"ever read this, could you please dust them off and put them back in print so other people can read them?"" On a number of occasions, Rowling has cited her admiration for French novelist Colette. Rowling said that the death of Charles Darnay in Charles Dickens's ""A Tale of Two Cities"", and the novel's final line, ""It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known"", had a profound impact on her. In a 2000 interview with BBC Radio"
"an' men / Gang aft agley"" (often paraphrased in English as ""The best-laid plans of mice and men / Go oft awry""). The 1997 novel ""The Best Laid Plans"" by Sidney Sheldon also draws its title from this line, and so do the novel of the same name by Canadian author Terry Fallis and the film series based on it. The 1937 Fleischer Studios Color Classics cartoon, ""A Car-Tune Portrait"", makes reference to the poem. Near the very end of the cartoon, upon giving up with the musical performance, the conductor is quoted as saying, ""Alas, alas. The best laid"
"Clancy's President Jack Ryan quotes Burns' famous line, ""The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley"" in the 2013 novel ""Command Authority"". The ""Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D."" season 5 episode 9 ""Best Laid Plans"" takes its name from this poem. To a Mouse ""To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785"" is a Scots-language poem written by Robert Burns in 1785, and was included in the Kilmarnock volume. According to legend, Burns was ploughing in the fields and accidentally destroyed a mouse's nest, which it needed to survive the winter. In"
"says, ""It's an imagined version of what I think the future might be,"" we have really opened a ridiculous window that the entire series of Sherlock might be the drug-induced ravings of the Victorian Sherlock Holmes. Which means we can do absolutely anything. Moriarty's stating ""There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before"" comes from one of Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes stories, ""A Study in Scarlet"". But also refers to the Biblical book of Ecclesiastes (Ch1 Vs9): ""What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is"
"killed by David's general Joab in violation of David's order to deal gently with his son, causing heartbreak to David. The 1983 ""Guinness Book of World Records"" says the ""Longest Sentence in Literature"" is a sentence from ""Absalom, Absalom!"" containing 1,288 words. The sentence can be found in Chapter 6; it begins with the words ""Just exactly like father"", and ends with ""the eye could not see from any point"". The passage is entirely italicized and incomplete. Absalom, Absalom! Absalom, Absalom! is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, first published in 1936. Taking place before, during, and after"
"""There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt""—or its source, Rabelais's ""there was but this one clause to be observed, ""Do What Thou Wilt""""—is parodied as ""There is no law in Cocaigne save, Do that which seems good to you."" Reviewing Cabell's later novel, ""Hamlet Had An Uncle"", Basil Davenport called ""Jurgen"" ""a masterpiece."" Robert A. Heinlein consciously patterned his best-known novel, ""Stranger in a Strange Land"", after ""Jurgen"", and Cabell's influence is also evident in the titles and themes of at least two other novels by Heinlein: his long-unpublished first novel, """" (written 1938, published 2003), and his"
"most valuable and important documents which could be published all illustrative of the woes of war ... I never read anything which affected my own feelings more strongly."" Charles Dickens wrote on 16 March 1841 "" ...To say that the reading that most astonishing and tremendous account has constituted an epoch in my life—that I shall never forget the lightest word of it—that I cannot throw the impression aside, and never saw anything so real, so touching, and so actually present before my eyes, is nothing. I am husband and wife, dead man and living woman, Emma and General Dundas,"
"Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are still widely read today. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of"
"Dickens is the most famous Victorian novelist. Extraordinarily popular in his day with his characters taking on a life of their own beyond the page; Dickens is still one of the most popular and read authors of the world. His first novel, ""The Pickwick Papers"" (183637) written when he was twenty-five, was an overnight success, and all his subsequent works sold extremely well. The comedy of his first novel has a satirical edge and this pervades his writing. Dickens worked diligently and prolifically to produce the entertaining writing that the public wanted, but also to offer commentary on social problems"
"in the nose of the Marquis. Forster believed that Dickens never truly created rounded characters. ""A Tale of Two Cities"" is one of only two works of historical fiction by Charles Dickens (the other being ""Barnaby Rudge""). Dickens relies much on """" by Thomas Carlyle as a historical source. Dickens wrote in his Preface to ""Tale"" that ""no one can hope to add anything to the philosophy of Mr. Carlyle's wonderful book"". Dickens uses literal translations of French idioms for characters who cannot speak English, such as ""What the devil do you do in that galley there?!!"" and ""Where is"
"of history. He is reputed to have used the phrase “the worse the better”, to indicate that the worse the social conditions became for the poor, the more inclined they would be to launch a revolution. There are those arguing, in the words of Professor Joseph Frank, that “Chernyshevsky’s novel ""What Is to Be Done?"", far more than Marx’s ""Das Kapital"", supplied the emotional dynamic that eventually went to make the Russian Revolution”. Fyodor Dostoyevsky was enraged by what he saw as the simplicity of the political and psychological ideas expressed in the book, and wrote ""Notes from Underground"" largely"
"reads: ""...I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my land, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom."" A memo to Rand dated May 4, 1964, mentions the unauthorized adaptation, but there is no indication that she took any legal action. Robert Silverberg's 1971 novel ""A Time of Changes"" also depicts a society where ""I"" is a forbidden word and where the protagonist rebels against this prohibition. In a 2009 preface to a reprint edition of his novel, Silverberg said he had read ""Anthem"" in 1953, but had long forgotten it when he wrote ""A Time of Changes""."
"was a friend and contemporary of Charles Dickens and was one of the pioneers of the historical novel, exemplified by his most popular work, ""The Last Days of Pompeii"". He is best remembered today for the opening line to the novel ""Paul Clifford"", which begins ""It was a dark and stormy night..."" and is considered by some to be the worst opening sentence in the English language. However, Bulwer-Lytton is also responsible for well-known sayings such as ""The pen is mightier than the sword"" from his play ""Richelieu"". Despite being a very popular author for 19th-century readers, few people today"
"This Above All This Above All (1941) is a novel by Eric Knight. It was adapted into an Academy Award-winning movie in 1942. The title of the novel is derived from a quote by Polonius in William Shakespeare's ""Hamlet"" (Act 1, scene 3): """"This above all: to thine own self be true,/ And it must follow, as the night the day,/ Thou canst not then be false to any man."""" Spending leave together on the South Coast during the Battle of Britain and the beginning of the blitz, Clive and Prudence have an affair. Having survived Dunkirk, but having a"
"into the fire on that first of January 1853. The Long Voyage ""The Long Voyage"" is a New Year's Eve short story by Charles Dickens. It was originally published in the 31 December 1853 issue of ""Household Words"" magazine. The story concerns a man alone on New Year's Eve, who loves to ""sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel"" while he himself has never been ""around the world, never has been shipwrecked, ice-environed, tomahawked, or eaten."" Some of the books he has read concern Christopher Columbus, James Bruce who searched for"
"A Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. Dickens's famous opening sentence introduces the universal approach of the book, the French Revolution, and the drama depicted"
"and ""How It Is""). ""Malone Dies"" can be seen as the point in which Beckett took another direction with his writing. ""Malone Dies"" contains the famous line, ""Nothing is more real than nothing"" (New York: Grove, 1956; p. 16) – a metatextual echo of Democritus' ""Naught is more real than nothing"" that appears in Beckett's first published novel ""Murphy"" (1938). Malone is an old man who lies naked in bed in either asylum or hospital—he is not sure which. Most of his personal effects have been taken from him, though he has retained some: his exercise book, brimless hat, and"
"novel by L. P. Hartley, published in London in 1953 and beginning with the famous line: ""The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."" The lead is often misquoted using the expression 'another country'. The most direct reference is to several well-known lines from British literature, originating from Christopher Marlowe's play ""The Jew of Malta"" (). Here ""the wench"" may refer to Martineau. Most of the students are more interested in covering up a potential scandal than worrying about the actual death. If so, the ""adultery"" may refer to what is done to Martineau and perhaps all"
"and inspiring a new class of readers. Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His 1843 novella, ""A Christmas Carol"", remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. ""Oliver Twist"" and ""Great Expectations"" are also frequently adapted, and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel, ""A Tale of Two Cities"", set in London and Paris, is his best-known work of historical fiction. Dickens has been praised by fellow writers—from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell, G. K. Chesterton and Tom Wolfe—for his realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations,"
"of coroners' inquests that he had attended when he had been a reporter. In the preface of the book edition of ""Bleak House"", Dickens wrote: ""I shall not abandon the facts until there shall have been a considerable Spontaneous Combustion of the testimony on which human occurrences are usually received."" George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton are among those literary critics and writers who consider ""Bleak House"" to be the best novel that Charles Dickens wrote. As Chesterton put it: """"Bleak House"" is not certainly Dickens' best book; but perhaps it is his best novel"". Harold Bloom, in his book"
"after their walking tour of Cumberland during September 1857 and published in ""Household Words"" from 3 to 31 October of the same year, presents certain strange locations and a passionate love, foreshadowing ""Great Expectations"". Beyond its biographical and literary aspects, ""Great Expectations"" appears, according to Robin Gilmour, as ""a representative fable of the age"". Dickens was aware that the novel ""speaks"" to a generation applying, at most, the principle of ""self help"" which was believed to have increased the order of daily life. That the hero Pip aspires to improve, not through snobbery, but through the Victorian conviction of education,"
"Gads Hill Place Gads Hill Place in Higham, Kent, sometimes spelt Gadshill Place and Gad's Hill Place, was the country home of Charles Dickens, the most successful British author of the Victorian era. Today the building is the independent Gad's Hill School. The house was built in 1780 for a former Mayor of Rochester, Thomas Stephens, opposite the present Sir John Falstaff Public House. Gad's Hill is where Falstaff commits the robbery that begins Shakespeare's Henriad trilogy (Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2 and Henry V). Charles Dickens first saw the mansion when he was 9 years old"
"that I have ever seen"". The title is derived from The Bible, particularly ""The Gospel of Luke"", which describes Jesus traveling in the land of Gadarenes where he encounters a man possessed by demons: Or the more common quote on the incident, sometimes called the Gerasene Demoniac, from ""The Gospel of Mark"": The storyline is a mix of horror and whodunnit, with a police detective, Lieutenant Kinderman, investigating a series of murders that have all the hallmarks of a serial killer who was shot by police (but whose body was never recovered) many years previously. The slayings have a blasphemous"
"work for the revolution, and ruthlessly subordinate everything in their lives to the cause, the work furnished a blueprint for the asceticism and dedication unto death which became an ideal of the early socialist underground of the Russian Empire. The book is perhaps better known in the English-speaking world for the responses it created than as a novel in its own right. Fyodor Dostoevsky mocked the utilitarianism and utopianism of the novel in his 1864 novella ""Notes from Underground"", as well as in his 1872 novel ""Demons"". Leo Tolstoy wrote a different ""What Is To Be Done?"", published in 1886,"
"meant that it has never been out of print since it was first published. Charles Dickens ""Our Mutual Friend"" (written in the years 1864–65) describes the river in a grimmer light. It begins with a scavenger and his daughter pulling a dead man from the river near London Bridge, to salvage what the body might have in its pockets, and leads to its conclusion with the deaths of the villains drowned in Plashwater Lock upstream. The workings of the river and the influence of the tides are described with great accuracy. Dickens opens the novel with this sketch of the"
"it."" In an 8 August 1860 letter to Thomas Carlyle, Dickens reported his agitation whenever he prepared a new book. A month later, in a letter to John Forster, Dickens announced that he just had a new idea. Dickens was pleased with the idea, calling it ""such a very fine, new and grotesque idea"" in a letter to Forster. He planned to write ""a little piece"", a ""grotesque tragi-comic conception"", about a young hero who befriends an escaped convict, who then makes a fortune in Australia and anonymously bequeaths his property to the hero. In the end, the hero loses"
"good character and 'the respect of the neighborhood,' there is not a living to be got out of the broom."" The occupation of crossing sweeper received perhaps its most famous literary treatment in Charles Dickens' novel ""Bleak House"" with the character of Jo, a homeless boy who ""fights it out at his crossing among the mud and wheels, the horses, whips, and umbrellas, and gets but a scanty sum..."" Jo has been characterized as ""one of the most significant figures"" in the novel and as a way for Dickens to address juvenile vagrancy, which was seen as a serious social"
"Bondage by W Somerset Maugham (1915) 45. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920) 46. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922) 47. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (1922) 48. A Passage to India by EM Forster (1924) 49. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos (1925) 50. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925) 51. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (1925) 52. Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1926) 53. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926) 54. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1929) 55. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930) 56. Brave New World by Aldous"
"become urgent as Merlin becomes certain that his life is in danger. This novel was published almost simultaneously with ""The Fountains of Paradise"" by Arthur C. Clarke. Through an amazing coincidence the two novels contained many similarities. Both protagonists are engineers who have built the world's longest bridge using a machine named the ""Spider"", both of whom are hired to build a space elevator, and both engineers modify their Spiders to produce a crystalline fiber. When Baen Books reprinted this novel in 2001, they included an open letter that Clarke wrote in 1979 when the novel was first published. Clarke"
"Adaptations of A Christmas Carol ""A Christmas Carol"", the popular 1843 novella by Charles Dickens (1812–1870), is one of the British author's best-known works. It is the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a greedy miser who hates Christmas, but is transformed into a caring, kindly person through the visitations of four ghosts. The classic work has been dramatised and adapted countless times for virtually every medium and performance genre, and new versions appear regularly. The novel was the subject of Dickens' first public reading, given in Birmingham Town Hall to the Industrial and Literary Institute on 27 December 1852. This was"
"Hartley L.P. The Go-Between ""Gesture"" Fitzgerald F. Scott The Great Gatsby ""Words"" Fitzgerald F. Scott Tender is the Night ""Words"" Hemingway Ernest The Sun Also Rises ""Sentences"" Hemingway Ernest A Moveable Feast ""Sentences"" Bowen Elizabeth The House in Paris ""Detail"" Nabokov Vladimir Lectures on Russian Literature ""Chekhov"" Nabokov Vladimir Lolita ""Narration"" ""Dialogue"" Mandelstam Nadezdha Hope Against Hope: A Memoir ""Words"" Stead Christina The Man Who Loved Children ""Dialogue"" Green Henry Doting ""Dialogue"" Green Henry Loving ""Dialogue"" Beckett Samuel The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 ""Gesture"" ""Courage"" Steegmuller Francis Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait Bowles Paul Paul Bowles: Collected Stories"
"Rather, the oft acknowledged ""genius"" of Dickens seems to have overshadowed all reviews and made it impossible for most critics to completely condemn the work, the majority of these reviews being a mixture of praise and disparagement. In November 1865 E.S. Dallas, in ""The Times"", lauded ""Our Mutual Friend"" as ""one of the best of even Dickens's tales,"" but was unable to ignore the flaws. ""This last novel of Mr Charles Dickens, really one of his finest works, and one in which on occasion he even surpasses himself, labours under the disadvantage of a beginning that drags ... On the"
"Thackeray and Charles Dickens (in 1863 and 1870, respectively), Eliot was ""generally recognised as the greatest living English novelist"" at the time of the novel's final publication. ""Middlemarch"" is centred on the lives of the residents of Middlemarch, a fictitious Midlands town, from 1829 onwards—the years preceding the 1832 Reform Act. The narrative is variably considered to consist of three or four plots of unequal emphasis: the life of Dorothea Brooke; the career of Tertius Lydgate; the courtship of Mary Garth by Fred Vincy; and the disgrace of Nicholas Bulstrode. The two main plots are those of Dorothea and Lydgate."