"put Jack Lee and Joe Janni under contract for two years as a team. They went on to make ""Robbery Under Arms"" with Finch. A Town Like Alice (1956 film) A Town Like Alice is a 1956 British drama film produced by Joseph Janni and starring Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch that is based on the eponymous 1950 novel by Nevil Shute. The film does not follow the whole novel, concluding at the end of Part Two and truncating or omitting much detail. It was partially filmed in Malaya and Australia. In post-Second World War London, a young woman, Jean"
"Nevil Shute Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 189912 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels, which included ""On the Beach"" and ""A Town Like Alice"". Born in Somerset Road, Ealing, Middlesex, he was educated at the Dragon School, Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford; he graduated from Oxford University in 1922 with a third-class degree in engineering science. Shute's father,"
"The House on the Beach The House on the Beach: A Realistic Tale is a novella by English novelist George Meredith. It first appeared in print in 1877. A young woman is forced by conscience to become inappropriately engaged to a far older man, who threatens to reveal the secret that her father was previously a deserter. Although the novella wasn't written until the late 1870s, Meredith had started the story 15 years prior. ""The House on the Beach"" was first published in ""New Quarterly"" magazine in January 1877, a magazine in which Meredith also published ""The Case of General"
"Sylvia Beach Sylvia Beach (March 14, 1887 – October 5, 1962), born Nancy Woodbridge Beach, was an American-born bookseller and publisher who lived most of her life in Paris, where she was one of the leading expatriate figures between World War I and II. She is known for her Paris bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, where she published James Joyce's controversial book, ""Ulysses"" (1922), and encouraged the publication and sold copies of Hemingway's first book, ""Three Stories and Ten Poems"" (1923). Beach was born in her father's parsonage in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, on March 14, 1887, the second of three"
"it has been run by his daughter Sylvia Beach Whitman, named after Beach. Sylvia Beach Sylvia Beach (March 14, 1887 – October 5, 1962), born Nancy Woodbridge Beach, was an American-born bookseller and publisher who lived most of her life in Paris, where she was one of the leading expatriate figures between World War I and II. She is known for her Paris bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, where she published James Joyce's controversial book, ""Ulysses"" (1922), and encouraged the publication and sold copies of Hemingway's first book, ""Three Stories and Ten Poems"" (1923). Beach was born in her father's parsonage"
"of the world's best-selling novelists, although his popularity has since declined in Australia. Between 1956 and 1958 in Australia, he took up car racing as a hobby, driving a white Jaguar XK140. Some of this experience found its way into his book ""On the Beach "". Shute died in Melbourne in 1960 after a stroke. Norway Road and Nevil Shute Road at Portsmouth Airport, Hampshire were both named after him. Shute Avenue in Berwick, Victoria was named after him, when the farm used for filming the 1959 film ""On The Beach"" was subdivided for housing. The public library in Alice"
"only day-dream about"". ""The Beach"" was made into a film in 2000, directed by Danny Boyle and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Robert Carlyle, Virginie Ledoyen and Guillaume Canet. The novel was at one point reportedly being considered for adaptation to a television series by ""The Secret Circle"" developer Andrew Miller. The Beach (novel) The Beach is a 1996 novel by English author Alex Garland. Set in Thailand, it is the story of a young backpacker's search for a legendary, idyllic and isolated beach untouched by tourism, and his time there in its small, international community of backpackers. In 2000,"
"The Beach (novel) The Beach is a 1996 novel by English author Alex Garland. Set in Thailand, it is the story of a young backpacker's search for a legendary, idyllic and isolated beach untouched by tourism, and his time there in its small, international community of backpackers. In 2000, it was adapted into a film directed by Danny Boyle and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. In 2003, the novel was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read. In a cheap hotel on the Khao San Road in Bangkok, Richard, a young American backpacker, meets a mentally disturbed Scotsman going by the"
"Manhattan Beach (novel) Manhattan Beach is a historical novel by American writer Jennifer Egan. It was published in 2017 by Scribner. The National Book Foundation listed the book in their 2017 National Book Award Longlist in the Fiction category. ""Time"" magazine selected it as one of its top ten novels of 2017. Eleven-going-on-twelve Anna Kerrigan and her father Eddie meet with gangster Dexter Styles in late 1934 at the Styles mansion on the shore of Manhattan Beach in Brooklyn, New York City. Eddie is a former vaudeville performer who switched to become a stockbroker during the Roaring Twenties, then was"
"Brian Antoni Brian Antoni is the author of the well regarded novel ""South Beach: The Novel"". ""South Beach: The Novel"" is based on Antoni's first hand knowledge of the resurgence of Miami Beach in the past two decades. His writing has also been included in the parody novel Naked Came the Manatee where he wrote one of the chapters. He also writes non fiction articles for travel magazines. Brian Antoni was born in Detroit, Michigan but was raised in Freeport Bahamas. His parents are from Trinidad. His sister is Janine Antoni a well known Bahamian artist. His brother Robert Antoni"
"On the Beach (1959 film) On the Beach is a 1959 American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama film from United Artists, produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, that stars Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and Anthony Perkins. This black-and-white film is based on Nevil Shute's 1957 novel of the same name depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war. Unlike the novel, no one is assigned blame for starting the war; the film hints that the threat of annihilation may have arisen from an accident or misjudgment. The film is set five years in the future. In early 1964, in the"
"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, on January 25, 1872, and lived in Arden, North Carolina (which they helped found and which her husband named after the woods in William Shakespeare's ""As"
"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,"
"Springs, Northern Territory is the Nevil Shute Memorial Library. In the Readers' List of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th century, ""A Town Like Alice"" came in at number 17, ""Trustee from the Toolroom"" at 27, and ""On the Beach"" at 56. Nevil Shute Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 189912 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels,"
"1959 and in 2000 as a two-part miniseries; and ""No Highway"" in 1951. ""A Town Like Alice"" was adapted in 1956 and serialized for Australian television in 1981, and was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1997 starring Jason Connery, Becky Hindley, Bernard Hepton and Virginia McKenna. Shute's 1952 novel ""The Far Country"" was filmed for television as six one-hour episodes in 1972, and as a two-part miniseries in 1987. Vintage Books reprinted all 23 of his books in 2009. Shute's final work was published more than 40 years after his death. ""The Seafarers"" was first drafted in 1946–47, subsequently"
"Ople and Lady Camper"" and ""The Tale of Chloe"", novellas often classified and published with ""The House on the Beach"". In assessing Meredith's approach to the comedic, the character of Tinman dressing himself in his court dress for his own admiration is an example of ""when the control of reason is removed"". The House on the Beach The House on the Beach: A Realistic Tale is a novella by English novelist George Meredith. It first appeared in print in 1877. A young woman is forced by conscience to become inappropriately engaged to a far older man, who threatens to reveal"
"Rex Beach Rex Ellingwood Beach (September 1, 1877 – December 7, 1949) was an American novelist, playwright, and Olympic water polo player. Rex Beach was born in Atwood, Michigan, but moved to Tampa, Florida, with his family where his father was growing fruit trees. Beach was educated at Rollins College, Florida (1891–1896), the Chicago College of Law (1896–97), and Kent College of Law, Chicago (1899–1900). In 1900 he was drawn to Alaska at the time of the Klondike Gold Rush. After five years of unsuccessful prospecting, he turned to writing. His second novel ""The Spoilers"" (1906) was based on a"
"The House on the Strand The House on the Strand is a novel by Daphne du Maurier. First published in the UK in 1969 by Victor Gollancz, with a jacket illustration by her daughter, Flavia Tower, the US edition was published by Doubleday. Like many of du Maurier's novels, ""The House on the Strand"" has a supernatural element, exploring the ability to mentally travel back in time and experience historical events at first hand - but not to influence them. It has been called a Gothic tale, ""influenced by writers as diverse as Robert Louis Stevenson, Dante, and the psychologist"
"The novel was adapted to film in 1956 as ""A Town Like Alice"". It starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch, directed by Jack Lee. This film was known as ""Rape of Malaya"" in U.S. cinemas, and by various other titles in non-English-speaking countries. It was shown in Japan under the title ""Malay Death March: A Town Like Alice""（""Maree shi no koshin: Arisu no yo na machi""「マレー死の行進:アリスのような町」）. In 1981 it was adapted into a popular television miniseries called ""A Town Like Alice"", starring Helen Morse and Bryan Brown (with Gordon Jackson as Noel Strachan). It was broadcast internationally, in the United"
"sister. Books By Aimee Friedman: Contributed to: Graphic Novel: As Ruth Ames: Aimee Friedman Aimee Friedman (born 1979) is the author of several young adult novels published by Scholastic Inc., Point and S&S. Her novels South Beach (2004) (a ""New York Times"" bestseller), ""French Kiss"" (2005), and ""Hollywood Hills"" (2007)and also The Year My Sister Got Lucky (2008) focus on the scandalous adventures of on-again, off-again best friends Holly Jacobson and Alexa St. Laurent. She released ""Sea Change"" on June 1, 2009. ""A Novel Idea"" (2005) is a romantic comedy about a teenager who starts a book club in Park"
"an urban ruffian with a heart of gold who marries and becomes a father and a farmer in Melbourne, Australia, shortly before the start of World War I in 1914. The second is the story of another urban ruffian, and good friend of The Bloke, who enlists in the Australian Army, and dies in the early battles at Gallipoli in 1915. The American author, poet, dramatist, screenwriter and suffragist and feminist, Alice Duer Miller published her verse novel, ""Forsaking All Others"" (1935), about a tragic love affair, and had a surprising hit with her verse novel, ""The White Cliffs"" (1940:"
"clever descriptive writing and inventive action—sustains the entertainment mightily"" The Mosquito Coast (novel) The Mosquito Coast is the most successful novel by American author Paul Theroux. Published in 1981 it won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year. It was adapted into a 1986 film starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren and River Phoenix. Theroux wrote the novel whilst living in London. Although he is rumoured to have based the main character Allie Fox on himself, he denied this in an interview for ""Atlantic Unbound"", saying he based the character on a number"
"Anne B. Fisher Anne Benson Fisher (February 1, 1898 – March 5, 1967) was an American writer of fiction and non-fiction whose primary emphasis was California. Her two most significant works were her novel ""Cathedral in the Sun"" (1940) and her contribution to the Rivers of America Series, ""The Salinas: Upside Down River"" (1945). In 1922 Fisher married Walter Kenrick Fisher. They resided in Pacific Grove, California, and also had a house in Carmel Valley. Fisher moved to Medford, Oregon after her husband's death. Her novel ""Cathedral in the Sun"" was based on the lives of the early settlers of"
"Aquamarine (novel) Aquamarine is a novel by Alice Hoffman, published in April 2001. A film adaptation was released in 2006, although the plot of the film bears little resemblance to that of the book. The story is based upon two schoolgirls, Hailey and Claire, who have lived as neighbors and best friends for many years. Their favorite place for amusement has been the Capri Beach Club for as long as they can remember. However, the Capri Beach Club has become ruinous via neglect by its staff. When Claire's grandparents, with whom she lives, decide to leave the area and move"
"the Carmel Valley, James Meadows and Loretta Onesimo de Peralta, who were married in 1842. ""Cathedral in the Sun"" led to an invitation by Stephen Vincent Benét to write about the Salinas River for the Rivers of America Series Anne B. Fisher Anne Benson Fisher (February 1, 1898 – March 5, 1967) was an American writer of fiction and non-fiction whose primary emphasis was California. Her two most significant works were her novel ""Cathedral in the Sun"" (1940) and her contribution to the Rivers of America Series, ""The Salinas: Upside Down River"" (1945). In 1922 Fisher married Walter Kenrick Fisher."
"comfortable with it (the novel)."" ""The Beach"" has been translated into 25 different languages and sold close to 700,000 copies by the start of 1999. It would later be developed into a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. In 1998, Garland followed up ""The Beach"" with ""The Tesseract"", a non-linear narrative with several interwoven characters set in Manila, Philippines. The novel is characterized by a post-modernist narrative style and structure. It explores several themes such as love and violence through each character's circumstance and context of surroundings as well as seemingly inconsequential actions and the repercussions of those actions on other characters."
"is a Gothic romance. Miles Franklin (""My Brilliant Career"") and Jeannie Gunn (""We of the Never Never"") wrote of lives of European pioneers in the Australian bush from a female perspective. Albert Facey wrote of the experiences of the Goldfields and of Gallipoli (""A Fortunate Life""). Ruth Park wrote of the sectarian divisions of life in impoverished 1940s inner city Sydney (""The Harp in the South""). The experience of Australian PoWs in the Pacific War is recounted by Nevil Shute in ""A Town Like Alice"" and in the autobiography of Sir Edward Dunlop. Alan Moorehead was an Australian war correspondent"
"Aimee Friedman Aimee Friedman (born 1979) is the author of several young adult novels published by Scholastic Inc., Point and S&S. Her novels South Beach (2004) (a ""New York Times"" bestseller), ""French Kiss"" (2005), and ""Hollywood Hills"" (2007)and also The Year My Sister Got Lucky (2008) focus on the scandalous adventures of on-again, off-again best friends Holly Jacobson and Alexa St. Laurent. She released ""Sea Change"" on June 1, 2009. ""A Novel Idea"" (2005) is a romantic comedy about a teenager who starts a book club in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Friedman wrote one of the four stories in the holiday"
"Mary Alice Monroe Mary Alice Monroe is a best-selling author known for fiction that explore the compelling parallels between nature and human nature. Many of her novels deal with environmental issues. For example, ""The Beach House"" and ""Swimming Lessons"" refer to the plight of injured sea turtles. Monroe currently resides in South Carolina, and many of her novels are set in the southern United States and feature ""strong Southern women"". Her novel ""Time Is a River"" is about breast cancer survivors in a fly-fishing group in North Carolina, and ""Last Light Over Carolina"" describes the life and times of the"
"as ""Heart of Darkness"" and ""Lord of the Flies"", and the anonymous memoirs of an escaped Australian prisoner. Although set in Thailand, Garland wrote the book while living in the Philippines and in particular was inspired by similar geography on the island of Palawan . Novelist Nick Hornby referred to ""The Beach"" as ""a ""Lord of the Flies"" for Generation X"", and the ""Sunday Oregonian"" called it ""Generation X's first great novel"". ""The Washington Post"" wrote that it is ""a furiously intelligent first novel"" and ""a book that moves with the kind of speed and grace many older writers can"
"in Paris, Beach announced that she was handing the name to him for his bookshop. In 1964, after Sylvia Beach's death and on the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth, Whitman renamed his store ""Shakespeare and Company,"" which is, as he described it, ""a novel in three words."" Whitman called his venture ""a socialist utopia masquerading as a bookstore"". Henry Miller called it ""a wonderland of books."" The shop has beds tucked among the shelves of books where aspiring writers are invited to sleep for free in exchange for helping around the bookshop, agreeing to read a book a day,"
"Novels"" with the themes of ""moody gangster noir; sweeping WWII romance; classic New York immigrants’ tale; timeless story of the sea."" In the UK, the ""Guardian"" wrote that ""Manhattan Beach"" was a ""work of remarkable cinematic scope."" Manhattan Beach (novel) Manhattan Beach is a historical novel by American writer Jennifer Egan. It was published in 2017 by Scribner. The National Book Foundation listed the book in their 2017 National Book Award Longlist in the Fiction category. ""Time"" magazine selected it as one of its top ten novels of 2017. Eleven-going-on-twelve Anna Kerrigan and her father Eddie meet with gangster Dexter"
"Caroline Alexander (author) Caroline Alexander (born 1956 in Florida) is an author and journalist. She obtained a PhD in classics at Columbia University, New York. In 2015 she became the first woman to publish a full-length English translation of Homer's Iliad. She has written for ""The New Yorker"", ""Granta"", and ""National Geographic"". Her books include ""One Dry Season: In the Footsteps of Mary Kingsley"" (1989), ""The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War"" (2009), ""The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty"" (2004), and ""The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition"""