Which 20th century novel is subtitled 'The Sacred And Profound Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder'?
"of 10 CDs. In 2008 ""Brideshead Revisited"" was developed into a feature film of the same title, with Emma Thompson as Lady Marchmain, Matthew Goode as Charles Ryder, and Ben Whishaw as Lord Sebastian Flyte. The movie was directed by Julian Jarrold and adapted by Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies. Brideshead Revisited Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder, including his friendship with the Flytes, a"
"novel was ""Captain Singleton"" (1720), an adventure story whose first half covers a traversal of Africa and whose second half taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy. It has been commended for its sensitive depiction of the close relationship between the hero and his religious mentor, Quaker William Walters. ""Memoirs of a Cavalier"" (1720) is set during the Thirty Years' War and the English Civil War. A novel often read as non-fiction, this is an account of the Great Plague of London in 1665. It is undersigned by the initials ""H. F."", suggesting the author's uncle Henry Foe as its"
"winning novel ""Knight Crusader"" is set in the 12th century and gives a depiction of the Third Crusade, featuring the Christian leader and King of England Richard the Lionheart. Nigel Tranter also wrote historical novels of celebrated Scottish warriors; Robert the Bruce in ""The Bruce Trilogy"". The murder mysteries of both Ruth Rendell and P. D. James are popular crime fiction. John Wyndham wrote post-apocalyptic science fiction, his most notable works being ""The Day of the Triffids"" (1951), and ""The Midwich Cuckoos"" (1957). Other important writers in this genre are Sir Arthur C. Clarke """", Brian Aldiss, and Michael Moorcock."
"100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 45 on the BBC survey The Big Read. In 2005, it was chosen by ""Time"" magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. In 2009, ""Newsweek"" magazine listed it as one of the 100 best books of world literature. In 1981 ""Brideshead Revisited"" was adapted as an 11-episode TV serial, produced by Granada Television and aired on ITV, starring Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder and Anthony Andrews as Lord Sebastian Flyte. The bulk of the serial was"
"memory."" In Financial Times, Mark Simpson wrote ""Billed as 'an epic investigation into America's underbelly,' The War Room has a Catcher in the Rye quality to it, but without the toxicity."" The Daily Mail (UK) noted that the novel ""is also an intensely detailed account of the psychology and tactics of bicycle racing."" His story ""Looking Out For Hope"" (Voices of the Xiled, Doubleday, 1994) in memory of Raymond Carver was made into a short film directed by Phil Harder and scored by the rock band Low. He is also editor of Re/mapping the Occident (University of California, 1995) and"
"A faithful and well-received television adaptation of the novel was produced in an 11-part miniseries by Granada Television in 1981. The novel is divided into three parts, framed by a prologue and epilogue. The prologue takes place during the final years of the Second World War. Charles Ryder and his battalion are sent to a country estate called Brideshead, which prompts his recollections which form the rest of the story. In 1923, protagonist and narrator Charles Ryder, an undergraduate studying history at a college very like Hertford College, Oxford, is befriended by Lord Sebastian Flyte, the younger son of the"
"is a historical novel set in 1779. Published in 2005 as the first half of an omnibus edition titled ""Uncommon Valour"". It follows the adventures of John Sinclair and William Mason, two Royal Navy officers, their friends and family. Sinclair is the English Captain of the frigate ""Sapphire"" just returning to sea after a wound that nearly killed him. Mason is the loyalist American Commander of the sloop-of-war ""Paladin"". Other important characters are Mason's young wife Jennifer (Willis) Mason, his older brother Richard Mason III, younger brother Stephen Mason and younger sister Tara Mason; Sinclair's physician and best friend Fred"
"published in its entirety until 1896, in William Hayden English's ""Conquest of the Northwest"". The ""Memoir"" formed the basis of two popular novels, ""Alice of Old Vincennes"" (1900) by Maurice Thompson, and ""The Crossing"" (1904) by American novelist Winston Churchill. The Illinois campaign was also depicted in ""Long Knife"", a 1979 historical novel by James Alexander Thom. The United States Navy has named four ships USS ""Vincennes"" in honor of that battle. The debate about whether George Rogers Clark ""conquered"" the Northwest Territory for the United States began soon after the Revolutionary War ended, when the government worked to sort"
"Fire"". Peter George's ""Red Alert"" (1958), is a Cold War thriller. War novels include Alistair MacLean thriller's ""The Guns of Navarone"" (1957), ""Where Eagles Dare"" (1968), and Jack Higgins' ""The Eagle Has Landed"" (1975). Patrick O'Brian's nautical historical novels feature the ""Aubrey–Maturin series"" set in the Royal Navy, the first being ""Master and Commander"" (1969). Ronald Welch's Carnegie Medal winning novel ""Knight Crusader"" is set in the 12th century and gives a depiction of the Third Crusade, featuring the Christian leader and King of England Richard the Lionheart. In crime fiction, the murder mysteries of Ruth Rendell and P. D."
"the Conqueror's crossing into England for her novel ""The Conqueror"". Naomi Mitchison's finest novel ""The Corn King and the Spring Queen"" (1931) is regarded by some as the best historical novel of the 20th century. Mary Renault is best known for her historical novels set in Ancient Greece. In addition to fictional portrayals of Theseus, Socrates, Plato and Alexander the Great, she wrote a non-fiction biography of Alexander. The Siege of Krishnapur (1973) by J. G. Farrell has been described as an ""outstanding novel"". Inspired by events such as the sieges of Cawnpore and Lucknow, the book details the siege"
"it is clear that the two men are well on their way to being fast friends. The story is picked up in Broad Pendant, the second half of the omnibus. ""Broad Pendant"" by John Stevens is a historical novel set in 1779. Published in 2005 as the second half of an omnibus edition titled ""Uncommon Valour"". It continues the adventures of John Sinclair and William Mason, two Royal Navy officers, their friends and family. Sinclair is the English Captain of the frigate ""Sapphire"" on station in New York. Mason is a loyalist American Captain newly appointed to command the frigate"
"women and powerful men about whom he wrote. Several feature and television movies have been made about the Philip Marlowe character. James Hadley Chase wrote a few novels with private eyes as the main heroes, including ""Blonde's Requiem"" (1945), ""Lay Her Among the Lilies"" (1950), and ""Figure It Out for Yourself"" (1950). The heroes of these novels are typical private eyes, very similar to or plagiarizing Raymond Chandler's work. Ross Macdonald, pseudonym of Kenneth Millar, updated the form again with his detective Lew Archer. Archer, like Hammett's fictional heroes, was a camera eye, with hardly any known past. ""Turn Archer"
"""Switchblade Honey"". In the 23rd century, humanity is a multi-stellar nation embroiled in a hopeless war with the Chasta, an advanced species. John Ryder, an abrasive yet brilliant and noble starship captain, faces execution for refusing to destroy an ally starship as part of an involuntary kamikaze tactic. He has been given a chance to put his skills to use one last time, by leading a Dirty Dozen-like crew in a long-term guerrilla war against the Chasta. Switchblade Honey Switchblade Honey is a 2003 72-page science fiction graphic novel written by Warren Ellis and drawn by Brandon McKinney, published by"
"His most famous novel is """" (1826), the second book of the ""Leatherstocking Tales"" pentalogy. ""The Last of the Mohicans"" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War (the Seven Years' War), when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. ""The Scarlet Letter"" (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is perhaps the most famous 19th-century American historical novel. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. In French"
"to hint at epic qualities. But such qualities do not bear too much repeating, and they are reiterated beyond tolerable limits"". The Rescue (Conrad novel) The Rescue, A Romance of the Shallows (1920) is one of Joseph Conrad's works contained in what is now sometimes called the Lingard Trilogy, a group of novels based on Conrad's experience as mate on the steamer Vidar. Although it was the last of the three novels to be published, after ""Almayer's Folly"" (1895) and ""An Outcast of the Islands"" (1896), the events related in the novel precede those. The story follows Captain Tom Lingard,"
"are: ""Operation Rhine Maiden"" (1975); ""Operation Crucible"" (1977); ""Operation Valkyrie"" (1978); ""Operation Cobra"" (1993); ""Operation Titan"" (1994); ""Operation Crisis"" (1995); ""Operation Thor"" (1995); ""Operation Defiant"" (1996); and ""Operation Safeguard"" (2007). Other books include: ""Of Masks and Minds"" (1954), ""Laws be Their Enemy"" (1955), ""Lydia Trendennis"" (1957), ""The Sin and the Sinners"" (1958), ""The Grotto of Tiberius"" (1961), ""The Devil Behind Me"" (1962), ""The Dark Cliffs"" (1962), ""The Storm Knight"" (1966), ""A Killing for the Hawks"" (1966), ""The Wider Sea of Love"" (1969), ""Waterloo"" (a 1970 novelisation, based on the 1970 film), ""The Persuaders!"" (3 volumes of novelisations in 1972, based"
"to appropriate from his work, avoiding legal action on his publisher's part. Robbins is mentioned by name in by Admiral James T. Kirk, his first officer Spock mentions that Robbins was one of the 20th Century ""giants"" of literature. Robbins is also mentioned by name by Basil Fawlty in the Fawlty Towers episode ""Waldorf Salad""; he refers to Robbins' work as 'transatlantic tripe.' Since his death, several new books have been published, written by ghostwriters and based on Robbins's own notes and unfinished stories. In several of these books, Junius Podrug has been credited as co-writer. From the Hodder &"
"novels, ""The Guyana Quartet"", which includes ""The Far Journey of Oudin"" (1961), ""The Whole Armour"" (1962), and ""The Secret Ladder"" (1963). He subsequently wrote the ""Carnival"" trilogy: ""Carnival"" (1985), ""The Infinite Rehearsal"" (1987), and ""The Four Banks of the River of Space"" (1990). His most recent novels include ""Jonestown"" (1996), which tells of the mass-suicide of followers of cult leader Jim Jones, ""The Dark Jester"" (2001), his latest semi-autobiographical novel, ""The Mask of the Beggar"" (2003), and ""The Ghost of Memory"" (2006). Harris also writes non-fiction and critical essays and has been awarded honorary doctorates by several universities, including the"
"North American Sketches (1986) and Kennedy & Boyd are republishing the stories and sketches in five volumes. In 1988 The Century Travellers reprinted his ""Mogreb-el-Acksa"" (1898) and ""A Vanished Arcadia"" (1901). The former was the inspiration for George Bernard Shaw's play ""Captain Brassbound's Conversion"". The latter helped inspire the award-winning film ""The Mission"". More recently The Long Riders Guild Press have reprinted his equestrian travel works in their Cunninghame Graham Collection. He helped his close friend Joseph Conrad, whom he had introduced to his publisher Edward Garnett at Duckworth with research for ""Nostromo"". Other literary friends included Ford Madox Ford,"
"the 20th century in English: Djuna Barnes' ""Nightwood"" (1936), Carson McCullers' ""Reflections in a Golden Eye"" (1941), Truman Capote's ""Other Voices, Other Rooms"" (1948) and Gore Vidal's ""The City and the Pillar"" (1948). The story of a young man who is coming of age and discovers his own homosexuality, ""The City and the Pillar"" is recognized as the first post-World War II novel whose openly gay and well-adjusted protagonist is not killed off at the end of the story for defying social norms. It is also one of the ""definitive war-influenced gay novels"", one of the few books of its"
"of detail, and by continually varying the ""emotional distance"" of his writing from Clyde and other characters, from detailed examination of their thoughts and motivations to dispassionate reportage. The novel has been adapted several times into other forms, and the storyline has been used, not always unattributed, as the basis for other works: In 2005, the book was placed on ""Time Magazine""'s list of the top 100 novels written in English since 1923. An American Tragedy An American Tragedy (1925) is a novel by the American writer Theodore Dreiser. Ambitious, handsome, but ill-educated, naïve, and immature, Clyde Griffiths is raised"
"interception and sinking of ""Scharnhorst"" by ) was greatly assisted by ULTRA intercepts. The 1955 novel ""HMS Ulysses"" by Scottish writer Alistair MacLean, considered a classic of naval warfare literature and the 1967 novel ""The Captain"" by Dutch author Jan de Hartog are set during the Arctic convoys. The two books differ in style, characterisation and philosophy (de Hartog was a pacifist, which cannot be said about MacLean). Both convey vividly the atmosphere of combined extreme belligerent action and inhospitable nature, pushing protagonists to the edge of endurance and beyond. The Norwegian historic account ""One in Ten Had to Die"""
"that is quite different from what the introduction leads the reader to believe. The novel was loosely based on two incidents of adultery and on Ford's messy personal life. The novel's original title was ""The Saddest Story"", but after the onset of World War I, the publishers asked Ford for a new title. Ford suggested (sarcastically) ""The Good Soldier"", and the name stuck. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked ""The Good Soldier"" 30th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2015, the BBC ranked ""The Good Soldier"" 13th on its list of the"
"1990-2000. The Modern Library placed it number 20 on its list of the 100 best novels of the 20th Century. ""Time Magazine"" also included the novel in its ""TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005"". Biblical allusions appear frequently throughout ""Native Son"", but they do not serve as an uplifting component of Bigger Thomas' life. Instead, Richard Wright seems to allude to the Bible with irony. Bigger is exposed to Christianity through his religious mother, Reverend Hammond, a Catholic priest, and his encounter with the church. However, Bigger's constant rejection of Christianity and the church reveals Wright's negative"
"John Constable, Joseph Wright of Derby, John Martin (""Landscape with a Castle""), J.M.W. Turner, Samuel Palmer, Ford Madox Brown, James McNeill Whistler ("")"". ""The Canterbury Tales"" and the novels ""Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded"" (Pamela Andrews, Mr B), ""The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle"" (Jack Hatchway, Commodore Trunnion), ""Tristram Shandy"", ""A Sentimental Journey"" (Parson Yorick), ""The Mill on the Floss"", ""Wuthering Heights"" (Catherine Earnshaw).<br> 16. A long poem in the style of William Blake, celebrating English poetry from Cædmon to Ernest Dowson.<br> 18. ""Le Morte d'Arthur"" (Fisher King, Merlin). T.S. Eliot Reaction to the novel was largely negative. Many critics found Ackroyd's"
"it curious to compare it with Tennyson's ""Becket"". The 66th printing appeared in Leipzig in 1913. Carl E. Eggert has edited the American School Edition (New York, 1907, with critical introduction). Der Heilige Der Heilige (The Saint; 1879) is a short historical novel by Conrad F. Meyer derived from the story of Thomas Becket and Henry II of England. The novel is about the length of ""Silas Marner"", and is centered on the great quarrel between Henry II and his Chancellor and Primate of England, Thomas Becket. Although in a broad sense based on history, its psychology is fancifully developed"
"husband. Perseverance ""Percy"" Wainwright Beauchamp - English spy married into a French noble family. One-time lover (and later, stepbrother) of Lord John Grey. Dr. Denzell Hunter - Quaker physician serving in the Revolutionary American Army. Rachel Hunter - Quaker nurse assisting her brother serving in the Revolutionary American Army. Love interest of Young Ian Murray. Written in My Own Heart's Blood Written in My Own Heart's Blood is the eighth book in the ""Outlander"" series of novels by Diana Gabaldon. Centered on time travelling 20th century doctor Claire Randall and her 18th century Scottish Highlander warrior husband Jamie Fraser, the"
"novels of the 20th century'. Although Penguin let it go out of print, it was reprinted by New York Review Books Classics in 2007. It has meanwhile been published in French and Italian. It has been adapted for a BBC Radio 4 series, as well as a stage play by Anthony Wilkinson ""The Islander"" which premiered at the Theatre Royal, Lincoln in 2002. In both of these adaptations, the role of Ebenezer was played by Guernsey-born actor Roy Dotrice, who also reads the unabridged audiobook of the novel, in an old man's voice and Guernsey accent. There have been unsuccessful"
"uses some of the characters, dialogue and events from the Aubrey-Maturin series, but does not faithfully reproduce the plot of the books. Master and Commander Master and Commander is a nautical historical novel by the English author Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1969 in the US and 1970 in UK. The book proved to be the start of the 20-novel Aubrey-Maturin series, set largely in the era of the Napoleonic Wars, that O'Brian continued working on up until his death in 2000. The novel is set at the turn of the 19th century. It follows the young Jack Aubrey who"
"Master and Commander Master and Commander is a nautical historical novel by the English author Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1969 in the US and 1970 in UK. The book proved to be the start of the 20-novel Aubrey-Maturin series, set largely in the era of the Napoleonic Wars, that O'Brian continued working on up until his death in 2000. The novel is set at the turn of the 19th century. It follows the young Jack Aubrey who has just been promoted to the rank of Master and Commander, and Stephen Maturin, a destitute physician and naturalist whom Aubrey appoints"
"The Charioteer The Charioteer is a 1953 war novel by Mary Renault. It was first published in the United States in 1959. ""The Charioteer"" is significant because it features a prominent gay theme at an early date and quickly became a bestseller within the gay community. This romance novel is set in the period of World War II at a military hospital during nightly bomb raids and blackouts. The story's protagonist, Laurie 'Spud' Odell, is a young soldier wounded at Dunkirk (Renault worked as a nurse during the war), who must decide if his affections lie with a conscientious objector"
"Knight Crusader Knight Crusader, ""the story of Philip d'Aubigny"", is a children's historical novel by Ronald Welch (Ronald Oliver Fenton), first published by Oxford in 1954 with illustrations by William Stobbs. It is set primarily in the Crusader states of Outremer in the twelfth century and features the Battle of Hattin and the Third Crusade. Welch won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. The novel is divided into three parts: the first part leads up to the Battle of Hattin; the second part, set four years later, shows"
"the Death of Joseph Conrad"", a brisk and accessible overview of the history of English novels. He had an affair with Jean Rhys, which ended acrimoniously. Ford is best remembered for his novels ""The Good Soldier"" (1915), the ""Parade's End"" tetralogy (1924–28) and ""The Fifth Queen"" trilogy (1906–08). ""The Good Soldier"" is frequently included among the great literature of the 20th century, including the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, ""The Observer""′s ""100 Greatest Novels of All Time"", and ""The Guardian""′s ""1000 novels everyone must read"". Anthony Burgess described Ford as the ""greatest British novelist"" of the twentieth century. Ford Madox"