Which 19th-20th century writer's first novel was 'The Napoleon of Notting Hill', published in 1904?
"the start of Neil Gaiman's novel ""Neverwhere"". Both the novel and Chesterton's ""The Man Who Was Thursday"" are referenced in the 2000 video game ""Deus Ex"". (with illustrations by W. Graham Robertson) The Napoleon of Notting Hill The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a novel written by G. K. Chesterton in 1904, set in a nearly unchanged London in 1984. Although the novel is set in the future, it is, in effect, set in an alternative reality of Chesterton's own period, with no advances in technology or changes in the class system or attitudes. It postulates an impersonal government, not"
"(14th century), Thomas Malory (15th century), Sir Thomas More (16th century), John Bunyan (17th century) and John Milton (17th century). In the 18th century Daniel Defoe (author of ""Robinson Crusoe"") and Samuel Richardson were pioneers of the modern novel. In the 19th century there followed further innovation by Jane Austen, the gothic novelist Mary Shelley, the children's writer Lewis Carroll, the Brontë sisters, the social campaigner Charles Dickens, the naturalist Thomas Hardy, the realist George Eliot, the visionary poet William Blake and Romantic poet William Wordsworth. 20th-century English writers include the science-fiction novelist H. G. Wells; the writers of children's"
"late nineteenth-century novelist, Henry James (1843–1916), continued to publish major novels into the twentieth-century, including ""The Golden Bowl"" (1904). Polish-born modernist novelist Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) published his first important works, ""Heart of Darkness"", in 1899 and ""Lord Jim"" in 1900. However, the Victorian Gerard Manley Hopkins's (1844–1889) highly original poetry was not published until 1918, long after his death, while the career of another major modernist poet, Irishman W.B. Yeats (1865–1939), began late in the Victorian era. Yeats was one of the foremost figures of twentieth-century English literature. But while modernism was to become an important literary movement in the"
"lower middle class in novels like ""Kipps"" (1905) and ""The History of Mr Polly"" (1910). The major novelists writing in Britain at the start of the 20th century were an Irishman James Joyce (1882–1941) and two immigrants, American Henry James (1843–1916) and Pole Joseph Conrad (1857–1924). The modernist tradition in the novel, with its emphasis ""towards the ever more minute and analytic exposition of mental life"", begins with James and Conrad, in novels such as ""The Ambassadors"" (1903), ""The Golden Bowl"" (1907) and ""Lord Jim"" (1900). Other important early modernists were Dorothy Richardson (1873–1957), whose novel ""Pointed Roof"" (1915), is"
"(1866–1946). Though Forster's work is ""frequently regarded as containing both modernist and Victorian elements"". E. M. Forster's ""A Passage to India"" (1924), reflected challenges to imperialism, while his earlier works such as ""A Room with a View"" (1908) and ""Howards End"" (1910), examined the restrictions and hypocrisy of Edwardian society in England. The most popular British writer of the early years of the 20th century was arguably Rudyard Kipling ((1865–1936), a highly versatile writer of novels, short stories and poems and to date the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907). A significant English writer in the"
"The Notting Hill Mystery The Notting Hill Mystery (1862–63) is an English-language detective novel written under the pseudonym ""Charles Felix"", with illustrations by George du Maurier. The author's identity was never formally revealed in his lifetime, but several critics have since suggested Charles Warren Adams (1833–1903), a lawyer known to have written other novels under pseudonyms. It is arguably regarded as the very first detective novel in the English language. ""The Notting Hill Mystery"" was first published as an eight-part serial in ""Once A Week"" magazine beginning on 29 November 1862, then as a single-volume novel in 1865 by Saunders,"
"century, is ""A Voyage to Arcturus"" by Scottish writer David Lindsay, first published in 1920. It combines fantasy, philosophy, and science fiction in an exploration of the nature of good and evil and their relationship with existence. It has been described by writer Colin Wilson as the ""greatest novel of the twentieth century"", and was a central influence on C. S. Lewis's ""Space Trilogy"". The most popular British writer of the early years of the 20th century was arguably Rudyard Kipling, a highly versatile writer of novels, short stories and poems, and to date the youngest ever recipient of the"
"characters of low social standing, not nobility. Another significant late 19th-century novelist is George Gissing (1857–1903) who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. His best known novel is ""New Grub Street"" (1891). Important developments occurred in genre fiction in this era. Although pre-dated by John Ruskin's ""The King of the Golden River"" in 1841, the history of the modern fantasy genre is generally said to begin with George MacDonald, the influential author of ""The Princess and the Goblin"" and ""Phantastes"" (1858). William Morris was a popular English poet who also wrote several fantasy novels during the latter part of"
"Chesterton (""The Napoleon of Nottinghill"", 1904), Hilaire Belloc (""Mr Clutterbuck's Election"", 1908) and Kipling: ""Fables for the Staff"", published in ""The Friend"" in 1900 in which he lampooned the incompetence of the British general staff. Douglas Blackburn's ""A Burgher Quixote"" (1903) is one of the most undervalued works in South African literature. The end of the Great War saw an interesting ideological shift from imperialism to an ideological commitment to the Union of South Africa. The conflict after the World War 1 is depicted essentially as a civil war in which the members of the same family who have fought"
"Polish-born modernist novelist Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) published his first important work, ""Heart of Darkness"", in 1899 and ""Lord Jim"" in 1900. The American exponent of Naturalism Theodore Dreiser's (1871–1945) ""Sister Carrie"" was also published in 1900. However, the Victorian Gerard Manley Hopkins's (1844–89) highly original poetry was not published until 1918, long after his death, while the career of another major modernist poet, Irishman W. B. Yeats (1865–1939), began late in the Victorian era. Yeats was one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served"
"fine writers who, like Thomas Hardy, were not modernists. Novelists include: Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), who was also a successful poet; H. G. Wells (1866–1946); John Galsworthy (1867–1933), (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1932), whose novels include ""The Forsyte Saga"" (1906–21); Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) author of ""The Old Wives' Tale"" (1908); G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936); E.M. Forster (1879–1970). The most popular British writer of the early years of the 20th century was arguably Rudyard Kipling, a highly versatile writer of novels, short stories and poems, and to date the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907). H. G. Wells"
"1919. After a brief career as an actor, he became a novelist in his early twenties with the publication of ""Monday Morning"" (1925), written when he was nineteen. ""Craven House"" (1926) and ""Twopence Coloured"" (1928) followed, but his first real success was the play ""Rope"" (1929, known as ""Rope's End"" in America). ""The Midnight Bell"" (1929) is based upon Hamilton's falling in love with a prostitute and was later published along with ""The Siege of Pleasure"" (1932) and ""The Plains of Cement"" (1934) as the semi-autobiographical trilogy ""Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky"" (1935). Hamilton disliked many aspects of modern"
"Norman Mailer's ""The Naked and the Dead"" (1948), Joseph Heller's ""Catch-22"" (1961) and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s ""Slaughterhouse-Five"" (1969). The main literary movement since the 1970s has been postmodernism, and since the late twentieth century ethnic and minority literature has sharply increased. Because of the large immigration to Boston in the 1630s, the articulation of Puritan ideals, and the early establishment of a college and a printing press in Cambridge, the New England colonies have often been regarded as the center of early American literature. However, the first European settlements in North America had been founded elsewhere many years earlier. Towns"
"the very end of the 19th century, Joseph Conrad has been called ""a supreme 'romancer.'"" In America ""the romance ... proved to be a serious, flexible, and successful medium for the exploration of philosophical ideas and attitudes."" Notable examples include Nathaniel Hawthorne's ""The Scarlet Letter"", and Herman Melville's ""Moby-Dick"". A number of European novelists were similarly influenced influenced during this period by the earlier romance tradition, along with the Romanticism, including Victor Hugo, with novels like ""The Hunchback of Notre-Dame"" (1831) and ""Les Misérables"" (1862), and Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov with ""A Hero of Our Time"" (1840). Many 19th-century authors dealt"
"is mirrored in other novels that were more highly popularised in the beginning of the 19th century. Jane Austen's novels are perhaps the most recognisable works in the genre. Because of Austen's works, the novel of manners is mostly associated with the early 19th century. The rise in the importance of social behaviour had not gone unnoticed by one Horace Walpole, the widely credited inventor of Gothic fiction. Walpole's knowledge of Chesterfield and the importance of manners perhaps influenced not only his work but carried over into other authors' novels dubbed ""Gothic"" as well. Walpole wrote what is generally accepted"
"one of the most successful of the modern writers. After the publication of his first book he devoted his entire time to literary work, having published the following books of fiction and history: ""My Lady of the North"" (1904); ""A Sword of the Old Frontier"" (1905); ""Bob Hampton of Placer"" (1906); ""Historic Illinois"" (1906); ""Beth Norvell"" (1907); ""The Great Plains"" (1907); ""Prisoners of Chance"" (1908); ""The Last Voyage of the Donna Isabel"" (1908); ""My Lady of the South"" (1909). Many of these have been credited among the ""six best sellers,"" and received high praise both at home and abroad. Beginning"
"romanticism and praise of chivalric ideals. Walpole himself was one of the first in England to renovate his mansion into a mock-Gothic castle, Strawberry Hill (1749–1777). Medieval culture was widely admired as an antidote to the modern enlightenment and industrial age. Plays and theatrical works (such as ""Ivanhoe"", which in 1820 was playing in six different productions in London alone) perpetuated the romanticism of knights, castles, feasts and tournaments. Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) of Germany painted magnificent Gothic ruins and spiritual allegories. Jane Austen (1775–1815) wrote her novel ""Northanger Abbey"" (written 1798, published 1817) as a satire on romantic affectation."
"2012 on the 150th anniversary of the novel's release. An ebook version is also available. The Notting Hill Mystery The Notting Hill Mystery (1862–63) is an English-language detective novel written under the pseudonym ""Charles Felix"", with illustrations by George du Maurier. The author's identity was never formally revealed in his lifetime, but several critics have since suggested Charles Warren Adams (1833–1903), a lawyer known to have written other novels under pseudonyms. It is arguably regarded as the very first detective novel in the English language. ""The Notting Hill Mystery"" was first published as an eight-part serial in ""Once A Week"""
"called it ""probably the very finest detective story ever written"". ""The Moonstone"" contains a number of ideas that have established in the genre several classic features of the 20th century detective story: Although ""The Moonstone"" is usually seen as the first detective novel, there are other contenders for the honor. A number of critics suggest that the lesser known ""Notting Hill Mystery"" (1862–63), written by the pseudonymous ""Charles Felix"" (later identified as Charles Warren Adams), preceded it by a number of years and first used techniques that would come to define the genre. Literary critics Chris Willis and Kate Watson"
"Louse""; ""To a Mouse""; ""The Battle of Sherramuir""; ""Tam o' Shanter"" and ""Ae Fond Kiss"". The most important British novelist at the beginning of the early 19th century was Sir Walter Scott, who was not only a highly successful novelist, but ""the greatest single influence on fiction in the 19th century [...] [and] a European figure"". Scott's novel writing career was launched in 1814 with ""Waverley"", often called the first historical novel, and was followed by ""Ivanhoe"". The Waverley Novels, including ""The Antiquary"", ""Old Mortality"", ""The Heart of Midlothian"", and whose subject is Scottish history, are now generally regarded as"
"Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899) 33. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (1900) 34. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1901) 35. The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903) 36. The Golden Bowl by Henry James (1904) 37. Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe (1904) 38. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908) 39. The History of Mr Polly by HG Wells (1910) 40. Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm (1911) 41. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (1915) 42. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (1915) 43. The Rainbow by DH Lawrence (1915) 44. Of Human"
"(1829). Other nautical melodramas included Jerrold's ""The Mutiny at the Nore"" (1830) and ""The Red Rover"" (1829) by Edward Fitzball (Rowell 1953). Melodramas based on urban situations became popular in the mid-nineteenth century, including ""The Streets of London"" (1864) by Dion Boucicault; and ""Lost in London"" (1867) by Watts Phillips, while prison melodrama, temperance melodrama, and imperialist melodrama also appeared – the latter typically featuring the three categories of the 'good' native, the brave but wicked native, and the treacherous native. The sensation novels of the 1860s and 1870s not only provided fertile material for melodramatic adaptations, but are melodramatic"
"and Anne), Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy. World War I gave rise to British war poets and writers such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and Rupert Brooke who wrote (often paradoxically) of their expectations of war, and/or their experiences in the trenches. The most widely popular writer of the early years of the 20th century was arguably Rudyard Kipling, the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. His novels include ""The Jungle Book"" and ""The Man Who Would Be King"". His poem ""If—"" is a national favourite. Like William Ernest Henley's poem"
"here in his memoirs ""Far Off Things"" (1922) and ""Things Near and Far"" (1923). His mystical work ""The Hill of Dreams"" (1907, though written ten years earlier) has scenes set in Notting Hill; it is here that the protagonist Lucian Taylor encounters the beautiful bronze-haired prostitute who will later connive at his death. The reputation of the district altered over the course of the 20th century. As middle-class households ceased to employ servants, the large Notting Hill houses lost their market and were increasingly split into multiple occupation. During the Blitz a number of buildings were damaged or destroyed by"
"times before the renaissance. Percy Shelley also published a gothic novella: ""St. Irvyne"" in 1811. North Americans who would later produce great literature were being born in the first third of the century. In 1803 the great American poet and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson was born (May 25) in Boston and in 1804 Nathaniel Hawthorne. In 1807 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and then Edgar Allan Poe in 1809. Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert du Gaspe, author of the first French Canadian novel was born in 1814 followed by Henry David Thoreau in 1817 and Herman Melville in 1819. Canadian poets Octave Crémazie and"
"19th-century example of the romantic-historical novel. Victor Hugo began writing ""The Hunchback of Notre-Dame"" in 1829, largely to make his contemporaries more aware of the value of the Gothic architecture, which was neglected and often destroyed to be replaced by new buildings, or defaced by replacement of parts of buildings in a newer style. The action takes place in 1482 and the title refers to the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, on which the story is centred. Alexandre Dumas also wrote several popular historical fiction novels, including ""The Count of Monte Cristo"" and ""The Three Musketeers"". George Saintsbury stated: """"Monte"
"Nigger of the 'Narcissus'"" (1897), ""Lord Jim"" (1900), ""Typhoon"" (1902), ""Chance"" (1913), ""The Rescue"" (1920), ""The Rover"" (1923). A number of other novelists started writing nautical fiction early in the century. Jack London's ""The Sea Wolf"" (1904), was influenced by Kipling's recently published ""Captains Courageous"" (1897). Welsh novelist Richard Hughes (1900 – 1976) wrote only four novels, the most famous of which is the pirate adventure, ""A High Wind in Jamaica"". He also wrote ""In Hazard"" (1938) about a merchant ship caught in a hurricane. The novels of two other prominent British sea novelists, C.S. Forester (1899–1966) and Patrick O'Brian"
"Naomi Mitchison (1897–1999). All were born within a fifteen-year period and, although they cannot be described as members of a single school, they all pursued an exploration of identity, rejecting nostalgia and parochialism and engaging with social and political issues. Physician A. J. Cronin is now often seen as sentimental, but his early work, particularly his first novel ""Hatter's Castle"" (1931) and his most successful ""The Citadel"" (1937) were a deliberate reaction against the Kailyard tradition, exposing the hardships and vicissitudes of the lives of ordinary people, He was the most translated Scottish author in the twentieth century. George Blake"
"of the countryside is seen in the novels of Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), including ""The Mayor of Casterbridge"" (1886), and ""Tess of the d'Urbervilles"" (1891). Hardy is a Victorian realist, in the tradition of George Eliot, and like Charles Dickens he was also highly critical of much in Victorian society. Another significant late-19th-century novelist is George Gissing (1857–1903), who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. His best known novel is ""New Grub Street"" (1891). Although pre-dated by John Ruskin's ""The King of the Golden River"" in 1841, the history of the modern fantasy genre is generally said to begin with"
"talent was early on recognised by English intellectuals, popular success eluded him until the 1913 publication of ""Chance"", which is often considered one of his weaker novels. Edward Said describes three phases to Conrad's literary career. In the first and longest, from the 1890s to World War I, Conrad wrote most of his great works, including ""The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'"" (1897), ""Heart of Darkness"" (1899), ""Lord Jim"" (1900), ""Nostromo"" (1904), ""The Secret Agent"" (1907) and ""Under Western Eyes"" (1911). The second phase, spanning the war and following the popular success of ""Chance"" (1913), is marked by the advent of"
"English Monachism"" (1900); ""The House of de Mailly: A Romance"" (1901); ""Istar of Babylon: A Phantasy"" (1902); ""A Social Lion"" (1903, under pseudonym Robert Dolly Williams); ""The Castle of Twilight"" (1903); ""The Flame-Gatherers"" (1904); ""The Fire of Spring"" (1905); ""The Genius"" (1906); ""The Princess"" (1907); and ""The Golden Ladder"" (1908). Her works were generally historical fiction, with romance plots and exotic settings for American readers, though ""A Social Lion"" and ""The Golden Ladder"" are set in Chicago. There were also fantasy elements in some of Potter's novels, such as supernatural characters (the title character in ""Istar of Babylon"" is the"
"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"
"Victorian elements"". Forster's most famous work, ""A Passage to India"" 1924, reflected challenges to imperialism, while his earlier novels examined the restrictions and hypocrisy of Edwardian society in England. The most popular British writer of the early years of the twentieth-century was arguably Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) a highly versatile writer of novels, short stories and poems. In addition to W.B. Yeats other important early modernists poets were the American-born poet T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) Eliot became a British citizen in 1927 but was born and educated in America. His most famous works are: ""Prufrock"" (1915), ""The Wasteland"" (1922) and ""Four Quartets"""