"The White Peacock The White Peacock is the first novel by D. H. Lawrence, published in 1911. Lawrence started the novel in 1906 and then rewrote it three times. The early versions had the working title of ""Laetitia."" Maurice Greiffenhagen's 1891 painting 'An Idyll' inspired the novel. The painting had ""a profound effect"" on Lawrence, who wrote: ""As for Greiffenhagen's 'Idyll', it moves me almost as if I were in love myself. Under its intoxication, I have flirted madly this Christmas."" Lawrence's first novel is set in the Eastwood area of his youth and is narrated in the first person"
"Palace of the Peacock Palace Of The Peacock (1960) is the first novel by Guyanese writer Wilson Harris. It is considered an important early postcolonial novel and a canonical text in Caribbean Literary Studies. The novel is the first in Harris's 'Guyana Quartet' of novels, which also include ""The Far Journey of Oudin"" (1961), ""The Whole Armour"" (1962) and ""The Secret Ladder"" (1963). The novel is set in the sixteenth century and presents the narrative of a group of men from different ethnic backgrounds making their way up a dangerous and turbulent river within the jungles of Guyana. The party"
"Shane Peacock Shane Peacock is a novelist, playwright, journalist, and television screenwriter. His first book ""The Great Farini"" was a biography of the colourful Canadian personality William Leonard Hunt. His plays have been produced by the 4th Line Theatre; his documentaries have included ""Team Spirit"", aired on the CTV national network, and among his novels are ""Last Message"", part of the Seven Series for young readers; ""Double You"", its sequel; and ""Separated"", its prequel. His best-selling series for young adults, ""The Boy Sherlock Holmes"", has been published in ten countries in twelve languages and has appeared on more than forty"
"the final proofs of his first published novel, ""The White Peacock"", appeared in 1910, Lawrence's mother died of cancer. The young man was devastated, and he was to describe the next few months as his ""sick year"". It is clear that Lawrence had an extremely close relationship with his mother, and his grief became a major turning point in his life, just as the death of Mrs. Morel is a major turning point in his autobiographical novel ""Sons and Lovers"", a work that draws upon much of the writer's provincial upbringing. Essentially concerned with the emotional battle for Lawrence's love"
"The White Cockatoo (novel) The White Cockatoo is a murder mystery novel written by Mignon G. Eberhart. It was published by Doubleday, Doran & Co. in 1933. It was later released in December, 1993, by Thorndike Press. The film served as the basis of the 1935 film of the same name directed by Alan Crosland. The ""New York Times"" described ""The White Cockatoo"" as overly convoluted. The reviewer lamented the fact that Sarah Keate, the primary character of Eberhart's previous few books, did not make an appearance: ""It might have been better if she had."" In a private letter to"
"Cry of the Peacock (novel) Cry of the Peacock is the first novel from Gina B. Nahai and follows the story of a family of Jews through seven generations, from 1780s Persia to contemporary Iran. The book was published in 1991 by Crown Publishing Group in the United States and won several awards. It was an alternate selection of The Book of the Month Club and The Doubleday Book Club. Peacock, a 116-year-old woman, is captured by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. Her story and that of a relatively unknown group of Jews, the oldest in the diaspora, unfolds as she"
"first novel. Sarah is the author of numerous short-stories, many of which were published in 19 magazine in the 1970s, and 9 novels, published between 1984 and 2000. Sarah Woodhouse Sarah Woodhouse (born 1950 in Birmingham, England) is a British writer. In 1989, her novel ""The Peacock's Feather"" was awarded the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Sarah Woodhouse was born in 1950 in Birmingham, England, UK. She grew up in Cambridgeshire and attended St Mary's convent school, before studying for a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature at Reading University. In the"
"Award for Fiction. Critical response was mostly positive. Cry of the Peacock (novel) Cry of the Peacock is the first novel from Gina B. Nahai and follows the story of a family of Jews through seven generations, from 1780s Persia to contemporary Iran. The book was published in 1991 by Crown Publishing Group in the United States and won several awards. It was an alternate selection of The Book of the Month Club and The Doubleday Book Club. Peacock, a 116-year-old woman, is captured by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. Her story and that of a relatively unknown group of Jews,"
"person narrator who is identified simply as 'Dreamer' in the opening pages of the novel. Dreamer's presence becomes increasingly oblique as the novel progresses. The novel was written in 1959 after Wilson Harris had moved to London from Guyana. The manuscript for the novel was accepted for publication by T. S. Eliot. Palace of the Peacock Palace Of The Peacock (1960) is the first novel by Guyanese writer Wilson Harris. It is considered an important early postcolonial novel and a canonical text in Caribbean Literary Studies. The novel is the first in Harris's 'Guyana Quartet' of novels, which also include"
"The White Bone The White Bone is a Canadian novel written by Barbara Gowdy and published by HarperCollins in 1999. It was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 1998. Sometimes compared to Richard Adams's ""Watership Down"", it is an adult fantasy story about animals—in this case, African elephants—in a realistic natural setting but given the ability to speak to one another throughout the book. Subsequently, the elephants are given anthropomorphized personalities and have created their own religion, folklore, and customs, all based on the author's research on elephant behavior. The novel includes a map of the section of African"
"Molly Peacock Molly Peacock (born Buffalo, New York 1947) is an American-Canadian poet, essayist, biographer and speaker, whose multi-genre literary life also includes memoir, short fiction, and a one-woman show. Peacock's works include ""The Paper Garden"", a biography of Mary Delany, an 18th-century gentlewoman and a meditation on late-life creativity. ""The Paper Garden"" was selected as a book of the year by The Economist, which said of the work, ""Like flowers built of a millefeuille of paper, Ms Peacock builds a life out of layers of metaphor."" Her latest book of poems is ""The Analyst"", a collection exploring her evolving"
"Victoria Holbrook Victoria Rowe Holbrook is an American scholar and translator of Turkish literature and language. She studied at Harvard and Princeton, obtaining a PhD from the latter in 1985. Her subject was Near Eastern Studies. She won numerous fellowships and research grants in her academic career. She was attached to Ohio State University from 1987 to 2005, also teaching at Bilkent University, Koç University, and Bosphorus University in Turkey. She is best known today for her translation of Orhan Pamuk's novel ""The White Castle"", which won the inaugural Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Other translations include: Her own book ""The"
"Lucy Peacock Lucy Peacock (""fl."" 1785–1816), was a British author, editor, translator, bookseller and publisher of children's books during the late eighteenth century. She wrote a number of books, many anonymously, for children and young adults. Possibly she was married or perhaps in partnership with one or members of her family, since 'R. and L. Peacock,' and 'A. and L. Peacock' published a number of items at the Juvenile Library, No. 259, Oxford-Street from at least 1796 to 1810. Lucy Peacock was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1768. She was christened on June 12, 1768. Her parents were Abraham and"
"as Immigration Officer at the Immigration Department in Nairobi from 1954 to 1957; and as Consular Clerk at British Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, from 1964 to 1969. Katharine Gordon Katharine Gordon (born 1916) is a British author who wrote eight romance novels from 1978 to 2001. For her debut novel, ""The Emerald Peacock"", she won in 1978 the Authors' Club First Novel Award, and in 1979 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award of Special Merit by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Gordon was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, but grew up in India. She married an English RAF pilot, retired after"
"Katharine Gordon Katharine Gordon (born 1916) is a British author who wrote eight romance novels from 1978 to 2001. For her debut novel, ""The Emerald Peacock"", she won in 1978 the Authors' Club First Novel Award, and in 1979 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award of Special Merit by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Gordon was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, but grew up in India. She married an English RAF pilot, retired after World War II, and flew as an airline captain. Before writing, she worked as Secretary to E. A. Army Wardens in Nairobi, Kenya, from 1950 to 1951;"
"Gryffydh in 1820. In his ""Letter to Maria Gisborne"", Shelley referred to Jane as ""the milk-white Snowdonian Antelope."" Peacock had four children, a son Edward who was a champion rower, and three daughters. One of them, Mary Ellen, married the novelist George Meredith as her second husband in August 1849. Only his son survived him, and he for less than a year, but he left several grandchildren. Jane Peacock died in 1865. Canada boasts the majority of Peacock relatives. Peacock's own place in literature is pre-eminently that of a satirist. That he has nevertheless been the favourite only of the"
"Peacock, and his own second wife, Mary Shelley, the author of ""Frankenstein"". Shelley is perhaps best known for classic poems such as ""Ozymandias"", ""Ode to the West Wind"", ""To a Skylark"", ""Music, When Soft Voices Die"", ""The Cloud"" and ""The Masque of Anarchy."" His other major works include a groundbreaking verse drama ""The Cenci"" (1819) and long, visionary, philosophical poems such as ""Queen Mab"" (later reworked as ""The Daemon of the World""), ""Alastor"", ""The Revolt of Islam"", ""Adonaïs"", ""Prometheus Unbound"" (1820)—widely considered to be his masterpiece—""Hellas: A Lyrical Drama"" (1821), and his final, unfinished work, ""The Triumph of Life"" (1822)."
"Fanny Butcher, Gertrude Stein reported that she was reading ""The White Cockatoo"" and was impressed by Eberhart's ""xtraordinary"" writing skill. The White Cockatoo (novel) The White Cockatoo is a murder mystery novel written by Mignon G. Eberhart. It was published by Doubleday, Doran & Co. in 1933. It was later released in December, 1993, by Thorndike Press. The film served as the basis of the 1935 film of the same name directed by Alan Crosland. The ""New York Times"" described ""The White Cockatoo"" as overly convoluted. The reviewer lamented the fact that Sarah Keate, the primary character of Eberhart's previous"
"Dark Missions of Edgar Brim"", begun in 2016, became a John Spray Mystery Award nominee and was followed in early 2018 by ""Monster"". Picture Books Shane Peacock Shane Peacock is a novelist, playwright, journalist, and television screenwriter. His first book ""The Great Farini"" was a biography of the colourful Canadian personality William Leonard Hunt. His plays have been produced by the 4th Line Theatre; his documentaries have included ""Team Spirit"", aired on the CTV national network, and among his novels are ""Last Message"", part of the Seven Series for young readers; ""Double You"", its sequel; and ""Separated"", its prequel. His"
"The White Disease The White Disease () is a play written by Czech novelist Karel Čapek in 1937. Written at a time of increasing threat from Nazi Germany to Czechoslovakia, it portrays a human response to a tense, prewar situation in an unnamed country that greatly resembles Germany with one extra, somewhat absurd addition: an uncurable ""white disease"", a mysterious form of leprosy, is selectively killing off people older than 45. It was adapted as the film ""Skeleton on Horseback"" by Hugo Haas. White disease is spreading in the country and elsewhere in Europe. It kills its victims usually within"
"The White Deer The White Deer is a 96-page children's novel written by James Thurber (author of ""The Thirteen Clocks"" and ""The Wonderful O"") in 1945. It is a fairy tale about the quest of the three sons of King Clode (Thag and Gallow, the hunters, and Jorn, the poet) who are set perilous tasks to win the heart and hand of a princess without her memories who had once been a beautiful white deer. The cover and four color plates were illustrated by Don Freeman. Part of the summary of the story in ""The White Deer Summary and Study"
"Peacock's works are almost nonexistent. The standard edition of Peacock's verse and prose is the Halliford edition, edited by H. F. B. Brett-Smith and C. E. Jones and published in ten volumes between 1924-34. Thomas Love Peacock Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. Peacock wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting: characters at a table discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day. Peacock was born"
"The White Castle The White Castle (original Turkish title: ""Beyaz Kale"") is a novel by Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk. The events of this story take place in 17th century Istanbul. The story is about a young Italian scholar sailing from Venice to Naples who is taken prisoner by the Ottoman Empire. Soon after, he becomes the slave of a scholar known as Hoja (master), a man who is about his own age, and with whom he shares a strong physical resemblance. Hoja reports to the Pasha, who asks him many questions about science and the world. Gradually Hoja and the"
"to the millions under their dominion."" On 1 July 1819 Peacock slept for the first time in a house at 18 Stamford Street, Blackfriars which, ""as you might expect from a Republican, he has furnished very handsomely."" His mother continued to live with him in Stamford Street. In 1820 Peacock contributed to Ollier's ""Literary Pocket Book"" and wrote ""The Four Ages of Poetry,"" the latter of which argued that poetry's relevance was being eclipsed by science, a claim which provoked Shelley's ""Defence of Poetry"". The official duties of the India House delayed the completion and publication of ""Maid Marian"", begun"
"Peacock (2010 film) Peacock is a 2010 American psychological thriller directed by Michael Lander, written by Lander and Ryan Roy, and starring Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page and Susan Sarandon. It was editor Sally Menke's final film. John Skillpa (Cillian Murphy), a quiet bank clerk living alone in tiny Peacock, Nebraska, prefers to live an invisible life in order to hide his secret: He has Dissociative Identity Disorder, the implied result of childhood trauma inflicted by his abusive mother. His alter ego is a woman, Emma, who each morning does his chores and cooks him breakfast before he starts the day."
"The White Bull The White Bull (original title in French: ""Le Taureau Blanc"") is a fable and a work of """"contes philosophiques"""", a philosophical novel, written by the Age of Enlightenment-era philosopher Voltaire. The story is based on the Greek tale of Europa and the bull, where the white bull is in fact the Greek god Zeus. The date the story was written is unknown but it was published between the years 1773 and 1774. Voltaire's work seems to be prophetic in nature because the story was published only fifteen years before the French Revolution, when beheadings became common. ""How"
"Maid Marian (novella) Maid Marian is a novella by Thomas Love Peacock, his fourth long work of fiction, published in 1822. Peacock wrote all but the last three chapters of ""Maid Marian"" at Marlow in 1818. He wrote to Percy Bysshe Shelley that he did not find ""this brilliant summer"", of 1818, ""very favourable to intellectual exertion"" but before it was quite over ""rivers, castles, forests, abbeys, monks, maids, kings, and banditti were all dancing before me like a masked ball"". However, in 1819 Peacock was recruited to the East India Company where his official duties delayed the completion and"
"Poet in Residence at Bucknell University and the University of Western Ontario. Molly Peacock Molly Peacock (born Buffalo, New York 1947) is an American-Canadian poet, essayist, biographer and speaker, whose multi-genre literary life also includes memoir, short fiction, and a one-woman show. Peacock's works include ""The Paper Garden"", a biography of Mary Delany, an 18th-century gentlewoman and a meditation on late-life creativity. ""The Paper Garden"" was selected as a book of the year by The Economist, which said of the work, ""Like flowers built of a millefeuille of paper, Ms Peacock builds a life out of layers of metaphor."" Her"
"The Twyborn Affair The Twyborn Affair is a novel by Australian Nobel laureate Patrick White, first published in 1979. The three parts of the novel are set in a villa on the French Riviera before the First World War, a sheep station on the edge of Australia's Snowy Mountains in the inter-war period, and in London in the lead-up to the Second World War. White charts the transmigration of a soul through three different identities — Eudoxia, Eddie, and Eadith — two of them in female guise. The seed of the novel was a reported exchange between the adventurer Herbert"
"her debut novel, ""The Black Peacock"", in 2017. The book was a shortlisted finalist for the 2018 amazon.ca First Novel Award. Rachel Manley Rachel Manley is a Jamaican writer in verse and prose, born in Cornwall, England, raised in Jamaica and currently residing in Canada. She is a daughter of former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley. She edited Edna Manley's diaries, which were published in 1989. She won the Governor General's Award for English language non-fiction in 1997 for her memoir ""Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood"". She has since published more memoirs and some volumes of verse. Her other"
"The White Feather The White Feather is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on 9 October 1907 by Adam & Charles Black, London. It is set at Wrykyn school, scene of Wodehouse's earlier book ""The Gold Bat"" (1904), and the later ""Mike"" (1909). Like many early Wodehouse novels, the story first appeared as a serial in the boys' magazine ""The Captain"", between October 1905 and March 1906. The phrase ""white feather"" is a reference to cowardice. When Sheen, a quiet and studious boy, finds himself facing a street brawl between boys of Wrykyn and a gang of local"
"You Like It""). She died in Arden on January 21, 1929, and is buried with her husband at Calvary Episcopal Church Cemetery in Fletcher, North Carolina. Maria Taylor Beale Maria Parker Taylor Beale (January 30, 1849 – January 21, 1929) was an American author. She published ""Jack O'Doon: A Novel"", a novel about the North Carolina coast, in 1895, and ""The White Horse In The Tree Top"", as well as a number of short stories. She was born Maria Taylor in Richmond, Virginia, in 1894, and studied art in Paris. She married Charles Willing Beale, who was also an author,"
"Walter Peacock Sir Walter Peacock (24 May 1871 – 24 February 1956) was a British Liberal Party politician and barrister who worked for the future King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom during the latter's tenure as Prince of Wales. He was the son of the Rt Hon. Sir Barnes Peacock. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He married, in 1927, Irene Cynthia Le Mesurier (biographer of Queen Elizabeth II, Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, and author of ""An Authoritative Account"", ""The Adventure of Cooking"", ""Cooking is Exciting"" and ""Beating"