James and Henry Durie and the Lady Alison are characters in which of Robert Louis Stevenson's novels?
"of ""Kidnapped"" to his friend and frequent Skerryvore visitor Henry James. His father died in 1887 and Stevenson felt free to follow the advice of his physician to try a complete change of climate, so he headed for Colorado with his mother and family. But after landing in New York, they decided to spend the winter in the Adirondacks at a cure cottage now known as Stevenson Cottage at Saranac Lake, New York. During the intensely cold winter, Stevenson wrote some of his best essays, including ""Pulvis et Umbra"". He also began ""The Master of Ballantrae"" and lightheartedly planned a"
"the Leader of the House of Commons; the Red Queen is Joseph Chamberlain, the Duchess is Lord Salisbury, Crumpty-Bumpty is Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the Walrus is William Vernon Harcourt, the Dalmeny Cat is Lord Rosebery, and the Caterpillar is Winston Churchill. The book features 40 drawings after the originals by John Tenniel which were drawn by journalist J. Stafford Ransome, credited as ""S.R."". Clara in Blunderland Clara in Blunderland is a novel by Caroline Lewis (pseudonym for Edward Harold Begbie, J. Stafford Ransome, and M. H. Temple), written in 1902 and published by William Heinemann of London. It is a political"
"Lady of the Forest Lady of the Forest: A Novel of Sherwood is a 1992 historical fiction novel by American author Jennifer Roberson. A re-telling of the Robin Hood legend from the perspective of twelve characters associated with the legend, the story centers around English noblewoman Lady Marian FitzWalter's encounters with Lord Robert of Locksley and his scheming rival the Sheriff of Nottingham amid the backdrop of Prince John's schemes – he aims to increase his own wealth and power at the expense of post-Conquest England and his brother, King Richard. Roberson wrote her novel as a prequel to the"
"her toughness and the notoriety it brought her way. She laid claim to the same talents as legend had it Madam Bulldog showed, so what would be more natural but that Calamity would ride over to Tennyson and see who was the better woman."" This is recurrent fetish on many Edson's books. Here is a partial list: – 'A Horse Called Mogollon' – Libby Shell, clad in Levi's, fights Beatrice – 'Calamity, Mark, and Belle' aka 'Texas Trio' (1989) – Calamity Jane vs Belle Starr; and saloon girls Jill vs Joy – 'Diamonds, emeralds, cards and colts' – The whole"
"""Challenge to Lassie"" (MGM, 1949) and ""Greyfriars Bobby"" (Disney, 1961), although both of these postdated her death. Both films starred Donald Crisp. Blake's daughter, Eleanor Blake, wrote a detective novel, ""Death Down East"" (1942). Her son, Atkinson's grandson, was the movie and television actor Wally Cox. Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1863 – November 4, 1942) was an American author, journalist and teacher. She was born Eleanor Stackhouse in Rensselaer, Indiana, and later married Francis Blake Atkinson, himself also an author—the couple had children Dorothy Blake (b. 1892) and Frances Eleanor (b. 1899). She taught in schools in both"
"L.A. Quartet The L.A. Quartet is a sequence of four crime fiction novels by James Ellroy set in the late 1940s through the late 1950s in Los Angeles. They are: Elmore Leonard wrote that ""reading ""The Black Dahlia"" aloud would shatter wine glasses"". Several characters from the L.A. Quartet, most notably Dudley Smith, were introduced in Ellroy's 1982 novel ""Clandestine"", which is set between 1951 and 1955 and makes reference to the Black Dahlia killing and Dudley Smith's investigation into it. ""The Black Dahlia"", the first novel in the series, follows a brutal murder in the late 1940s. On January"
"Alice Sargent Johnson Alice Sargent Johnson (1882, Staten Island, New York City - 1951, Clifton, Staten Island) was a commercial artist and illustrator. She graduated from the Art Students League in 1900. Alice was the daughter of Mary Doubleday (niece of Abner Doubleday) and Edward Sargent. Additionally, she created watercolor illustrations for magazines and books. She illustrated for ""Harper's Bazaar"", ""St. Nicholas Magazine"".""The best-known children's authors and illustrators contributed to St. Nicholas,"", according to a 2002 review on children's literature[2]. Many children's classics were first serialized in ""St. Nicholas Magazine"". Its first runaway hit was with ""Little Lord Fauntleroy"". Louisa"
"Henry James Henry James, OM ( – ) was an American-British author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of renowned philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. He is best known for a number of novels dealing with the social and marital interplay between emigre Americans, English people, and continental Europeans – examples of such novels include ""The Portrait of a Lady"", ""The Ambassadors"", and ""The"
"Malcolm talked about Hamish and his life in an interview with Juliet Rix for ""The Guardian"" in 2009. Alastair (born 1981) is married with a daughter and a son and is a lecturer in Computing Science at Imperial College, London. Jesse, known as Jerry (born 1987), is married with two sons and is a trainee social worker in Dundee, Scotland. Julia Donaldson Julia Donaldson (born 16 September 1948) is an English writer, playwright and performer, and the 2011–2013 Children's Laureate. She is best known for her popular rhyming stories for children, especially those illustrated by Axel Scheffler, which include ""The"
"The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses is an 1888 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is both an historical adventure novel and a romance novel. It first appeared as a serial in 1883 with the subtitle ""A Tale of Tunstall Forest"" beginning in ""Young Folks; A Boys' and Girls' Paper of Instructive and Entertaining Literature,"" vol. XXII, no. 656 (Saturday, 30 June 1883) and ending in the issue for Saturday, 20 October 1883—Stevenson had finished writing it by the end of summer. It was printed under the pseudonym"
"Julia Donaldson Julia Donaldson (born 16 September 1948) is an English writer, playwright and performer, and the 2011–2013 Children's Laureate. She is best known for her popular rhyming stories for children, especially those illustrated by Axel Scheffler, which include ""The Gruffalo"", ""Room on the Broom"" and ""Stick Man"". She originally wrote songs for children's television but has concentrated on writing books since the words of one of her songs, ""A Squash and a Squeeze"", were made into a children's book in 1993. Of her 184 published works, 64 are widely available in bookshops. The remaining 120 are intended for school"
"this strike you as curious?"" The Adventure of the Two Women ""The Adventure of the Two Women"" is a Sherlock Holmes crime story by Adrian Conan Doyle. The story was published in the 1954 collection, ""The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes"". Holmes is called upon to save the widow of a distinguished family from shame. Her noble husband, Henry Gladsdale, the late Duke of Carringford served his country well, but now the Duchess Carringford and her betrothed daughter, Lady Mary Gladsdale, are facing ruin. A blackmailer threatens to expose a prior marriage by Henry Gladsdale that would nullify his marriage to"
"Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. His most famous works are ""Treasure Island"", ""Kidnapped"", ""Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"", and ""A Child's Garden of Verses"". He was a literary celebrity during his lifetime, and now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J."
"the Allies are still on the defensive in the Pacific. The movie was adapted by John Huston and John Lee Mahin from the novel and directed by Huston. Deborah Kerr was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Robert Mitchum played Allison. Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (novel) Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison is a 1952 novel by Charles Shaw. It tells the story of Marine Corporal Allison shipwrecked on an island in the Pacific during World War II. The only inhabitant is a nun, Sister Angela. It was made into a 1957 film of the same"
"Squib Velma Master Psychic Mr.Joyce Gilda Joyce: The Ladies of the Lake Gilda Joyce: The Ladies of the Lake is a mystery novel written by Jennifer Allison, published by Dutton Children's Books. When Gilda Joyce earns a scholarship to attend Our Lady of Sorrows, a private high school for Catholic girls, she discovers that a girl named Dolores Lambert had drowned in the lake near the school a few years ago. In this novel, self-proclaimed psychic investigator Gilda Joyce investigates the mysterious happenings that seem to connect with the drowning of Dolores. Some people say that Dolores walked blindfolded onto"
"been committed to Atascadero State Hospital, but this institution did not open until 1954. The character Madeleine is committed there (ch. 3-5), but the hospital's patient population was historically limited to men. The Black Dahlia (novel) The Black Dahlia (1987) is a crime fiction novel by American author James Ellroy. Its subject is the 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles, California, which received wide attention because her corpse was horrifically mutilated and discarded in an empty residential lot. The investigation ultimately led to a broad police corruption scandal. While rooted in the facts of the Short murder and"
"humorously unflattering portrayal) as arrogant author Mortimer Stellar in ""When No Man Pursueth"", James Randi as stage magician The Amazing Larri in ""The Cross of Lorraine"", and Harlan Ellison as writer Darius Just (a character who first appeared as protagonist of Asimov's 1976 mystery novel ""Murder at the ABA"") in ""The Woman in the Bar."" The remaining member of the Widowers, the group's waiter and unfailing sleuth Henry Jackson, was completely fictional, though Asimov did liken the character to that of P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves from the Bertie Wooster novels. Trap Door Spiders The Trap Door Spiders are a literary male-only"
"attached as a preface, stating that he had never even read the book and that Meurice was the real author. Nevertheless, it has been argued that Dumas was at least somewhat involved in its composition. According to F. W. J. Hemmings, ""The Two Dianas"" is ""entirely lacking in Dumas's usual deftness of touch"". The Two Dianas The Two Dianas () is a historical novel published in 1846-7 under the name of Alexandre Dumas but mostly or entirely written by his friend and collaborator Paul Meurice. The ""two Dianas"" of the title are Diane de Poitiers (the mistress of Henry II)"
"Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), author of the epistolary novels ""Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded"" (1740) and ""Clarissa"" (1747–48); Henry Fielding (1707–1754), who wrote ""Joseph Andrews"" (1742) and ""The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling"" (1749); Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), who published ""Tristram Shandy"" in parts between 1759 and 1767; Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774), author of ""The Vicar of Wakefield"" (1766); Tobias Smollett (1721–1771), a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as ""The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle"" (1751) and ""The Expedition of Humphry Clinker"" (1771), who influenced Charles Dickens; and Fanny Burney (1752–1840), whose novels ""were enjoyed and admired by Jane"
"Gilda Joyce: The Ladies of the Lake Gilda Joyce: The Ladies of the Lake is a mystery novel written by Jennifer Allison, published by Dutton Children's Books. When Gilda Joyce earns a scholarship to attend Our Lady of Sorrows, a private high school for Catholic girls, she discovers that a girl named Dolores Lambert had drowned in the lake near the school a few years ago. In this novel, self-proclaimed psychic investigator Gilda Joyce investigates the mysterious happenings that seem to connect with the drowning of Dolores. Some people say that Dolores walked blindfolded onto a sheet of cracked ice"
"its earliest versions are entitled ""Lucy"". The book explores the young Lucy Honeychurch's trip to Italy with her cousin, and the choice she must make between the free-thinking George Emerson and the repressed aesthete Cecil Vyse. George's father Mr Emerson quotes thinkers who influenced Forster, including Samuel Butler. The book was adapted as a film of the same name in 1985 by the Merchant Ivory team. ""Where Angels Fear to Tread"" and ""A Room with a View"" can be seen collectively as Forster's Italian novels. Both include references to the famous Baedeker guidebooks and concern narrow-minded middle-class English tourists abroad."
"during which she suffered many rejections from publishers. Alison Lurie Alison Lurie (born September 3, 1926) is an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1984 novel ""Foreign Affairs"". Although better known as a novelist, she has also written numerous non-fiction books and articles, particularly on children's literature and the semiotics of dress. Lurie was born in Chicago but grew up in White Plains, New York, the daughter of Bernice (Stewart) and Harry Lawrence Lurie, a Latvian-born professor. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1947. The next year she married Jonathan Peale Bishop, then a graduate"
"Arm and the Darkness"" (1943) also deals with this period in France, while Hilda Lewis' ""Wife to Great Buckingham"" (1959) goes so far as to make Buckingham's love for the French queen the main cause of his undoing. The Duke also figures in historical romances like Evelyn Anthony's ""Charles, The King"" (1963) and Bertrice Small's ""Darling Jasmine"" (2007), although the main focus there is on other protagonists. In Philippa Gregory's ""Earthly Joys"" (1998), which has as its subject the famous gardener John Tradescant the elder; the bewitching Duke appears halfway through the novel as the object of Tradescant's love. Another"
"Alison Lurie Alison Lurie (born September 3, 1926) is an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1984 novel ""Foreign Affairs"". Although better known as a novelist, she has also written numerous non-fiction books and articles, particularly on children's literature and the semiotics of dress. Lurie was born in Chicago but grew up in White Plains, New York, the daughter of Bernice (Stewart) and Harry Lawrence Lurie, a Latvian-born professor. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1947. The next year she married Jonathan Peale Bishop, then a graduate student at Harvard. Bishop was a critic and"
"to be an idiomatic expression for ""true friendship."" Thus, Denis Diderot's short story, ""The Two Friends from Bourbonne"" (1770), begins ""There used to be two men here who might be called the Damon and Pythias of Bourbonne."" The canines Bummer and Lazarus were eulogized as ""the Damon and Pythias of San Francisco"" upon Bummer's death in 1865. In Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ""The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"", Henry Jekyll's two oldest friends, Dr. Lanyon and Mr. Utterson (a lawyer), have the following exchange while discussing Dr. Jekyll's apparent self-imposed isolation: ...said Utterson. “I thought you had"
"The Adventure of the Two Women ""The Adventure of the Two Women"" is a Sherlock Holmes crime story by Adrian Conan Doyle. The story was published in the 1954 collection, ""The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes"". Holmes is called upon to save the widow of a distinguished family from shame. Her noble husband, Henry Gladsdale, the late Duke of Carringford served his country well, but now the Duchess Carringford and her betrothed daughter, Lady Mary Gladsdale, are facing ruin. A blackmailer threatens to expose a prior marriage by Henry Gladsdale that would nullify his marriage to the current Duchess. The price"
"1970s was Richard Adams's heroic fantasy ""Watership Down"" (1972). Evoking epic themes, it recounts the odyssey of a group of rabbits seeking to establish a new home. Another successful novel of the same era was John Fowles' ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1969), with a narrator who freely admits the fictive nature of his story, and its famous alternative endings. This was made into a film in 1981 with a screenplay by Harold Pinter. Angela Carter (1940–92) was a novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. Her novels include, ""The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman"""
"""The Black Arrow"" and ""The Master of Ballantrae"". Stevenson's heirs sold Stevenson's papers during World War I; many Stevenson documents were auctioned off in 1918. The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses is an 1888 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is both an historical adventure novel and a romance novel. It first appeared as a serial in 1883 with the subtitle ""A Tale of Tunstall Forest"" beginning in ""Young Folks; A Boys' and Girls' Paper of Instructive and Entertaining Literature,"" vol. XXII, no. 656 (Saturday, 30 June 1883)"
"(1917), ""Success"" (1921), ""Siege"" (1924), ""The Gorgeous Hussy"" (1934), ""Maiden Effort"" (1937), ""The Harvey Girls"" (1942; adapted into the 1946 movie musical starring Judy Garland), ""Canal Town"" (1944), ""Plunder"" (1948), ""Grandfather Stories"" (1955), and ""Tenderloin"" (1959). ""The Clarion"" and ""Success"" are studies of modern journalism. ""Average Jones"" is a series of stories about a detective investigating fraudulent or unusual advertisements. In addition to his many books, Adams also wrote 415 short stories and articles. ""Tenderloin"" described the battle between Charles H. Parkhurst and Tammany Hall. ""The New York Times"" reviewer H. I. Brock called the book an ""outstanding period piece"""
"well-known author was children's writer Arthur Ransome, who penned the ""Swallows and Amazons"" series. James Herriot, the best selling author of over 60 million copies of books about his experiences of some 50 years as a veterinarian in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, the town which he refers to as Darrowby in his books (although born in Sunderland), has been admired for his easy reading style and interesting characters. Poets include Ted Hughes, W. H. Auden, William Empson, Simon Armitage and Andrew Marvell. Three well known sculptors emerged in the 20th century; contemporaries Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, and Leeds-raised eco artist"
"Duty and Desire Duty and Desire is a 2004 historical Romance novel by Pamela Aidan. The second in the ""Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman"" trilogy, the novel examines Jane Austen's ""Pride and Prejudice"" from the perspective of Fitzwilliam Darcy, the central male character of that novel. In relation to ""Pride and Prejudice"", on which the novel is based, ""Duty and Desire"" takes place between Darcy's initial leaving of Hertfordshire and his reappearance in ""Pride""'s narrative at Rosings Park. Following on from the events of ""An Assembly Such as This"", the novel opens with Fitzwilliam Darcy preparing for the Christmas season with his"
"and banker John Attersoll (c. 1784–1822), who had briefly been a Whig MP for Wootton Bassett in 1812–13. By 1820, Ann Doherty was living under the name St Anne Holmes in France, where she remained. As an author, Ann Doherty published anonymously or as ""St Anne"". Her novels ""tended towards an Ossianic, flowery style"" with heroines of ""a high degree of feminine softness"". They included ""Ronaldsha"" (1808), ""The Castles of Wolfnorth and Mont Eagle"" (1812) and ""The Knight of the Glen. An Irish Romance"" (1815). While with Attersoll, she began corresponding with the Lake Poet Robert Southey. In 1818 she"
"Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (novel) Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison is a 1952 novel by Charles Shaw. It tells the story of Marine Corporal Allison shipwrecked on an island in the Pacific during World War II. The only inhabitant is a nun, Sister Angela. It was made into a 1957 film of the same name by John Huston. The narrative deals with the developing relationship between the marine and the nun, especially Allison's growing attraction to Sister Angela. The novel is set earlier in the war than the film, with Allison escaping from the Battle of Corregidor at the time that"