"The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius ""The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius"" is an essay by George Orwell expressing his opinions on the situation in wartime Britain. The title alludes to the heraldic supporters appearing in the full royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom. The essay was first published on 19 February 1941 as the first volume of a series edited by T. R. Fyvel and Orwell, in the Searchlight Books published by Secker & Warburg. It expressed his opinion that the outdated British class system was hampering the war"
"Miles"", ""George Orwell"", and ""H. Lewis Allways"". He finally adopted the ""nom de plume"" George Orwell because ""It is a good round English name."" ""Down and Out in Paris and London"" was published on 9 January 1933 as Orwell continued to work on ""Burmese Days"". ""Down and Out"" was modestly successful and was next published by Harper & Brothers in New York. In mid-1933 Blair left Hawthorns to become a teacher at Frays College, in Uxbridge, Middlesex. This was a much larger establishment with 200 pupils and a full complement of staff. He acquired a motorcycle and took trips through"
"The Lion of Comarre and Against the Fall of Night The Lion of Comarre & Against the Fall of Night are early stories by Arthur C. Clarke collected together for publication in 1968 by Harcourt Brace and by Gollancz in London in 1970, it has been reprinted several times. Both concern Earth in the far future, with a utopian but static human society. ""Against the Fall of Night"" was later expanded and revised as ""The City and the Stars"", one of Clarke's best-known works. ""The Lion of Comarre"" has a similar theme: it is about a dissatisfied young man in"
"The Princess and the Unicorn The Princess and the Unicorn is a children's fantasy novel by British-born American author Carol Hughes, who also wrote ""Jack Black and the Ship of Thieves"". The novel was published in hardcover on February 24, 2009, by Random House Books for Young Readers. This novel follows two characters: Princess Eleanor of England and a young fairy named Joyce. Joyce lives in Swinley Forest with a community of other fairies who rely on the forest's unicorn for survival. One day, Joyce follows the unicorn to the edge of the forest and is spotted by Princess Eleanor."
"see."" In contrast, the reviewer for ""New English Weekly"" wrote, ""This book [...] is forcefully written and is very readable, yet it fails to carry conviction. We wonder if the author was really down and out. Down certainly, but out?"" Cyril Connolly later wrote, ""I don't think ""Down and Out in London and Paris"" is more than agreeable journalism; it was all better done by his friend Henry Miller. Orwell found his true form a few years later."" Orwell agreed with this assessment. Henry Miller's controversial work ""Tropic of Cancer"" (1934) is based on his own experiences in Paris around"
"The Owl and the Pussycat ""The Owl and the Pussycat"" is a nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published during 1871 as part of his book ""Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets"". Lear wrote the poem for a three-year-old girl, Janet Symonds, the daughter of Lear's friend poet John Addington Symonds and his wife Catherine Symonds. The term ""runcible"", used for the phrase ""runcible spoon"", was invented for the poem. ""The Owl and the Pussycat"" features four anthropomorphic animals – an owl, a cat, a pig, and a turkey – and tells the story of the love between the title"
"scheme behind the princess's back. The Princess and the Unicorn The Princess and the Unicorn is a children's fantasy novel by British-born American author Carol Hughes, who also wrote ""Jack Black and the Ship of Thieves"". The novel was published in hardcover on February 24, 2009, by Random House Books for Young Readers. This novel follows two characters: Princess Eleanor of England and a young fairy named Joyce. Joyce lives in Swinley Forest with a community of other fairies who rely on the forest's unicorn for survival. One day, Joyce follows the unicorn to the edge of the forest and"
"was accepted for publication. Orwell left Paris in December 1929 and returned to England, going straight home to his parents' house in Southwold. Later he acted as a private tutor to a handicapped child there and also undertook further tramping expeditions, culminating in a stint working in the Kent hop fields in August and September 1931. After this adventure, he ended up in the Tooley Street kip, which he found so unpleasant that he wrote home for money and moved to more comfortable lodgings. Orwell's first version of ""Down and Out"" was called ""A Scullion's Diary"". Completed in October 1930,"
"The Unicorn and Other Poems The Unicorn and Other Poems is a 1956 poetry collection by the American writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The poems span from the period 1935–1955. The book sold well but was overall poorly received by critics, which made Lindbergh feel ashamed of her poems. ""Kirkus Reviews"" described the book as ""the poetic versions of almost the same themes as ""Gift from the Sea"""", and wrote that these themes ""are caught up here in a new freshness which will have its appeal to women who experience many of these emotions in common"". The critic wrote that the"
"in Washington D.C. at the Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium on October 19, 1956. ""The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore"" was commissioned in 1956 by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation for the 12th Festival of Chamber Music in Washington, D.C. In constructing the libretto Menotti returned to an earlier script he had written after reading T. H. White's 1954 ""The Book of Beasts"", a translation of a medieval Latin bestiary. The plot is a comic but ultimately melancholy attack on the ""indifferent killers of the poet's dreams"": slavish social conformity and the ease with which the ""unfashionable"" is discarded."
"Unlike them, he had kept all his pets: ""You, not I, are the indifferent killers of the poet's dreams. How could I destroy the pain wrought children of my fancy?"" The poet then bids farewell to each of his creatures in turn and tells them ""Not even death I fear as in your arms I die."" An LP recording of the work conducted by Thomas Schippers was released by EMI/Angel in 1957, and re-released on CD in 2011 by Naxos Historical. More recent recordings include: Notes Sources The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the"
"The Under Dog and Other Stories The Under Dog and Other Stories is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the United States in 1951, Dodd Mead and Company. The title story was published in booklet form along with Blackman's Wood (by E. Phillips Oppenheim) in the United Kingdom in 1929 by The Reader's Library.The first US edition retailed at $2.50. It contains works from the early days of Christie's career, all featuring Hercule Poirot. All the stories were published in British and American magazines between 1923 and 1926. All of the stories, save the"
"quality is high enough ""to win Anne Lindbergh a place among outstanding women poets"". The Unicorn and Other Poems The Unicorn and Other Poems is a 1956 poetry collection by the American writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The poems span from the period 1935–1955. The book sold well but was overall poorly received by critics, which made Lindbergh feel ashamed of her poems. ""Kirkus Reviews"" described the book as ""the poetic versions of almost the same themes as ""Gift from the Sea"""", and wrote that these themes ""are caught up here in a new freshness which will have its appeal to"
"London, March and April 1791. While at Richmond he brought out his ""Linda and Clara, or the British Officer"", a comedy in three acts, subsequently enlarged to five, and published London, 1791. A trip to Paris in 1791 led to the publication of ""A Review of the Proceedings at Paris during the last Summer"", London, n.d. [1792]. He refers to a play entitled a ‘Picture of Paris,’ which was acted once. Of this no trace is discoverable. He wrote some verse epistles, one of them printed, and composed an ‘Apology’ for his life, Philadelphia, 1814. In a preface to this"
"Carillonneur"" (The small bellringer) (1809, 4 vol. in-12) ; ""Jean et Jeannette, ou les Petits aventuriers parisiens"" (Jean and Jeanette, Two Young Adventurers in Paris) (1816, 4 vol. in-12), ""L'Hermitage Saint-Jacques ou Dieu, le Roi et la Patrie"", (Saint James's Hermitage ; or For God, King and Country) 1815, etc. His other works include a poem upon the death of the duke of Brunswick (""Poème sur la mort du duc de Brunswick"") (1787, in-8°) ; ""la Semaine mémorable ou Tableau de la révolution depuis le 12 juin 1789"" (1789, in-18) ; ""Codicille sentimental, ou recueil de discours, contes, anecdotes, idylles,"
"mother the cat died falling from a tall tree.This made the Owl become a single parent. The death causes the Owl great sadness. The money is all spent but the Owl still sings to the original guitar. The Owl and the Pussycat ""The Owl and the Pussycat"" is a nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published during 1871 as part of his book ""Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets"". Lear wrote the poem for a three-year-old girl, Janet Symonds, the daughter of Lear's friend poet John Addington Symonds and his wife Catherine Symonds. The term ""runcible"", used for the phrase"
"And The Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry four times, in 2007, 2009, 2013, and 2014. The books were ""Enjoy It While It Hurts,"" ""A Voweller's Bestiary,"" ""Black Stars In A White Night Sky,"" and ""Down In The Bottom Of The Bottom Of The Box."" His book ""The Man In The Moon-Fixer's Mask"" was a finalist for this award in 2005. In 2015, the French edition of Lawson’s wordless picture book ""Sidewalk Flowers"" Sydney Smith (Illustrator), won the Prix Libbylit in Belgium for best picture book. ""Sidewalk Flowers"" also won the Governor General’s Award For Illustrated Children’s Books"
"and London"". An important meeting point for expatriate writers was the bookstore Shakespeare and Company (not to be confused with the modern bookstore of that name near Place Saint-Michel), first located at 8 rue Dupuytren from 1919 to 1922, and then from 1922 to 1940 at 12 rue de l'Odeon. It was run by the American Sylvia Beach. Hemingway first met Ezra Pound here, and Beach published Jame's Joyce's ""Ulysees"", which was banned in Britain and the United States. Prominent composers working in Paris between the Wars were Maurice Ravel, Eric Satie, Francis Poulenc, and Igor Stravinsky. Ravel was born"
"The Spike (essay) ""The Spike"" is a 1931 essay by George Orwell in which he details his experience staying overnight in the casual ward of a workhouse (colloquially known as a ""spike"") near London. This episode in Orwell's life took place while he was intentionally living as a vagrant in and around London as part of the social experiment that would form the basis of his first book ""Down and Out in Paris and London"". The events of this essay are also found in that book, though the essay is not reprinted verbatim in the book. Orwell was in Paris"
"to middle-class ""mores"" and expectations; he recorded his experiences of the low life for use in ""The Spike"", his first published essay in English, and in the second half of his first book, ""Down and Out in Paris and London"" (1933). In early 1928 he moved to Paris. He lived in the rue du Pot de Fer, a working class district in the 5th Arrondissement. His aunt Nellie Limouzin also lived in Paris and gave him social and, when necessary, financial support. He began to write novels, including an early version of ""Burmese Days"", but nothing else survives from that"
"Aside from two trips to America, he spent the next three decades—the rest of his life—in Europe. In Paris he met Zola, Alphonse Daudet, Maupassant, Turgenev, and others. He stayed in Paris only a year before moving to London. In England he met the leading figures of politics and culture. He continued to be a prolific writer, producing ""The American"" (1877), ""The Europeans"" (1878), a revision of ""Watch and Ward"" (1878), ""French Poets and Novelists"" (1878), ""Hawthorne"" (1879), and several shorter works of fiction. In 1878 ""Daisy Miller"" established his fame on both sides of the Atlantic. It drew notice"
"him in Paris. He ended up remaining for twenty years, writing two of his major works, ""Ulysses"" and ""Finnegans Wake"". After the war began, in late 1940, he moved to Zurich, where he died. The Russian émigré Vladimir Nabokov lived in Paris from 1937 until 1940, when he left for the United States. Eric Arthur Blair, better known under his pen name George Orwell, lived in 1928 and 1929 on the rue du Pot de Fer in the fifth arrondissement, where he worked as a dishwasher in a Paris restaurant, an experience he immortalized in ""Down and Out in Paris"
"were his short stories and sketches ""Short Sixes"" (1891), ""More Short Sixes"" (1894), ""Made in France"" (1893), ""Zadoc Pine and Other Stories"" (1891), ""Love in Old Cloathes and Other Stories"" (1896), and ""Jersey Street and Jersey Lane"" (1896). His verses ""Airs from Arcady and Elsewhere"" (1884), containing the well-known poem, ""The Way to A ready; Rowen"" (1892); and ""Poems"" (1896), edited by his friend Brander Matthews, displaying a light play of imagination and a delicate workmanship. He also wrote clever ""vers de société"" and parodies. One of his several plays (usually written in collaboration), was ""The Tower of Babel"" (1883)."
"The Acorn and the Pumpkin The Acorn and the Pumpkin, in French ""Le gland et la citrouille"", is one of La Fontaine's Fables, published in his second volume (IX.4) in 1679. In English especially, new versions of the story were written to support the teleological argument for creation favoured by English thinkers from the end of the 17th century onwards. The fable is one of the few by La Fontaine without a certain origin, although it is generally acknowledged that it owes something to a piece of street farce by Tabarin earlier in the 17th century. Beginning with the statement"
"London (Samuel Johnson poem) London is a poem by Samuel Johnson, produced shortly after he moved to London. Written in 1738, it was his first major published work. The poem in 263 lines imitates , expressed by the character of Thales as he decides to leave London for Wales. Johnson imitated Juvenal because of his fondness for the Roman poet and he was following a popular 18th-century trend of Augustan poets headed by Alexander Pope that favoured imitations of classical poets, especially for young poets in their first ventures into published verse. ""London"" was published anonymously and in multiple editions"
"the raven and hedge-sparrow be pulled out. As each of the four travellers receive their punishments they vow to never trust, or be deceived, by each other again. The short story was first published in ""The Necklace Of Princess Firmonde"" by Macmillan & Co. in 1886, in London, UK. Later it was published again by Victor Gollancz Ltd in 1963, with an introduction by Roger Lancelyn Green. Mary de Morgan (1850–1907) was a writer who lived in London, England. The youngest daughter of the mathematician Augustus de Morgan, she was born on 7 Camden Street, London, on February 24, 1850."
"Cat Among the Pigeons Cat Among the Pigeons is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 2 November 1959, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1960 with a copyright date of 1959. The UK edition retailed at twelve shillings and sixpence (12/6), and the US edition at $2.95. It features Christie's Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, who makes a very late appearance in the final third of the novel. The emphasis on espionage in the early part of the story relates it to Christie's"
"warmth, affection and physical unison."" ""Phoenix II: Uncollected Writings,"" Ed. Warren Roberts and Harry T. Moore (New York) 1970In his later years Lawrence developed the potentialities of the short novel form in ""St Mawr"", ""The Virgin and the Gypsy"" and ""The Escaped Cock"". Lawrence's best-known short stories include ""The Captain's Doll"", ""The Fox"", ""The Ladybird"", ""Odour of Chrysanthemums"", ""The Princess"", ""The Rocking-Horse Winner"", ""St Mawr"", ""The Virgin and the Gypsy"" and ""The Woman who Rode Away"". (""The Virgin and the Gypsy"" was published as a novella after he died.) Among his most praised collections is ""The Prussian Officer and Other"
"Unicorn"" was set entirely in Belgium and was the last ""Adventure"" to be set there until ""The Castafiore Emerald"". It would also be Hergé's favourite story until ""Tintin in Tibet"". After publishing the book, Hergé learned that there had actually been an Admiral Haddock who had served in the British Royal Navy during the late 17th and early 18th centuries: Sir Richard Haddock (1629–1715). Richard Haddock was in charge of the ""Royal James"", the flagship of the Earl of Sandwich during the Battle of Solebay of 1672, the first naval battle of the Third Anglo-Dutch War. During the fighting, the"
"Peace and Love (The Pogues album) Peace and Love is the fourth studio album by The Pogues, released in July 1989. ""Peace and Love"" continued the band's gradual departure from traditional Irish music. It noticeably opens with a heavily jazz-influenced track. Also, several of the songs are inspired by the city in which the Pogues were founded, London (""White City"", ""Misty Morning, Albert Bridge"", ""London You're a Lady""), as opposed to Ireland, from which they had usually drawn inspiration. Nevertheless, several notable Irish personages are mentioned, including Ned of the Hill, Christy Brown, whose book ""Down All The Days"" appears"
"Octopussy and The Living Daylights Octopussy and The Living Daylights (sometimes published as Octopussy) is the fourteenth and final James Bond book written by Ian Fleming in the Bond series. The book is a collection of short stories published posthumously in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape on 23 June 1966. The book originally contained just two stories, ""Octopussy"" and ""The Living Daylights"", with subsequent editions also carrying firstly ""The Property of a Lady"" and then ""007 in New York"". The stories were first published in different publications, with ""Octopussy"" first serialised in the ""Daily Express"" in October 1965. ""The"
"Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (short story) ""Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"" is a short story by Kurt Vonnegut originally written in 1953. It was first published in ""Galaxy Science Fiction"" magazine in January 1954, where the story was titled ""The Big Trip Up Yonder"", which is the protagonist's euphemism for dying. A revised version bearing the title ""Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"" appeared in Vonnegut's collection of short stories, ""Canary in a Cat House"" (1961), and was reprinted in ""Welcome to the Monkey House"" (1968). The new title comes from the famous line in Shakespeare's play ""Macbeth"" starting ""Tomorrow"
"London or involving sadistic English gentlemen. Such writers include D'Annunzio in ""Il Piacere"", Paul-Jean Toulet in ""Monsieur de Paur"" (1898), Octave Mirbeau in ""Jardin des Supplices"" (1899) and Jean Lorrain in ""Monsieur de Phocas"" (1901). Well-known recent works in this genre are ""The Happy Hooker: My Own Story"" (1971) by the Dutch madame Xaviera Hollander and ""The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl"" (2005) by Belle de Jour. Erotic memoirs include Casanova's ""Histoire de ma vie"", from the 18th century. Notable English works of this genre from the 19th century include ""The Ups and Downs of Life"" (1867) by"