The 1993 novel 'Mrs. de Winter' by Susan Hill was a sequel towhich classic 20th century novel?
"Rebecca (novel) Rebecca is a Gothic novel by English author Dame Daphne du Maurier. A best-seller, ""Rebecca"" sold 2,829,313 copies between its publication in 1938 and 1965, and the book has never gone out of print. The novel is remembered especially for the character Mrs Danvers, the fictional estate Manderley, and its opening line: While working as the companion to a rich American woman on holiday in Monte Carlo, the unnamed narrator, a naïve young woman in her early 20s, becomes acquainted with a wealthy Englishman, George Fortescue Maximilian “Maxim” de Winter, a 42-year-old widower. After a fortnight of courtship,"
"reading satisfaction. The 20th-century love romance is a successor of the novels Madeleine de Scudéry, Marie de La Fayette, Aphra Behn, and Eliza Haywood wrote from the 1640s into the 1740s. The modern adventure novel goes back to Daniel Defoe's ""Robinson Crusoe"" (1719) and its immediate successors. Modern pornography has no precedent in the chapbook market but originates in libertine and hedonistic belles lettres, of works like John Cleland's ""Fanny Hill"" (1749) and similar eighteenth century novels. Ian Fleming's ""James Bond"" is a descendant of the anonymous yet extremely sophisticated and stylish narrator who mixed his love affairs with his"
"for women's suffrage. Fall of Giants, published simultaneously in 14 countries, was internationally popular and topped several best-seller lists. ""Winter of the World"" (2012) picks up where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, to the explosions of the American and Soviet atom bombs and the beginning of the long Cold War. The final novel in the 'Century' trilogy, ""Edge of Eternity"", which follows those families"
"1960s, including adaptations of Hemingway’s ""The Snows of Kilimanjaro"", ""The Killers"", and ""The Fifth Column"". The 1993 film, ""King of the Hill"", directed by Steven Soderbergh, is a screen adaptation of Hotchner's 1973 autobiographical novel of the same name. A Depression-era, bildungsroman memoir, it tells the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on long trips from which the boy cannot be certain he will"
"Tintner include ""The Secret Garden"" (1911), by Frances Hodgson Burnett; ""Poor Girl"" (1951), by Elizabeth Taylor; ""The Peacock Spring"" (1975), by Rumer Godden; ""Ghost Story"" (1975) by Peter Straub; ""The Accursed Inhabitants of House Bly"" (1994) by Joyce Carol Oates; and ""Miles and Flora"" (1997)—a sequel—by Hilary Bailey. Further literary adaptations identified by other authors include ""Affinity"" (1999), by Sarah Waters; ""A Jealous Ghost"" (2005), by A. N. Wilson; and ""Florence & Giles"" (2010), by John Harding. Young adult novels inspired by ""The Turn of the Screw"" include ""The Turning"" (2012) by Francine Prose and ""Tighter"" (2011) by Adele Griffin."
"(2016). One of Hill's plays ""On the face of it"" has been included in the Indian school curriculum for the 12th grade. Her ninth book in the Simon Serrailler series, ""The Comforts of Home"", will be published in October 2018. Susan Hill Susan Hill, (born 5 February 1942) is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels include ""The Woman in Black"", """" and ""I'm the King of the Castle"" for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for"
"of attentive love. In retrospect it is also possible to discern in her work the effects of an emerging, ecologically sensitive way of seeing human relationships to the environment."" Devil's Hill (novel) Devil's Hill (1958) is a novel for children by Australian author Nan Chauncy, illustrated by Geraldine Spence. It was joint winner of the in 1959.""' This novel is a sequel to the author's previous novel ""Tiger in the Bush"" and is the second of two by the author concentrating on the Lorenny family, who live deep in the rainforest in south-western Tasmania. The Lorenny family are hosts to"
"The Haunting of Hill House The Haunting of Hill House is a 1959 gothic horror novel by American author Shirley Jackson. A finalist for the National Book Award and considered one of the best literary ghost stories published during the 20th century, it has been made into two feature films and a play, and is the basis of the eponymous Netflix series. Jackson's novel relies on terror rather than horror to elicit emotion in the reader, using complex relationships between the mysterious events in the house and the characters’ psyches. The author decided to write ""a ghost story"" after reading"
"Bill and Julie to be as metaphorical as that between ""dragons and the reader's greed or courage"". ""Knowledge of Angels"" (1993), a medieval philosophical novel, shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize Other adult novels include: Paton Walsh wrote four detective stories featuring part-time college nurse Imogen Quy, set in fictional St. Agatha's College, University of Cambridge: In 1998, she completed Dorothy L. Sayers's unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey<nowiki>–</nowiki>Harriet Vane novel, ""Thrones, Dominations"". In 2002, she followed this up with another Lord Peter novel, ""A Presumption of Death"". In 2010, she published a third, ""The Attenbury Emeralds"". Her latest addition to the"
"In addition the text is peppered with allusions to popular sentimental novels such as ""The History of Eliza Warwick"" (1778) and ""The Platonic Marriage"" (1787), which critique their presentation of the heroine of feminine sensibility. Mary is more akin to the charitable and industrious heroines of Bluestocking Sarah Scott's ""Millenium Hall"" (1762) than to the passive, weepy heroines found in most sentimental novels. Debate concerning the relationship between gender and sensibility continued into the early 19th century; Jane Austen, for example, made it the explicit focus of her novel ""Sense and Sensibility"" (1811). As Wollstonecraft scholar Virginia Sapiro points out"
"Millenium Hall A Description of Millenium Hall and the Country Adjacent is a 1762 novel by Sarah Scott. was Scott's most significant novel. It was popular enough to go to four editions by 1778, and interest in it has revived in the 21st century among feminist literary scholars. The book takes the form of a frame tale and a series of adventures, as the narrator's long-lost cousin relates how each of the residents arrived at the female Utopia, Millenium Hall. The adventures are remarkable for their reliance on a nearly superstitious form of divine grace, where God's will manifests itself"
"adaptations varying greatly in their faithfulness to the original. Books and scripts that use the general storyline of Austen's novels but change or otherwise modernise the story also became popular at the end of the 20th century. For example, ""Clueless"" (1995), Amy Heckerling's updated version of ""Emma"", which takes place in Beverly Hills, became a cultural phenomenon and spawned its own television series, and furthermore, near the beginning of the 21st century, nearly two centuries after her death, her works still inform popular culture and cosplay. Robert Irvine, a British scholar, wrote that the works of Austen remain a popular"
"her former friend only to start a secret love affair. The second, ""17 Morton Street"", was published by St. Martin's Press in 1990 and follows the love lives of three quirky sisters in New York. It became an official Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Kirkus Reviews called ""17 Morton Street"" ""an accomplished, fast-moving comedy of errors."" Barbara Raskin praised the book in the ""Washington Post"": ""Catherine Hiller's writing explodes with surprising insights, juicy characterizations, and familial truths."" Novelist and book critic Carolyn See said, ""Catherine Hiller's voice is both fresh and very beautiful. She writes of the great dilemmas of our time"
"Devil's Hill (novel) Devil's Hill (1958) is a novel for children by Australian author Nan Chauncy, illustrated by Geraldine Spence. It was joint winner of the in 1959.""' This novel is a sequel to the author's previous novel ""Tiger in the Bush"" and is the second of two by the author concentrating on the Lorenny family, who live deep in the rainforest in south-western Tasmania. The Lorenny family are hosts to their city cousins, Sam and his two younger sisters. The children set off through the bush in search of a lost cow and the novel tracks the conflicts between"
"Susan Hill Susan Hill, (born 5 February 1942) is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels include ""The Woman in Black"", """" and ""I'm the King of the Castle"" for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to literature. Hill was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Her home town was later referred to in her novel ""A Change for the Better"" (1969) and in some short stories like ""Cockles and Mussels"". She attended Scarborough Convent School,"
"The Woman in Black The Woman in Black is a 1983 horror novel by Susan Hill, written in the style of a traditional Gothic novel. The plot concerns a mysterious spectre that haunts a small English town, heralding the death of children. A television film based on the story, also called ""The Woman in Black"", was produced in 1989, with a screenplay by Nigel Kneale. In 2012, a theatrical film adaptation of the same name was released, starring Daniel Radcliffe. The book has also been adapted into a stage play by Stephen Mallatratt. It is the second longest-running play in"
"metafiction are ""those well-known and popular novels which are both intensely self-reflexive and yet paradoxically also lay claim to historical events and personages"". Works often described as examples of historiographical metafiction include: William Shakespeare's ""Pericles, Prince of Tyre"" (c.1608), John Fowles' ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1969), E. L. Doctorow's ""Ragtime"" (1975), William Kennedy's ""Legs"" (1975), Salman Rushdie's ""Midnight's Children"" (1981), A. S. Byatt's ""Possession"" (1990), Michael Ondaatje's ""The English Patient"" (1992), Thomas Pynchon's ""Mason & Dixon"" (1997) and many others. By seeking to represent both ""actual historical events"" from World War Two while, at the same time, ""problematizing"" the very"
"I'm the King of the Castle I’m the King of the Castle is a novel written by Susan Hill, originally published in 1970. The French film ""Je suis le seigneur du château"" of 1989 and directed by Régis Wargnier is loosely based on the novel. The book is set in a large house called Warings near the village of Derne. It was once a grand countryside mansion, but has since fallen into despair and decay. Joseph Hooper has inherited the house, and lives with his 10-year-old son Edmund Hooper. They have a cold, formal relationship which lacks any compassion. Joseph"
"against Asherah (a re-interpretation of the ancient Near Eastern story of the Tower of Babel). ""Snow Crash"" was nominated for both the British Science Fiction Award in 1993, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1994. The story opens in Los Angeles in the 21st century, an unspecified number of years after a worldwide economic collapse. Los Angeles is no longer part of the United States, as the federal government of the United States has ceded most of its power and territory to private organizations and entrepreneurs. Franchising, individual sovereignty, and private vehicles reign supreme over the landscape. Mercenary armies"
"the centenarian Lady Parvula de Panzoust and David Tooke, Thetis's brother. A musical comedy of 1958 by Sandy Wilson gave the novel some popularity in the 1960s, and has been revived several times and recorded on CD. This was followed by a story, ""Santal"" (1921), that describes an Arab boy's search for God. In his next novel, ""The Flower Beneath The Foot"" (1923), the setting is an imaginary country somewhere in the Balkans. The characters include the King and Queen, sundry high-born ladies about the Court, and the usual attendant chorus of priests and nuns. ""Sorrow in Sunlight"" (1924), renamed"
"1956 in a fictitious northern village called Fetherhoughton, centring on a Roman Catholic church and a convent. A mysterious stranger brings about transformations in the lives of those around him. ""A Place of Greater Safety"" (1992) won the Sunday Express Book of the Year award, for which her two previous books had been shortlisted. A long and historically accurate novel, it traces the career of three French revolutionaries, Danton, Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins, from childhood to their early deaths during the Reign of Terror of 1794. ""A Change of Climate"" (1994), set in rural Norfolk, explores the lives of Ralph"
"Africa (""Snare of Serpents"", 1990); and on a shipwreck in the South Sea Islands (""The Black Opal"", 1993). In 1993, Hibbert died. In the closing years of the 20th century, ""Victoria Holt"" titles were made available in large print, audiobook and Braille formats. Translations in several European languages, Russian, Hebrew, Persian, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese and Japanese also appeared. In 2006, London publisher Harper reprinted four of Victoria Holt's most popular titles with new covers: ""Mistress of Mellyn"" (1961), ""The Shivering Sands"" (1969), ""The Shadow of the Lynx"" (1971) and ""The Time of the Hunter's Moon"" (1983). Foreign language translations"
"the show. It was released on October 12, 2018. The Haunting of Hill House The Haunting of Hill House is a 1959 gothic horror novel by American author Shirley Jackson. A finalist for the National Book Award and considered one of the best literary ghost stories published during the 20th century, it has been made into two feature films and a play, and is the basis of the eponymous Netflix series. Jackson's novel relies on terror rather than horror to elicit emotion in the reader, using complex relationships between the mysterious events in the house and the characters’ psyches. The"
"know that the books related to people of the neighbourhood. The Brontës used their neighbours as inspiration for characters in many of their books. Anne Brontë published ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" under the name Acton Bell. Charlotte Brontë published ""Shirley"" and ""Jane Eyre"" under the name Currer Bell. Emily Brontë published ""Wuthering Heights"" as Ellis Bell. A well-known example of the former is Mary Ann Evans, who wrote as George Eliot. Another example is Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, a 19th-century French writer who used the pen name George Sand. In contrast, some twentieth and twenty first century male romance"
"Winter of the World Winter of the World is a historical novel written by the Welsh-born author Ken Follett, published in 2012. It is the second book in the ""Century Trilogy"". Revolving about a family saga that covers the interrelated experiences of American, Russian, German and British families during the 20th century. The novel follows the second generation of those families, born to the main characters of the first novel, ""Fall of Giants"", and is followed by a further generation of those families in the third and final book in the series, ""Edge of Eternity"". The story starts in 1933,"
"his daily routine, but is forced to interact with the wider world when his claustrophobic relationship with his mother reaches breaking point. The story was partly inspired by local composer Benjamin Britten's opera ""Peter Grimes"". The Albatross The Albatross is a novella written by Susan Hill, first appearing in the collection The Albatross and Other Stories published by Hamish Hamilton in 1971. It won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1972. It appeared as a standalone book published by Penguin Books in 2000. It is studied in GCSE English as an example of the best of modern women's writing. The"
"by Dell Publishing. It was the first installment in Canham's Medieval trilogy, the other two being ""Through a Dark Mist"" (1991) and ""The Last Arrow"" (1997). Jane Sullivan, writing for ""The Sydney Morning Herald"", recommended the entire ""swashbuckling"" trilogy for ""hopeless romantics,"" while Rebekah Bradford of ""The Post and Courier"" called the series an ""inventive reimagining."" In the Shadow of Midnight In the Shadow of Midnight is a 1994 historical novel by Canadian author Marsha Canham, the second instalment of her ""Medieval"" trilogy inspired by the Robin Hood legend set in 13th-century England. The story centres on the rescue of"
"the Mount Everest of her dreams, only to find herself back in the valley of the dolls. Susann had apparently been thinking about the novel for some time. Some years earlier, she had begun ""Underneath the Pancake"", a show business novel, with her actress friend Beatrice Cole (c. 1910–1999). Later, she considered writing a novel about drug usage in show business to be called ""The Pink Dolls"". ""Valley of the Dolls"" is considered to be a ""roman à clef"", with its characters based on famous figures such as Judy Garland, Carole Landis, Dean Martin, and Ethel Merman. In 1973, after"
"Shirley Jackson made an important contribution to ghost fiction with her novel ""The Haunting of Hill House"" (1959). A noted modern British writer of ghost fiction is Ramsey Campbell. Susan Hill also produced ""The Woman in Black"" (1983), a ghost novel that has been adapted for stage, television and film. Noël Coward's play ""Blithe Spirit"", later made into a 1945 film, places a more humorous slant on the phenomenon of haunting of individuals and specific locations. During the late 1890s the depiction of ghost and supernatural events appear in films. With the advent of motion pictures and television, screen depictions"
"is disturbing ""because it doesn't stop being funny when you think it should"". Other novels of this decade include ""The Long Lost"" (1993), in which a sin-eater is discovered by a couple holidaying in Wales and brought home ostensibly as an relative, with considerable impact on a community. A haunted house novel called ""The House on Nazareth Hill"" (1996), combining the author's M R Jamesian suggestiveness with an increasingly idiosyncratic prose style, is a harrowing study of familial psychology and the unchanging nature of social processes, particularly those relating to the young's quest for independence and the threat this presents"
"Jane Aiken Hodge called ""very nearly a detective story in period costume"". Many of Heyer's other historical romances have thriller elements but to a much lesser extent. Other variations include mystery novels set in alternate history timelines or even fantasy worlds. These would include ""The Ultimate Solution"" (1973) by Eric Norden and ""Fatherland"" (1992) by Robert Harris, both being police procedurals set in alternate timelines where the Nazis won World War II; Randall Garrett's Lord Darcy series, taking place in a 20th-century in which magic is possible; and Phyllis Ann Karr's ""The Idylls of the Queen"" (1982), set in King"
"Dickens' ""A Tale of Two Cities"", referring to the long and unjust imprisonment of Dr Manette. Recalled to Life (novel) Recalled to Life is a 1992 crime novel by Reginald Hill, and part of the Dalziel and Pascoe series. The novel tells the story of Dalziel's re-investigation of the 1963 murder at a local manor, Mickledore Hall, and the crime is billed as the last of the golden age murders. The murder took place shortly before the story of the Profumo affair broke, and during a weekend get together at the Hall. The guests at Mickledore Hall that weekend included"
"Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas 15. Sybil Benjamin Disraeli 16. David Copperfield Charles Dickens 17. Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 18. Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 19. Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 20. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 21. Moby-Dick Herman Melville 22. Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 23. The Woman in White Wilkie Collins 24. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll 25. Little Women Louisa M. Alcott 26. The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope 27. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 28. Daniel Deronda George Eliot 29. The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 30. The Portrait of a Lady Henry James 31. Huckleberry"