"who kept waking up and fainting when he saw Yossarian trying to attend to the wounds of Snowden). As with ""Catch-22"", the topic of death is omnipresent, only in this case from (usually) age-related illnesses, in particular cancer (rather than dying in battle, as with its predecessor). One notable inconsistency in the book is that although Yossarian was 28 in ""Catch-22"", which took place in 1944, in ""Closing Time"" Yossarian is 68, and the time of ""Catch-22"" is referred to as ""50 years ago"". When asked about the inconsistency in an interview with ""The New York Times"", Heller replied, ""I"
"Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder Closing Time: The True Story of the ""Goodbar"" Murder is a 1977 book by Lacey Fosburgh about the murder of Roseann Quinn, a young New York City schoolteacher who reportedly led a ""double life"" and was murdered in 1973. Fosburgh appropriated the title of Judith Rossner's ""Looking for Mr. Goodbar"", the acclaimed best-selling novel which had been published two years earlier. ""Closing Time"" was nominated for the 1978 Edgar Award as Best Fact Crime book, despite Fosburgh's mixing of fact and fiction in a controversial technique she referred to as ""interpretive"
"Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962) 82. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962) 83. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (1964) 84. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1966) 85. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1966) 86. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth (1969) 87. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (1971) 88. Rabbit Redux by John Updike (1971) 89. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977) 90. A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul (1979) 91. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1981) 92. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1981) 93. Money: A Suicide Note by Martin"
"biography."" In 1980, she admitted to ""The New York Times"" that she had ""created scenes or dialogue I think it reasonable and fair to assume could have taken place, perhaps even did."" Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder Closing Time: The True Story of the ""Goodbar"" Murder is a 1977 book by Lacey Fosburgh about the murder of Roseann Quinn, a young New York City schoolteacher who reportedly led a ""double life"" and was murdered in 1973. Fosburgh appropriated the title of Judith Rossner's ""Looking for Mr. Goodbar"", the acclaimed best-selling novel which had been published two"
"trail of clues. Allmovie wrote, """"Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour"" got the Wontner Holmes series off to a rousing start."" The Sleeping Cardinal The Sleeping Cardinal, also known as Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour in the United States, is a 1931 British mystery film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Arthur Wontner and Ian Fleming. The film is an adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, although it is not based on any one particular story it draws inspiration from ""The Empty House"" and ""The Final Problem"". It is unrelated to the Basil Rathbone series of Holmes films"
"is especially remembered for his dystopian novel ""A Clockwork Orange"" 1962. Mervyn Peake (1911–68) published his Gothic fantasy Gormenghast trilogy between 1946 and 1959. Angela Carter (1940–1992) was a novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. Writing from the 1960s until the 1980s. Sir Salman Rushdie is among a number of post Second World War writers from former British colonies who permanently settled in Britain. Rushdie achieved fame with ""Midnight's Children"" (1981). His most controversial novel ""The Satanic Verses"" (1989) was inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. Doris Lessing from Southern Rhodesia (now"
"Parts 1 and 2 1951 Twelfth Night 1952 The Tempest 1953 Romeo and Juliet 1954 Julius Caesar & A Midsummer Night's Dream 1955 Macbeth & As You Like It 1956 Henry V & The Merry Wives of Windsor 1957 King John & Twelfth Night 1958 King Lear & A Midsummer Night's Dream 1959 Henry VIII & The Merchant of Venice 1960 Richard II & The Taming of the Shrew 1961 As You Like It & The Winter's Tale 1962 Much Ado About Nothing & Macbeth 1963 Othello & The Merry Wives of Windsor 1964 Romeo and Juliet & Twelfth Night"
"also given a larger room in the Delamere advertising agency, and was a consultant to The Financial Times and in 1947 redesigned ""Time and Tide"" for Lady Rhondda. Harling now turned his hand to writing a number of popular 'pulp fiction' titles including: The Paper Palace (1951), The Dark Saviour (1952), The Enormous Shadow (1955), The Endless Colonnade (1958), The Hollow Sunday (1967), The Athenian Widow (1974) and finally The Summer Portrait (1979). He wrote easily and well, with a good ear for dialogue. Fleming, too, had taken to thrillers, and their friendship continued to increase during the period, despite"
"The Sleeping Cardinal The Sleeping Cardinal, also known as Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour in the United States, is a 1931 British mystery film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Arthur Wontner and Ian Fleming. The film is an adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, although it is not based on any one particular story it draws inspiration from ""The Empty House"" and ""The Final Problem"". It is unrelated to the Basil Rathbone series of Holmes films which also began in the 1930s. Opening with a silent sequence in silhouette within the Bank of England, we're"
"Dark Hills (Edward Arlington Robinson) 1950 Spring, the Sweet Spring (Thomas Nashe) 1950-51 Tulmutuous Moment (Lew Sarett) 1951* Desire in Spring (Francis Ledwidge) 1952 Evening (Rupert Brooke) 1952* To Helen (Edgar Allan Poe) 1953 Remember Me (Christina Rossetti) 1954 The Blackbird (William Ernest Henley) 1955 Music When Soft Voices Die (Percy Bysshe Shelley) 1957 Dry Spell (Lizzi Morrison) 1957* River Roses (D.H. Lawrence) 1958* Dover Beach (Matthew Arnold) 1958 In the Evening of Inhabiting Mists (Linda Joy) 1959* Spring (Jack Wertz) 1960* The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (Edward Lear) 1960 Bobby Shafto (Mother Goose) 1961 Laura Sleeping (Charles Cotton) 1962"
"(1957) concerns a woman who becomes aware that she is a character in a novel; ""The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"" (1961), at times takes the reader briefly into the distant future, to see the various fates that befall its characters. Anthony Burgess is especially remembered for his dystopian novel ""A Clockwork Orange"" (1962), set in the not-too-distant future, which was made into a film by Stanley Kubrick in 1971. In the entirely different genre of Gothic fantasy Mervyn Peake (1911–68) published his highly successful Gormenghast trilogy between 1946 and 1959. One of Penguin Books' most successful publications in the"
"of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat."" Vargas Llosa rose to fame in the 1960s with novels such as ""The Time of the Hero"" (""La ciudad y los perros"", literally ""The City and the Dogs"", 1963/1966), ""The Green House"" (""La casa verde"", 1965/1968), and the monumental ""Conversation in the Cathedral"" (""Conversación en la catedral"", 1969/1975). He writes prolifically across an array of literary genres, including literary criticism and journalism. His novels include comedies, murder mysteries, historical novels, and political thrillers. Several, such as ""Captain Pantoja and the Special Service"" (1973/1978) and ""Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter"" (1977/1982), have been adapted"
"The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 1961 This is a list of adult fiction books that topped ""The New York Times"" Fiction Best Seller list in 1961. The most popular titles of the year were ""Hawaii"" by ""James Michener"", ""The Agony and the Ecstasy"", by Irving Stone and ""Franny and Zooey"" by J.D. Salinger with respectively 12, 27 and 10 weeks at the top, ""Hawaii"" continuing from a very long run in 1960, and ""Franney and Zooey"" continuing into 1962 at the top of the list. The only other book to top the list that year was ""The"
"The Children's Hour (film) The Children's Hour (released as The Loudest Whisper in the United Kingdom) is a 1961 American drama film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by John Michael Hayes is based on the 1934 play of the same title by Lillian Hellman. The film stars Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, and James Garner. Former college classmates Martha Dobie (Shirley MacLaine) and Karen Wright (Audrey Hepburn) open a private school for girls. Martha's Aunt Lily (Miriam Hopkins), an aging actress, lives and teaches elocution at the school. After an engagement of two years to Joe Cardin (James Garner), a"
"but his publishers went into liquidation two years later. Neither book had been a commercial success and Common had not completed the trilogy with his long-promised ""Riches and Rare"", a novel set in Newcastle at the time of the General Strike. Too early (or too old) to be an angry young man of the 1950s, Common was unable to sustain a career in writing. His political attitudes were by now out of fashion, and when he sent the manuscript of ""In Whitest Britain"" (1961) to his friend Eric Warman in London, Warman replied in a letter of 7 June 1961"
"Time for Yesterday Time For Yesterday is a science fiction novel by American writer A. C. Crispin set in the fictional ""Star Trek"" Universe. It is a sequel to Crispin's earlier novel, ""Yesterday's Son"", and describes a second encounter between the crew of the USS ""Enterprise"" and Spock's son, Zar. The two books followed the original series episode """", and ""Time For Yesterday"" is subtitled The Yesterday Saga, Book 2. The Guardian of Forever has malfunctioned and is emitting waves of accelerated time that are causing premature star deaths throughout the galaxy. After Spock recalls that his son Zar was"
"1931 novel ""The Glass Key"". There are some parallels between the two stories, and many scenes and lines are culled directly from this novel. In particular, the relationship between Tom and Leo in the film mirrors the relationship between Ned Beaumont and Paul Madvig, the principal characters of the Hammett novel. Another important Hammett source was his 1929 novel ""Red Harvest"", which details the story of a gang war in a corrupt Prohibition-era American city, a war initiated by the machinations of the main character. While ""Miller's Crossing"" follows the plot and main characters of ""The Glass Key"" fairly closely,"
"and ""One Hand Clapping,"" a satire on the vacuity of popular culture. ""The Worm and the Ring"" (1961) had to be withdrawn from circulation under the threat of libel action from one of Burgess's former colleagues, a school secretary. His dystopian novel ""A Clockwork Orange"" was published in 1962. It was inspired initially by an incident during the Second World War in which his wife Lynne was robbed, assaulted and violated by deserters from the US Army in London during the blackout. The event may have contributed to her subsequent miscarriage. The book was an examination of free will and"
"around technology-induced memory loss. Period-piece L.A. police detective stories set in the 1940s and '50s returned — with a harder edge and occasional parallels to contemporary issues — in ""Mulholland Falls"" (1996), and ""L.A. Confidential"" (1997) which was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won two. Both ""True Confessions"" (1981) and De Palma's ""The Black Dahlia"" (2006) are based on an actual unsolved Hollywood murder case from 1947. ""Hollywoodland"" (2006) explores the mysterious 1959 death of actor George Reeves, who is portrayed by Ben Affleck. Raymond Chandler's final unfinished novel, ""Poodle Springs"", from 1958, was completed by another author and"
"the title Obsequies at Oxford. It has since been reissued several times, including a reissue by Gollancz in 1969 and a new US printing under the original UK title by Walker & Co in 1979. Reviewing the 1969 reissue for ""The Times"", H. R. F. Keating described the novel as less good than Crispin's ""The Moving Toyshop"", ""being rather too much bogged down with the mechanics of suspicion-casting to achieve total elan"". Crispin’s ""Times"" obituary of 1978 detected within ""The Case of the Gilded Fly"" the influence of his favourite authors John Dickson Carr, Gladys Mitchell and Michael Innes together"
"Locked in Time Locked in Time is a 1985 suspense novel by Lois Duncan. The story centers around Nore, a seventeen-year-old girl who moves into a new home with her father Chuck and her new stepfamily. Soon after she meets her stepmother, stepbrother, and stepsister for the first time, Nore begins to suspect something is not quite right about her stepfamily. The author states that the novel explores some of the issues surrounding having eternal life. Duncan says she developed the idea for the novel when one of her daughters was thirteen years old and was having issues with her"
"made in 1946 and 1961. Seven Keys to Baldpate (novel) Seven Keys to Baldpate is a 1913 novel by Earl Derr Biggers. A bestseller, it was adapted by George M. Cohan into a play, which in turn was adapted several times for film, radio and TV. The plot of the novel differs from the play in many respects. The setting was based on the real Baldpate Mountain. An American hotel inspired by that name, The Baldpate Inn, opened in 1918. The play adapted by George M. Cohan in 1913 was subsequently filmed and broadcast on radio and TV several times:"
"time, has been written about extensively using descriptions like ""dreamlike,"" ""ultraweird,"" ""dark,"" and ""oddball."" Red curtains also show up in key scenes, specifically in Dorothy's apartment, which have since become a Lynch trademark. The film has been compared to Alfred Hitchcock's ""Psycho"" (1960) because of its stark treatment of psychotic evil. The premise of both films is curiosity, leading to an investigation that draws the lead characters into a hidden, voyeuristic underworld of crime. The film's thematic framework hearkens back to Poe, James, and early gothic fiction, as well as films such as ""Shadow of a Doubt"" (1943) and ""The"
"period was documented by the photographer Harold Chapman, who moved in at about the same time, and took pictures of the residents of the hotel until it closed in 1963. Corso's Paris sojourn resulted in his third volume of poetry, ""The Happy Birthday of Death"" (1960), ""Minutes to Go"" (1960, visual poetry deemed ""cut-ups"") with William S. Burroughs, Sinclair Beiles, and Brion Gysin, ""The American Express"" (1961, an Olympia Press novel), and ""Long Live Man"" (1962, poetry). Corso fell out with his publisher of ""Gasoline"", Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Bookstore, who objected to ""Bomb,"" a position Ferlinghetti later rued"
"from 1963, his own column ""Northern Accent"". Chaplin's literary career pre-dated the so-called ""angry young men"" genre and has been credited as an influence on the late 1950s/early 1960s ""kitchen sink"" social realism of writers such as Alan Sillitoe and Stan Barstow. His novels ""The Day of the Sardine"" (1961) and ""The Watchers and the Watched"" (1962) have been cited as classics of ""working class existentialism"" and were reprinted by Flambard Press in 2004. In 1968, playwright Alan Plater based his play and musical production ""Close The Coalhouse Door"" on Chaplin's early writings, set to songs by Alex Glasgow. The"
"genre. As a significant departure from realism, however, the novel uses a number of time-shift sequences to emphasize the connections between the different generations of the McGibbon family. In this sense, the novel can be regarded as a precursor to such modernist Canadian novels as Sheila Watson's ""The Double Hook"" and Hugh MacLennan's ""The Watch That Ends the Night"" (both published in 1959). ""The Golden Time"" was Standish's first novel. He published just one more novel, ""Blues for Loretta"", in (1954) before giving up fiction to concentrate on poetry. In his biography of Standish, Douglas Scott quotes the legendary literary"
"Tintner include ""The Secret Garden"" (1911), by Frances Hodgson Burnett; ""Poor Girl"" (1951), by Elizabeth Taylor; ""The Peacock Spring"" (1975), by Rumer Godden; ""Ghost Story"" (1975) by Peter Straub; ""The Accursed Inhabitants of House Bly"" (1994) by Joyce Carol Oates; and ""Miles and Flora"" (1997)—a sequel—by Hilary Bailey. Further literary adaptations identified by other authors include ""Affinity"" (1999), by Sarah Waters; ""A Jealous Ghost"" (2005), by A. N. Wilson; and ""Florence & Giles"" (2010), by John Harding. Young adult novels inspired by ""The Turn of the Screw"" include ""The Turning"" (2012) by Francine Prose and ""Tighter"" (2011) by Adele Griffin."
"1954; Thomas Hardy's ""Under the Greenwood Tree"", 1936 and ""Tess"", 1969; Daniel Defoe's ""Robinson Crusoe"", 1952; Charles and Mary Lamb's ""Tales from Shakespeare"", 1954; Jack London's ""Call of the Wild"", 1955; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's ""Silver Blaze"", 1958; Mark Twain's ""Adventures of Tom Sawyer"", c. 1959; Rudyard Kipling's ""The Jungle Book"", 1961; Jane Austen's ""Emma"", 1965 and ""Persuasion"", 1968; Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' ""The Yearling"", 1965; Eleanor Farjeon's ""The Silver Curlew"", 1968; Walter de la Mare's ""Stories from the Bible"", 1970. ""Fuyu no Yado"" (Polish ""Zimowa kwatera"") trans. Ewelina Tchórzewska-Adamowska, Książka i Wiedza. 1973 ""Nichi-Doku Taiko Kyogi"" (""The Japan-Germany Athletic Games"")"
"L. Sprague de Camp, and Isaac Asimov. His well-known stories include 1938's ""The Men and the Mirror,"" which was part of his Colbie and Deverel series, and 1941's ""Time Wants a Skeleton"", which has been reprinted in several anthologies, including Asimov's ""Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction"". Rocklynne partially retired from writing in the late 1950s, but made a notable return in the 1970s when his novelette ""Ching Witch!"" was included in Harlan Ellison's original anthology, ""Again, Dangerous Visions"" (1972). Rocklynne died in Los Angeles, California at the age of 75. He was survived by his two sons, Keith"
"pursuit after leaving the city he designed and built Shaker-style furniture—a career he pursued for the next ten years. He also became a fan of classic detective stories, in all their varieties from Conan Doyle to Ross Macdonald to Reginald Hill. His wife, Naomi, inspired him to write his own mystery novel. Two years later he completed ""Think of a Number"". Its subsequent success in the marketplace, as well as with critics, persuaded him to write a second novel, ""Shut Your Eyes Tight"", featuring the same central characters. That was the beginning of a series of crime thrillers featuring retired"
"time and still are. Hitchcock's ""Psycho"" [1960], Arthur Penn's ""Bonnie and Clyde"" [1967], and Stanley Kubrick's ""A Clockwork Orange"" [1971]. Each film shook up a tired, bloated movie industry and used a world of lively lowlifes to reflect how dull other movies had become. And that, I predict, will be the ultimate honor for ""Pulp Fiction"". Like all great films, it criticizes other movies. Ken Dancyger writes that its ""imitative and innovative style"" – like that of its predecessor, ""Reservoir Dogs"" – represents a new phenomenon, the movie whose style is created from the context of movie life rather than"
"death. The protagonist/narrator, Edward Glyver, then takes the reader back, recounting as a confession his tale of deceit, love, and revenge. Glyver reveals the torment he has suffered at the hands of his rival, the poet-criminal Phoebus Rainsford Daunt, and why in pursuit of revenge Glyver (now masquerading as Edward Glapthorn), a book lover and scholar, has turned to murder. The story moves between the foggy London streets and the enchanting country manor house Evenwood where Daunt spent his formative years, a place with which Glyver finds he has a special connection. ""The Glass of Time"", the follow-up novel to"
"A Tract of Time A Tract of Time is an antiwar novel from 1966 by Smith Hempstone, that covers the time period about 1960, when there was an attempted coup of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. Even as the United States backed Diem's government during the war, its American advisers worked with the Montagnard people who opposed Diem, to help them fight the Viet Cong, whom they also opposed. The book follows one CIA operative, Harry Coltart, as he works with the Montagnard mountain tribesmen in the Central Highlands. Harry is initially successful in getting the Montagnards to fight"