"Vanity Fair (1987 TV serial) Vanity Fair was a BBC Pebble Mill Production consisting of 16 half-hour episodes. Shot on location and in studio. Locations included Winchester and Thetford. Virtually all the interiors were shot in Studio A at Pebble Mill. The series starring Eve Matheson as Rebecca Sharp, Rebecca Saire as Amelia Sedley, Simon Dormandy as William Dobbin, Jack Klaff as Rawdon Crawley, David Swift as Mr. Sedley, James Saxon as Joseph 'Jos' Sedley, Gillian Raine as Mrs. Sedley, Benedict Taylor as George Osborne, Shaughan Seymour as Pitt Crawley, Philippa Urquhart as Miss Briggs and Freddie Jones as Sir"
"Clayton Rawson Clayton Rawson (August 15, 1906 – March 1, 1971) was an American mystery writer, editor, and amateur magician. His four novels frequently invoke his great knowledge of stage magic and feature as their fictional detective The Great Merlini, a professional magician who runs a shop selling magic supplies. He also wrote four short stories in 1940 about a stage magician named Don Diavolo, who appears as a principal character in one of the novels featuring The Great Merlini. ""Don Diavolo is a magician who perfects his tricks in a Greenwich Village basement where he is frequently visited by"
"as Don Pendleton Written as Don Pendleton Written as Jon Sharpe Written as: Franklin W. Dixon David L. Robbins (Oregon writer) David L. Robbins (born July 4, 1950) is an American author of English and Pennsylvania Dutch descent. He writes both fiction and non-fiction. He has written over three hundred books under his own name and many pen names, among them: David Thompson, Jake McMasters, Jon Sharpe, Don Pendleton, Franklin W. Dixon, Ralph Compton, Dean L. McElwain, J.D. Cameron and John Killdeer. He has written for the following series: ""The Trailsman"", ""Mack Bolan"", ""Endworld"", ""Blade"", ""Wilderness"", ""White Apache"", ""Davy Crockett"","
"novel, most quintessentially represented in William Godwin’s Caleb Williams (1794), attacked the established social and political order. Along with William Godwin, some of the major Jacobin novelists include, Elizabeth Inchbald, Thomas Holcroft, and the earliest, Robert Bage. Of all these authors, Godwin was the most effective and outstanding. Almost all of the Jacobin novels reflect theories and principles of Godwin’s Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. Although it is not a novel it is the foundation that the goals of the Jacobin novelists’ are based upon. In Godwin’s novel, Caleb Williams, the protagonist is a devoutly honorable man who is cast into"
"Riddley Walker Riddley Walker is a science fiction novel by Russell Hoban, first published in 1980. It won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel in 1982, as well as an Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award in 1983. It was additionally nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1981. Hoban began writing the novel in 1974, inspired by the medieval wall painting of the legend of Saint Eustace at Canterbury Cathedral. It is Hoban's best-known adult novel and a drastic departure from his other work, although he continued to explore some of the same"
"of Clan Fraser. Simon Fraser appears twice in fiction, but each time in an unflattering light. He is a character in the novel Catriona written in 1893 by Robert Louis Stevenson. (Events and characters in the novel relate to the Appin Murder). He also features as a character in Diana Gabaldon's 1992 novel ""Dragonfly in Amber"", the second novel in her ""Outlander"" series. In it, Lovat is the uncle of Jamie Fraser. Lovat is played by James Parris in series 2 of the television series ""Outlander"". The image of Fraser above may actually be of his half-brother, Archibald. This is"
"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"
"there were precursors in the 18th century, like ""Amelia"" by Henry Fielding (1751), ""Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams"" (1794) by William Godwin, ""The Adventures of Hugh Trevor"" (1794–1797) by Thomas Holcroft, and ""Nature and Art"" (1796) by Elizabeth Inchbald. However, whereas Inchbald laid responsibility for social problems with the depravity and corruption of individuals, Godwin, in ""Caleb Williams"", saw society's corruption as insurmountable. In England during the 1830s and 1840s the social novel ""arose out of the social and political upheavals which followed the Reform Act of 1832"". This was in many ways a reaction"
"different contexts. For instance, many of Hoban's works refer to lions, Orpheus, Eurydice, Persephone, Vermeer, severed heads, heart disease, flickering, Odilon Redon, and King Kong. ""How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen"" (1974), a picture book written by Hoban, illustrated by Quentin Blake, and published by Jonathan Cape, shared the annual Whitbread Award for Children's Books. ""Riddley Walker"", a novel published by Cape in 1980, won the 1982 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, juried recognition of the year's best SF novel published in English, and the ""Best International Novel"" prize at the 1983"
"""The Last English King"" by Julian Rathbone, ""Warriors of the Dragon Gold"" by Ray Bryant, and the novel ""God's Concubine"" by Sara Douglass. The one-act play ""A Choice of Kings"" by John Mortimer deals with his deception by William after his shipwreck. Cultural depictions of Harold Godwinson Fictional accounts based on the events surrounding Harold Godwinson's brief reign as king of England have been published, notably the play ""Harold"", by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in 1876; and the novel ""Last of the Saxon Kings"", by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, in 1848. Rudyard Kipling wrote a short story, included in his 1910 collection, ""Rewards"
"Mark Twain Mark Twain (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" (1876) and its sequel, the ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1885), the latter often called ""The Great American Novel"". Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for ""Tom Sawyer"" and ""Huckleberry Finn"". He served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on"
"Albert Campion Albert Campion is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Margery Allingham. He first appeared as a supporting character in ""The Crime at Black Dudley"" (1929), an adventure story involving a ring of criminals, and would go on to feature in another 18 novels and over 20 short stories. Supposedly created as a parody of Dorothy L. Sayers' detective Lord Peter Wimsey, Campion established his own identity, and matured and developed as the series progressed. After Allingham's death her husband Philip Youngman Carter completed her last Campion book and wrote two more"
"as Huw Owen. It was released in late 2015. Phil Rickman Phil Rickman (also known under the pen names of Thom Madley and Will Kingdom) is a British author of supernatural and mystery novels. He was born in Lancashire in northern England and worked as a journalist for BBC World Service TV and BBC Radio 4. He published his first book, ""Candlenight"", in 1991 and began his ""Merrily Watkins"" in 1998. In 2010 he began the ""John Dee Papers"" series, which focuses on the Welsh mathematician and astrologer John Dee. Rickman has also worked on several music albums based upon"
"in the book. The Red Queen is Joseph Chamberlain and Crumpty-Bumpty is Henry Campbell-Bannerman. There are additional characters, such as the Lion and the Unicorn, representing Britain and Germany respectively. The book features 50 drawings after the originals by John Tenniel which were drawn by journalist J. Stafford Ransome, credited as ""S.R."". Lost in Blunderland Lost in Blunderland: The further adventures of Clara is a novel by Caroline Lewis (pseudonym for Edward Harold Begbie, J. Stafford Ransome, and M. H. Temple), written in 1903 and published by William Heinemann of London. It is a political parody of Lewis Carroll's two"
"with Riddley's language is what makes reading the book so absorbing, so completely possessing."" ""Library Journal"" wrote that the book holds ""a unique and beloved place among the few after-Armageddon classics"". It was included in David Pringle's book """". In 1994, American literary critic Harold Bloom included Riddley Walker in his list of works comprising the Western Canon. Riddley Walker Riddley Walker is a science fiction novel by Russell Hoban, first published in 1980. It won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel in 1982, as well as an Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award in 1983."
"Courtney, writing in the ""Fortnightly Review"" in 1886, complained: On the other hand Arthur Symons found it ""rousing, enthralling, exciting, full of poetry, and a serious and masterly study in character"", and Max Beerbohm enthused: ""What a book! What swiftness and beauty and strength! It is the flight of a young golden eagle high across seas and mountains."" Gore Vidal claimed that Mark Twain enjoyed and ""stole"" the characters of the Duke and the Dauphin in ""Huckleberry Finn"" from ""Harry Richmond"", and noted: The Adventures of Harry Richmond The Adventures of Harry Richmond (1870–71) is a romance by British author"
"The names of the characters also suggest historical Britain. Both Edward's name and Fitzgibbon's refer to Edward Gibbon, the famous British historian and author of ""The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"", while Turnbull is suggestive of, among others, the famous early British actor John Turnbull and, more generally, the Bulldog, which is popularly used to represent England and its defiance in war. The book was first published in 1976 by Faber and Faber Limited (). It was republished in paperback by Pan Books in 1981 () and by Gollancz's VGSF imprint in 1988 (). Richard"
"the BBC ""Detective"" (1964–1969) series which was an anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories. In 1989 and 1990, the first eight of the novels (excluding ""The Crime at Black Dudley"") were adapted over two seasons, with each story shown in two hour-long episodes. Peter Davison played Campion, Brian Glover was Lugg and Andrew Burt was Oates. Albert Campion Albert Campion is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Margery Allingham. He first appeared as a supporting character in ""The Crime at Black Dudley"" (1929), an adventure story involving a ring of criminals, and"
"through the streets of London. On reaching a specially erected scaffold in St. Giles’ Field, near Holborn, they were hanged, drawn and quartered. After this, the executioner distributed the parts of their bodies to prominent locations around the city to warn all of the consequences of disloyalty to the monarch. Babington's final letter to his friend and betrayer, Poley (""farewell sweet Robyn..."") is one of the more strikingly poignant documents in the case. ""A Traveller in Time"" by Alison Uttley is set at Thackers, the fictional name for the Babington Manor House, actually at Dethick, in Derbyshire. The narrator, Penelope"
"author of a prologue (""The Man Who Wrote in the Tower"") and an epilogue (""The Window of the Tower""). In these short texts is depicted an encounter with a ""happy, active-looking"" old man: the protagonist and author of the first-person narrative, writing the story of his life immediately before and after ""the Change"". This narrative is divided into three ""books"": ""Book I: The Comet""; ""Book II: The Green Vapours""; and ""Book III: The New World"". Book I, recounts that William (""Willie"") Leadford, ""third in the office staff of Rawdon's pot-bank [a place where pottery is made] in Clayton,"" quits his"
"""operatic version"" of the story. Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams Things as They Are; or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (often abbreviated to Caleb Williams) (1794) by William Godwin is a three-volume novel written as a call to end the abuse of power by what Godwin saw as a tyrannical government. Intended as a popularisation of the ideas presented in his 1793 treatise ""Political Justice"" Godwin uses ""Caleb Williams"" to show how legal and other institutions can and do destroy individuals, even when the people the justice system touches are innocent of any crime. This"
"hosted by the King of Fairyland by pretending to be Twirly-Whirly, the Great Conjuror from the Land of Tiddlywinks, and his two assistants. George MacDonald incorporated features of Scottish brownie lore in his nineteenth-century works ""The Princess and the Goblin"" and ""Sir Gibbie""—his brownies have no fingers on their hands. Warrior brownies appear in the 1988 fantasy film ""Willow"", directed by Ron Howard. These brownies are portrayed as only a couple inches tall and are armed with bows and arrows. Though they are initially introduced as the kidnappers of a human infant, they turn out to be benevolent. Creatures known"
"with his second wife, Rachel. Dobbs has raised money for his neighbour, who is paralysed as a result of a rugby injury. He walked from his home town in Wylye to his old school Richard Hale. He completed this on the 27 March 2015. Michael Dobbs is a distant relative of the US non-fiction author with the same name. The two are sometimes confused. Francis Urquhart Novels Tom Goodfellowe Novels Winston Churchill Novels Harry Jones Thrillers Non-series novels Michael Dobbs Michael Dobbs, Baron Dobbs (born 14 November 1948) is a British Conservative politician and best-selling author, most notably for his"
"Who Walks Away Behind the Eyes"", in the May/June 1982 issue). In the 1980s Dowling met Jack Vance after doing critical work on his oeuvre (Vance later named a planet after him in the novel ""Throy""); Fritz Leiber; and Harlan Ellison, with whom he travelled in the Australian outback. Dowling went on to co-edit (with Richard Delap and Gil Lamont) Ellison's large single-author collection ""The Essential Ellison"" (1987; revised/expanded edition 2000). Some of Dowling's reviews and critical pieces which first appeared in ""Science Fiction"" magazine in the 1980s have seen reprint, including ""Catharsis Among the Byzantines: Delany's Driftglass"" (1982) and"
"Blewbury near Oxford, where Bower, an officer in the Royal Navy, wrote fiction and essays under the pseudonym ""Klaxon"", and Todd, as ""Barbara Euphan"" for ""South Country Secrets"" (1935). Together they wrote ""The Touchstone"", in which observation of the countryside is combined with interest in its history, in a similar way to Rudyard Kipling's ""Puck of Pook's Hill"". Commander Bower died in 1940. Todd's only novel for adults was ""Miss Ranskill Comes Home"" (1946), which is about a woman who returns to England after being stranded on a desert island during the Second World War. Todd continued to write novels"
"Davison as Campion and Brian Glover as Lugg. Originally broadcast as two separate hour-long episodes, the original UK air date was 9 March 1990. The series was shown in the United States by PBS. Mystery Mile Mystery Mile is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in 1930, in the United Kingdom by Jarrolds Publishing, London, and in the United States by Doubleday, Doran, New York. Following his first, supporting appearance in ""The Crime at Black Dudley"" (1929), it is the first of many novels starring the mysterious Albert Campion, and introduces his butler/valet/bodyguard Magersfontein Lugg. Crossing the Atlantic"
"characters Will, Jim, and Charles on the side of morality, and Mr. Dark and his carnival on the side of sin and temptation. As in many other fictional works revolving around the same concept, good prevails in the end, not with supernatural or physical powers, but with purity of heart. Jim represents good that is always on the verge of giving into temptation, while Will, though he has crises and doubts, is the part of us that resists giving in. As in ""Dandelion Wine"", Bradbury infuses the novel with nostalgia for his childhood. However, ""Dandelion Wine"" embodies the idyllic memories"
"The Crime at Black Dudley The Crime at Black Dudley, also known in the United States as The Black Dudley Murder, is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in 1929, in the United Kingdom by Jarrolds, London and in the United States by Doubleday Doran, New York. It introduces Albert Campion, her misleadingly vapid detective, who would go on to appear in another 18 novels and many short stories over the next 30 years. A house party is under way at the remote Black Dudley, and among the guests are some very shady characters. As they merrily recreate"
"Cabal ministry, the historical cabinet of Charles II of England, to facilitate the incorporation of his fictional characters. Within the historical context, Stephenson also deals with many themes which pervade his other works, including the exploration of knowledge, communication and cryptography. The plot of the first and third books focus on Daniel Waterhouse's exploits as a natural philosopher and friend to the young Isaac Newton and his later observations of English politics and religion, respectively. The second book introduces the vagabond Jack Shaftoe (""King of the Vagabonds"") and Eliza (a former member of a Turkish harem) as they cross Europe,"
"Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams Things as They Are; or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (often abbreviated to Caleb Williams) (1794) by William Godwin is a three-volume novel written as a call to end the abuse of power by what Godwin saw as a tyrannical government. Intended as a popularisation of the ideas presented in his 1793 treatise ""Political Justice"" Godwin uses ""Caleb Williams"" to show how legal and other institutions can and do destroy individuals, even when the people the justice system touches are innocent of any crime. This reality, in Godwin's mind, was"
"these are the twins Owain and Morvydd. However, Ywain is not associated with Morgan in the continental literature until the 13th-century Post-Vulgate cycle. (Morgan appears in Chrétien's ""Knight of the Lion"" as a healer but the author does not imply she is the protagonist's mother.) Calogrenant or Colgrevance from ""Knight of the Lion"" is his another important cousin in the romances. In ""The Dream of Rhonabwy"", a tale associated with the ""Mabinogion"", Owain is one of Arthur's top warriors and plays a game of chess against him while the Saxons prepare to fight the Battle of Badon. Three times during"
"Defoe's , a voyeuristic fascination plays games with high morality,' reported Sabine Durrant in The Times. The novel was adapted by David Nobbs as a feature-length drama Gentlemen's Relish for BBC TV in 2001 starring Billy Connolly, Sarah Lancashire and Douglas Henshall. Kingdom Swann Kingdom Swann is an historical novel by the reclusive English writer Miles Gibson, his fourth book, first published 1990 by William Heinemann, London, ISNM 0-434-29133-1, in paperback by Black Swan in 1991, and subsequently reprinted by the Do-Not Press, London, in 1998. It is a rambunctious satire on the dangerously thin line between art and pornography,"
"John Battersby Crompton Lamburn John Battersby Crompton Lamburn (1893 – 1972) was a British writer, younger brother of Richmal Crompton, who was best known for her ""William"" books for boys. She was said to have drawn part of her inspiration for the character of William from him. During World War I Lamburn served in Rhodesia in the British South Africa Police. Afterwards he joined a shipping firm in China, where he travelled widely. Returning to England in the 1930s he took to writing fiction, mainly under the pseudonym ""John Lambourne"". He probably is best known for his fantasy ""The Kingdom"