"during the Second World War. The original trumpet theme to the film was performed by Fred Muscroft, the Principal Cornet (at the time) of the Scots Guards. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (film) The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is a 1962 British coming-of-age film based on the short story of the same name. The screenplay was, like the story, written by Alan Sillitoe. The film was directed by Tony Richardson, one of the new young directors emerging from documentary films, a series of 1950s filmmakers known as the Free Cinema movement. It tells the story of"
"Alan Sillitoe Alan Sillitoe (4 March 192825 April 2010) was an English writer and one of the so-called ""angry young men"" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied. He is best known for his debut novel ""Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"" and his early short story ""The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"", both of which were adapted into films. Sillitoe was born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, to working-class parents, Christopher Sillitoe and Sabina (née Burton). Like Arthur Seaton, the anti-hero of his first novel, ""Saturday Night and Sunday"
"on 25 April 2010 at Charing Cross Hospital in London. He was 82. He is buried in Highgate Cemetery. Alan Sillitoe Alan Sillitoe (4 March 192825 April 2010) was an English writer and one of the so-called ""angry young men"" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied. He is best known for his debut novel ""Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"" and his early short story ""The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"", both of which were adapted into films. Sillitoe was born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, to working-class parents,"
"The Loneliest Runner The Loneliest Runner is an autobiographical made-for-television film written, and directed by ""Bonanza"" star Michael Landon. It first aired on December 20, 1976 on NBC and starred Lance Kerwin, Brian Keith, DeAnn Mears, and Landon's ""Little House on the Prairie"" daughter, Melissa Sue Anderson. The film was nominated for two Emmys. ""The Loneliest Runner"" follows the story of 13-year-old John Curtis (played by Kerwin, and based by Landon on himself), who still wets his bed. The problem is publicized by his mother Alice (Mears), who goes so far as to hang her son's stained bed sheets up"
"television series, in addition to other acting, directing, and writing jobs on other shows. The Loneliest Runner The Loneliest Runner is an autobiographical made-for-television film written, and directed by ""Bonanza"" star Michael Landon. It first aired on December 20, 1976 on NBC and starred Lance Kerwin, Brian Keith, DeAnn Mears, and Landon's ""Little House on the Prairie"" daughter, Melissa Sue Anderson. The film was nominated for two Emmys. ""The Loneliest Runner"" follows the story of 13-year-old John Curtis (played by Kerwin, and based by Landon on himself), who still wets his bed. The problem is publicized by his mother Alice"
"The Running Man (short story) ""The Running Man"" is a short story by Korean writer Rohaizad Roslan. The story was originally published in ""Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine"" in January 1968. It was later published again in the Fall-Winter 1979 edition of ""Alfred Hitchcock's Anthology - Volume 5"". Its original copyright belongs to H.S.D. Publications Inc. The story takes place at a diner in the warm deserts of Arizona. The protagonist, Rohaizad, walks through the desert thinking about his love, Azah. He arrives at a diner in which the cook and his daughter, the waitress, were alone. Later on, after Rohaizad"
"The Long Walk The Long Walk is a novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1979, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus ""The Bachman Books"", and has seen several reprints since, as both paperback and hardback. Set in a future dystopian America, ruled by a militaristic dictator, the plot revolves around the contestants of a grueling walking contest, held annually by a totalitarian version of the United States of America. In 2000, the American Library Association listed ""The Long Walk"" as one of the 100 best books for teenage readers published"
"Lonesome Traveler Lonesome Traveler is a collection of short stories and sketches by American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac, published in 1960. It is a compilation of Kerouac's journal entries about traveling the United States, Mexico, Morocco, the United Kingdom and France, and covers similar issues to his novels, such as relationships, various jobs, and the nature of his life on the road. Some of the stories originally appeared as magazine articles. The collection includes some of Kerouac's best writing in his spontaneous prose style. This is particularly evident in ""Mexico Fellaheen"" and ""The Railroad Earth"" (also known as ""October"
"The Pedestrian ""The Pedestrian"" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury. This story was originally published in the August 7, 1951 issue of ""The Reporter"" by The Fortnightly Publishing Company. It is included in the collection ""The Golden Apples of the Sun"" (1953). The story features Leonard Mead, a citizen of a television-centered world in 2053. In the city, roads have fallen into decay. Mead enjoys walking through the city at night, something which no one else does. ""In ten years of walking by night or day, for thousands of miles, he had never met another"
"Awards. This was the second time Dahl was honoured, the first having been for his collection of short stories, ""Someone Like You"" (Best Short Story, 1954). The Landlady (short story) ""The Landlady"" is a short horror story by Roald Dahl. It initially appeared in ""The New Yorker"", as did other short stories that would later be reprinted in the 1960 anthology, ""Kiss Kiss"". 17-year-old Billy Weaver travels from London to Bath, by himself, on a work matter when he stops for the night at a quaint bed-and-breakfast. The landlady is a kind older woman who Billy comes to suspect is"
"Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written from 10 September to 14 December in 1815 in Bishopsgate, London and first published in 1816. The poem was without a title when Shelley passed it along to his contemporary and friend, Thomas Love Peacock. The poem is 720 lines long. It is considered to be one of the first of Shelley's major poems. Peacock suggested the name Alastor which comes from Roman mythology. Peacock has defined Alastor as ""evil genius."" The name does not refer to the hero or"
"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 the source of the Nile, John Franklin who made"
"A Saucer of Loneliness ""A Saucer of Loneliness"" is a short story by American writer Theodore Sturgeon that first appeared in ""Galaxy Science Fiction"" n. 27 (February 1953). It was later adapted as a radio play for ""X Minus One"" in 1957, and as the second segment of the twenty-fifth episode (the first episode of the second season, 1986–87) of the television series ""The Twilight Zone"", starring actress Shelley Duvall. A man sees a woman on the beach one night—he suspects she will attempt suicide. He spots her in the ocean and plunges in to save her. She struggles but"
"The Lonesome Place The Lonesome Place is a short story by American writer August Derleth. The story is part of a compilation of short stories in the book ""Lonesome Places"". Published in 1962, by Arkham House Publishing, ""The Lonesome Place"" tells the story of two young boys terrorized by a mysterious creature who they believe lives in an abandoned grain elevator in their small town. ""The Lonesome Place"" is told through the eyes of Steve, the narrator, and his best friend, Johnny Newell. The two boys are very scared of the dark and they believe that there is something living"
"A Distant Episode A Distant Episode is a short story by Paul Bowles. It was first published in the ""Partisan Review"" (January–February, 1947) and republished in ""New Directions in Prose and Poetry"", #10, 1948. It is also the title story in a 1988 collection of Bowles's short stories. The story is a fictional account of a Professor of linguistics (likely an ethnic and national French citizen) traveling through what is likely Morocco in the late 1940s. The nation is never, however, specifically mentioned and the cities that are referred to appear to be entirely fictional. Only references to local languages"
"The Haunter of the Dark ""The Haunter of the Dark"" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in November 1935 and published in the December 1936 edition of ""Weird Tales"" (Vol. 28, No. 5, p. 538–53). It was the last-written of the author's known works, and is part of the Cthulhu Mythos. The epigraph to the story is the second stanza of Lovecraft's 1917 poem ""Nemesis"". The story is a sequel to ""The Shambler from the Stars"", by Robert Bloch. Bloch wrote a third story in the sequence, ""The Shadow from the Steeple"", in 1950."
"The Songs of Distant Earth The Songs of Distant Earth is a 1986 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, based upon his 1958 short story of the same title. He stated that it was his favourite of all his novels. Clarke also wrote a short movie synopsis with the same title, published in ""Omni"" magazine and anthologized in ""The Sentinel"" in 1983. The novel tells of a utopian human colony in the far future that is visited by travellers from a doomed Earth, as the Sun has gone nova."" The Songs of Distant Earth"" explores apocalyptic, atheistic,"
"The Commuter (short story) ""The Commuter"" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in the August-September 1953 issue of"" Amazing Stories"". It has been reprinted over 20 times, including Croatian, Dutch, French, German and Italian translations. As with much of Dick's fiction, it is an exploration of the boundary of existence. A railway station manager encounters the eponymous commuter, who speaks of a town that cannot be found on any normal map. The commuter literally vanishes on close questioning about this ephemeral town. Based on the information the manager extracts from the commuter,"
"The Solitude of Latin America ""The Solitude of Latin America"" is the title of the speech given by Gabriel García Márquez upon receiving his Nobel Prize in Literature on 8 December 1982. The Nobel Prize was presented to García Márquez by Professor Lars Gyllensten of the Swedish Academy. García Márquez gained fame for his novel ""One Hundred Years of Solitude"", first published in 1967. According to the Nobel Foundation, García Márquez was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature for “his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of"
"Sherman Alexie Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-American novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. He grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives in Seattle, Washington. His best-known book is ""The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven"" (1993), a collection of short stories. It was adapted as the film ""Smoke Signals"" (1998), for which he also wrote the screenplay. His first novel ""Reservation Blues"" received one of the fifteen 1996 American Book Awards. His first"
"of that landscape, its history and its inhabitants"". Oates mentions some of King's more gothic horror stories, most notable ""The Reach"", which she considers ""elegantly composed""."" ""The Reach"" has been adapted by artist Glenn Chadbourne for the book ""The Secretary of Dreams"", a collection of comics based on King's short fiction released by Cemetery Dance in December 2006. The Reach ""The Reach"" is a short story by American writer Stephen King. First published in ""Yankee"" in 1981 under the title ""Do the Dead Sing?"", it was later collected in King's 1985 collection ""Skeleton Crew"". Stella Flanders, the oldest resident of"
"his mother, interspersed with his own recollections of life as a young student actor in London in the early 1960s. Courtenay is the President of Hull City AFC's Official Supporters' Club. In 1999, Courtenay was awarded an honorary doctorate by Hull University. On 19 January 2018 Sir Tom was bestowed the Honorary Freedom of the City of Hull. His roles include: Tom Courtenay Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay (; born 25 February 1937) is an English actor who came to prominence in the early 1960s with a succession of films, including ""The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"" (1962), ""Billy Liar"""
"The Lurking Fear ""The Lurking Fear"" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in November 1922, it was first published in the January through April 1923 issues of ""Home Brew"". In 1921, an unnamed reporter and local monster-hunter travels to Tempest Mountain, in the Catskills range, after reports of various attacks by a group of unidentified creatures against the local inhabitants reaches the media. A month before, a massive thunderstorm, even larger than the ones which usually plague the region, had drifted across the mountains, and brought with it destruction. The next morning, many homes"
"it is ""nearly unmatched"" in science fiction for its ""lyricism, compassion, subtlety, thoughtfulness, and above all the relish it takes in the bristling strangeness and wonder of the world"". Steven H. Silver commented that what distinguishes ""The Longest Voyage"" from similar stories is that ""Anderson provides strong motivation for both the explorers and the natives"". The Longest Voyage ""The Longest Voyage"" is a science fiction short story by American writer Poul Anderson. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1961. On a distant world the age of exploration is beginning. A party of daring explorers attempts to"
"No One Writes to the Colonel No One Writes to the Colonel () is a novella written by the Colombian novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature winner Gabriel García Márquez. It also gives its name to a short story collection. García Márquez considered it his best book, saying that he had to write ""One Hundred Years of Solitude"" so that people would read ""No One Writes to the Colonel"". The novel, written between 1956 and 1957 while living in Paris in the Hotel des Trois Colleges and first published in 1961, is the story of an impoverished, retired colonel, a"
"The Well of Loneliness The Well of Loneliness is a lesbian novel by British author Radclyffe Hall that was first published in 1928 by Jonathan Cape. It follows the life of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family whose ""sexual inversion"" (homosexuality) is apparent from an early age. She finds love with Mary Llewellyn, whom she meets while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, but their happiness together is marred by social isolation and rejection, which Hall depicts as typically suffered by ""inverts"", with predictably debilitating effects. The novel portrays ""inversion"" as a natural, God-given state"
"The Longest Voyage ""The Longest Voyage"" is a science fiction short story by American writer Poul Anderson. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1961. On a distant world the age of exploration is beginning. A party of daring explorers attempts to circumnavigate their world. In unknown waters they encounter an island civilization which claims to have a prophet who fell from the stars. ""The Longest Voyage"" won the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. Gardner Dozois, upon selecting ""The Longest Voyage"" for inclusion in his 2000 anthology ""Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons"", said that"
"The Outsider (short story) ""The Outsider"" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March and August 1921, it was first published in ""Weird Tales"", April 1926. In this work, a mysterious individual who has been living alone in a castle for as long as he can remember decides to break free in search of human contact and light. ""The Outsider"" is one of Lovecraft's most commonly reprinted works and is also one of the most popular stories ever to be published in ""Weird Tales"". ""The Outsider"" combines horror, fantasy, and gothic fiction to create"
"play ""The Importance of Being Earnest"". The memoir is subtitled ""The Memoirs of a Young Man in Search of Sex"". Stokes worked as a screenplay advisor on Tony Richardson's films ""The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"" (1962), starring Tom Courtenay and Michael Redgrave, and on ""Tom Jones"" (1963), starring Albert Finney and Susannah York, and based on the novel of the same name by Henry Fielding. Sewell Stokes Francis Martin Sewell Stokes (16 November 1902, London – 2 November 1979, London) was an English novelist, biographer, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and prison visitor. He collaborated on a number of occasions"
"The Little Match Girl ""The Little Match Girl"" (, meaning ""The little girl with the matchsticks"") is a short story by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story, about a dying child's dreams and hope, was first published in 1845. It has been adapted to various media, including an animated short film, a television musical, and an animated virtual reality story called ""Allumette"". On a cold New Year's Eve, a poor, young girl tries to sell matches in the street. She is already shivering from cold and early hypothermia, and she is walking barefoot after losing her two"
"The Landlady (short story) ""The Landlady"" is a short horror story by Roald Dahl. It initially appeared in ""The New Yorker"", as did other short stories that would later be reprinted in the 1960 anthology, ""Kiss Kiss"". 17-year-old Billy Weaver travels from London to Bath, by himself, on a work matter when he stops for the night at a quaint bed-and-breakfast. The landlady is a kind older woman who Billy comes to suspect is a little senile, as she offers him tea and prattles on in a strange, slightly confused manner. As the night draws on, the landlady's kindness and"
"dilemmas: ""The drama that interests Mr. Clarke is played out on a much larger canvas. It concerns the lures and limitations of knowledge, the destiny of mankind, and the fate of the universe."" The Songs of Distant Earth The Songs of Distant Earth is a 1986 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, based upon his 1958 short story of the same title. He stated that it was his favourite of all his novels. Clarke also wrote a short movie synopsis with the same title, published in ""Omni"" magazine and anthologized in ""The Sentinel"" in 1983. The novel"
"The Wilderness (short story) ""The Wilderness"" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury first published in the November 1952 issue of ""The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction"", and included in Bradbury's 1953 collection ""The Golden Apples of the Sun"". The year is 2003, and Janice and Leonora are spending their last days on Earth before leaving for Mars to join Janice's husband Will. While having mixed feelings at first, Janice slowly reveals throughout the story that she is more and more willing to join her husband on Mars while still lamenting about leaving behind all that is"