"of the story seems realistic. Greenmantle Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being ""Mr Standfast"" (1919); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" (1915), is set in the period immediately preceding the war. Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet his friend Sandy in Constantinople. Once there, he"
"comradely friendship forged in moments of extreme danger. Pienaar appears in the following ""Richard Hannay"" novels: ""Greenmantle"" and ""Mr Standfast"". In ""Greenmantle"", Pienaar aids Hannay as an agent who deceives the German authorities in 1915 about the intentions and inclinations of Afrikaners towards the British Empire, and about how important the Middle East is to British interests. Pienaar plays, while unauthorised and gallivanting in Imperial Germany, a slightly deranged but anti-British Boer, who only wants to do harm to the British Empire out of revenge for wrongs done to his people during the Anglo-Boer war (the Second South African War)."
"- a loss which would mean disaster for the whole front. According to Charles Moore, Blenkiron's presence in ""Greenmantle"" is due to the book being written with the purpose of getting the United States to join the Allies in World War I. This happened in 1917, the year after the book's publication. John S. Blenkiron John Scantlebury Blenkiron is a fictional character who appears in several books by John Buchan, including ""Greenmantle"", ""Mr Standfast"", ""The Courts of the Morning"" and ""Sick Heart River"". Blenkiron comes from the United States, and has assisted Richard Hannay. When Hannay first meets Blenkiron, it"
"at Delagoa Bay in the Boer war. He goes to England in 1914, shortly before the events of ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"". The First World War breaks out eight weeks after the events of ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"", and Hannay immediately joins the New Army, and is promptly commissioned captain on the strength of his Matebele campaign experience. He is wounded in the leg and neck in the Battle of Loos in September 1915, by which time he had reached the rank of major. ""Greenmantle,"" the sequel to ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" begins in late 1915, with Hannay in Hampshire where he has"
"up. In the first chapter of the novel, the reader also learns of Bullivant's son Harry Bullivant, who lost his life while spying in the Middle East in the guise of a muleteer. Sir Walter Bullivant Sir Walter Bullivant is a fictional character created by the Scottish thriller writer John Buchan for his series of novels featuring the spy Richard Hannay. He plays small but significant roles in both ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" and ""Greenmantle"". Sir Walter is a senior mandarin at the Foreign Office in the years leading up to World War I. He is the archetypal spymaster — gruff,"
"published in 1952. Ushant is mentioned in George Orwell's diaries, in passing. Ushant is also a character briefly appearing in Herman Melville's ""White-Jacket."" Ushant is highly admired for his beard. See chapter 84 of the book for further information. Ushant is mentioned repeatedly in the works of Patrick O'Brian in reference to the maritime activities and position of various ships and characters in the series. Ushant appears occasionally as a landfall in C. S. Forester's novels about Horatio Hornblower. Ushant is one of the locations in the mystery ""Act of Mercy"" by Peter Tremayne. The book is set in 666"
"arrived to convalesce after Loos. During the events of ""Greenmantle"", his work as a spy in wartime Europe and Turkey earn him a DSO and CB, respectively. Following this, he returns to regular service in the army and is rapidly promoted to brigadier-general. In early 1917, however, he is called back to the Secret Service to hunt a dangerous German spy during the decisive months of the First World War. As told in ""Mr Standfast"", he meets and falls in love with Mary Lamington, an intelligent, beautiful young nurse and fellow spy. Later, in 1918, now promoted to major-general, he"
"Sir Walter Bullivant Sir Walter Bullivant is a fictional character created by the Scottish thriller writer John Buchan for his series of novels featuring the spy Richard Hannay. He plays small but significant roles in both ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" and ""Greenmantle"". Sir Walter is a senior mandarin at the Foreign Office in the years leading up to World War I. He is the archetypal spymaster — gruff, acutely conscious of his duty, yet thoughtful and kindly towards those he sends into peril. In ""Greenmantle"", he recruits Hannay to perform a dangerous mission in the East as the Great Game heats"
"feature film of the same name. Released in 1999, the film was directed by Darabont and starred Tom Hanks as Paul Edgecombe and Michael Clarke Duncan as John Coffey. The setting is changed from 1932 to 1935 in order to include the film ""Top Hat"", which does not appear in the book. The Green Mile (novel) The Green Mile is a 1996 serial novel by American writer Stephen King. It tells the story of death row supervisor Paul Edgecombe's encounter with John Coffey, an unusual inmate who displays inexplicable healing and empathetic abilities. The serial novel was originally released in"
"found peace dull"" after service during the First World War with the fictional Loamshire Regiment. Drummond went on to appear in ten full-length novels by McNeile and a further seven by his friend Gerard Fairlie. The character was an amalgam of Fairlie, himself, and his idea of an English gentleman. Drummond also had roots in the literary characters Sherlock Holmes, Sexton Blake, Richard Hannay and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Drummond was characterised as large, very strong, physically unattractive and an ""apparently brainless hunk of a man"", who was also a gentleman with a private income; he could also be construed as"
"Bulldog Drummond Hugh ""Bulldog"" Drummond is a British fictional character, created by H. C. McNeile and published under his pen name ""Sapper"". Following McNeile's death in 1937, the novels were continued by Gerard Fairlie. Drummond is a World War I veteran who, fed up with his sedate lifestyle, advertises looking for excitement, and becomes a gentleman adventurer. The character has appeared in novels, short stories, on the stage, in films, on radio and television, and in graphic novels. After an unsuccessful one-off appearance as a policeman in ""The Strand Magazine"", the character was reworked by McNeile into a gentleman adventurer"
"John S. Blenkiron John Scantlebury Blenkiron is a fictional character who appears in several books by John Buchan, including ""Greenmantle"", ""Mr Standfast"", ""The Courts of the Morning"" and ""Sick Heart River"". Blenkiron comes from the United States, and has assisted Richard Hannay. When Hannay first meets Blenkiron, it is revealed that he suffers from dyspepsia and so often drinks boiled milk, eats dry toast and fish. Subsequently he has an operation where a part of his duodenum is replaced by rubber tubing and his digestion is restored. Blenkiron often professes his wish to join the war or ""be let into"
"a second-hand bookshop in the small, quiet town of Thornyhill, and they are unknowingly protected by the benevolent Bartlemy Goodman, an excellent cook and dabbling wizard. Nathan's dreams become more vivid and bizarre as he begins dreaming of another world, Eos, in another parallel dimension, which has poisoned itself and is dying, despite their technological advancement and near-immortality. Soon Nathan realizes that he is actually being transported to real places, and is able to interact and change things in this world. It all seems to be tied to the grail of his dreams, the Greenstone Grail, which was protected by"
"a story. In episode 3, the ghost of Tolly's ancestral namesake (nicknamed ""Toby"") tells Tolly he and (the ghost of) his brother Alexander had joined Granny and Tolly during storytime the previous night, explaining: ""I was in the inglenook; Alexander was in your chair"". In the second novel, ""The Chimneys of Green Knowe"" (1958), and its film adaptation by Julian Fellowes, ""From Time to Time"" (2009), the chimneys themselves play important roles. Perhaps the most famous reference to an inglenook in literature occurs in the final line of John Betjeman's short poem 'In a Bath Teashop', where it has been"
"Green Knight The Green Knight is a character of the 14th-century Arthurian poem ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"" and the related medieval work ""The Greene Knight"". His true name is revealed to be Bertilak de Hautdesert (an alternate spelling in some translations is ""Bercilak"" or ""Bernlak"") in ""Sir Gawain"", while ""The Greene Knight"" names him ""Bredbeddle"". The Green Knight later features as one of Arthur's greatest champions in the fragmentary ballad ""King Arthur and King Cornwall"", again with the name ""Bredbeddle"". In ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"", Bercilak is transformed into the Green Knight by Morgan le Fay,"
"""Green Mile"". In 1935, Paul supervises officers Brutus Howell, Dean Stanton, Harry Terwilliger, and Percy Wetmore at Cold Mountain Penitentiary. Paul is suffering from a severe bladder infection and receives John Coffey, a physically imposing but mentally challenged and gentle black man, into his custody. John had been sentenced to death after being convicted of raping and murdering two white girls. One of the other inmates is a Native-American named Arlen Bitterbuck, who is charged with murder and is the first to be executed. Percy demonstrates a severe sadistic streak, but, as the nephew of Louisiana's First Lady, he cannot"
"the town. Stumm's men flee, Stumm is killed, and Hannay and Sandy meet up with Pienaar to ride into the city and victory. The book was very popular when published, and was read and enjoyed by Robert Baden-Powell and by the Russian imperial family as they awaited the outcome of the Revolution in 1917. The first chapter of ""Greenmantle"", ""A Mission is Proposed"", was chosen by Graham Greene for his 1957 anthology ""The Spy's Bedside Book"". The book has been adapted for broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It was for instance broadcast on BBC Radio4 Extra in two episodes on"
"One Stirs"") and 50 (""Meetings at the Eye""). He later reappears in book four, ""The Shadow Rising"", in chapter 26 (""The Dedicated""), in a ""ter'angreal"" located in Rhuidean. The Cornish poet Charles Causley, the 1967 winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry wrote a poem titled ""Green Man In The Garden"". In the final years of the 20th century and earliest of the 21st, the appearance of the Green Man proliferated in children's literature. Examples of such novels in which the Green Man is a central character are Bel Mooney's 1997 works ""The Green Man"" and ""Joining the Rainbow"","
"others in the rival poets Bunthorne and Grosvenor. Grossmith, who created the role of Bunthorne, based his makeup, wig and costume on Swinburne and especially Whistler, as seen in the adjacent photo. The work also lampoons male vanity and chauvinism in the military. The story concerns two rival ""aesthetic"" poets, who attract the attention of the young ladies of the village, who had been engaged to the members of a cavalry regiment. But both poets are in love with Patience, the village milkmaid, who detests one of them and feels that it is her duty to avoid the other despite"
"1906 version, the first five chapters were narrated in the third person, before shifting to the first person. The new version was narrated entirely in the first person and had a slightly different ending. The new edition was published in May 1921 by Herbert Jenkins and carried an extended dedication to Wodehouse's old school friend, Bill Townend, in which Wodehouse thanked his friend for the original idea for the story and commented that ""...I have practically re-written the book. There was some pretty bad work in it..."" This is the only novel to feature the recurring character Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge,"
"of Carnarvon), but later also reflected T.E. Lawrence. Sandy Arbuthnot Ludovic ""Sandy"" Gustavus Arbuthnot, later 16th Lord Clanroyden is a fictional character who appears in various books by John Buchan in the Richard Hannay series. These books include ""Greenmantle"", ""The Three Hostages"", ""The Courts of the Morning"", and ""The Island of Sheep"", but not the first in the series, ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"". He also appears in ""The League of Heroes"" by Xavier Mauméjean. His particular expertise is in adopting disguises which completely take in Hannay, the ""friend [he] knows best in the world"". From the data within Buchan's novels, it"
"Jinjur makes a brief appearance in the next book entitled Ozma of Oz, and is later brought back in Baum's twelfth book ""The Tin Woodman of Oz"". By this time, she is shown to be a more prominent character whom is helpful and friendly to Dorothy and her friends. Another munchkin that appears in that book is ""Tommy Kwikstep"", whom is granted a wish for running an errand for a witch which gave him 20 legs. The mystery ""munchkin maiden"" from the first book is also given the name Nimmie Amee in ""The Tin Woodman of Oz"", which overall tells"
"accompanied him to his retreat Black Lake Cottage, where George, Jack, and Peter were the subjects of ""The Boy Castaways"", a photobook made by Barrie about their play adventures living on an island and fighting pirates. The boys and their activities with Barrie provided him with much of the inspiration for the character of Peter Pan, introduced in ""The Little White Bird"" in 1901, and the characters of the Lost Boys and Wendy Darling's brothers, introduced in Barrie's 1904 play ""Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up"" and further immortalized in its 1911 adaptation as the novel ""Peter"
"(1902) Queen Mab lives in Kensington Gardens and grants Peter Pan – who has learned he is a boy, and thus can no longer fly – his wish to fly again. American philosopher George Santayana wrote a short piece entitled ""Queen Mab"" which appeared in his 1922 book ""Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies"". This particular soliloquy considers English literature as an indirect form of self-expression in which the English writer ""will dream of what Queen Mab makes other people dream"" rather than revealing him or herself. In Jim Butcher's ""The Dresden Files"" series, Queen Mab of The Winter Court"
"Heywood and George Wilkins. None of these attributions, however, has been accepted by a significant proportion of the critical community. Matthew Flowerdale, the prodigal son of a merchant, Flowerdale Senior, is a libertine, gambler, swearer, brawler, drinker and thief. Flowerdale Senior's brother, Flowerdale Junior, warns him about Matthew's dissolute behaviour but Flowerdale Senior dismisses his fear, believing that ""youth must have its course"" and that his son will soon make amends. In order to spy on his son, Flowerdale Senior feigns death and appears disguised as a servant. He is soon appalled by the sum of his son's vices. Matthew"
"King Arthur and King Cornwall ""King Arthur and King Cornwall"" is an English ballad surviving in fragmentary form in the 17th-century Percy Folio manuscript. An Arthurian story, it was collected by Francis James Child as Child Ballad 30. Unlike other Child Ballads, but like the Arthurian ""The Boy and the Mantle"" and ""The Marriage of Sir Gawain"", it is not a folk ballad but a professional minstrel's song. It is notable for containing the Green Knight, a character known from the medieval poems ""The Greene Knight"" and the more famous ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight""; he appears as ""Bredbeddle"","
"type of monkey as was earlier shown behind a mask of the type worn by other Lodge spirits (Mrs. Tremond's grandson and the ""Jumping Man""). Anderson did not return for the revived series, but the character reappears as a talking tree, introducing itself as ""the evolution of the arm"". When asked whether the organic mass atop the tree was ""a talking brain, pituitary gland, or neuron"", Lynch replied, ""It's just a head."" In the second episode, the tree warns Dale Cooper about its doppelgänger, who appears and attacks Dale, causing him to fall through the floor of the Black Lodge."
"complex, which the Minderbinder character well represents. According to Heller, he modeled the character traits of Minderbinder — fast-talking, self-promoting, thoroughly conscienceless — on his Coney Island childhood friend Marvin Winkler (or Beansy to friends). Winkler is described at length in Heller's 1998 memoir ""Now and Then"". Milo Minderbinder has become the archetypal unabashed war profiteer in the American novel, better known than the first example of the species, the character Charles Holt in the 1863 novel ""The Days of Shoddy"" by Henry Morford, and the later characters Marcus Hubbard in the play ""Another Part of the Forest"", Joe Keller"
"model for his character Biggles, while Ian Fleming admitted that James Bond was ""Sapper from the waist up and Mickey Spillane below"". Sydney Horler's popular character ""Tiger"" Standish was also modelled on Drummond. McNeile's works fall into two distinct phases. Those works published between 1915 and 1918 are his war stories, and relate directly to his experiences during the First World War, while the later works are largely thrillers. His war stories were marketed by the ""Daily Mail"" and Hodder & Stoughton as a soldier's eyewitness accounts. When he started writing thrillers, Hodder & Stoughton advertised McNeile as a ""light"
"novel featuring Psmith, the others being ""Mike"" (1909) (later republished in two parts, with Psmith appearing in the second, ""Mike and Psmith"" (1953)), ""Psmith in the City"" (1910), and ""Psmith, Journalist"" (1915) – in his introduction to the omnibus ""The World of Psmith"", Wodehouse said that he had stopped writing about the character because he couldn't think of any more stories. It was also the second novel set at Blandings Castle, the first being ""Something Fresh"" (1915). The Blandings saga would be continued in many more novels and shorts. Although the main character is Psmith (here called Ronald Eustace rather"
"friend Robert Underhay in Africa, about his unhappy marriage and that Underhay may not be dead, told after reading out the news that Gordon Cloade, the second husband of Underhay's widow, was killed by enemy action. The death of Gordon Cloade brings unexpected change to his siblings and their families. Gordon gave them capital to start a venture, to handle unexpected expenses, encouraged them not to save, and promised his fortune would be split among them when he died. In spring 1946, Lynn Marchmont, a Wren during the war, settles again in her mother’s home in the village of Warmsley"
"dedication by Shirley to William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle. In creating the character of Sciarrha, Shirley may have been influenced by Foreste in Sir William Davenant's ""The Cruel Brother"" (1627). Shirley's source for the play's subplot was the account of the murder of Buondelmonte in ""Le istoire fiorentine"" by Niccolò Machiavelli. The play was revived during the Restoration era, in November 1660. King Charles II saw a public performance on 10 October 1661, a performance witnessed by Samuel Pepys. An adaptation of ""The Traitor"" was published in 1692, under its original title, but with the authorship credited to a"
"signifying a transformation from good to evil and back again; this displays both the spoiling and regenerative connotations of the colour green. Scholars have puzzled over the Green Knight's symbolism since the discovery of the poem. British medievalist C. S. Lewis said the character was ""as vivid and concrete as any image in literature"" and J. R. R. Tolkien said he was the ""most difficult character"" to interpret in ""Sir Gawain"". His major role in Arthurian literature is that of a judge and tester of knights, thus he is at once terrifying, friendly, and mysterious. He appears in only two"