appeared. In 1824, Sir Walter Scott published ""Redgauntlet"". Byron died in Greece. In 1826, Mary Shelley published ""The Last Man"", a novel set in the 21st century. In 1827, Alfred and"
"the inventor of a hydrogen-based power system for cars – green energy – that sinister forces, most likely representing the oil industry, seek to suppress. His disability is aggressive-sympathetically handled, for example he actively embraces the word 'spastic', claiming it back, taking it away from the term of abuse it had become (in the UK) at the time of publication. Gridlock (novel) Gridlock is a 1991 novel by Ben Elton. The novel depicts a near-future London in which traffic congestion has reached almost critical levels, such that accidents in a few key places could bring the entire city's traffic network"
"by Joseph Conrad • ""The bar sinister"" by Richard Harding Davis • ""The Red-Headed League"" by Arthur Conan Doyle • ""A rose for Emily"" by William Faulkner • ""Old Man Minick"" by Edna Ferber • ""The rich boy"" by F. Scott Fitzgerald • ""The celestial omnibus"" by E.M. Forster • ""The three strangers"" by Thomas Hardy • ""The outcasts of Poker Flat"" by Bret Harte • ""The killers"" by Ernest Hemingway • ""The gift of the Magi"" by O. Henry • ""The Gioconda smile"" by Aldous Huxley • ""The monkey's paw"" by W.W. Jacobs • ""The man who would be"
"Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. His most famous works are ""Treasure Island"", ""Kidnapped"", ""Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"", and ""A Child's Garden of Verses"". He was a literary celebrity during his lifetime, and now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J."
"May Alcott (1868-9) 21. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871-2) 22. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (1875) 23. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884/5) 24. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) 25. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome (1889) 26. The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle (1890) 27. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1891) 28. New Grub Street by George Gissing (1891) 29. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (1895) 30. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (1895) 31. Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897) 32."
"F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American fiction writer, whose works helped to illustrate the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age. While he achieved popular success, fame, and fortune in his lifetime, he did not receive much critical acclaim until after his death. Perhaps the most notable member of the ""Lost Generation"" of the 1920s, Fitzgerald is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He finished four novels: ""This Side of Paradise"", ""The Beautiful and Damned"", ""The Great Gatsby"", and ""Tender Is"
"as Geoffrey Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"" (1387), Miguel de Cervantes' ""Don Quixote"" (1605), William Shakespeare's ""Pericles, Prince of Tyre"" (c.1608), Laurence Sterne's ""The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman"" (1759), William Makepeace Thackeray's ""Vanity Fair"" (1847), as well as more recent works such as J.R.R. Tolkien's ""The Lord of the Rings"" (1954–1955), or Douglas Adams' ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" (1979). Metafiction, however, became particularly prominent in the 1960s, with authors and works such as John Barth's ""Lost in the Funhouse"", Robert Coover's ""The Babysitter"" and ""The Magic Poker"", Kurt Vonnegut's ""Slaughterhouse-Five"", John Fowles' ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"", Thomas"
"Clive James 'Our inextinguishable fortune' 2008 Germaine Greer 'On Rage' 2009 Bernhard Schlink ‘Guilt about the Past’ 2010 Joss Whedon ‘From Buffy to Dr Horrible, Infinity and Beyond’ 2011 Jonathan Franzen ‘On Autobiographical Fiction’, Shaun Tan ‘The Arrival’ 2012 Simon Callow ‘Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World’ 2013 Boris Johnson 'An Audience with Boris Johnson' 2014 Helen Garner 'This House Of Grief' and Salman Rushdie 'Freedom to Write'<br> 2015 Louis de Bernières 'The Dust That Falls From Dreams'<br> 2016 Maxine Beneba Clarke<br><br> 2002 Germaine Greer 'Sex, lies and Secret Women's Business' 2003 Annie Proulx 'Conversations with Annie"
"would rather not know this stuff. I'd rather do it because it's true and because I accidentally wind up creating something that falls into this pattern than be told what the pattern is."" Neil Gaiman Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (; born Neil Richard Gaiman, 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His works include the comic book series ""The Sandman"" and novels ""Stardust"", ""American Gods"", ""Coraline"", and ""The Graveyard Book"". He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery"
"knights, castles, galleys, and galleons. (This should be moved to its own entry if he is notable enough.) Notable Works include but are not limited to: 1812: The War and the World, 1967 - TruthQuest Automobiles, Past and Present, 1968 Birth of a Liner, 1961 Bread, the Staff of Life, 1959 Cargoes in the Sky, 1958 Chivalry and the Mailed Knight, 1963 - TruthQuest Cloth, from Fiber to Fabric, 1965 The Crusades, 1959 - TruthQuest Famous Small Boat Voyages, 1967 Firearms, 1967 First Book of Machines, 1962 Food, From Farm to Home, 1970 Freight Trains of the Sky, 1969 French"
"Aldous Huxley Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family. He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with a first-class honours degree in English literature. The author of nearly fifty books, Huxley was best known for his novels (among them ""Brave New World"", set in a dystopian future); for nonfiction works, such as ""The Doors of Perception"", in which he recalls his experiences taking psychedelic drugs; and for his wide-ranging essays. Early in his career, Huxley published short stories and poetry, and edited the literary magazine"
"Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899) 33. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (1900) 34. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1901) 35. The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903) 36. The Golden Bowl by Henry James (1904) 37. Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe (1904) 38. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908) 39. The History of Mr Polly by HG Wells (1910) 40. Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm (1911) 41. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (1915) 42. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (1915) 43. The Rainbow by DH Lawrence (1915) 44. Of Human"
"Taylor Caldwell Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell (September 7, 1900August 30, 1985) was a British-born American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction, also known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, and by her married name of J. Miriam Reback. In her fiction, she often used real historical events or persons. Taylor Caldwell's best-known works include ""Dynasty of Death"", ""Dear and Glorious Physician"" (about Saint Luke), ""Ceremony of the Innocent"", ""Pillar of Iron"", ""The Earth is the Lord's"" (about Genghis Khan) and ""Captains and the Kings"". Her last major novel, ""Answer As a Man"", appeared in 1980."
"Notable for an ability to combine serious literary acclaim with broad popularity, his novels include ""Brighton Rock"" (1938), ""The Power and the Glory"" (1940), ""The Heart of the Matter"" (1948), ""A Burnt-Out Case"" (1961), and ""The Human Factor"" (1978). Other novelists writing in the 1950s and later were: Anthony Powell whose twelve-volume cycle of novels ""A Dance to the Music of Time"", is a comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid-20th century; comic novelist Kingsley Amis is best known for his academic satire ""Lucky Jim"" (1954); Nobel Prize"
"College Distinguished Alumna Award, 1981. Harris married Edgar V. Springer, Jr., a professor, in 1953; the couple had two children: John P. and Karen Louise. She died in Norman, Oklahoma, on January 18, 2002. Marilyn Harris (writer) Marilyn Harris (June 4, 1931 — January 18, 2002) was an American author best known for her seven-novel ""Eden"" series, an historical saga about the Eden family of England. The series contains ""This Other Eden"" (1977); ""The Prince of Eden"" (1978); ""The Eden Passion"" (1979); ""The Women of Eden"" (1980); ""Eden Rising"" (1982); ""American Eden"" (1987); and ""Eden and Honor"" (1989). She is"
"Wallace Stevens, Barbara Tuchman, Philip K. Dick, Ruth Rendell, James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon), Jane Austen, T. S. Eliot, Jorge Luis Borges, Patrick O’Brian, Roald Dahl, Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel), A. A. Milne, J. J. Norwich, Steven Jay Gould, John Updike, Thomas Berger, Raymond Chandler, William Shakespeare, and James Thurber. Williams has also had an influence on other authors in his genre. His ""Memory, Sorrow and Thorn"" series was one of the works that inspired George R. R. Martin to write ""A Song of Ice and Fire"". ""I read Tad and was impressed by him, but the imitators that followed—well,"
"the worldwide association of writers and the oldest human rights organisation, between 1971–1973. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages, and he remains one of Germany's most widely read authors. His best-known works are ""Billiards at Half-past Nine"" (1959), ""And Never Said a Word"" (1953), ""The Bread of Those Early Years"" (1955), ""The Clown"" (1963), ""Group Portrait with Lady"" (1971), ""The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum"" (1974), and ""The Safety Net"" (1979). Despite the variety of themes and content in his work, there are certain recurring patterns: many of his novels and stories describe intimate and personal"
"Stillman (1848), photographer and author; Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1856), author of ""The Hashish Eater""; Andrea Barrett (1974), winner of the National Book Award (for ""Ship Fever"") and the Pulitzer Prize for works of fiction; and David Markson (1950), author of titles such as ""The Ballad of Dingus Magee"". Other notable Union alumni include: Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1946) winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine;Henry Wager Halleck (1837) chief of staff for the Union Armies during the Civil War; William F. Fox (1869) Superintendent of Forests at Adirondack Park; Howard Simons (1951), managing editor of ""The Washington Post"" during"
"Reproduction"" - Walter Benjamin 57. ""Books v. Cigarettes"" - George Orwell 58. ""The Fastidious Assassins"" - Albert Camus 59. ""Concerning Violence"" - Frantz Fanon 60. ""The Spectacle of the Scaffold"" - Michel Foucault All books in this series feature purple as the spot colour. 61. ""Tao Te Ching"" - Lao-Tzu 62. ""Writings from the Zen Masters"" - Various 63. ""Utopia"" - Thomas More 64. ""On Solitude"" - Michel de Montaigne 65. ""On Power"" - William Shakespeare 66. ""Of the Abuse of Words"" - John Locke 67. ""Consolation in the Face of Death"" - Samuel Johnson 68. ""An Answer to the"
"Nicholas Fisk David Higginbottom (14 October 1923 – 10 May 2016), pen name Nicholas Fisk, was a British writer of science fiction books, mainly for children. His works include ""Grinny"", ""You Remember Me"", ""Space Hostages"", and ""Trillions"". He also wrote the ""Starstormers"" series of novels. Fisk died in May 2016 at the age of 92. Fisk was born in London. His father, William, author of ""Frightfulness in Modern Art"" (1928), was an artist and art teacher. His mother was the sister of the Irish actor Micheál Mac Liammóir. He was educated at Ardingly College, West Sussex. A group of children"
"wrote and compiled ""Sexual Outlaw, Erotic Mystic: The Essential Ida Craddock"" which he describes as ""an anthology of works by Ida Craddock, embedded in a biography."" The book reprints ""The Danse du Ventre (1893), Heavenly Bridegrooms (1894), Psychic Wedlock (1899), ""The Wedding Night"" (1900), ""Letter from Prison"" (1902), ""Ida's Last Letter to Her Mother"" (1902), ""Ida's Last Letter to the Public"" (1902). Another biography of Craddock, ""Heaven's Bride"" by Leigh Eric Schmidt was also published in 2010. Notes Bibliography Ida Craddock Ida C. Craddock (August 1, 1857 – October 16, 1902) was a 19th-century American advocate of free speech and"
"appeared in performances of Macbeth and ""the Corsicans"". ""Bounce"" or ""The Ojibbeway Indians"" or ""The American Indians"" co-written by J M Maddox<br> ""Aged Forty"" Thomas Hailes Lacy publisher<br> ""Taken by Surprise"" also performed at the Grecian Theatre and co-written by J M Maddox<br> ""Clarissa Harlowe"" also performed at the City of London Theatre Oct 1846 and the Surrey Theatre 1859. Adapted from the French play by Samuel Richardson. Thomas Hailes Lacy published and co-adapted<br> ""The Cook of Kennington"" or ""No Followers Allowed"" co-written by D W Osbalidston<br> ""The Gunsmith of Orleans"" or ""The Dead Women's Secret"" book written by Eliza"
"fiction (mysteries, sports, fantasy, action/adventure, westerns). Non-fiction books included biographies, religious/self-help titles, and science titles. Most of these books were printed in unabridged versions. Authors included Hervey Allen, Robert Benchley, Stephen Vincent Benét, Max Brand, Joseph Conrad, A. J. Cronin, Carl Crow, Eugene Cunningham, Clyde Brion Davis, Walter D. Edmonds, Edward Ellsberg, William Faulkner, Peter Field, C. S. Forester, Erle Stanley Gardner, Edmund Gilligan, Arthur Henry Gooden, Zane Grey, Ernest Haycox, MacKinlay Kantor, Frances and Richard Lockridge, Jack London, William Colt MacDonald, John P. Marquand, Ngaio Marsh, W. Somerset Maugham, Clarence E. Mulford, John O'Hara, George Sessions Perry, William MacLeod"
"James are popular. Nigel Tranter wrote historical novels of celebrated Scottish warriors; Robert the Bruce in ""The Bruce Trilogy"", and William Wallace in ""The Wallace"" (1975), works noted by academics for their accuracy. John Wyndham wrote post-apocalyptic science fiction, his most notable works being ""The Day of the Triffids"" (1951), and ""The Midwich Cuckoos"" (1957). George Langelaan's ""The Fly"" (1957), is a science fiction short story. Science fiction novelist Arthur C. Clarke's """" (1968), is based on his various short stories, particularly ""The Sentinel"" (1951). His other major novels include ""Rendezvous with Rama"" (1972), and ""The Fountains of Paradise"" (1979)."
"Question: What Is Enlightenment?"" - Immanuel Kant 69. ""The Executioner"" - Joseph de Maistre 70. ""Confessions of an English Opium-Eater"" - Thomas de Quincey 71. ""The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion"" - Arthur Schopenhauer 72. ""The Gettysburg Address"" - Abraham Lincoln 73. ""Revolution and War"" - Karl Marx 74. ""The Grand Inquisitor"" - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 75. ""On A Certain Blindness in Human Beings"" - William James 76. ""An Apology for Idlers"" - Robert Louis Stevenson 77. ""Of the Dawn of Freedom"" - W. E. B. Du Bois 78. ""Thoughts of Peace in an Air Raid"" - Virginia Woolf 79. ""Decline"
"65BC to explore the search for the just city, the inevitable compromises of revolution, the conflict of ends and means, the question of whether and when it is justifiable to sacrifice lives for an abstract ideal."" The novel is generally not as well-known to English-speaking audiences as the later American novel on this topic, ""Spartacus"" (1951), by Howard Fast, a bestseller adapted for Stanley Kubrick's award-winning 1960 film of the same name, which reached wide audiences and stimulated sales of Fast's novel. The Gladiators (novel) The Gladiators (1939) is the first novel by the author Arthur Koestler; it portrays the"
"pleasurably terrifying experience. ""Frankenstein"", ""The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"", and Stoker's ""Dracula"" are all considered landmarks of Gothic horror fiction. Though it increased in popularity in the nineteenth century, elements of Gothic horror have appeared in more contemporary works, influencing authors from Edgar Allan Poe to Stephen King. The genre is marked by supernatural occurrences, gloomy settings, violent emotions, terror, and threatening villains, all of which appear in ""The Jewel of Seven Stars"". The villains are themselves supernatural in some way; the abundance of mummy fiction in late Victorian literature is closely linked to this genre."
"Pynchon's ""Gravity's Rainbow"", Robert Coover's ""The Public Burning"", Samuel Beckett’s ""Trilogy"" (""Molloy"", ""Malone Dies"" and ""The Unnamable""), Gertrude Stein’s ""The Making of Americans"", and William S. Burrough's ""The Nova Trilogy"". Topping the list is Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel ""Pale Fire"", which McCaffery called the ""most audaciously conceived novel of the century."" Not counting the tetralogies of Rikki Ducornet (#35) and Gene Wolfe (#78), the most cited author is James Joyce, whose four works, ""Ulysses"" (#2), ""Finnegans Wake"" (#10), ""A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"" (#21), and ""Dubliners"" (#63), all made the list. Robert Coover and William H."
"Lloyd Alexander Lloyd Chudley Alexander (January 30, 1924 – May 17, 2007) was an American author of more than forty books, primarily fantasy novels for children and young adults. His most famous work is ""The Chronicles of Prydain"", a series of five high fantasy novels whose conclusion, ""The High King"", was awarded the 1969 Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature. He won U.S. National Book Awards in 1971 and 1982. Alexander was one creator of the children's literary magazine ""Cricket"". Alexander was born in Philadelphia in 1924 and grew up in Drexel Hill, a section of Upper Darby"
"Marilyn Harris (writer) Marilyn Harris (June 4, 1931 — January 18, 2002) was an American author best known for her seven-novel ""Eden"" series, an historical saga about the Eden family of England. The series contains ""This Other Eden"" (1977); ""The Prince of Eden"" (1978); ""The Eden Passion"" (1979); ""The Women of Eden"" (1980); ""Eden Rising"" (1982); ""American Eden"" (1987); and ""Eden and Honor"" (1989). She is also the author of the best selling novel, ""Hatter Fox"" (1973), adapted into a 1977 CBS movie, ""The Girl Called Hatter Fox"". Harris was born on June 4, 1931, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the"