"happy volumes...the bitterness of that moment was never forgotten, at that moment I wished I was dead."" Desperate Remedies Desperate Remedies is the second novel by Thomas Hardy, albeit the first to be published. It was released anonymously by Tinsley Brothers in 1871. In ""Desperate Remedies"" a young woman, Cytherea Graye, is forced by poverty to accept a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had been unable to marry. Cytherea loves a young architect, Edward Springrove, but Miss Adclyffe's machinations, the discovery that Edward is already engaged to a"
"part-time at Massachusetts Medical Society. Before he began work on his first published novel, ""The Sisterhood"", about euthanasia, Palmer was practicing treatment of drug addiction. ""Side Effects"" (1985), his second published work, was about the testing of unapproved drugs on a patient in Nazi Germany, but his most famous novel proved to be ""Extreme Measures"" (1991), in which a promising young doctor is threatened by a hospital elite after discovering the body's criminal acts. A selection of his other books include: ""Natural Causes"" (1994), about an holistic doctor who prescribes medicine that actually kills patients; ""Miracle Cure"" (1998), about a"
"of ""Desperate Remedies"" was Hardy's breakthrough, and the first of a long string of novels that propelled him to the forefront of Victorian letters. Some critics cite ""quasi-gothic"" elements in ""Desperate Remedies"". It was positively reviewed in the Athenaeum and Morning Post. However, the review in the Spectator excoriated Hardy and his work, calling the book ""a desperate remedy for an emaciated purse"" and that the unknown author had ""prostituted his powers to the purposes of idle prying into the way of wickedness."" Hardy wrote of the review, ""alas...the Spectator brought down its heaviest leaded pastoral staff on the prematurely"
"significantly ""The Moonstone"" by Wilkie Collins. In 1866, Edward died of a stroke, leaving William to manage the firm alone. He continued to publish new authors, with, most notably, the first books of Thomas Hardy and G. A. Henty and the first novels of Richard Jefferies. In both Hardy's and Jefferies' case, he let the authors take a part of the risk, asking the former for £75, the latter for £60 to guarantee the costs. Hardy had brought ""Desperate Remedies"" (1871) to Tinsley because of the firm's reputation as a publisher of sensational novels; but the book (like Jefferies' early"
"the Lady"" would be too politically controversial and might damage Hardy's ability to publish in the future. So Hardy followed his advice and he did not try further to publish it. He subsequently destroyed the manuscript, but used some of the ideas in his later work. After he abandoned his first novel, Hardy wrote two new ones that he hoped would have more commercial appeal, ""Desperate Remedies"" (1871) and ""Under the Greenwood Tree"" (1872), both of which were published anonymously; it was while working on the latter that he met Emma Gifford, who would become his wife. In 1873 ""A"
"age of 10, he did not consider himself a writer until many years later when he wrote the first two chapters of his first novel, and felt that he had found his voice. He began his novel ""The Revised Kamasutra: A Novel of Colonialism and Desire"" while taking courses at Columbia University. After more than eight years of work, ""The Revised Kamasutra"" appeared in India in 1993. Subsequent editions appeared in Britain, the United States, Germany, Italy, and a few other countries. A collection of humorous, political, personal, and satirical essays titled ""Beauty Queens, Children and the Death of Sex"","
"undergraduate at the University of Aberdeen she studied English literature and edited the university magazine. During the First World War she was an assistant lecturer at the University and an instructor at the local teacher training centre. After the war she worked as an assistant lecturer at Birkbeck College but was dismissed after five years. She described herself as having ""no money, no sort of influence, and no professional training of any kind, except a completely useless Arts degree"". This crisis led to her career as a novelist. Her first novel ""Without Conditions"" was published in 1923—""The Quiet Lady"", a"
"Tsitsi Dangarembga Tsitsi Dangarembga (born 4 February 1959) is a Zimbabwean author and filmmaker. Her first novel, ""Nervous Conditions"" (1988), which was the first to be written in English by a black woman from Zimbabwe, was named as one of the top 100 books that have changed the world. Dangarembga was born in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), on 4 February 1959, but spent part of her childhood in England. She began her education in England, but later attended Hartzell High School, a missionary school in the Rhodesian town of Umtali (now Mutare). She later studied medicine at Cambridge University, where"
"School, London, Ontario, but resigned in protest at the demotion of a colleague in 1945. This experience was the subject of his first novel ""Wind Without Rain"". With a growing family of three sons, he turned to illustrating books, writing, researching, editing and painting commissioned murals to support them. It was during this time that he became interested in art therapy when he was commissioned illustrate Lionel Penrose's psychiatric 'M' test. In 1947, while working at Westminster Veterans Hospital in London, he began giving art instruction to some to the psychiatric patients. The positive results of this eventually afforded him"
"to support her ailing mother that she took up writing. The subscription lists to her work contain many aristocrats which suggests the family had been well connected but had fallen on hard times. She first published poetry under the name of Louisa, ""Variety:A Poem"" (1727) and ""Verses on the King's Birthday"" (1730). Her first major work was a novel entitled ""The Happy Unfortunate; Or The female page"". This appeared in 1732 and was reprinted in 1737. It is a masquerade romance in which the lead female characters hide behind masks for most of the story. With money from this she"
"University and married Richard Sigerson, by whom she had 2 sons. She later married literary critic and translator Martin Greenberg, and worked for years as a teacher and tutor for troubled children. Only in her 40s did she begin her first novel, ""Poor George"", about a cynical schoolteacher who finds purpose—and ruin—in mentoring a vagrant teenager. The novel was received well (Bernard Bergonzi in the ""New York Review of Books"" calling it ""the best novel I've read in a long time"") but sold poorly, a pattern that all her adult novels would follow. ""Desperate Characters"" came next with Alfred Kazin"
"People. He was educated at St. George's College, Weybridge, Surrey. After his schooling he joined the English Stage Company in Sloane Square, London. A year later he opened a jeans business in Carnaby Street London, at the height of the Swinging Sixties where he enjoyed considerable commercial success. He studied alternative religions and Taoist philosophy for five years from the age of twenty-eight, and when he was thirty-three, he emigrated to the United States of America where he lived in Laguna Beach, California with his first wife Cynthia. He wrote his first book, ""Miracles"", in 1983. Shortly thereafter he began"
"the stage, and in a short time he had produced no fewer than thirty-six dramatic pieces. In 1837, appeared his 'Weeds of Witchery,' a volume which caused a French critic to describe him as the Anacreon of English romance. In 1837, already seriously ill, he wrote a trilogy of novels ""Kindness of Women"". It consisted of a double novel ""Kate Leslie"" and an independent tale ""David Dumps, Or, The Budget of Blunders"". They were ordered by the publisher Richard Bentley and were quite well paid. Those novels are stylish, realistic and humorous. He had had brain fever, but from this"
"started his literary career with romantic poetry and Catholicism inspired theatre plays. In 1928, he publishes his first novel ""Waldo"". He became widely known with his novel ""Adelaide"", which appeared in 1929, and which was the first of a series of novels. Although initially well-received, the book caused him the rancour of the clergy, and his books were placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. This adverse reaction, which was not intended by Walschap, hurt him and after a long inner struggle and doubt he abandoned his faith and became a secular humanist. This inner struggle (with faith), would remain of"
"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"
"Her first manuscript, ""Amazon Lily (Theresa Weir)"", was rejected by multiple agents and publishers because they believed that her hero was unlikable. The novel finally sold and went on to win the Romantic Times Best Romantic Adventure Writer Award, but Frasier continued to encounter editors who disliked her characters. In Frasier's words, her characters are ""imperfect people who had problems, who didn't always make the right choices, but in the end triumphed."" The characters have real, interesting problems, including a hero with agoraphobia and a heroine with an eating disorder. Her work has been popular with readers and fellow romance"
"Not Weep"" in Harare. At the age of 25, she had her first taste of success with her novel ""Nervous Conditions"", published in 1988. It was the first novel in English by a black woman from Zimbabwe. The novel won the African section of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1989 and is considered one of the twelve best African novels ever written. In May, 2018, the BBC named Nervous Conditions as one of the top 100 books that have shaped the world. Her novel was 66th book on the list. Asked about her subsequent prose drought, she explained: ""There have"
"was published in ""Prairie Schooner"" and was later included in The Best American Short Stories of 1957. His first novel, ""A Departure From the Rules"", the story of the worst peacetime disaster in the history of the United States Navy, drew on his Navy experience, and was cited by critics for its ""extraordinary skill"" (Chicago 1960). He then turned his attention to the moral issues of contemporary society in ""The Easy Way"", praised for its ""insights into the legal profession"" (Buffalo), ""Home Again, Home Again"", which drew on his experience in the Maverick Artists Colony, ""for which the author has"
"parents, she traveled to the continent and studied in Germany and Switzerland. She wrote her first novel, ""Pantomime"", in 1914 at the age of 24. Her first critical success came with ""Twos and Threes"" in 1916. Her most popular books were the series known by the name of the first, ""The Matriarch"". This was first published as ""Tents of Israel"" in 1924. The others in the series are ""A Deputy Was King"" (1926), ""Mosaic"" (1930), ""Shining and Free"" (1935) and ""The Young Matriarch"" (1942). ""The Matriarch"" series revolved around the Rakonitz and Czelovar families and were based on her own"
"College, Grahamstown. He was employed as a journalist on the Cape Times between 1922–1926 and again between 1931–1935. In 1930 he commenced his career as an author of adventure stories, thrillers, military politics and history books. Some were written under the pen name 'David Rame'. His first novel as Rame was ""Wine of Good Hope"" (1939). During the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) from Dunkirk in 1940 (Operation Dynamo), Divine crossed the English Channel three times in a 35-foot boat to rescue trapped British soldiers. During the last of these he received a stomach wound. For his efforts,"
"The Favourite Game The Favourite Game is the first novel by Leonard Cohen. It was first published by Secker and Warburg in the fall of 1963. In 1959, Cohen was awarded a $2,000 Canada Council grant, which he used to live cheaply in London and on the Greek island of Hydra while he wrote the novel, then titled ""Beauty at Close Quarters"". When he returned to Canada in 1960, it was rejected by his publisher McClelland & Stewart. Jack McClelland was concerned about the autobiographical content and found the novel to be tedious and preoccupied with sex. He suggested major"
"by volunteers, and designed to educate the children of the working class. He had high expectations for the usefulness and influence of the Sunday schools, but when these expectations went unrealized he turned to drinking again. He published his first novel ""Bourgeois Happiness"" in ""Sovremennik"" (The Contemporary). He also became friends with the editor of ""Sovremennik"", Nikolay Nekrasov, and with its guiding spirit Nikolai Chernyshevsky. As a result of this success, he attended many parties, and drank heavily, which eventually landed him in the hospital with delirium tremens. His novel ""Molotov"" (1861- also published in ""Sovremennik""), the sequel to ""Bourgeois"
"photographer, and in 1929 he published his first novel, Retreat Without Song, after a serialized publication in the Harach newspaper of Paris (it is translated into several languages). In 1933 he published his second book, also written in Armenian, The Betrayal of the Gods, which is a collection of short stories. In 1937 he fell victim to a terrible bone disease (Osteolysis), which disabled him and caused him much pain and suffering for the rest of his life, mostly spent in hospitals after he lost his home in 1939. In 1945, having partially recovered from his illness, he started writing"
"In prison he wrote his first novel ""Moletu-Voleva"" or ""The insanity for the lust of dollars"", a tragic-comic satire, inspired by the personality of one of the jail recluses and his mad pursuit for easy-coming money. The book, published in 1956, received very warm critics and it was considered full of originality and transcendence. In 1957 he also published ""Bezana Roja"". By that time, he had already decided going into self-exile, considering incompatible his profession as a freelance writer with Franco's dictatorship. In 1957, he resigned his infantry captain rank and addressed a letter to the Spanish Government requesting that"
"his first novel ""Be More Chill"" was published. A review for the ""New York Times Book Review"" said that ""Be More Chill"", which is about a high school student named Jeremy Heere who gets a supercomputer pill in his brain that makes him cool, ""is so accurate that it should come with a warning."" Others have criticized the book for its language and lack of a clear moral. ""Be More Chill"" was later adapted into a musical in summer 2015 with lyrics by Joe Iconis and premiered at New Jersey’s Two River Theatre. Three years later, an Off-Broadway production opened"
"college, Lahore (now in Pakistan) as senior professor of Ayurveda. The management at the DAV college, Lahore was insulting to him, therefore, he resigned and went to Ajmer to help his father-in-law in his dispensary. Working at this dispensary, he started to write and soon became famous as a story writer and novelist. His first novel Hridaya-Ki-Parakh (Trial of the Heart) was published in 1918. It did not bring him any recognition. His second book, Satyagraha Aur Asahyoga (Civil Resistance and Non-cooperation) was published in 1921. Contrary to the title, this book collided with the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi who"
"first novel, ""Maria Luisa"", was written in 1907, followed by ""Los fracasados"" (""The Failures"") in 1908, and ""Mala yerba"" (""Weeds"") in 1909. The theme of his beginning novels are about fate. He wrote of the social life of Mexicans during the Díaz dictatorship. After experiencing the Mexican Revolution first-hand, his writing style became sarcastic and disillusioned. His first novel with the Revolution theme is ""Andrés Pérez, maderista"" in 1911, followed by ""Sin Amor"" (""Without Love"") in 1912, and his most popular, ""Los de abajo"" (""The Underdogs"") in 1915. He continued to write short works and novels influenced by the Revolution."
"and Miraculous Cures"", are based on his experiences in medical school. ""Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures"" won the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada's richest and most prestigious literary award, on November 7, 2006. ""Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures"" was also a finalist for The Story Prize in 2008. Following Lam's Giller win, Shaftesbury Films announced that it had reached a deal to adapt ""Bloodletting"" into a television series, which debuted in January 2010 on HBO Canada. Lam published a biography of Canadian politician Tommy Douglas, as part of Penguin Canada's ""Extraordinary Canadians"" series of historical biographies. His first novel, ""The Headmaster's Wager"","
"author of six novels: Michael Cordy Michael Cordy is a British novelist. He was born in Accra, the capital of Ghana. Cordy spent much of his childhood in both West Africa and East Africa, India and Cyprus. He was educated in the United Kingdom at The King's School, Canterbury, and the universities of Leicester and Durham. After ten years in marketing and advertising, with his wife's encouragement, he became a novelist. His first novel, ""The Miracle Strain"", took two years to complete and was published in 1997. Disney bought the film rights for $1.6 million and the novel reached no."
"The Comforters The Comforters is the first novel by Scottish author Muriel Spark. She drew on experiences as a recent convert to Catholicism and having suffered hallucinations due to using Dexedrine, an amphetamine then available over the counter for dieting. Although completed in late 1955, the book was not published until 1957. A mutual friend, novelist Alan Barnsley, had sent the proofs to Evelyn Waugh. At the time Waugh was writing ""The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold,"" which dealt with his own drug-induced hallucinations. Waugh's and others positive responses prompted Macmillan to publish the novel in February 1957 in the United"
"Night of the Creeps , and pursuing a modeling career, his pursuits found him an acting coach in the form of Walter Koenig, Chekov , who introduced Nicholas to a New York publisher of mass market paperback novels. His first novel, ""Pray Serpent's Prey"", originally a Christian allegory of vampires invading a small Montana town involving a preacher who learns that the power of God alone could save the central characters, and which Grabowsky began penning in high school, was accepted and published by Critic's Choice Paperbacks/Lorevan Publishing (the same publisher as Koenig) under the pseudonym of Nicholas Randers. Grabowsky"
"and then had a year at Bedford College, London (1872–1873), during which she wrote her first novel. She continued to write while studying at the London Academy of Music. She also nursed in a London hospital for two years. Her brother's death in 1876 ended plans to go to India with him, and she occupied herself instead with good works, including Sunday School teaching and nursing. In 1880 her first published work, ""Tom Tempest's Victory"", appeared. Though it was soon followed by more, she found writing at home difficult, and town winters did not suit her health. In 1883 she"
"""Mademoiselle"", ""Good Housekeeping"", ""Time"", ""Fortune"", and ""The New Yorker"". Based on the recommendation from Truman Capote, Highsmith was accepted by the Yaddo artist's retreat during the summer of 1948, where she worked on her first novel, ""Strangers on a Train"". Highsmith endured cycles of depression, some of them deep, throughout her life. Despite literary success, she wrote in her diary of January 1970: ""[I] am now cynical, fairly rich ... lonely, depressed, and totally pessimistic."" Over the years, Highsmith suffered from female hormone deficiency, anorexia nervosa, chronic anemia, Buerger's disease, and lung cancer. According to her biographer Andrew Wilson, Highsmith's"