"brief shot in the finished movie, being pushed out from behind a bar. A sequel, ""Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers"", followed in 1977 with Nigel Davenport repeating his role as Sgt Driscoll. The Virgin Soldiers The Virgin Soldiers is a 1966 comic novel by Leslie Thomas, inspired by his own experiences of National Service in the British Army. It was Thomas' debut novel; he had previously published an autobiography. ""The Virgin Soldiers"" sold millions of copies during the author´s lifetime. The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscript soldier named Private Brigg; a worldly"
"Leslie Thomas Leslie Thomas, OBE (22 March 1931 – 6 May 2014) was a Welsh author best known for his comic novel ""The Virgin Soldiers"". Thomas was born in Newport, Monmouthshire. He was orphaned at the age of 12, when his mariner father was lost at sea and his mother died only a few months later from cancer. He was subsequently brought up in a Dr Barnardo's home; the story of this upbringing was the subject of his first, autobiographical, book, ""This Time Next Week"". Thomas attended Kingston Technical School and he then took a course in journalism at South-West"
"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"
"The Warriors (Yurick novel) The Warriors is a novel written by Sol Yurick and Illustrated by Frank Modell in 1965. It became the inspiration for the cult classic movie ""The Warriors"". Compared to the movie, the novel takes a closer look at the concepts of sexuality, reputation, family, and survival. The novel begins with a quote from ""Anabasis"" (upon which the novel is based). Throughout the novel, the character Junior reads a comic book version of the story. It is the evening of July 4. Ismael Rivera, leader of the Delancey Thrones, the largest gang in New York City, calls"
"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"
"""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"
"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"
"American Virgin (comics) American Virgin was an American comic book series published by Vertigo Comics and written by Steven T. Seagle and illustrated by Becky Cloonan. The series launched on a monthly schedule in March 2006 and was canceled two years later. Seagle was able to finish his storyline. The story follows the life of Adam, a teenager who is a born-again Christian preacher, as well as his struggle with issues of his sexuality and faith. Adam's near constant companion is a stepsister, Cyndi, who is sexually liberal. The covers for the first three issues were penciled by Frank Quitely,"
"Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire is a 2007 illustrated novel written by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden, and illustrated by Mignola. It follows the quest of Lord Henry Baltimore, a British officer during World War I who inadvertently changes the course of the war, and his own life, by wounding a vampire on the battlefield. The book was expanded into a comic book series, published by Dark Horse Comics, which also publishes Mignola's ""Hellboy"" series. Each chapter begins with a quote from Hans Christian Andersen's, ""The Steadfast"
"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,"
"Dog Soldiers (novel) Dog Soldiers is a novel by Robert Stone, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1974. The story features American journalist John Converse, a Vietnam correspondent during the war, Merchant Marine sailor Ray Hicks, Converse's wife Marge, and their involvement in a heroin deal gone bad. It shared the 1975 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction with ""The Hair of Harold Roux"" by Thomas Williams (split award). ""Dog Soldiers"" was named by ""TIME"" magazine one of the 100 best English-language novels, 1923 to 2005. The book was adapted from a script co-written by Stone into a film titled ""Who'll"
"The Bostonians The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in ""The Century Magazine"" in 1885–1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bittersweet tragicomedy centres on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a Boston feminist; and Verena Tarrant, a pretty, young protégée of Olive's in the feminist movement. The storyline concerns the struggle between Ransom and Olive for Verena's allegiance and affection, though the novel also includes a wide panorama of political activists, newspaper people, and quirky eccentrics. Mississippi lawyer and Civil"
"Frederick E. Smith Frederick Escreet Smith (4 April 1922 – 15 May 2012) was a British author, best known for his 1956 novel ""633 Squadron"" about a Second World War RAF Mosquito squadron undertaking a seemingly impossible mission to bomb a well-protected German factory at the head of a Norwegian fjord. The novel was made into a successful film in 1964. He also wrote the original 1951 story that the film ""Devil Doll"" (1964) is based on. The author later published a number of further spin-off 633 squadron novels between 1975 and 1996, and one more in 2007. Those books"
"Violent Messiahs Violent Messiahs is an American comic book series created by Joshua Dysart and William O'Neil and published by Image Comics. The comic takes place in a fictional city known as Rankor Island, and focused on the Rankor PD's attempts to bring in Rankor's vigilantes. The most prominent characters are Lt. Cheri Major and Detective Ernest Houston, the two cops leading the investigations, Family Man, a serial killer who attacks bad parents, and Citizen Pain, a giant, dark figure who was the most prominent vigilante in Rankor. The original black and white comic was drawn by O'Neill, written by"
"hand. One may compare the British-made ""Virgin Soldiers"" serving out their two years of National Service in Malaya, with the American-made ""MASH"" portraying US soldiers serving out their two years of the draft in Korea in the same period. There is a stark difference in the style of humour. The novel was turned into a film in 1969, directed by John Dexter, with a screenplay by the British screenwriter John Hopkins. It starred Hywel Bennett, John Scott, Nigel Patrick and Lynn Redgrave. David Bowie cut his hair short to audition for a role but can only be seen in a"
"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"
"story which is mainly humorous in nature. The series has been collected into a number of trade paperbacks: American Virgin (comics) American Virgin was an American comic book series published by Vertigo Comics and written by Steven T. Seagle and illustrated by Becky Cloonan. The series launched on a monthly schedule in March 2006 and was canceled two years later. Seagle was able to finish his storyline. The story follows the life of Adam, a teenager who is a born-again Christian preacher, as well as his struggle with issues of his sexuality and faith. Adam's near constant companion is a"
"New Regency, the studio abandoned the project, and the rights have reverted to the authors. Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire is a 2007 illustrated novel written by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden, and illustrated by Mignola. It follows the quest of Lord Henry Baltimore, a British officer during World War I who inadvertently changes the course of the war, and his own life, by wounding a vampire on the battlefield. The book was expanded into a comic book series, published by Dark Horse Comics, which also publishes"
"William Levy (author) William Levy (born January 10, 1939), also known as the Talmudic Wizard of Amsterdam, is an American writer, editor and former radio personality, and the author of such works as ""The Virgin Sperm Dancer"", ""Wet Dreams"", ""Certain Radio Speeches of Ezra Pound"" and ""Natural Jewboy"". Before leaving the U.S. in the autumn of 1966 aboard the R.M.S Queen Mary, Mr. Levy attended the University of Maryland and Temple University and taught in the literature department at Shippensburg State College, in Pennsylvania. In the sixties and seventies, he was founder and chief-editor of many magazines such as: The"
"idealized Cassady figure"". Numerous details from the novel are based on Cassady and his exploits and the environs of Ken Kesey's home in La Honda, California, an informal commune depicted in the writings of Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, and Allen Ginsberg. Dog Soldiers (novel) Dog Soldiers is a novel by Robert Stone, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1974. The story features American journalist John Converse, a Vietnam correspondent during the war, Merchant Marine sailor Ray Hicks, Converse's wife Marge, and their involvement in a heroin deal gone bad. It shared the 1975 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction with"
"written by Mike Carey. Liquid Comics Liquid Comics is a comic book company, founded in 2006 as Virgin Comics LLC, which produced stories (many of which are Indian-culture related) for an international audience. The company was founded by Sir Richard Branson and his Virgin Group, author Deepak Chopra, filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, and entrepreneurs Sharad Devarajan, Suresh Seetharaman, and Gotham Chopra. In August 2008, the company restructured and relocated from New York to Los Angeles. On September 24, 2008, it was announced that Virgin Comics was renamed Liquid Comics after a management buyout. Virgin Comics LLC"" and Virgin Animation Private Limited"""
"Sol Yurick Solomon ""Sol"" Yurick (January 18, 1925 – January 5, 2013) was an American novelist. He was known for his book ""The Warriors"" which became a major motion picture. Yurick was born on January 18, 1925 to a Russian Jewish immigrant father Sam, a miller, and his mother Flo, a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant. Theirs was a Jewish working-class family and politically active, both for communism and in the labor movement as trade-union activists. Family life in his early years meant that ""Marx and Lenin, strikes and demonstrations, were regular topics of dinner-table conversation"", according to Eric Homberger of ""The"
"Sol Yurick Solomon ""Sol"" Yurick (January 18, 1925 – January 5, 2013) was an American novelist. He was known for his book ""The Warriors"" which became a major motion picture. Yurick was born on January 18, 1925 to a Russian Jewish immigrant father Sam, a miller, and his mother Flo, a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant. Theirs was a Jewish working-class family and politically active, both for communism and in the labor movement as trade-union activists. Family life in his early years meant that ""Marx and Lenin, strikes and demonstrations, were regular topics of dinner-table conversation"", according to Eric Homberger of ""The"
"The Horse Soldiers The Horse Soldiers is a 1959 war film set during the American Civil War directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, William Holden and Constance Towers. The screenplay by John Lee Mahin and Martin Rackin was loosely based on Harold Sinclair's 1956 novel of the same name, a fictionalized version of Grierson's Raid in Mississippi. The film was loosely based on Harold Sinclair's 1956 novel of the same name, which in turn was based on the historic 17-day Grierson's Raid and Battle of Newton's Station in Mississippi during the Civil War. In April 1863, Colonel Benjamin"
"The Comedians (novel) The Comedians (1966) is a novel by Graham Greene. Set in Haiti under the rule of François ""Papa Doc"" Duvalier and his secret police, the ""Tonton Macoute"", the novel explores the political suppression and terrorism through the figure of an English hotel owner, Brown. The story begins as three men, Brown, Smith, an ""innocent"" American, and Major H. O. Jones, a confidence man, meet on a ship bound for Haiti. Brown, Smith, and Jones, their names suggesting a curious facelessness, are the ""comedians"" of Greene's title. Complications include Brown's friendship with a rebel leader, politically charged hotel"
"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"
"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"
"Gustav Hasford Jerry Gustave Hasford (November 28, 1947 – January 29, 1993), known as Gustav Hasford was an American novelist, journalist and poet. His semi-autobiographical novel ""The Short-Timers"" (1979) was the basis of the film ""Full Metal Jacket"" (1987). He was also a United States Marine Corps veteran, who served during the Vietnam War. Born in Russellville, Alabama, Hasford joined the United States Marine Corps in 1966 and served as a combat correspondent during the Vietnam War. As a military journalist, he wrote stories for ""Leatherneck Magazine"", ""Pacific Stars and Stripes"", and ""Sea Tiger"". During his tour in Vietnam, Hasford"
"authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, J. K. Rowling, and William Shakespeare. ""Warriors"" has received mostly positive reviews, but it has also been criticised for being confusing due to its large number of characters. Critics have compared it to the ""Redwall"" series, though one reviewer commented that the series is less elegantly written. Although nominated for several awards, ""Warriors"" has yet to receive any major literary prizes. The series has reached the ""New York Times"" Bestseller List and has found popularity in many countries, including Trinidad, Germany and China. On 20 October 2016, Vicky Holmes and Kate Cary, two"
"The Invisibles The Invisibles is a comic book series that was published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics from 1994 to 2000. It was created and scripted by Scottish writer Grant Morrison, and drawn by various artists throughout its publication. The series loosely follows the doings of a single cell of The Invisible College, a secret organization battling against physical and psychic oppression using time travel, magic, meditation, and physical violence. For most of the series, the team includes leader King Mob; Lord Fanny, a transgender Brazilian shaman; Boy, a former member of the NYPD; Ragged Robin, a telepath"
"Tin Soldier (novella) ""Tin Soldier"" is a 17,500-word science fiction novella by American writer Joan D. Vinge, her first published work. It was originally published in ""Orbit 14"", edited by Damon Knight, in 1974. ""Tin Soldier"" was first reprinted in the 1977 anthology ""Women of Wonder"", edited by Pamela Sargent. ""Tin Soldier"" tells the story of Maris, an ex-soldier who, following wounds sustained in battle, has received cybernetic implants that, as a side effect, slow his aging to ""about five years for every hundred"" (he is 115 years old as the story begins, though physically he looks ""about twenty-five""), and"
"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"
"Norman Mailer Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist. His novel ""The Naked and the Dead"" was published in 1948 and brought him renown. His 1968 nonfiction novel ""Armies of the Night"" won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction as well as the National Book Award. His best-known work is widely considered to be ""The Executioner's Song"", the 1979 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In over six decades of work, Mailer had eleven best selling books in each of the seven decades after"