"writes: ""Over the course of many years, Dave and I have collaborated to tell my story... I told [him] what I knew and what I could remember, and from that material he created this work of art."" The book is typical of Eggers' style: blending non-fictional and fictional elements into a non-fiction novel or memoir. By classifying the book a novel, Eggers says, he freed himself to re-create conversations, streamline complex relationships, add relevant detail and manipulate time and space in helpful ways—all while maintaining the essential truthfulness of the storytelling. However, not all critics were impressed. Lee Siegel sees"
"Zany (orig. Spanish ""el Pelele""), also translated as the Idiot by some critics, appears only in the first four chapters and again at the end of chapter seven but serves a critical function in the novel. The Zany, who ""looked like a corpse when he was asleep"" and had eyes that ""saw nothing, felt nothing"" is critical to establishing the tone of the novel and triggering the novel's action. Critic John Walker argues that, by ""choosing the Idiot as a representative of the innocent, the a-political, who suffer the abuses of a totalitarian regime [...] Asturias shows how dictatorship corrupts"
"in different languages, one pivotal letter in the book is written in the (fictitious) idiom of Twang's (fictitious) homeland, and to translate it the reader must refer back to earlier chapters to find the meanings of the words. In a typical Mathews conceit, the title of the novel is apparently meaningless until the reader reaches the final pages, at which point it reveals an important twist in the story that is nowhere revealed in the text of the book itself. The novel is provided with an index, which may be deliberately unreliable. David Maurer's ""The Big Con"" provided Mathews with"
"miss being on the sole Topps Seattle Pilots baseball team card, as the photo used was taken in his absence), and was later traded during the season to the Houston Astros for Dooley Womack, who, like Bouton, was a former Yankee ""phenom"" himself. The book's title came from a female denizen of a tavern called the Lion's Head in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood. Having recently completed the manuscript, Bouton and Shecter were discussing the book at the bar, lamenting the fact that with the book ready for print they still had not arrived on an acceptable name. According"
"to some sources, the title, the meaning of which is not explicitly revealed in the book, was taken from a review of Maugham's novel ""Of Human Bondage"" in which the novel's protagonist, Philip Carey, is described as ""so busy yearning for the moon that he never saw the sixpence at his feet."" According to a 1956 letter from Maugham, ""If you look on the ground in search of a sixpence, you don't look up, and so miss the moon."" Maugham's title echoes the description of Gauguin by his contemporary biographer, Meier-Graefe (1908): ""He [Gauguin] may be charged with having always"
"are introduced to the world of Lone, referred to as the ""Idiot"", a 25-year-old male with a telepathic ability who lives on the street. He knows he can make people do what he wants them to, but has never experienced real human connection. One day he encounters Evelyn Kew, an innocent woman who has been completely sheltered by her domineering father. She is the first person he has mentally and physically connected with. Evelyn's father finds out about the relationship and kills Evelyn and himself. During this incident Lone barely escapes a beating from the father; bleeding and nearly dead,"
"""F"". After this, the vote transforms into an auction, and with the final cry of, ""Going...going...""gone!"""" everyone abruptly vanishes. Luckily, not everyone had vanished and Alice was left with both the Grampus and the Italian Hairdresser. The grampus promptly inquires if her name is ""Boris"". After a short discussion, the Grampus realizes that he has indeed written down the wrong name within his autobiography. He explains to Alice how forgetful he is, giving an example of how he sometimes ""leaves home without an umbrella and returns with one"". ""This is why I have an autobiography,"" he said. ""So that I"
"its author an opportunity to display his customary virtuosity as an avant-gardist magician, acrobat and clown."" Both of Georges Perec's parents perished in World War II, his father as a soldier and his mother in the Holocaust. He was brought up by his aunt and uncle after surviving the war. Warren Motte interprets the absence of the letter E in the book as a metaphor for Perec's own sense of loss and incompleteness: In French, the phrase ""sans e"" (""without e"") sounds very much like ""sans eux"" (""without them""), another encrypted reference to loss. A Void A Void, translated from"
"surname of a supervillain-scientist from the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Lastly, the word 'cavity' implies a hole or void or absence of something, and he is described in the poem as being ""not there"" at the time or location of any crime. The poem ""Macavity the Mystery Cat"" is the best known of Eliot's ""Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"", the only book Eliot wrote for a younger audience. The poem is considered particularly suitable reading for 11- and 12-year-olds. Macavity (also called the Mystery Cat, the Hidden Paw and Napoleon of Crime) is a master criminal,"
"acting on the rule that pawns can advance two spaces on their first move. She arrives in a forest where a depressed gnat teaches her about the looking glass insects, strange creatures part bug part object (e.g., bread and butterfly, rocking horse fly), before flying away sadly. Alice continues her journey and along the way, crosses the ""wood where things have no names"". There she forgets all nouns, including her own name. With the help of a fawn who has also forgotten his identity, she makes it to the other side, where they both remember everything. Realizing that he is"
"The Idiot The Idiot (pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform ) is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the journal ""The Russian Messenger"" in 1868–9. The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness, open-hearted simplicity and guilelessness lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight. In the character of Prince Myshkin, Dostoevsky set himself the task of depicting ""the positively good and beautiful man."" The novel examines the"
"A Void A Void, translated from the original French La Disparition (literally, ""The Disappearance""), is a 300-page French lipogrammatic novel, written in 1969 by Georges Perec, entirely without using the letter ""e"" (except for the author's name), following Oulipo constraints. It was translated into English by Gilbert Adair, with the title A Void, for which he won the Scott Moncrieff Prize in 1995. Three other unpublished English translations are titled A Vanishing by Ian Monk, Vanish'd! by John Lee, and Omissions by Julian West. The book has also been translated into German (by Eugen Helmlé as Anton Voyls Fortgang, 1986),"
"1969 novel ""A Void"", notable for not containing a single letter ""e"", contains an e-less rewriting of Poe's ""The Raven"" that is attributed to Arthur Gordon Pym in order to avoid using the two ""e""s found in Poe's name. On May 5, 1974, author and journalist Arthur Koestler published a letter from reader Nigel Parker in ""The Sunday Times"" of a striking coincidence between a scene in Poe's novel and an actual event that happened decades later: In 1884, the yacht ""Mignonette"" sank, with four men cast adrift. After weeks without food, they decided that one of them should be"
"omission of the Oxford comma (e.g. ""Tom and Adrian and Pigs Trotter""). In the book, at school, Adrian actively tries new vocabulary. As a spy he is told off by Trefusis for saying ""it is them"" instead of ""it is they"" (a result of a peculiarity of the verb ""to be""), and complains to Trefusis about the habit of another (less erudite) character who overused the suffix ""-ise"". The novel is semi-autobiographical and many scenes echo experiences later recounted in Fry's memoir, ""Moab is My Washpot"". The character Trefusis was created by Fry for several humorous radio broadcasts on BBC"
"a banner at the police station that reads ""Welcome Back Thelma!"", an obvious reference to the parole officer's injuries. The injured parole officer appears again in ""The Closers"" (2005) during one of Bosch's investigations, and Bosch recognizes Cassie's mugshot in a newspaper article in her cubicle. Void Moon Void Moon is the ninth novel by American crime author Michael Connelly. It was released in the UK in 2000 and was the third of Connelly's books not to follow the character Harry Bosch. It was also his first novel to feature a female protagonist, Cassidy ""Cassie"" Black, and a protagonist who"
"was not an afterthought supplied too late for the English edition, for it is referred to in ""The Castaway"": ""in the sequel of the narrative, it will then be seen what like abandonment befell myself."" Why the ""Epilogue"" is missing is unknown. Since nothing objectionable was in it, most likely it was somehow lost by Bentley's printer when the ""Etymology"" and ""Extracts"" were moved. After the sheets had been sent, Melville changed the title. Probably late in September, Allan sent Bentley two pages of proof with a letter of which only a draft survives which informed him that Melville ""has"
"also been well received. The Idiot The Idiot (pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform ) is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the journal ""The Russian Messenger"" in 1868–9. The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness, open-hearted simplicity and guilelessness lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight. In the character of Prince Myshkin, Dostoevsky set himself the task of depicting ""the positively good and beautiful man."""
"be a reference to faith. This is an old romance name, as for example Edmund Spenser's pagan knight Sansfoy in ""The Faerie Queene"". Rivendell Bicycle Works has a bicycle model, Betty Foy, named for the mother in the poem. The bicycle is a mixte with a headbadge that shows Betty Foy's portrait. Betty Foy Betty Foy is a character appearing in William Wordsworth's poem """"The Idiot Boy"""" and is the mother of the title character. In the poem, Betty is caring for a sick neighbor; in desperation, she sends her mentally handicapped son Johnny on horseback to fetch a doctor"
"in place of an ""F"", ""G"" in place of ""C""), which some might argue is cheating. At the beginning of each chapter, the alphabet appears along with a sentence, ""The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"". As the letters are removed from the story, the alphabet and sentence changes. ""Cipher and Poverty (The Book of Nothing)"", a book by Mike Schertzer (1998), is presented as the writings of ""a prisoner whose world had been impoverished to a single utterance... ""who can find me here in this silence"""". The poems that follow use only the four vowels ""A"", ""E"","
"sense"". In the absence of a manuscript or printed text, most information on the novel's subject comes from Waugh's diary entries and later reminiscences. The story was evidently semi-autobiographical, based on Waugh's Oxford experiences. The protagonist was an undergraduate and the work's main themes were madness and black magic. Some of the novel's ideas may have been incorporated into Waugh's first commercially published work of fiction, his 1925 short story ""The Balance"", which includes several references to a country house called ""Thatch"" and is partly structured as a film script, as apparently was the lost novel. ""The Balance"" contains characters,"
"the characters are all ""idiots"" in that they are too obtuse to simply resolve the conflict immediately. Reviewing ""Prime"" in 2005 critic Roger Ebert said ""I can forgive and even embrace an Idiot Plot in its proper place (consider Astaire and Rogers in ""Top Hat""). But when the characters have depth and their decisions have consequences, I grow restless when their misunderstandings could be ended by words that the screenplay refuses to allow them to utter."" Alternate formulations describe only the protagonist as being an idiot. Science fiction writer and critic Damon Knight, in his 1956 collection ""In Search of"
"doing, she abandons once and for all any hope of finally accepting herself, and effectively signs her own death warrant. According to Bakhtin, for Nastasya Filippovna ""Rogozhin means the knife, and she knows it."" Nastasya Filippovna Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova (pre-reform and post-reform ) is the principal heroine of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel ""The Idiot"". Though of aristocratic origin, beautiful and intelligent, Nastasya Filippovna is regarded by society as a 'fallen' woman, owing to her having spent four years as the concubine of the aristocrat Totsky, a position into which she was forced at the age of sixteen. Much of the drama"
"The Idiots (short story) ""The Idiots"" is a short story by Joseph Conrad, his first to be published. It first appeared in ""The Savoy"" in 1896. The story was included in the Conrad collection ""Tales of Unrest"", published in 1898. Set in Britanny, the story describes a couple whose children have intellectual disability; the strain on the family leads eventually to murder. The story was written during Joseph Conrad's honeymoon; he rented a house on Île-Grande, on the north coast of Brittany, from April to August 1896. His wife Jessie later wrote that ""much of our Île-Grande life is in"
"she eventually falls from a cliff and dies. The Marquis de Chavanes makes arrangements to have Madame Levaille made guardian of the children and administrator of the farm, rather than a member of the republican Bacadous. The Idiots (short story) ""The Idiots"" is a short story by Joseph Conrad, his first to be published. It first appeared in ""The Savoy"" in 1896. The story was included in the Conrad collection ""Tales of Unrest"", published in 1898. Set in Britanny, the story describes a couple whose children have intellectual disability; the strain on the family leads eventually to murder. The story"
"Joely Richardson as Amanda. The show ran for one season. The Echo (novel) The Echo (1997) is the fifth crime novel written by award-winning British crime fiction author Minette Walters. Like all of her books, ""The Echo"" is a stand alone (non-series) novel whose characters do not appear in any of her other books. Originally published in English, The Echo has been translated into nine other languages in print and recorded as an ebook in both English and German. When a homeless man going by the name Billy Blake starves himself to death in the garage of socialite Amanda Powell,"
"Malice Aforethought Malice Aforethought (1931) is a crime novel written by Anthony Berkeley Cox, using the pen name Francis Iles. It is an early and prominent example of the ""inverted detective story"", claimed to have been invented by R. Austin Freeman some years earlier. The murderer's identity is revealed in the first line of the novel, which gives the reader insight into the workings of his mind as his plans progress. It also contains elements of black comedy, and of serious treatment of underlying tensions in a superficially respectable community. It is loosely based on the real-life case of Herbert"
"it is missing a noticeable amount of material, including many entire chapters. The name Schrödinger's Cat comes from a thought experiment in quantum mechanics. The first book, ""The Universe Next Door"", takes place in different universes in accord with the many worlds interpretation of quantum physics; in the second, ""The Trick Top Hat"", characters are unknowingly connected through non-locality, i.e., having once crossed paths they are joined in quantum entanglement; and the third book, ""The Homing Pigeons"", places characters in an ""observer-created universe"" in which Consciousness Causes the Collapse of the wavefunction. Taking place in Unistat, which is the novel's"
"Hunter"". The painting shows two characters both reading the book on the London Underground; it is taken from his ongoing series ""London"". The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) is the début novel by the American author Carson McCullers; she was 23 at the time of publication. It is about a deaf man named John Singer and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in the US state of Georgia. The title comes from the poem ""The Lonely Hunter"" by the Scottish poet William Sharp, who used the pseudonym ""Fiona MacLeod"": ""Deep"
"is to convince liberals of the validity of the 'truth' according to Beck, it is a dismal failure. The title starts with an insult and the barbs continue inside . . ."" According to Michel, Beck's ""attempt to shut down contact between liberals and conservatives by encouraging his fans to demean anyone who disagrees with him is saddening and dangerous."" However, in the introduction of the book, Beck says, in a sort of disclaimer, that ""The Idiot"" could mean ""a political activist with an agenda bigger than a brain"" or ""a well intentioned person who's just a little misinformed"" and"
"There Were None"" (from ""Ten Little Indians""), ""One, Two, Buckle My Shoe"" (from ""One, Two, Buckle My Shoe""), ""Five Little Pigs"" (from ""This Little Piggy""), ""Crooked House"" (from ""There Was a Crooked Man""), ""A Pocket Full of Rye"" (from ""Sing a Song of Sixpence""), ""Hickory Dickory Dock"" (from ""Hickory Dickory Dock""), and ""Three Blind Mice"" (from ""Three Blind Mice""). Similarly, the novel Mrs McGinty's Dead is named after a children's game that is explained in the course of the novel. Christie occasionally inserted stereotyped descriptions of characters into her work, particularly before the end of the Second World War (when"
"painted with a single letter, spelled out the word ""B-O-L-L-O-C-K-S"" (another source claims it was four men's heads making the word S-H-I-T), which was legible from the circle and boxes above. On occasion, Cole would wander the streets with a cow's udder poking through the fly of his trousers; once he judged he had caused optimum outrage he would cut off the offending protrusion with a pair of scissors. On honeymoon with his first wife in Italy, on April Fools' Day 1919, Cole dropped horse manure onto Venice's Piazza San Marco—a city with no horses that could be reached only"
"first four books in the series. She is currently the president of the American Handwriting Analysis Foundation. Sheila Lowe Sheila Lowe is a British-born novelist and graphologist who has lived in the United States since 1964. Her first book was published in 1999 and became a bestseller in the Complete Idiot's Guides series. Her second book was released a year later. In 2007, the first edition of ""Poison Pen"", the beginning of her Claudia Rose forensic mystery series came out with a small publisher, Capital Crime Press. When ""Poison Pen"" received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, who called it"
"walks around wearing little more than briefs and mismatching socks and lives on a diet consisting of Moxie soda and pickles with mustard. Living alone in an almost bare apartment in a rundown building complex in Southern California populated with other eccentrics, including cynical stoner Tommy Balls, neurotic geriatric recluse Mr. Allspice, and aspiring dancer Simone who lives with her mother – both of whom may or may not be prostitutes. At an earlier point, Franklin's landlord Mr. Olivetti accidentally died after slipping on spilled mustard caused by sneezing fits when receiving fellatio from Franklin over frequent unpaid rent. In"