In which Charles Dickens novel does the character 'Bentley Drummle' appear?
"he played Bentley Drummle in two episodes of BBC's adaptation of Charles Dickens' ""Great Expectations"". In 2012 he became a regular cast member in the second series of BBC Two's ""The Hour"" playing the part of journalist Bill Kendall. Since January 2014 he has played Athos on the BBC One series, ""The Musketeers"", an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' ""The Three Musketeers"". He also plays Cormoran Strike in the BBC miniseries ""Strike"" based on J.K. Rowling's detective novels. In 2004 he had his first cinema part in ""The Libertine"". In 2007 he played an aspiring filmmaker who ends up directing a"
"later described by Cecil Day-Lewis, author of gentleman detective Nigel Strangeways, as an ""unspeakable public school bully"". The novel ""Bulldog Drummond"" begins when Drummond places an advertisement in a newspaper looking for adventure to lift the ennui of his life in post-war London. The response comes from Phyllis Benton, who is concerned for the health and well-being of her father, over whom Henry Lakington and Carl Peterson have a hold. At the end of the novel Drummond and Phyllis marry, and remain married throughout the course of the McNeile and Fairlie series of books, in contrast to the films, which"
"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"
"for his 1920 novel ""Bulldog Drummond"". McNeile went on to write ten Drummond novels, four short stories, four stage plays and a screenplay before his death in 1937. The stories were continued by his friend Gerard Fairlie between 1938 and 1954. Drummond is a First World War veteran, brutalised by his experiences in the trenches and bored with his post-war lifestyle. He publishes an advertisement looking for adventure, and soon finds himself embroiled in a series of exploits, many of which involve Carl Peterson—who becomes his nemesis—and Peterson's mistress, the femme fatale Irma. After his first adventure Drummond marries his"
"Alfred Jingle Alfred Jingle is a fictional character who appears in the novel ""The Pickwick Papers"" by Charles Dickens. He is a strolling actor and an engaging charlatan and trickster noted for his bizarre anecdotes and distinctive mangling of English syntax. He first appears in chapter two of the novel and accompanies the Pickwickians on their first coach journey. As they leave the Golden Cross Inn at Charing Cross, Jingle holds forth in characteristic mode on the dangers of decapitation as illustrated by low archways and the example of King Charles I, beheaded at nearby Whitehall Palace: ""Heads, heads -"
"Marais"" by Claude Izner. Bertillon appears in Eric Zencey's novel ""Panama"". Bertillon is referenced in the 1965 short story, REPENT, HARLEQUIN!"" SAID THE TICKTOCKMAN, by Harlan Ellison. Bertillon is the main character of the third episode of Czech TV series ""The Adventures of Criminology"" called “Bertillonage”. Bertillon is also mentioned in the second episode of the seventh season of FX television series Archer. Bertillon was also referenced in a series called Elementary. Season 2, Episode 17 (Ears To You). Bertillon is lampooned in “The Dreyfus Case: IV,” by Finley Peter Dunne (“Mr. Dooley”), reprinted in “Mr. Dooley in the Hearts"
"can aspire to gentility. Bentley Drummle, however, embodies the social ideal, so that Estella marries him without hesitation. Another theme of ""Great Expectations"" is that Pip can undergo ""moral regeneration."" In chapter 39, the novel's turning point, Magwitch visits Pip to see the gentleman he has made, and once the convict has hidden in Herbert Pocket's room, Pip realises his situation: To cope with his situation and his learning that he now needs Magwitch, a hunted, injured man who traded his life for Pip's. Pip can only rely on the power of love for Estella Pip now goes through a"
"just outside of the garden of a cute bungalow belonging to down-on-his-luck songwriter Dick Dickens and his wife Mary) are now under threat from the ""human ones,"" who are trampling through the broken-down fence, using it as a shortcut. Insect houses are being flattened and burned by cast away cigar butts. Old Mr Bumble and his beautiful daughter Honey (Hoppity's sweetheart) are in grave danger of losing their Honey Shop to this threat. To compound their problems, devious insect ""property magnate"" C. Bagley Beetle has romantic designs on Honey Bee himself, and, with the help of his henchmen Swat the"
"a class of Englishman who were patriotic, loyal and ""physically and morally intrepid"". Drummond is a wealthy gentleman, formerly an officer in the fictional ""Royal Loamshire Regiment"", who, after the First World War, spends his new-found leisure time looking for adventure. McNeile first wrote the Drummond character as a detective for a short story in ""The Strand Magazine"", but the portrayal was not successful and was changed for the novel ""Bull-dog Drummond"", which was a thriller. The character was an amalgam of McNeile's friend Gerard Fairlie, and his idea of an English gentleman, although writer J.D. Bourn disputes Fairlie's claim"
"The Beast in the Jungle The Beast in the Jungle is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection, ""The Better Sort"". Almost universally considered one of James' finest short narratives, this story treats appropriately universal themes: loneliness, fate, love and death. The parable of John Marcher and his peculiar destiny has spoken to many readers who have speculated on the worth and meaning of human life. John Marcher, the protagonist, is reacquainted with May Bartram, a woman he knew ten years earlier, who remembers his odd secret: Marcher is seized with the belief that"
"client, Phyllis Benton; in later episodes she becomes involved in Drummond's exploits, often as the victim of kidnapping by Drummond's enemies. In 1921 an adaptation of the first novel was staged in London, with Gerald du Maurier playing the role of Drummond; the play was further adapted and resulted in the 1922 silent film ""Bulldog Drummond"", with Carlyle Blackwell in the lead role. Several other Drummond films have followed, either based on McNeile's stories or with unique storylines. The Bulldog Drummond stories of H. C. McNeile follow Captain Hugh ""Bulldog"" Drummond, DSO, MC. Drummond is a member of ""the Breed"","
"Dickens' story provided inspiration for the web comic ""The Adventures of Dorrit Little (""http://dorritlittle.com/) by artist Monica McKelvey Johnson. Online editions Map Little Dorrit Little Dorrit is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, youngest child of her family, born and raised in the Marshalsea prison for debtors in London. Arthur Clennam encounters her after returning home from a 20-year absence, ready to begin his life anew. The novel satirises the shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors' prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable"
"1969 Jingle was played by Aubrey Woods. Patrick Malahide played Mr. Jingle in 1985 for the BBC's ""The Pickwick Papers"". Alfred Jingle Alfred Jingle is a fictional character who appears in the novel ""The Pickwick Papers"" by Charles Dickens. He is a strolling actor and an engaging charlatan and trickster noted for his bizarre anecdotes and distinctive mangling of English syntax. He first appears in chapter two of the novel and accompanies the Pickwickians on their first coach journey. As they leave the Golden Cross Inn at Charing Cross, Jingle holds forth in characteristic mode on the dangers of decapitation"
"""bedellus"". The Domesday Book refers to Beadles as ""bedelli"" or under-sheriffs of manors. In England, the word came to refer to a parish constable of the Anglican Church, one often charged with duties of charity. A famous fictional constabulary beadle is Mr. Bumble from Charles Dickens's classic novel ""Oliver Twist"", who oversees the parish workhouse and orphanage of a country town more than 75 miles from London. The work of a real constabulary beadle of Whitechapel in that period may be exemplified by Richard Plunkett. In the Church of Scotland, the title is used for one who attends the minister"
"Peter Bently Peter Bently (born 1960) is a British children's writer. He is best known for his rhyming picture books including ""The Great Dog Bottom Swap"" (with Mei Matsuoka), ""Meet the Parents"" (with Sara Ogilvie) and ""The Shark in the Dark"" (with Ben Cort). ""Cats Ahoy!"", his first picture book with Jim Field, won the ""Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2011"" and ""King Jack and the Dragon"" (with Helen Oxenbury) was named as an American Library Association Notable Book of the year. Peter Bently was born in 1960 in Tidworth, Hampshire, England. His father's job as an army bandmaster meant that"
"Brett Barkley, while in """", written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill, a thinly disguised, elderly version of Drummond, called ""Hugo Drummond"", is one of the three Secret Service agents tasked to hunt down the heroes of the piece. The Drummond series proved popular with contemporary audiences, with ""Bulldog Drummond"" selling 396,302 copies between 1920 and 1939, exceeding the 100,000-copy benchmark for ""best-sellers"". At his peak in the 1920s, McNeile was the highest-paid short-story writer in the world, and it was estimated that in the last five years of his life he was earning around £10,000 a year;"
"television repairman, as well as Fergessen’s store Modern TV Sales & Service reappear in ""Puttering About in a Small Land"". The character of Betty, the proprietress of the nearby health food store is reused in ""Humpty Dumpty in Oakland"". The character of Stuart Hadley returns in ""Dr. Bloodmoney"" as a black man by the name of Stuart McConchie, as opposed to the Caucasian character from ""Voices from the Street"", and again in Dick's science fiction novel ""The Crack in Space"". In this novel Hadley is once again Caucasian and works for a character named Darius Pethel, who is essentially the"
"is still single, briefly see Estella in London; after becoming Bentley Drummle's widow, she has remarried. It appealed to Dickens due to its originality: ""[the] winding up will be away from all such things as they conventionally go."" Dickens revised the ending for publication so that Pip meets Estella in the ruins of Satis House, she is a widow and he is single. His changes at the conclusion of the novel did not quite end either with the final weekly part or the first bound edition, because Dickens further changed the last sentence in the amended 1868 version from ""I"
"Bundle Brent Lady Eileen ""Bundle"" Brent, is a fictional character of two of the Agatha Christie novels, ""The Secret of Chimneys"" (1925) and ""The Seven Dials Mystery"" (1929), described as a spirited ""it girl"". Bundle was the eldest daughter of Clement Edward Alistair Brent, 9th Marquess of Caterham (simply called ""Lord Caterham""). She had two sisters, Daisy and Dulcie. She described her late mother as having “got tired of having nothing but girls and died"". Her mother ""thought someone else could take on the job of providing an heir”. Bundle’s uncle, the 8th Marquess, was Foreign Secretary in the British"
"heroes Kenneth and Grahame. The Reluctant Dragon (short story) ""The Reluctant Dragon"" is an 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame, originally published as a chapter in his book ""Dream Days"". It is Grahame's most famous short story, arguably better known than ""Dream Days"" itself or the related ""The Golden Age"". It can be seen as a prototype to most modern stories in which the dragon is a sympathetic character rather than a threat. The story takes place in the Berkshire Downs in Oxfordshire (where the author lived and where, according to legend, St. George did fight a dragon). In Grahame's"
"years later, in October 1928, a stage adaptation by J. B. Fagan opened at the Strand Theatre, with Catherine Lacey in the cast. A further adaptation, written by Roger Danes, was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in 1997 and repeated in 2014. The Beetle (novel) The Beetle (or The Beetle: A Mystery) is an 1897 horror novel by the British writer Richard Marsh, in which a polymorphous Ancient Egyptian entity seeks revenge on a British Member of Parliament. It initially out-sold Bram Stoker's similar horror story ""Dracula"", which appeared the same year. The story is told from four points of"
"The Beetle (novel) The Beetle (or The Beetle: A Mystery) is an 1897 horror novel by the British writer Richard Marsh, in which a polymorphous Ancient Egyptian entity seeks revenge on a British Member of Parliament. It initially out-sold Bram Stoker's similar horror story ""Dracula"", which appeared the same year. The story is told from four points of view, which generally flow from each other with limited scene repetition. In order, the four narrators are Robert Holt, Sydney Atherton, Marjorie Lindon, and Augustus Champnell. The story is written down as elaborate testimonies gathered by Champnell, who is a detective and"
"be linked to this genre include the aristocratic Bentley Drummle, because of his extreme cruelty, Pip himself, who spends his youth chasing a frozen beauty, the monstrous Orlick, who systematically attempts to murder his employers. Then there is the fight to the death between Compeyson and Magwitch, and the fire that ends up killing Miss Havisham, scenes that are dominated by horror, suspense, and the sensational, such as are found in gothic novels. Elements of the silver fork novel are found in the character of Miss Havisham and her world, as well as Pip's illusions. This genre, which flourished in"
"The Reluctant Dragon (short story) ""The Reluctant Dragon"" is an 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame, originally published as a chapter in his book ""Dream Days"". It is Grahame's most famous short story, arguably better known than ""Dream Days"" itself or the related ""The Golden Age"". It can be seen as a prototype to most modern stories in which the dragon is a sympathetic character rather than a threat. The story takes place in the Berkshire Downs in Oxfordshire (where the author lived and where, according to legend, St. George did fight a dragon). In Grahame's story, a young boy"
"line to the works of Charles Dickens in England, particularly his 1838 work ""Nicholas Nickleby"" (which featured a similar storyline), and the 1844 novel ""Martin Chuzzlewit"", which also featured criticisms of class society in the United States. The story centres on the wealthy and prosperous Harley family, consisting of: Frank (the father), Gazella (the mother), and their nine children. After a series of bad investments results in bankruptcy, the Harleys are forced into destitution, which in turn leads to Frank's untimely death from excessive drinking. Gazella continues life as a seamstress in order to provide for her children, two of"
"generally portray Drummond as unmarried. Phyllis becomes integral to the plot of some of the novels: she is kidnapped by Irma Peterson in several stories, including ""The Black Gang"" and ""The Female of the Species"". In the matter of his personal tastes, Drummond is a member of the fictional Junior Sports Club, a gentleman's club on St. James's Square, London. His preferred drink is beer although he also enjoys drinking martinis and is knowledgeable about wines. Drummond owns both a Rolls-Royce and a Bentley. Although Drummond's actions are intended to maintain the conservative status quo of Britain, academic Hans Bertens"
"Little Dorrit Little Dorrit is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, youngest child of her family, born and raised in the Marshalsea prison for debtors in London. Arthur Clennam encounters her after returning home from a 20-year absence, ready to begin his life anew. The novel satirises the shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors' prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts. The prison in this case is the Marshalsea, where Dickens's own father had been imprisoned."
"for her. Angelica Briscoe would later appear in the Jeeves novel ""Aunts Aren't Gentlemen"" (1974). After the annual smoking-concert at the Drones Club, the members praise the knockabout cross-talk act (a comedic slapstick double act) performed by Cyril ""Barmy"" Fotheringay-Phipps and Reginald ""Pongo"" Twistleton-Twistleton. A Crumpet (a nondescript club member) remarks that Barmy and Pongo underwent an ordeal that nearly ended their friendship. The Crumpet, having heard about what happened from Barmy, narrates the following story. Barmy and Pongo go to the seaside resort Bridmouth-on-Sea to practice their cross-talk act. They see Angelica Briscoe, daughter of the Rev. P. P."
"[for] being the first to depict a reanimated mummy as a sinister, dangerous creature."" It was also the first work of fiction to feature a modern man reviving a mummy with ancient Egyptian texts as opposed to electricity. Emily Adler notes that Doyle's story predates Bram Stoker's ""Dracula"" (1897) and Richard Marsh's ""The Beetle"" (1897) in its portrayal of foreign monsters invading Britain. McGregor identifies the short story as a significant influence on other mummy-related media, such as Stoker's novel ""The Jewel of Seven Stars"" (1903) and the Boris Karloff film ""The Mummy"" (1932), as well as zombie fiction. Bradley"
"character's uncle, Charles Tregellis, is the center of the London fashion world, until Brummell ultimately supplants him. Tregellis's subsequent death from mortification serves as a ""deus ex machina"" in that it resolves Rodney Stone's family poverty. Georgette Heyer, author of a number of Regency romance novels, included Brummell as a character in her 1935 novel ""Regency Buck"". He is also referred to, or figures as a minor character, in the work of later writers of this genre. More recently, Brummell was made the detective-hero of a series of period mysteries by Californian novelist Rosemary Stevens, starting with ""Death on a"
"Devices and Desires Devices and Desires is a 1989 detective novel in the Adam Dalgliesh series by P. D. James. It takes place on Larksoken, a fictional isolated headland in Norfolk. Commander Adam Dalgliesh, having published his second volume of poetry, retreats to the remote Larksoken headland where his recently deceased aunt, Jane Dalgliesh, left him a converted windmill. However, a psychopathic serial killer, known as the Norfolk Whistler, is on the loose and seems to have arrived at Larksoken when Dalgliesh finds the body of the nearby nuclear power plant's Acting Administrative Officer during an evening stroll on the"
"and became a journalist and screenwriter. In addition to the Drummond series Fairlie wrote series books about Victor Caryll, Johnny Macall and Mr Malcolm. He died in East Lavington. Gerard Fairlie Francis Gerard Luis Fairlie (1 November 1899 – 31 March 1983) was a Scottish author and scriptwriter on whom Sapper (H. C. McNeile) supposedly based the character of Bulldog Drummond. After Sapper's death, Fairlie continued the Bulldog Drummond book series. Fairlie was born in Kensington, London, educated at Downside School, Somerset and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and subsequently served in the Scots Guards. He was both an Army"
"Llewelyn Davies) is his rival in studies, fencing, sports, and the attentions of the visiting Ottoman Sultana Ananova Ariadne. When James successfully woos Ananova, their affection sets off political outrage that affects the noble position of Lord B., who arranges for James to leave Eton on his trading ship, the ""Sea Witch"". Upon leaving, James defeats Arthur in a final duel and burns his own school records to leave no traces of his behaviour. On the ""Sea Witch"", he befriends boatswain Bartholomew Quigley Smeethington, generally called Smee, frees the slaves aboard ship, overthrows the ship's captain (killed by Electra), and"