"The Virgin and the Gypsy The Virgin and the Gipsy is a short novel (or novella) by English author D.H. Lawrence. It was written in 1926 and published posthumously in 1930. Today it is often entitled The Virgin and the Gypsy which can lead to confusion because first and early editions had the spelling ""Gipsy"". The tale relates the story of two sisters, daughters of an Anglican vicar, who return from finishing school overseas to a drab, lifeless rectory in the East Midlands, not long after the World War I. Their mother has run off with another man, a scandal"
"warmth, affection and physical unison."" ""Phoenix II: Uncollected Writings,"" Ed. Warren Roberts and Harry T. Moore (New York) 1970In his later years Lawrence developed the potentialities of the short novel form in ""St Mawr"", ""The Virgin and the Gypsy"" and ""The Escaped Cock"". Lawrence's best-known short stories include ""The Captain's Doll"", ""The Fox"", ""The Ladybird"", ""Odour of Chrysanthemums"", ""The Princess"", ""The Rocking-Horse Winner"", ""St Mawr"", ""The Virgin and the Gypsy"" and ""The Woman who Rode Away"". (""The Virgin and the Gypsy"" was published as a novella after he died.) Among his most praised collections is ""The Prussian Officer and Other"
"The Gypsy (novel) The Gypsy is a 1992 urban fantasy novel written by Megan Lindholm and Steven Brust. It blends elements of Hungarian folk tales with a modern-day detective story. The book contains many lyrics to songs that were later recorded to an album called ""Songs from The Gypsy"" by Boiled in Lead. The first edition was a hardcover issued by Tor Books in July 1992. At least two softcover editions have been issued since: a mass market paperback by Tor Books in July 1993 and a trade paperback edition by Orb Books in April 2005. A French translation ""La"
"The Virgin's Lover The Virgin's Lover is a historical novel written by British author Philippa Gregory. It belongs to her series of Tudor novels, including ""The Constant Princess"", ""The Other Boleyn Girl"", ""The Boleyn Inheritance"", and ""The Queen's Fool"". The book opens in the autumn of 1558, just after the death of Mary I, and bells are heralding the fact that Mary's half-sister, Elizabeth, is now queen. The book is told from four main perspectives: Elizabeth I's; William Cecil's, the queen's main advisor; Robert Dudley, the queen's favourite; and Amy Robsart's, who is Robert Dudley's wife. Robert Dudley returns to"
"The Virgin (novel) The Virgin is the 1985 debut novel by Nigerian writer Bayo Adebowale. The novel, published in 1985, narrated the dilemma of a village young girl who must choose between three suitors, who is deflowered and agonizes about her secret being discovered on her wedding night. Scholar Wendy Griswold classifies ""The Virgin"" as a ""village novel"", a book that deals with the mores of a traditional Nigerian village, in the same vein as some works by Chinua Achebe. A girl from a Yoruba village is engaged to a hunter from another village. Having been seduced by a man"
"Jane Rogers Jane Rogers (born 21 July 1952) is a British novelist, editor, scriptwriter, lecturer, and teacher. She is best known for her novels ""Mr. Wroe's Virgins"" and ""The Voyage Home"". In 1994 Rogers was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Rogers was born in London on 21 July 1952. She was educated at Oxford High School, an independent girls school in Oxford. She then matriculated into New Hall, Cambridge to study English. She graduated Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1974. She went on to complete a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) at the University of Leicester"
"Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (also called Bernardin de St. Pierre) (19 January 1737 Le Havre – 21 January 1814 Éragny, Val-d'Oise) was a French writer and botanist. He is best known for his 1788 novel ""Paul et Virginie"", now largely forgotten, but in the 19th century a very popular children's book. At the age of twelve he had read ""Robinson Crusoe"" and went with his uncle, a skipper, to the West-Indies. After returning from this trip he was educated as an engineer at the École des Ponts. Then he joined the French Army and was involved"
"The Virgins (novel) The Virgins is the second novel by American author Pamela Erens, published in 2013 by Tin House Books. It received accolades from many sources including ""The New York Times"", ""The New Yorker"" and ""Vanity Fair"". ""Publishers Weekly"" named it one of the best boarding school books of all time. The novel is set in 1979 in Auburn Academy, an exclusive boarding school in New Hampshire (based on Phillips Exeter Academy, where Erens herself was a student). It is narrated by Bruce Bennett-Jones, who looks back on the overtly demonstrative romance between Aviva Rossner, the Jewish daughter of"
"bar for unreliable narrators."" The Virgins (novel) The Virgins is the second novel by American author Pamela Erens, published in 2013 by Tin House Books. It received accolades from many sources including ""The New York Times"", ""The New Yorker"" and ""Vanity Fair"". ""Publishers Weekly"" named it one of the best boarding school books of all time. The novel is set in 1979 in Auburn Academy, an exclusive boarding school in New Hampshire (based on Phillips Exeter Academy, where Erens herself was a student). It is narrated by Bruce Bennett-Jones, who looks back on the overtly demonstrative romance between Aviva Rossner,"
"Jeffrey Eugenides Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American novelist and short story writer. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: ""The Virgin Suicides"" (1993), ""Middlesex"" (2002), and"" The Marriage Plot"" (2011). ""The Virgin Suicides"" served as the basis of a feature film, while ""Middlesex"" received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Médicis. Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a father of Greek descent and a mother of English"
"The Impossible Virgin The Impossible Virgin is the title of the fifth novel chronicling the adventures of crime lord-turned-secret agent Modesty Blaise. The novel was published in 1971 and was written by Peter O'Donnell, who had created the character for a comic strip in the early 1960s. The book was first published in the United Kingdom by Souvenir Press. The ""Impossible Virgin"" of the book's title refers to the name given by the local natives to a special geographic formation encountered during the adventure. Mischa Novikov had never even considered defecting from Russia until one day when his analysis of"
"going to be written, well, I'm not going to say — but I know how it's going to be written and what the structure's going to be, and it's going to be quite different than ""The Marriage Plot."""" Uncollected short stories. Jeffrey Eugenides Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American novelist and short story writer. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: ""The Virgin Suicides"" (1993), ""Middlesex"" (2002), and"" The Marriage Plot"" (2011). ""The Virgin Suicides"" served as the basis of a feature film, while ""Middlesex"" received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize"
"""The Virgin Suicides"". The Virgin Suicides The Virgin Suicides is the 1993 debut novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides. The fictional story, which is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers on the lives of five sisters, the Lisbon girls. The novel is written in first person plural from the perspective of an anonymous group of teenage boys who struggle to find an explanation for the Lisbons' deaths. The book's first chapter appeared in ""The Paris Review"" in 1990, and won the 1991 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. Eugenides told """": ""I think that if my name hadn't"
"Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel ""The Vicar of Wakefield"" (1766), his pastoral poem ""The Deserted Village"" (1770), and his plays ""The Good-Natur'd Man"" (1768) and ""She Stoops to Conquer"" (1771, first performed in 1773). He is thought to have written the classic children's tale ""The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes"" (1765). Goldsmith's birth date and year are not known with certainty. According to the Library of Congress authority file, he told a biographer that he was born on 10 November"
"Pennyfeather in a huge cage with a vicious gorilla. But then the fuel store goes up in flames, and the story takes a surprising twist. Finally, during a fight with machetes and quarterstaffs, Modesty sinks lifeless to the ground, and Adrian Chance rushes in for the kill. The Impossible Virgin The Impossible Virgin is the title of the fifth novel chronicling the adventures of crime lord-turned-secret agent Modesty Blaise. The novel was published in 1971 and was written by Peter O'Donnell, who had created the character for a comic strip in the early 1960s. The book was first published in"
"The Virgin Suicides The Virgin Suicides is the 1993 debut novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides. The fictional story, which is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers on the lives of five sisters, the Lisbon girls. The novel is written in first person plural from the perspective of an anonymous group of teenage boys who struggle to find an explanation for the Lisbons' deaths. The book's first chapter appeared in ""The Paris Review"" in 1990, and won the 1991 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. Eugenides told """": ""I think that if my name hadn't been Eugenides, people"
"The Princess and the Unicorn The Princess and the Unicorn is a children's fantasy novel by British-born American author Carol Hughes, who also wrote ""Jack Black and the Ship of Thieves"". The novel was published in hardcover on February 24, 2009, by Random House Books for Young Readers. This novel follows two characters: Princess Eleanor of England and a young fairy named Joyce. Joyce lives in Swinley Forest with a community of other fairies who rely on the forest's unicorn for survival. One day, Joyce follows the unicorn to the edge of the forest and is spotted by Princess Eleanor."
"to Europe. He was dangerously ill and the poor health limited his ability to travel for the remainder of his life. The Lawrences made their home in a villa in Northern Italy, living near Florence while he wrote ""The Virgin and the Gipsy"" and the various versions of ""Lady Chatterley's Lover"" (1928). The latter book, his last major novel, was initially published in private editions in Florence and Paris and reinforced his notoriety. A story set once more in Nottinghamshire about a cross-class relationship between a Lady and her gamekeeper, it broke new ground in describing their sexual relationship in"
"The Vampire (novella) The Vampire (, ""Oupyr"") is a gothic novella by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, first published in Saint Petersburg in 1841 under the pseudonym of Krasnorogsky. The inspiration for the story was Tolstoy's reminiscences of his stay in Como, Italy, in 1838. He wrote of this to his wife in April 1872, mentioning the villa Remondi, a girl named Pepina and other details. On April 9, 1841, Tolstoy read ""The Vampire"" at Vladimir Sollogub's; the reading was mentioned by Pyotr Pletnyov in a letter to Yakov Grot. In early May 1841 Tolstoy sent the manuscript to censor Aleksandr Nikitenko"
"a Gypsy."" An important source for the material on the Romani people (Gypsies) was George Borrow's book ""The Zincali"" (1841). Another source may have been the narrative poem ""The Gypsies"" (1824) by Alexander Pushkin, which Mérimée would later translate into French prose (Briggs 2008). The novella comprises four parts. Only the first three appeared in the original publication in the October 1, 1845 issue of the ""Revue des Deux Mondes"" (Robinson 1992); the fourth first appeared in the book publication in 1846. Mérimée tells the story as if it had really happened to him on his trip to Spain in"
"The Water Gipsies (novel) The Water Gipsies is a romantic comedy novel by the British writer A. P. Herbert, which was first published in 1930. It portrays the adventures of Jane Bell and her sister Lily, who operate a barge along England's rivers and canals. Jane enjoys several romantic entanglements during the story. The novel is Herbert's best-known work, and reflected his lifelong love of British waterways. He lived in Hammersmith Terrace, and a thinly disguised version of ""The Dove"" pub appears as ""The Pigeons"". In 1932 the novel was made into a film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring"
"a male English teacher and a fifteen-year-old female student,"" Belbin has said. ""I wrote the first draft as an adult novel. The young-adult version took me nearly ten years and a brave editor to get right, but it turned out to be a better book for it."" ""Denial"", published in 2004, deals with a similar theme—a teacher accused of molesting a student—in the first person, and many readers found it even more shocking. His most popular novels this century are ""Festival"" (2002) about the Glastonbury Pop Festival, and ""The Last Virgin"" (2003) which is a wide ranging book about teenage"
"book, Elizabeth is said to have imprisoned some Catholic priests, and that she will ""probably"" have them executed. The subject is dropped and it never says what actually happened to them. In reality, they were shortly released. Amy is also seen as being near-illiterate, working hard to write a simple letter, when in reality she wrote letters in a neat handwriting. The Virgin's Lover The Virgin's Lover is a historical novel written by British author Philippa Gregory. It belongs to her series of Tudor novels, including ""The Constant Princess"", ""The Other Boleyn Girl"", ""The Boleyn Inheritance"", and ""The Queen's Fool""."
"George Eliot Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Ann or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels, including ""Adam Bede"" (1859), ""The Mill on the Floss"" (1860), ""Silas Marner"" (1861), ""Romola"" (1862–63), ""Middlemarch"" (1871–72), and ""Daniel Deronda"" (1876), most of which are set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. Although female authors were published under their own names during her lifetime, she wanted to escape the stereotype"
"scheme behind the princess's back. The Princess and the Unicorn The Princess and the Unicorn is a children's fantasy novel by British-born American author Carol Hughes, who also wrote ""Jack Black and the Ship of Thieves"". The novel was published in hardcover on February 24, 2009, by Random House Books for Young Readers. This novel follows two characters: Princess Eleanor of England and a young fairy named Joyce. Joyce lives in Swinley Forest with a community of other fairies who rely on the forest's unicorn for survival. One day, Joyce follows the unicorn to the edge of the forest and"
"wild, funny, poetic exhalation that sparkles and hoots and flies’[1] First published by William Heinemann, London, 1985. . First US edition published by EP Dutton 1986. Reprinted in the UK by the Do Not Press 1997. Dancing with Mermaids Dancing With Mermaids is the second novel by the English writer Miles Gibson. An erotic exercise in magic realism set in the secluded fishing village of Rams Horn, once a fashionable Regency spa, at the mouth of the River Sheep, somewhere on the Dorset coast. In the novel Rams Horn is described by the author as ‘a memory, a lost cause,"
"Paul et Virginie Paul et Virginie (or Paul and Virginia) is a novel by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, first published in 1788. The novel's title characters are friends since birth who fall in love. The story is set on the island of Mauritius under French rule, then named ""Île de France"". Written on the eve of the French Revolution, the novel is recognized as Bernardin's finest work. It records the fate of a child of nature corrupted by the artificial sentimentality of the French upper classes in the late eighteenth century. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre lived on the island for a"
"The Foolish Virgin: A Romance of Today The Foolish Virgin: A Romance of Today is a 1915 novel by Thomas Dixon, Jr.. Mary Adams, a schoolteacher in New York City, dreams of finding a husband. She starts a relationship with Jim Anthony, a criminal she meets at the New York Public Library. Mary and Jim visit North Carolina to meet Anthony's mother. Now a drunk, she tries to murder her son in order to retrieve the valuables from his suitcase that he has stolen. Mary escapes when she finds out about Anthony's criminal activities, and she is rescued by a"
"The Virgin in the Ice The Virgin in the Ice is a medieval mystery novel by Ellis Peters, set in late 1139. It is the sixth novel in The Cadfael Chronicles, first published in 1982 (1982 in literature). It was adapted for radio by BBC Radio 4 in 1993 and for television in 1995 by Central for ITV. The novel is set in real places in England during the Anarchy, the period of civil war between King Stephen and Empress Maud. The wars and disorder allow marauders with no loyalty to either faction to pillage and burn. Reviews at the"
"along with his beautiful, often poetic language, bear the mark of a strong literary hand,"" Belinsky wrote. The Vampire (novella) The Vampire (, ""Oupyr"") is a gothic novella by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, first published in Saint Petersburg in 1841 under the pseudonym of Krasnorogsky. The inspiration for the story was Tolstoy's reminiscences of his stay in Como, Italy, in 1838. He wrote of this to his wife in April 1872, mentioning the villa Remondi, a girl named Pepina and other details. On April 9, 1841, Tolstoy read ""The Vampire"" at Vladimir Sollogub's; the reading was mentioned by Pyotr Pletnyov in"
"Gypsy Woman (film) Gypsy Woman is a 2001 film written by Steven Knight, filmed on location in London and The Isle of Man. It is a romantic comedy, set against the backdrop of the Black Mountains, Wales. 'Leon Hawthorne (Davenport) is a recently widowed property developer left to raise his young daughter on his own. While at a coroner’s inquest into the death of one of his workers, Leon meets the dead man’s widow, Natalie (McIntosh). A bright and exotic woman, Natalie’s beauty captivates Leon and after the verdict of the court case comes, he sets out to track the"
"is speculated that ""The Gypsies"" was the inspiration for Prosper Mérimée's novella ""Carmen"" written in 1845, on which Georges Bizet's opera ""Carmen"" was based in 1875. Mérimée had read the poem in Russian by 1840 and translated it into French in 1852. The Gypsies (poem) The Gypsies () is a narrative poem by Alexander Pushkin, originally written in Russian in 1824 and first published in 1827. The last of Pushkin's four 'Southern Poems' written during his exile in the south of the Russian Empire, ""The Gypsies"" is also considered to be the most mature of these Southern poems, and has"
"literary work ever written. In 2015, writers from outside the UK voted it first among all British novels ""by a landslide"". The various film and television adaptations of Eliot's books have re-introduced her to the wider reading public. George Eliot Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Ann or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels, including ""Adam Bede"" (1859), ""The Mill on the Floss"" (1860), ""Silas Marner"" (1861), ""Romola"" (1862–63), ""Middlemarch"" (1871–72),"