In which 1932 novel set in the year '632 AF' (After Ford) is 'Lenina Crowe' a vaccination worker at the 'Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre'?
"be Lenina. At the sight of the woman he both adores and loathes, John attacks her with his whip. The onlookers are wildly aroused by the display and John is caught up in the crowd's ""soma""-fueled frenzy. The next morning, he remembers the previous night's events and is stricken with remorse. Onlookers and journalists who arrive that evening discover John dead, having hanged himself. Bernard Marx – a sleep-learning specialist at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. Although Bernard is an Alpha-Plus (the upper class of the society), he is a misfit. He is unusually short for an Alpha;"
"of proletarian life: Elizabeth Janeway responded to the lush ruralism of ""Cider with Rosie"" by suggesting an astringent counterblast might be found by ""looking for an old copy of Stella Gibbons's ""Cold Comfort Farm"""". In order of appearance: In London: In Howling village Sussex: Animals at Cold Comfort Farm: The interrelations of the characters are complex. The family tree below is an attempt to illustrate them as they stand at the end of the novel. Although the book was published in 1932, the setting is an unspecified near future, shortly after the ""Anglo-Nicaraguan wars of 1946"". It refers to future"
"of Leicestershire, suggested ""Cold Comfort"" as an alternative, using the name of a farm in the Hinckley area. Gibbons was delighted with the suggestion, and the work was published as ""Cold Comfort Farm"" in September 1932. The plot concerns the efforts of ""a rational, bossy London heroine"" to bring order and serenity to her rustic relations, the Starkadders, on their run-down Sussex farm. According to the ""Feminist Companion to Literature in English"", Gibbons's parody ""[demolishes] ... the stock-in-trade of earthy regionalists such as Thomas Hardy, Mary Webb, Sheila Kaye-Smith and D. H. Lawrence"". The literary scholar Faye Hammill describes the"
"pupil as a mixture of good friends, boredom, bad food and teaching that she loathed. In 1917 Lethbridge took a job as a nurse at Bradford Hospital where she tended troops who had been injured and maimed in the War. Returning to London she applied to work at the National Munitions Filling Factory in Hayes, Middlesex lying about her age since she should have been barred had it been known she was under eighteen years. She volunteered for the dangerous work of filling shells with Amatol explosive. On 23 October she was working on a recently condemned machine that packed"
"1632 series The 1632"" series, also known as the 1632-verse or Ring of Fire"" series, is an alternate history book series and sub-series created, primarily co-written, and coordinated by Eric Flint and published by Baen Books. The series is set in 17th-century Europe, in which the small fictional town of Grantville, West Virginia, in the year 2000 was sent to the past in central Germany in the year 1631, during the Thirty Years' War. As of 2015, the series has five published novels propelling the main plot and over ten published novels moving several subplots and threads forward. The series"
"Light in August Light in August is a 1932 novel by the Southern American author William Faulkner. It belongs to the Southern gothic and modernist literary genres. Set in the author's present day, the interwar period, the novel centers on two strangers who arrive at different times in Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a fictional county based on Faulkner's home, Lafayette County, Mississippi. The plot first focuses on Lena Grove, a young pregnant white woman from Alabama looking for the father of her unborn child, and then shifts to explore the life of Joe Christmas, a man who has settled in"
"stories there: a short story ""The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding"" in the story collection of the same name, and the novel ""After the Funeral"". ""Abney became Agatha's greatest inspiration for country-house life, with all its servants and grandeur being woven into her plots. The descriptions of the fictional Chimneys, Stoneygates, and other houses in her stories are mostly Abney in various forms."" During the Second World War, Christie worked in the pharmacy at University College Hospital, London, where she acquired a knowledge of poisons that she put to good use in her post-war crime novels. For example, the use"
"was mixed, with some reviewers critical of Faulkner's style and subject matter. However, over time, the novel has come to be considered one of the most important literary works by Faulkner and one of the best English-language novels of the 20th century. The novel is set in the American South in the 1930s, during the time of Prohibition and Jim Crow laws that legalized racial segregation in the South. It begins with the journey of Lena Grove, a young pregnant white woman from Doane's Mill, Alabama, who is trying to find Lucas Burch, the father of her unborn child. He"
"2059, the events of the novel take place in a London governed by a ""security force"" called Scion and an Oxford which has become a huge prison. Film rights to ""The Bone Season"" were optioned by Andy Serkis's film company, The Imaginarium Studios, in November 2012. Related works Samantha Shannon Samantha Shannon (born 8 November 1991) is a British writer of dystopian and paranormal fiction. Shannon was born in Hammersmith, London in November 1991 and grew up in Ruislip. She first began writing at the age of fifteen, when she wrote her first novel, ""Aurora"", which remains unpublished. Shannon read"
"The Fox (novella) The Fox is a novella by D. H. Lawrence which first appeared in ""The Dial"" in 1922. Set in Berkshire, England, during World War I, ""The Fox"", like many of D. H. Lawrence’s other major works, deals with the psychological relationships of three protagonists in a triangle of love and hatred. Without the help of any male laborers, Nellie March and Jill Banford struggle to maintain a marginal livelihood at the Bailey Farm. A fox has raged through the poultry, and although the women—particularly the more masculine Nellie—have tried to shoot the intruder, he seems always to"
"Fire"" series (aka ""1632"" series). Most of the works in this fictional universe fall within this particular timeline. This timeline involves the displacement and exchange of the late 1990s mining town of Grantville, West Virginia with a piece of 1630s medieval southern Germany (in Thuringia). Although ""1632"" was written as a stand-alone novel in 2000, Flint had planned several other universes using the ""Assiti Shards"" story premise. However, the sensation and interest engendered by the ""1632"" novel's publication subsequently caused the other works to be delayed while the ""1632"" series was developed. This timeline was opened up to third-party authors,"
"having San Francisco rename an alley on the same block from Adelaide Place to Isadora Duncan Lane. In medicine, the Isadora Duncan Syndrome refers to injury or death consequent to entanglement of neckwear with a wheel or other machinery. Duncan has attracted literary and artistic attention from the 1920s to the present, in novels, film, ballet, theatre, music, and poetry. Duncan has been portrayed in novels including Aleister Crowley's ""Moonchild"" (as 'Lavinia King'), published in 1923, and Upton Sinclair's ""World's End"" (1940) and ""Between Two Worlds"" (1941), the first two novels in his Pulitzer Prize winning Lanny Budd series. She"
"1632 (novel) 1632 is the initial novel in the best-selling alternate history 1632 book series written by American historian, writer and editor Eric Flint published in 2000. The flagship novel kicked off a collaborative writing effort that has involved hundreds of contributors and dozens of authors. The premise involves a small American town of three thousand, sent back to May 1631, in an alternate Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War. The fictional town of Grantville, West Virginia (modeled on the real West Virginia town of Mannington) and its power plant are displaced in space-time, through a side effect"
"in its walls. She died in the hospital in 1917, aged 54. Hanna Greally was born in Athlone in 1925, and she was admitted to the hospital in 1943 at the age of 19 by the advice of her mother after Greally had just returned home from London where she had witnessed the horrors of the London Blitz while training to be a nurse. ""Bird's Nest Soup"", a book written by Hanna and published in 1971, captured the haunting detail of other's lives stripped of human rights of ""the unloved, social outcasts, the incurably embittered and the dispirited"". Greally died"
"London in the 1980s and tells the tale of Grandpa, a World War II flying ace, who now sadly suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. When his family can no longer look after him he is moved to an old people’s home called Twilight Towers, run by Miss Swine. It soon becomes clear Miss Swine is running Twilight Towers for her own good profit and it is up to Grandpa and his grandson Jack to make a daring escape. Grandpa took a final chance to show his past and once again rode in his beloved Spitfire. Linda Lawlor from ""The Book Bag"""
"after Robin has gone to Rheims, and Marjorie goes to London around Christmas time. The following Christmas, she hears that Father Campion has just been executed. His execution took place on 1 December 1581. The following summer, when Hugh (Nicholas) Owen is working on hiding places at Padley and in Marjorie's house, people talk of the recent executions of Mr. Ford, Mr. Shert, and Mr. Johnson. All three were executed on 28 May 1582. When Robin arrives back in England as a newly ordained priest, it is just days before the arrest of Anthony Babington, which took place in August"
"appeared as a character in Lane's Doctor Who/Sherlock Holmes crossover novel, ""All-Consuming Fire"". One of Lane's key aims is to explain some of the complexities of Holmes' character, who is scientific and analytical on the one hand, and artistic and moody on the other. Two new characters introduced in this series, his two tutors, Amyus Crowe and Rufus Stone, will help shed light on the formation of the two sides of his character evident in later life. Lane decided to set the book in 19th-century Farnham in Surrey as at the time he was writing it he was working for"
"of one novel appears as a secondary character in others is even more reminiscent of William Faulkner's work set in ""Yoknapatawpha County,"" Mississippi. Lofts' work set in East Anglia in the 1930s and 1940s shows great concern with the very poor in society and their inability to change their conditions. Her approach suggests an interest in the social reformism that became a feature of British post-war society. She was not afraid to tackle potentially sensitive subjects - her version of the Nativity, with backstories of Mary, Joseph, the Magi, the shepherds - even the innkeeper - is wonderfully rendered in"
"Local Government Act 1929 allowed local authorities to run services over and above those authorised by the Poor Law and in effect to provide medical treatment for everyone. By the outbreak of the Second World War, the LCC was running the largest public health service in Britain. Dr A. J. Cronin's controversial novel ""The Citadel"", published in 1937, had fomented extensive criticism about the severe inadequacies of health care. The author's innovative ideas were not only essential to the conception of the NHS, but in fact, his best-selling novels are said to have greatly contributed to the Labour Party's victory"
"their destination. She eventually comes down with the deadly fever after following the doctor into the heart of the fever area as he tends to the sick. Dr. Leith returns to England a hero, and on his arrival, learns that Lady Fielding, who was saved by the doctor's newly discovered serum, has left her husband and is coming to join him. A Fox film of the novel, released in 1934, was produced by Jesse L. Lasky and directed by Irving Cummings. Grand Canary (novel) Grand Canary is the third novel by British author A. J. Cronin, initially published in 1933."
"Fox at the Front Fox at the Front is a 2003 alternate history novel written by Douglas Niles and Michael Dobson. It is a sequel to the 2000 novel ""Fox on the Rhine"". The story picks up on December 27, 1944, just minutes after the climax to ""Fox on the Rhine"", where Field Marshal Erwin Rommel has introduced himself to George Patton and offers to surrender Army Group B to him. Both generals agree that the threat of the Soviet Union is greater than all German forces under Heinrich Himmler, who has considered him a traitor. Rommel instructs Hasso von"
"""he was no Rudolph Valentino."" Frederick discovers the allure of escorting young upper-class women to balls and other functions and ultimately leaves service. The final episode, set in 1930, finds things looking up at Eaton Place as Georgina is married to Lord Stockbridge on 12 June 1930. Mr Hudson and Mrs Bridges also finally marry, and take the uneducated but surprisingly shrewd kitchen maid, Ruby Finch, off to the seaside with them, to run a guest house called ""Seaview"" (however, one can only see the cliffs from the top bedroom window, over the other houses). When asked by Rose how"
"The Dark Circle The Dark Circle is the seventh novel by English novelist and journalist Linda Grant. Published in November 2016, it tells the story of tubercular east London twins, Lenny and Miriam Lynskey, sent to convalesce in a post-World War II sanitorium in Kent shortly after the formation of the National Health Service (NHS). Eighteen-year-old twins Lenny and Miriam Lynskey initially enjoy life in post-World War II London, having spent an austere period in Wales as refugees. Lenny plans to become involved in the criminal world of their Uncle Manny, a former black-marketeer who is now attempting to build"
"Prize for Fiction. The Dark Circle The Dark Circle is the seventh novel by English novelist and journalist Linda Grant. Published in November 2016, it tells the story of tubercular east London twins, Lenny and Miriam Lynskey, sent to convalesce in a post-World War II sanitorium in Kent shortly after the formation of the National Health Service (NHS). Eighteen-year-old twins Lenny and Miriam Lynskey initially enjoy life in post-World War II London, having spent an austere period in Wales as refugees. Lenny plans to become involved in the criminal world of their Uncle Manny, a former black-marketeer who is now"
"officers and with the causes of war, more typical of the 1930s than of the time he describes: The novel is occasionally over-written or unduly discursive but contains a realistic portrait of RFC and then RAF life and operations on the Western Front, starting with the launch of Operation Michael, the gigantic German Spring Offensive on 21 March 1918. The narrator and his squadron are ground down by ground attack operations against the German army, as the Allied Armies fight for their lives, while faster scouts (fighters) such as the S.E.5 and the Bristol Fighter dogfight with German fighters. The"
"cross-fertilization of ideas and styles, stimulating the creative process and preventing stale, formulaic works. As stated in the first ""Grantville Gazette"" and on his site, Flint's novel ""1632"" was an experiment wherein he explores the effect of transporting a mass of people through time. ""1632"" occurs in the midst of the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648). The plot situation allows pragmatic, American, union-oriented, political thought to grind against the authoritarian, religion-driven societies of an unconsolidated Holy Roman Empire barely out of the Middle Ages. Flint explores examples of suffering due to the petty politics of self-aggrandizement and self-interest on the one"
"area known as a centre of prostitution. In July 1932 she was ill in a nursing home in Dorset Square and in January 1933 she was living in a basement off Oxford Street. She last appeared in public ""fasting in a barrel"" at a fun-fair in Tottenham Court Road, in the same barrel once occupied by the defrocked Rector of Stiffkey, who was in a similar desperate financial situation. She graduated to a small raised dais where she would strike artistic poses when a sufficient crowd had gathered. She underwent two operations for cancer during the last year of her"
"in 1914, which becomes the rest of the novel. Nell's story alternates between the perspectives of Nell Golightly, a seventeen-year-old girl, and the poet Rupert Brooke. The novel begins as Nell's father dies while tending to the family's bee hives. Because she is the oldest child and her mother is long dead, Nell Golightly decides finds a job as a maid at The Orchard, a boarding house and tea room outside of Cambridge which caters to the students at the University there. There she, along with several other young women, serves guests and cleans the facilities. She also helps a"
"Anitra Ford) has created an army of beauties who seduce men to death. One by one the male victims are killed before the local police catch on to the plans of the infected females. Neil Agar, a special agent with the State Department's Office of Security (the predecessor of the Diplomatic Security Service), is dispatched to Peckham, California to investigate the death of John Grubowsky, a bacteriologist working at government-sponsored Brandt Research. Quickly making the acquaintance of the laboratory's head librarian, Julie Zorn, he begins interviewing the firm's leading scientists, many of whom have reputations as sexual players. His investigation"
"works in an institute, formerly the Hotel Tichota, where German women reside to breed a new ""master race"" with selected soldiers. Because the owner, Mr Tichota, uses a wheelchair, he has been displaced as its owner and is never seen again. In the meantime, Liza serves as a nurse on the Russian front. She returns with valuable stamps taken from the homes of Polish-Jewish families. As the war progresses and the tide turns against the German, the women are displaced from the facility, and wounded and amputee soldiers replace them. Near the end of the war, the facility is attacked,"
"Before marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First World War, tending to troops coming back from the trenches. She was initially an unsuccessful writer with six consecutive rejections, but this changed when ""The Mysterious Affair at Styles"", featuring Hercule Poirot, was published in 1920. During the Second World War, she worked as a pharmacy assistant at University College Hospital, London, acquiring a good knowledge of poisons which feature in many of her novels. ""Guinness World Records"" lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly"
"Europe in 1942. His wife Diana is persuaded to take over the Colonel's parliamentary seat, and she is supported in her endeavours by her neighbour Richard Llewellyn, a sympathetic farmer with whom she strikes up a romantic relationship. Llewellyn teaches the Wentworths' young son Robin how to fish, thus becoming his great friend. Three years later, as the war is about to come to an end, the Colonel returns. He has been playing a key role in organising the resistance movement in Occupied Europe, and his disappearance and death were staged by the authorities to provide convincing cover for his"
"father-figure, Budu, fills in historical detail in the storyline and discusses his own motivations. In ""Mendoza in Hollywood"", the botanist Mendoza and her companion Einar were thrown forward in time from 1863 to 1996 in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles. This is supposed to be impossible, but Mendoza is a Crome generator, a psychic who cannot control her potential, and Laurel Canyon is a focus of Crome radiation (explaining its attraction for certain kinds of people over the years!). As the action of this novel opens, Lewis is arriving at Company HQ in Laurel Canyon in 1996. Entering the building he"