"and follow them to Watership Down. Hazel offers a treaty with Woundwort, who dismisses Hazel, telling him to turn over Bigwig and all the deserters or he will kill the entire warren. The Watership rabbits barricade their warren and are besieged by the Efrafans. Fiver slips into a trance, in which he envisions a dog loose in the woods. His moans inspire Hazel to free the dog from Nuthanger Farm and lead him to the Efrafans. He escapes with Blackberry, Dandelion and Hyzenthlay. Hazel prays to Frith, offering his life for the warren; a bargain Frith acknowledges, but does not"
"him to leave, along with his older brother Hazel and several other rabbits. He appears to be more prescient than his novel counterpart, and his visions come in rhymes. He often feels responsible for foreseeing terrible things or blaming himself for their outcome. He and Hazel are very close. Bigwig – Formerly an officer in the Sandleford Owsla, so-called because of the large amount of hair surrounding his face, giving him the appearance of a lionhead rabbit. The largest and most powerful of the Sandleford survivors, he is often blunt and impatient for dangerous action and fighting. After nearly getting"
"in a snare, the group realize that the new warren is managed by a farmer who protects and feeds the rabbits, but also harvests a number of them for their meat and skins. The residents of the new warren are simply using Hazel and the others to increase their own odds of survival. Fiver and the rest of the group work together to rescue Bigwig from the snare, then continue on their journey, taking with them a rabbit from Cowslip's warren called Strawberry, who asks to join them after his doe is killed in a snare. Fiver's visions have promised"
"travelling group of rabbits finds itself following the leadership of Hazel, who, until now, has been just another unimportant member of the warren. The group travels far and through dangerous territory. Bigwig and Silver, both former Owsla and the strongest rabbits among them, do well to keep the others protected, along with Hazel's keen observations and good judgement. They meet a rabbit named Cowslip, who invites them to join his warren. At first Hazel's group are relieved to finally be able to sleep and feed well – except for Fiver, who senses only death there. When Bigwig is nearly killed"
"their wits and quickness. In the present, in the English countryside of Sandleford, Fiver, a rabbit seer has an apocalyptic vision and goes with his older brother Hazel to beg the chief to have the warren evacuated, but they are dismissed and attempt to make an exodus themselves. The group meets resistance from the warren's police force called the Owsla, but eight manage to fight and escape: Fiver, Hazel, Bigwig, Blackberry, Pipkin, Dandelion, Silver, and Violet. They travel through the dangerous woods and make it to a bean field to rest. In the morning, Violet is killed by a hawk,"
"""Arfive"" (1971), ""The Last Valley"" (1975), and ""Fair Land, Fair Land"". The first three books of the six in chronological story sequence (but not in the sequence of publishing) — ""The Big Sky"", ""The Way West"", and ""Fair Land, Fair Land"" — are in themselves a complete trilogy, starting in 1830 with Boone Caudill leaving Kentucky to become a mountain man and ending with the death of Caudill and later the death of Dick Summers in the 1870s. Former senator William Tadlock leads a wagon train along the Oregon Trail from Missouri with the help of hired guide Dick Summers."
"Bigwig, refuses to back down and leaps at the dog. His body is never found, and at least one of his former followers continues to believe in his survival. Hazel is nearly killed by a cat, but he is saved by the farm girl Lucy, the owner of the escaped hutch rabbits. The story's epilogue tells the reader of how Hazel, dozing in his burrow one ""chilly, blustery morning in March"" some years later, is visited by El-ahrairah, the spiritual overseer of all rabbits, and hero of many rabbit stories. El-ahrairah invites Hazel to join his own Owsla, reassuring him"
"not the strongest or smartest of the bucks, Hazel is a charismatic leader who recognizes and employs the skills of his fellow bucks to great success. He is shot while freeing the hutch rabbits at Nuthanger Farm and almost dies, but is saved by his younger brother Fiver. Although lamed by this injury, he leads the foray to Efrafa and comes up with the final, successful strategy to defeat General Woundwort. Hazel's beautiful mate is Primrose, whom he freed from Efrafa. Fiver – Hazel's younger brother. A small runty rabbit whose visions of the destruction of the Sandleford warren lead"
"Twig (novel) Twig is a children's fantasy novel written and illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones. It was originally published by Macmillan in 1942. The book was reissued in a 60th Anniversary Edition by Purple House Press in 2002. The novel features Twig, an imaginative little city girl who turns a tomato can into a house for fairies. A little elf comes along to live in the house and, at Twig's request, turns her fairy-sized, though he cannot manage wings. A friendly sparrow fetches the Queen of the fairies to help. The ""New York Times"" praised the book by saying, ""Miss"
"(1971), ""The Last Valley"" (1975), and ""Fair Land, Fair Land"". The first three books in chronological story sequence (but not in the sequence of publishing) — ""The Big Sky"", ""The Way West"", and ""Fair Land, Fair Land"" — are in themselves a complete trilogy, starting in 1830 with Boone Caudill leaving Kentucky to become a mountain man and ending with the death of Caudill and later the death of Dick Summers in the 1870s. In his ""Author's note"" at the beginning of the novel, Guthrie wrote that he had ""sworn more than once to write no more about the early-day"
"edited, ""Infinity Science Fiction"" and ""Science Fiction Adventures"". During that same time, she began editing and publishing her folk music publications, ""Caravan"" and ""Gardyloo"", which found a readership through Izzy Young's Folklore Center as the folk music scene expanded during the late 1950s. Hoffman won the Western Writers of America Spur Award for her novel ""The Valdez Horses"" (Doubleday, 1967). In Spain, John Sturges directed the 1973 film adaptation, ""The Valdez Horses""/""Valdez, il Mezzosangue"" (aka ""Chino""), starring Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland. Under the pseudonym Georgia York, she wrote historical romances for Fawcett Books during the years 1979 to 1983."
"The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession with the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, ""The Great Gatsby"" explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Roaring Twenties that has been described as"
"Earwig. It is followed by ""Wintersmith"". ""A Hat Full of Sky"" by Terry Pratchett is a fantasy novel about a girl who is learning her place as a witch. Early in the novel, Tiffany Aching leaves her home in the chalk country (based on England's chalk country) to act as an apprentice and maid for the elderly witch Miss Level. Her former teacher, Miss Tick, who is also a witch, escorts her to the town of Twoshirts. While waiting for Miss Level to arrive, they are attacked by a hiver. The hiver cannot be killed or seen and it takes"
"Twilight, an orphan great grey owl who learned his survival instincts from the ""Orphan School of Tough Learning"", Digger, a burrowing owl, who lost his family to the St. Aggie's marauders and is extremely sensitive and philosophical, and the old Mrs. Plithiver, Soren's former nest-maid western blind snake. With the help of Hortense's two bald eagle friends named Streak and Zan, they kill two of St. Aggie's patrols, the cousins Jatt and Jutt the long-eared owls. The four owls form a band and fly away in search of the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, where legend says the great knight-owls live who"
"as Carolyn Cassady, Henry Thomas as Whalen, Anthony Edwards as Ferlinghetti, Balthazar Getty as McClure, Patrick Fischler as Welch, and Stana Katic as Kandel. Big Sur (novel) Big Sur is a 1962 novel by Jack Kerouac. It recounts the events surrounding Kerouac's (here known by the name of his fictional alter-ego Jack Duluoz) three brief sojourns to a cabin in Bixby Canyon, Big Sur, owned by Kerouac's friend and Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The novel departs from Kerouac's previous fictionalized autobiographical series in that the character Duluoz is shown as a popular, published author. The Subterraneans also mentions Kerouac's (Leo"
"herself for letting him go when she finds out he formed an alliance out of fear with Woundwort. Primrose replaces the character of Hyzenthlay from the novel and film. Blackavar - A captive in Efrafa with Primrose who was rescued by the Watership Down rabbits. Blackavar has only a minor role and is mostly used as a background character. Strawberry - An orange rabbit who leaves Cowslip's warren after meeting Hazel and Bigwig and joins them in Watership Down. Initially lazy from his time with Cowslip, he later proves to be an accomplished digger and serves in Bigwig's Owsla. Captain"
"befriends and has adventures with numerous influential eighteenth-century figures, including Lawrence Washington, George Hadley, Samuel Johnson, Erasmus Darwin, Henry Fielding and, especially, Benjamin Franklin during Franklin's years in England. Towards the end of his life, Fezziwig returns to his childhood home, accompanied by his apprentice Ebenezer Scrooge. The novel was originally published by favoritetrainers.com books as ""The Autobiography of Fezziwig"", but re-released in 2015. Mr. Fezziwig Mr. Fezziwig is a character from the novel ""A Christmas Carol"" created by Charles Dickens to provide contrast with Ebenezer Scrooge's attitudes towards business ethics. Scrooge, who apprenticed under Fezziwig, is the very antithesis"
"Ishmael"" (1971), a far-future sequel to Herman Melville's ""Moby-Dick""; ""The Other Log of Phileas Fogg"" (1973), which fills in the missing time periods from Jules Verne's ""Around the World in Eighty Days""; and ""A Barnstormer in Oz"" (1982), in which Dorothy's adult son, a pilot, flies to the Land of Oz by accident. He has often written about the pulp heroes Tarzan and Doc Savage, or pastiches thereof: In his novel ""The Adventure of the Peerless Peer"", Tarzan and Sherlock Holmes team up. Farmer's Lord Grandrith and Doc Caliban series portrays analogues of Tarzan and Doc Savage. It consists of"
"Fiddler (mystery series) Fiddler is the fictional protagonist in an eight book mystery series by A.E. Maxwell (husband and wife writing team Evan and Ann Maxwell, who also writes as Elizabeth Lowell.) The books in the series are ""Just Another Day in Paradise"" (1985), ""The Frog and the Scorpion"" (1986), ""Gatsby's Vineyard"" (1987), ""Just Enough Light to Kill"" (1988), ""The Art of Survival"" (1989), ""Money Burns"" (1991), ""The King of Nothing"" (1992), and ""Murder Hurts"" (1993). Fiddler is an independently wealthy Southern California resident with a past who occasionally solves crimes with the assistance of his ex-wife and on-again, off-again"
"told, questioning if she really had a ""voice full of money"" as Gatsby claimed and wondered what her thoughts were on the love triangle between her, Gatsby and her husband. Daisy Buchanan Daisy Fay Buchanan is a fictional character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's magnum opus ""The Great Gatsby"" (1925). In the novel, Daisy is depicted as a married woman with a daughter who is reunited with her former lover Jay Gatsby, arousing the jealousy of her husband, Tom. She is widely believed to have been based on Ginevra King. She has appeared in various media related to the novel, including"
"Figgs & Phantoms Figgs & Phantoms is a comic young adult novel written and illustrated by Ellen Raskin and published by Dutton in 1974. It was a Newbery Honor Book. The story centers on Mona Lisa Figg Newton, a teenage girl living in the fictional town of Pineapple with her eccentric family, including: her tap dancing mother, Sister Figg Newton; her uncles, Truman the Human Pretzel, Romulus the Walking Book of Knowledge, Remus the Talking Adding Machine, and Kadota with his Nine Performing Kanines; and her cousin Fido the Second. The only family member Mona gets along with is her"
"the rhyme is still in use, but the second line now uses ""tiger"" instead. The word ""nigger"" is used innocently and without malice by the child characters in some of the ""Swallows and Amazons"" series, written in the 1930s by Arthur Ransome, e.g. in referring to how the (white) characters appear in photographic negatives (""Look like niggers to me"") in ""The Big Six"", and as a synonym for black pearls in ""Peter Duck"". Editions published by Puffin after Ransome's death changed the word to 'negroes'. The first Jeeves novel, ""Thank You, Jeeves"" (1934), features a minstrel show as a significant"
"politics. Like he was in our timeline, ""Big Bill"" Haywood is a Socialist Party bigwig in the U.S. during the Great War. He is introduced to Flora Hamburger by Herman Bruck at a May Day rally, and eyes her with lust. Flora doesn't seem to like him, but does acknowledge that he brings a furious energy to the cause that makes him a force to be reckoned with. Known only as ""Ernie"", the novelist Ernest Hemingway was an ambulance driver in the U.S. Army on the Québec front in the Great War (in our timeline Hemingway drove an ambulance in"
"the Day by Elizabeth Bowen (1948) 70. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949) 71. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (1951) 72. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (1951) 73. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1953) 74. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954) 75. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955) 76. On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957) 77. Voss by Patrick White (1957) 78. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960) 79. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (1960) 80. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961) 81. The"
"his loyal friend the Old Monkey, and a great battle is fought in which the Badfort Crowd are completely defeated—until next time. The last that is seen of Beaver Hateman is this: He comes down in Gaby's Marsh again, and vows in an insolent letter delivered to Uncle as the book closes that he will take a revenge ""so fearful that anyone who speaks of it will develop lockjaw"". A hardcover edition of the collected Uncle stories was published in June 2008, from The New York Review Children's Collection (). www.nyrb.com Uncle Cleans Up Uncle Cleans Up (1965) is a"
"won the annual Kurt Maschler Award for integrated text and illustration. ""Ten, Nine, Eight"" was also a runner-up for the U.S. Caldecott Medal (""Honour Book""). 1984 Errol Le Cain, ""Hiawatha's Childhood"" (Faber), a section of the 1855 poem by Longfellow 1985 Juan Wijngaard, ""Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady"" (Walker), retold by Selena Hastings 1986 Fiona French, ""Snow White in New York"" (Oxford) @ The Ahlbergs won the Emils for ""The Jolly Postman"" (Kurt Maschler Award). 1987 Adrienne Kennaway, ""Crafty Chameleon"" (Hodder & Stoughton), by Mwenye Hadithi 1988 Barbara Firth, ""Can't You Sleep Little Bear?"" (Walker), by Martin Waddell Browne"
"a contender for the title ""Great American Novel."" In 1998, the Modern Library editorial board voted it the 20th century's best American novel and second best English-language novel of the same time period. Set on the prosperous Long Island of 1922, ""The Great Gatsby"" provides a critical social history of America during the Roaring Twenties within its fictional narrative. That era, known for widespread economic prosperity, the development of jazz music, flapper culture, new technologies in communication (motion pictures, broadcast radio, recorded music) forging a genuine mass culture, and bootlegging, along with other criminal activity, is plausibly depicted in Fitzgerald's"
"their oppression. In his research, he discovers the legend of the Schnibble, a mystical entity that is believed to have the ability to cause peace and prosperity to flourish in times of need, and begins work on finding a way to unleash it. Word spreads about his goal, and Azimuth is hailed as a hero by the Bouzouk community. Unfortunately, word of the Schnibble also reaches the ears of the BigWig. To stave off any chance of a revolution, the BigWig and his thugs storm the home of Professor Azimuth and his young adopted half-human, half-Bouzouk son, Woodruff. Azimuth barely"
"(in 1957, 1968, and 2008), and two TV series (in 1981 and 2009). It was nominated for the International Fantasy Award in 1952, and in 2003 the novel was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read. The protagonist is Bill Masen, a biologist who has made his living working with triffids – tall, venomous carnivorous plants capable of locomotion. Due to his background, Masen suspects they were bioengineered in the USSR and accidentally released into the wild. The result is worldwide cultivation of triffids. The narrative begins with Bill Masen in hospital, his eyes bandaged after having been splashed"
"resurrected the Old English words ""cob"" and ""lob"" for ""spider"". The 1952 children's novel ""Charlotte's Web"" written by E. B. White, is notable in its portrayal of the spider in a positive manner as a heroine rather than an object of fear or horror. More recently, giant spiders have featured in books such as the 1998 fantasy novel ""Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"" by J. K. Rowling. This book was later followed by a motion picture of the same name, using the giant spider Aragog from the novel as a supporting character and pet of grounds keeper, Hagrid."
"Welles and Rita Hayworth in 1945, Miller moved several miles south to a wood cabin on Partington Ridge that had been owned by his friend Emil White. While in Big Sur, Miller, avant-garde musician Harry Partch and Jean Varda were part of a local group of bohemians known as the Anderson Creek Gang, many of whom lived at the former highway work camp near the mouth of Anderson Creek. Miller lived in a shack there during 1946 before moving back to the cabin on Partington Ridge in 1947. In his 1957 essay/memoir/novel ""Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch"","
"Goes Camping; Peter Tiggywig Runs Away; Peter Tiggywig's Wonderful Train; Peter Tiggywig At School; Peter Tiggywig's Birthday Party; Peter Tiggywig At The Picnic; Peter Tiggywig's Toy-shop; Peter Tiggywig At Sea Other work includes ""Master Mouse the Madcap"" (1958), and ""Animal Playtime"" and ""Animal Worktime"" which appeared in the Look with Mother series, and a paperback series for children published by Nelson including 'Aesop's Fables'(1965) 'Brer Rabbit' and the 'Water Babies' (abridged) Miss Haywood was a keen student of science and an amateur naturalist and anthropologist. Many of the books she illustrated for the publisher Hutchinson & Co., London, were keenly"
"was performed at City Lit Theater in Chicago in May and June 2007, directed by Marissa McKown and starred Sabrina Kramnich as Gidget. Gidget Gidget () is a fictional character created by author Frederick Kohner (based on his teenage daughter, Kathy) in his 1957 novel, ""Gidget, the Little Girl with Big Ideas"". The novel follows the adventures of a teenage girl and her surfing friends on the beach in Malibu. The name Gidget is a portmanteau of ""girl"" and ""midget"". Following the novel's publication, the character appeared in several films, television series and television movies. The original ""Gidget"" was created"