"The Clocks of Iraz The Clocks of Iraz is a fantasy novel by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, the second book of both his Novarian series and the ""Reluctant King"" trilogy featuring King Jorian of Xylar. It was first published as a paperback by Pyramid Books in 1971. It was reprinted by Del Rey Books in December 1983, March 1984, and July 1989. It was later gathered together with the other books in the trilogy, ""The Goblin Tower"" (1968) and ""The Unbeheaded King"" (1983), into the omnibus collection ""The Reluctant King"" (Nelson Doubleday/SFBC, February 1985). An E-book edition was"
"of the preceding twelve"". The idea of a clock striking thirteen times has shown up many times in literature. The most famous is the first line in George Orwell’s ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" when it starts with, ""It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen"". The famous children's book ""Tom's Midnight Garden"" by Philippa Pearce speaks of this phenomenon when it says ""When Tom hears old Mrs Bartholomew's grandfather clock in the hall striking thirteen, he goes to investigate"". Thomas Hardy's ""Far from the Madding Crowd"" (1874) 'This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's"
"particular novel the chapters reflect the total timespan, the ticking clock, of the plot as a whole. The fifteen chapters begins with ""Saturday, June Fourteenth"", and ending with ""Afternoon, June Twenty-Second"". The timespan of the story is just a little more than a week, which is yet another similarity to Crichton’s later novels. Being his first book, it also contains some of Crichton's 'trademarks' for the first time. Among other things, Crichton started his tradition of beginning his novels with quotes: Crichton wrote the book in 1965 while a student at Harvard Medical School. He sent it to Doubleday for"
"The 13 Clocks The 13 Clocks is a fantasy tale written by James Thurber and illustrator Marc Simont in 1950, while he was completing one of his other novels. It is written in a unique cadenced style, in which a mysterious prince must complete a seemingly impossible task to free a maiden from the clutches of an evil duke. It invokes many fairy tale motifs. The story is noted for Thurber's constant, complex wordplay, and his use of an almost continuous internal meter, with occasional hidden rhymes — akin to blank verse, but with no line breaks to advertise the"
"to capture the rapid changes in point of view, the florid language, and the atmosphere of the full sentence. The opening was popularized by the ""Peanuts"" comic strip, in which Snoopy's sessions on the typewriter usually began with It was a dark and stormy night. The same words also form the first sentence of Madeleine L'Engle's Newbery Medal-winning novel ""A Wrinkle in Time."" Similar wording appears in Edgar Allan Poe's 1831 short story, ""The Bargain Lost"", although not at the very beginning. It reads: It was a dark and stormy night. The rain fell in cataracts. Several of Bulwer-Lytton's novels"
"The Children's Hour (poem) ""The Children's Hour"" is a poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in the September 1860 edition of ""The Atlantic Monthly."" The poem describes the poet's idyllic family life with his own three daughters, Alice, Edith, and Anne Allegra: ""grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with golden hair."" As the darkness begins to fall, the narrator of the poem (Longfellow himself) is sitting in his study and hears his daughters in the room above. He describes them as an approaching army about to enter through a ""sudden rush"" and a ""sudden raid"" via"
"it ""caught the imagination of some socialists in the same way as Bellamy's works had."" The plot of the novel begins on April 7, 1925. The opening chapters introduce two young men, George Wilkinson and Harry Childs, and their girlfriends, Mabel Clay and Alice Furbush. The young men are roommates, as are the young women; they all work for various functions of Coöperative City. They are struck and fascinated by the story of Percy Brantford, which they read in that morning's newspaper. Brantford had been a successful businessman of the late nineteenth century — though like many men of that"
"combined style and content from the Icelandic sagas with jokes from English school life. This mixture of tragedy and farce, with a dream play-within-a-play, introduced the mixed styles and content of much of his later work. This drama and thirty short poems appeared in his first published book ""Poems"" (1930, 2nd edition with seven poems replaced, 1933); the poems in the book were mostly lyrical and gnomic mediations on hoped-for or unconsummated love and on themes of personal, social, and seasonal renewal; among these poems were ""It was Easter as I walked,"" ""Doom is dark,"" ""Sir, no man's enemy,"" and"
"instead saw in it a reflection of Ancient Rome's transition from rough and ready literature to highly political and highly polished literature. It is an age of exuberance and scandal, of enormous energy and inventiveness and outrage, that reflected an era when English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish people found themselves in the midst of an expanding economy, lowering barriers to education, and the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. It was during this time that poet James Thomson (1700–1748) produced his melancholy ""The Seasons"" (1728–30) and Edward Young (1681–1765) wrote his poem ""Night Thoughts"" (1742), though the most outstanding poet of"
"The Twelve (poem) The Twelve () is a controversial long poem by Aleksandr Blok. Written early in 1918, the poem was one of the first poetic responses to the October Revolution of 1917. The poem describes the march of twelve Bolshevik soldiers (likened to the Twelve Apostles) through the streets of revolutionary Petrograd, with a fierce winter blizzard raging around them. The mood of the Twelve as conveyed by the poem oscillates from base and even sadistic aggression towards everything perceived bourgeois and counter-revolutionary, to strict discipline and sense of ""revolutionary duty."" In a violent clash with a vigilante deserter,"
"(suite); ""Pull Up Your Socks"" (1960) Library music/genre pieces: B""lue Days at Sea, Busy Life, Country Market, Enchantment, Fairy Cobweb, Feather on the Breeze, Frivolity, Gala, Golden Harvest, Hackney Carriage, Jogging Along, March of the Astronauts, Paddle Steamer, Paul Pry, Procession, Softly She Sleeps, Spindlelegs, Stormy Passage, Tomorrow the World"" Film and television music: ""Dark Eyes of London"" (1939), ""Rhythm of the Road"" (1946); ""The Eleventh Hour"" (1962) King Palmer Cedric King Palmer (13 February 1913 – 13 July 1999) was an English composer, conductor, author and teacher, best known for his popular educational books on music and as a"
"Carthage, Cressida (formerly known as Vicki) tells a story to a listener who hungers for warmth. Vicki recalls a journey in which the TARDIS landed on the frozen River Thames, during the frost fair of 1814. The frost fair contains many entertainments and wonders, but none as astonishing and chilling as the egg of the phoenix, brought from Tunis. Both Vicki and Georgiana (wife of Sir Joseph Mallard, Deputy Warden of the Royal Mint) are captivated by the cold fire associated with the phoenix's egg, which is stolen during an altercation in the fair. The travellers meet the novelist Jane"
"resistance. It is not only their physical condition of starvation and destitution, but also the far more subtle and insidious effect on them of the spell cast by nature itself: the work is set in the last days of the siege, just before the Easter of 1826, during springtime, and two of its sections are dedicated to the beauty of spring. Thus, at one time the poet describes pastoral scenes of peace which are suddenly disrupted by a bugle call, faintly blown by one of the defending soldiers, to waken and rescue their souls from 'enchantment'. At times Solomos describes"
"slate, depicting the frost fair. The frieze contains an inscription that reads (two lines per slab): The inscription is based on handbills, printed on the Thames during the frost fairs. An early chapter of the novel """" by ""Virginia Woolf"" takes place on the frozen River Thames during the Frost Fair of 1608. In the ""Doctor Who"" episode ""A Good Man Goes to War"", River Song encounters Rory Williams as she is returning to her cell in the Stormcage Containment Facility. She tells him that she's just been to 1814 for the last of the Great Frost Fairs. The Doctor"
"""Clock"" from February to November 1841. It was Dickens' first historical novel. His only other is the much later ""A Tale of Two Cities"", also set in revolutionary times. It is one of his less popular novels and has rarely been adapted for film or television. The last production was a 1960 BBC production; prior to that, silent films were made in 1911 and 1915. Gathered round the fire at the Maypole Inn, in the village of Chigwell, on an evening of foul weather in the year 1775, are John Willet, proprietor of the Maypole, and his three cronies. One"
"as he put it, a ""variety poet and singer of satirical songs"" himself. The Twelve (poem) The Twelve () is a controversial long poem by Aleksandr Blok. Written early in 1918, the poem was one of the first poetic responses to the October Revolution of 1917. The poem describes the march of twelve Bolshevik soldiers (likened to the Twelve Apostles) through the streets of revolutionary Petrograd, with a fierce winter blizzard raging around them. The mood of the Twelve as conveyed by the poem oscillates from base and even sadistic aggression towards everything perceived bourgeois and counter-revolutionary, to strict discipline"
"his early version for the eight volume of his writings in 1789, making some minor changes in the final stanza. The work consists of 88 lines of free verse, divided into eleven stanzas of differing lengths. This was a common ode arrangement in the 18th century. It contains two key elements that were to become central to the discourse of the Romantics on winter travel – references to frosty, lifeless landscapes, and their intimate connection with the loneliness of the hero who had withdrawn into the wilderness in the face of some kind of crisis. The poem opens with a"
"The Seasons (Thomson) The Seasons is a series of four poems written by the Scottish author James Thomson. The first part, ""Winter"", was published in 1726, and the completed poem cycle appeared in 1730. The poem was extremely influential, and stimulated works by John Christopher Smith, Joseph Haydn, Thomas Gainsborough and J. M. W. Turner among many others. Thomson was educated first at the Parish school of Southdean then at Jedburgh Grammar School and Edinburgh University where he was a member of ""The Grotesques"" literary club; some of his early poems were published in the Edinburgh Miscellany of 1720. Seeking"
"The Task (poem) The Task: A Poem, in Six Books is a poem in blank verse by William Cowper published in 1785, usually seen as his supreme achievement. Its six books are called ""The Sofa"", ""The Timepiece"", ""The Garden"", ""The Winter Evening"", ""The Winter Morning Walk"" and ""The Winter Walk at Noon"". Beginning with a mock-Miltonic passage on the origins of the sofa, it develops into a discursive meditation on the blessings of nature, the retired life and religious faith, with attacks on slavery, blood sports, fashionable frivolity, lukewarm clergy and French despotism among other things. Cowper's subjects are those"
"in 1814, in the midst of a frost fair on the frozen Thames. After dressing in period garments, they take time to explore it, unaware the TARDIS sensors have identified a large life form, a kilometre long, under the ice. The Doctor's sonic screwdriver is stolen by Spider, one of several orphan pickpockets led by Kitty. The Doctor and Bill chase down Spider and Kitty away from the fair. There, glowing lights under the ice encircle Spider's feet and before the Doctor can save him, Spider is pulled through the ice. Bill is troubled by the Doctor's lack of remorse"
"with Paul took place in March 1919. Paul was intimidated. He was shy and blushing. He was still a soldier and wearing his war uniform. It was the best omen for the three poets, who all showed great courage during the war. Paul brought with him his poems and read them to the ‘jury’. They were seduced by the young man and liked his work. They decided to publish one of his texts in the next edition of ""Literature"". Wounded and scarred by the war the four poets found solace in their friendship and poetry. Against a society that wanted"
"narrative is moving into a significant moment in the past. The use of these italics can be confusing, however, as time shifts are not always marked by the use of italics, and periods of different time in each section do not necessarily stay in italics for the duration of the flashback. Thus, these time shifts can often be jarring and confusing, and require particularly close reading. The title of the novel is taken from Macbeth's famous soliloquy of act 5, scene 5 of William Shakespeare's ""Macbeth"": <poem style=""font-style:italic;""> Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day"
"time, he touches the third rail with a long milk dipper in an attempt to create light and receives an enormous electric shock. Incapacitated, he is discovered by nearby tavern patrons, revived by an ambulance doctor and returned home by a policeman. When his parents are informed what happened, Albert appears remorseful and compassionate toward his son for the first time. As his mother takes him into her arms, David experiences a feeling such that ""he might as well call it sleep"". Upon its publication in 1934, critics hailed ""Call It Sleep"" as a modernist masterpiece reminiscent of the work"
"scene in the Catherine Cookson novel (and the 1998 Festival Film and Television motion picture production) ""The Round Tower"". The Children's Hour (poem) ""The Children's Hour"" is a poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in the September 1860 edition of ""The Atlantic Monthly."" The poem describes the poet's idyllic family life with his own three daughters, Alice, Edith, and Anne Allegra: ""grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with golden hair."" As the darkness begins to fall, the narrator of the poem (Longfellow himself) is sitting in his study and hears his daughters in the room above."
"April Morning April Morning is a 1961 novel by Howard Fast, about Adam Cooper's coming of age during the Battle of Lexington. One critic notes that in the beginning of the novel he is ""dressed down by his father, Moses, misunderstood by his mother, Sarah, and plagued by his brother, Levi."" In the backdrop are the peaceful people of Lexington, forced ""to go into a way of war that they abhorred."" While the novel was not originally written as a young adult story, it has increasingly been assigned in middle school English and social studies classes, due to the age"
"The Evenings The Evenings (Dutch: ""De avonden"") is a debut novel by Dutch author Gerard Reve released in November 1947 under the pseudonym ""Simon van het Reve"". The full title of the book was ""De avonden: Een winterverhaal"" (English: ""The Evenings: A Winter's Tale""). The novel describes ten evenings out of the life of the 23-year-old office clerk Frits van Egters living in Amsterdam. It is partitioned into ten chapters, of which each describes an evening between 22 and 31 December 1946. The novel was written very shortly after World War II. Though the war itself is hardly mentioned, the"
"the first poem of ‘‘The Seasons’’. ‘Winter’ was first published in 1726 by John Millian, with a second edition being released (with revisions, additions and a preface) later the same year. By 1727, Thomson was working on ""Summer"", published in February, and was working at Watt's Academy, a school for young gentlemen and a bastion of Newtonian science. In the same year Millian published a poem by Thomson titled ‘A Poem to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton’ (who had died in March). Leaving Watt's academy, Thomson hoped to earn a living through his poetry, helped by his acquiring several"
"The Clocks The Clocks is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 7 November 1963 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. It features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The UK edition retailed at sixteen shillings (16/-) and the US edition at $4.50. The novel is notable for the fact that Poirot never visits any of the crime scenes or speaks to any of the witnesses or suspects. He is challenged to prove his claim that a crime can be solved by"
"a pine-belt. Next morning there was an answering signal from the swamp where the sumacs grow. Three days later, the hill-sides as fast as the eye could range were afire, and the roads paved, with crimson and gold. Then a wet wind blew, and ruined all the uniforms of that gorgeous army; and the oaks, who had held themselves in reserve, buckled on their dull and bronzed cuirasses and stood it out stiffly to the last blown leaf, till nothing remained but pencil-shadings of bare boughs, and one could see into the most private heart of the woods."" In February"
"appeared, including ""The Scientific Criticism"" (Vol. I, No. 1, March 1923) and ""The Equality of Man"" (Vol. I, No. 3, December 1923). In 1925, his ""Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana"" was selected from four thousand anonymously submitted poems as the winner of ""The Nation's"" esteemed poetry prize. The magazine's editors described it as ""the most passionate and interesting poem which came in—a poem recording through magnificent rhythms a profound and important and beautiful vision of the earth on which afternoons and men have always existed."" The poem begins: ""Hot Afternoons"" was controversial; the author's innovative technique in this long,"
"The Dry Salvages The Dry Salvages is the third poem of T. S. Eliot's ""Four Quartets"" and marks the beginning of when the series was consciously being formed as a set of four poems. It was written and published in 1941 during the air-raids on Great Britain, an event that threatened him while giving lectures in the area. The title comes from the name of a rock formation near a town he spent time at as a child, which reflects Eliot's references to his own past throughout the poem. The poem discusses the nature of time and what humanity's place"
"seemed to come a delicate breeze, filling the air with biting cold, and among the murmuring woods on neighboring hills wakening the birds into joyous song. Then all, having taken leave of the Duchess, went to their rooms, without torches, for the light of day was sufficient. Have you read Castiglione’s ""Cortegiano?"" The beauty of the book is such that it deserves to be read in all ages; and as long as courts endure, as long as princes reign and knights and ladies meet, as long valor and courtesy hold a place in our hearts, the name of Castiglione will"
"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"