"a theme which fascinated Nabokov from a very young age, are central. The book opens at a party and there follow four continuous scenes, after which the novel becomes more fragmented. It is not clear how old Wild is, but he is preoccupied with his own death and sets about obliterating himself from the toes upwards through meditation, a sort of deliberate self-inflicted self-erasure. According to his diaries, Nabokov first noted his work on the project on December 1, 1974, under the title ""Dying Is Fun"". By the summer of 1976, he noted that the story was completed in his"
"In April 2008, Dmitri announced that he would publish the novel. Prior to the incomplete novel's publication, several short excerpts of ""The Original of Laura"" were made public: German weekly ""Die Zeit"", reproduced some of Nabokov's original index cards obtained by its reporter Malte Herwig in its 14 August 2008 issue. In the accompanying article Herwig concludes that ""Laura"", although fragmentary, is ""vintage Nabokov"". In July 2009, ""Playboy"" magazine acquired the rights to print a 5,000-word excerpt from ""The Original of Laura"". It was printed in the December issue. ""The Original of Laura"" was published on 17 November 2009. Nabokov's"
"Laura (novel) Laura (1942, 1943) is a detective novel by Vera Caspary. It is her best known work, and was adapted into a popular film in 1944, with Gene Tierney in the title role. Originally, ""Laura"" ran in ""Colliers"" from October to November 1942 as a seven-part serial entitled ""Ring Twice for Laura"". Houghton Mifflin republished ""Laura"" in book form the next year; afterwards, Caspary sold the film rights to Twentieth Century Fox, resulting in a 1944 hit movie starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. In 1946, Caspary sold the story for a fourth time, this time co-writing a theatrical"
"of the classic tunnel, but restrain myself at the last instant when I think of those who care for me and of important things I must still do."" The injuries suffered in the crash effectively ended his operatic career. As executor of his father's literary estate, Nabokov wrestled for 30 years over whether to publish his father's final manuscript, ""The Original of Laura"". It was published by Knopf on November 16, 2009. In celebration of Vladimir Nabokov's centenary in 1999, Dmitri appeared as his father in Terry Quinn's ""Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya"", a dramatic reading based on the personal letters"
"hurricanes named Lolita that year, but that is the year that ""Lolita"" the novel was published in North America. The unfinished novel ""The Original of Laura"", published posthumously, features the character Hubert H. Hubert, an older man preying upon then-child protagonist, Flora. Unlike those of Humbert Humbert in ""Lolita"", Hubert's advances are unsuccessful. The novel abounds in allusions to classical and modern literature. Virtually all of them have been noted in ""The Annotated Lolita"", edited and annotated by Alfred Appel, Jr. Many are references to Humbert's own favorite poet, Edgar Allan Poe. Humbert Humbert's first love, Annabel Leigh, is named"
"genre. What sets it apart is that Laura is no helpless virgin: she has a successful career and a considerable sexual history, but still emerges as sincere and lovable, with domestic urges so strong that she is prepared to marry an unworthy man to fulfill them. Laura (novel) Laura (1942, 1943) is a detective novel by Vera Caspary. It is her best known work, and was adapted into a popular film in 1944, with Gene Tierney in the title role. Originally, ""Laura"" ran in ""Colliers"" from October to November 1942 as a seven-part serial entitled ""Ring Twice for Laura"". Houghton"
"21, 1831, the oldest of five children of Lucy Winslow Curtis and Jeremiah Curtis. Her father was an abolitionist who became wealthy by establishing a company in Bangor, Maine, where the family moved, that produced Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup, a morphine-based tonic. In 1859 Laura married Enoch Bullard, an executive in her family's business who later became its president. Bullard published two novels about women who determined the course of their own lives without depending on men. In 1854, when she was 23 years old, Bullard anonymously published ""Now-a-days!"", in which the novel's heroine, who comes from a wealthy family,"
"his inspiration, editor, and first reader; all his works are dedicated to her. ""Lolita"" was saved by her from the flames more than once. However, personal letters pertaining to her and her marriage were destroyed. Upon the couple's return to Europe in 1960, she resided with her husband at the Montreux Palace Hotel where she continued to manage his affairs, and after his death in 1977, his estate. Upon his death, Vladimir had requested his final work, ""The Original of Laura"", be burned, but neither Véra nor Dmitri could bring themselves to destroy the manuscript, and eventually it was published"
"The first English edition appeared 1954 in the United States. In 2003, two years after Hillers' death, a new edition of the book was published in Germany, again anonymously. It met with wide critical acclaim and was on bestseller lists for more than 19 weeks. Jens Bisky, a German literary editor, identified the anonymous author that year as German journalist Marta Hillers, who had died in 2001. This revelation caused a literary controversy, and questions of the book's authenticity were explored. The book was published again in English in 2005 in editions in the United Kingdom and the United States."
"Laura l'immortelle Laura l'immortelle (""Laura the Immortal"" in French) is a novel by Marie-Pier Côté, a Québécois Canadian author. The book was published by Les Éditions des Intouchables on January 17, 2007. When Côté was 12, her novel was published. The book was launched with a lot of publicity because of the author's age. The author initially stated that she secretly wrote the book between mid-October 2005 and mid-June 2006 and corresponded with a friend. On March 13, 2007 the French-language newspaper ""La Presse"" published an article noting a list of similarities between ""Laura l'immortelle"" and the film ""Highlander""; ""La"
"owner of the publishing company responsible for the publication of the book, said that Côté's parents also had to pay $24,469.32 as compensation to the publisher. ""Laura l'immortelle"" had about 5,000 copies printed. Laura l'immortelle Laura l'immortelle (""Laura the Immortal"" in French) is a novel by Marie-Pier Côté, a Québécois Canadian author. The book was published by Les Éditions des Intouchables on January 17, 2007. When Côté was 12, her novel was published. The book was launched with a lot of publicity because of the author's age. The author initially stated that she secretly wrote the book between mid-October 2005"
"Vera Caspary Vera Louise Caspary (November 13, 1899 – June 13, 1987) was an American writer of novels, plays, screenplays, and short stories. Her best-known novel, ""Laura"", was made into a highly successful movie. Though she claimed she was not a ""real"" mystery writer, her novels effectively merged women's quest for identity and love with murder plots. Independence is the key to her protagonists, with her novels revolving around women who are menaced, but who turn out to be neither victimized nor rescued damsels. Following her father's death, the income from Caspary's writing was at times only just sufficient to"
"of the spunky ""Laura"". Despite Lane's efforts to market ""Pioneer Girl"" through her publishing connections, the manuscript was rejected time and again. One editor recommended crafting a novel for children out of the beginning. Wilder and Lane worked on the idea, and the result was ""Little House in the Big Woods"". Accepted for publishing by Harper and Row in late 1931, the book's success resulted in the decision to continue the series, following young Laura into young adulthood. Historians are uncertain as to whether Lane's mother was a naturally skilled novelist who never discovered her talents until her sixties –"
"Lightning (novel) Lightning is a novel by American writer Dean Koontz, released in 1988. A 2003 reprinting includes a new afterword by the author, discussing editorial politics. A storm struck on the night Laura Shane was born, and there was a strangeness about the weather that people would remember for years. Even more mysterious was the blond-haired stranger who appeared out of nowhere again and again to save Laura from tragedy. As Laura Shane is born in January 1955, during a freak lightning storm, a mysterious blond stranger (Stefan) prevents a drunken Dr. Paul Markwell from attending to the difficult"
"nothing can save Laura from her impending doom. Her slow realisation of BOB's identity is described, although pages are 'missing' from the end of the diary, which ends with an undated entry in late 1989, leaving the reader unable to reach a firm conclusion. Lynch said that ""the careful reader will know the clues and who the killer is,"" and the killer's identity is revealed in the second season. The book reached number four on ""The New York Times"" paperback fiction best seller list in October 1990, though some US book stores refused to stock it due to the graphic"
"gambling party. When Lady Pelham dies, Hargrave kidnaps Laura and takes her to the wilderness of America. He plans to rape and then force Laura into marriage. She then fakes her own death by escaping down the rapids in a canoe, to which she ties herself. Hargrave commits suicide and Laura returns to her home country, where she marries Montague De Courcy and has five children with him. The first edition was published in February 1811 in two volumes, with a run of 750 copies, for the price of 21 shillings, of which 500 had been sold out by the"
"and ""Postal: Laura"" by Hill and Goodhart, that served as epilogues. Hawkins returned to write the ""Mark"" issue because the interactions between Mark and his parents were his favorite parts of the story. A second volume was being developed by Hawkins and Hill in early 2018 and is expected to launch in 2019. They hope Goodhart will return, but as of May 2018 he was not confirmed. Although initial monthly sales were strong, Hawkins said that later sales were more oriented toward the softcover collections that were released during serialization. Each softcover contains four issues worth of material and first"
"version with George Sklar. ""Laura"" achieved an international readership and has been translated into German, Italian, Japanese and Dutch. Since its original publication, the novel has been reissued many times. I Books released an edition in 2000, billing it as a ""lost classic."" Although this is now out of print, a Feminist Press edition became available in 2006. Like Wilkie Collins' detective novel ""The Moonstone"" (1868), ""Laura"" is narrated in the first person by several alternating characters. These individual stories all revolve around the apparent murder of the title character, a successful New York advertiser killed in the doorway of"
"The Murder of Diana Devon and Other Mysteries The Murder of Diana Devon and Other Mysteries is a collection of mystery stories and radio plays by the British thriller writer Michael Gilbert, first published in 2009 by the British company Robert Hale and unpublished in the United States. Gilbert, who was appointed CBE in 1980, was a founder-member of the British Crime Writers' Association. The Mystery Writers of America named him a Grand Master in 1988 and in 1990 he was presented Bouchercon's Lifetime Achievement Award. It contains 13 previously uncollected stories, as well as a poem and two unpublished"
"says that they were not published due to permission being refused by Langley's daughter, Bisi. Lucy Frost's ""Wilde Eve"", another editing of the New Zealand novels, was published in 1999. In her introduction to this work, Frost writes ""She was Eve Langley and Oscar Wilde, Australian woman and English man – poet caught in the woe of World War II and immortal, one of the ancients come again to life"". Despite this, the Wilde obsession plays little part in the book, with Frost, herself, admitting that ""the narrator's other is Steve, not Oscar Wilde"", Steve being the name she uses"
"was first published in 1955 and was reissued after her death in 1983. ""We are besieged"" was republished again in 2011, and ""Footprints upon water"" in 2012 leading to a rediscovery of her work. Fitzgerald retired to Ireland in 1968 with her husband. She suffered with ill health for a number of years, succumbing to early dementia. She died in Dublin on 21 May 1982. She had a son, Julian and a daughter, Christina. Barbara Fitzgerald Barbara Fitzgerald (16 December 1911 – 21 May 1982) was an Irish novelist. Barbara Fitzgerald was born Barbara Gregg in Cork on 16 December"
"triple moan of descending pitch"". His remains were cremated and are buried at the Clarens cemetery in Montreux. At the time of his death, he was working on a novel titled ""The Original of Laura"". His wife Véra and son Dmitri were entrusted with Nabokov's literary executorship, and though he asked them to burn the manuscript, they chose not to destroy his final work. The incomplete manuscript, around 125 handwritten index cards long, remained in a Swiss bank vault where only two people, Dmitri Nabokov and an unknown person, had access. Portions of the manuscript were shown to Nabokov scholars."
"later another petition was organised in an attempt to obtain pardons for Chattox and Demdike. It followed the Swiss government's pardon earlier that year of Anna Göldi, beheaded in 1782, thought to be the last person in Europe to be executed as a witch. William Harrison Ainsworth, a Victorian novelist considered in his day the equal of Dickens, wrote a romanticised account of the Pendle witches published in 1849. ""The Lancashire Witches"" is the only one of his 40 novels never to have been out of print. The British writer Robert Neill dramatised the events of 1612 in his novel"
"of age. However, Rose feels her writing skills are superior to her mother’s and this leads to conflict between the two. As Laura struggles to write a second novel about Almanzo Wilder called ""Farmer Boy"", and could use Rose’s help, Rose is busy writing her own novel, ""Let the Hurricane Roar"" (reissued in 1976 as ""Young Pioneers""), which she bases on her mother’s memoirs without asking permission. The relationship between the two becomes strained when Laura finds this out and only improves when Rose volunteers to do research for ""Farmer Boy"". ""Farmer Boy"" is published in 1933, and Laura and"
"against all odds, until one night he encounters a large group and attempts to fight them. Unfortunately, he is mortally wounded in the process and dies at the end of the poem. The first drafts of the poem are from 1814. The copy text that Byron wrote for the first edition was made between June 14 and June 23, 1814. There were subsequent corrections made but none of the materials have been found. Sometime after August 5, 1814, ""Lara"" was published with ""Jacqueline"" for the first time. The first three editions were published together and anonymously, selling almost 7,000 copies."
"New York Public Library. In 2008, the entire novel was finally published, together with ""Bizarro"", another of Scott's suppressed stories, in an edition by J. H. Alexander, Judy King, and Graham Tulloch, published by Edinburgh University Press and Columbia University Press. This edition presents a literal transcript of the manuscripts together with a reading text in which the more obvious errors are corrected. It also includes a CD-ROM scan of the manuscript. The editors of ""Bizarro"" and ""The Siege of Malta"" have described them as ""unique and moving texts by a master of resonant storytelling"", but other assessments have been"
"Laura Palmer Laura Palmer is a fictional character in the ""Twin Peaks"" franchise. She is portrayed by Sheryl Lee and was created by the series creators David Lynch and Mark Frost. She first appears in the ABC original series ""Twin Peaks"". A high school student whose death is the catalyst for the events of the series, Palmer is the protagonist in Lynch's prequel films """" (1992) and """" (2014), which both depict the final week of her life leading up to her murder. Laura also appears in the novels, ""Twin Peaks: The Return"" (2017), and a variety of merchandise based"
"(1959), was completed from instructions left by Walter M. Miller, Jr. before his death in 1996. LoBrutto worked with author Terry Bison to harmonize this 30-years-in-coming sequel, with the powerful literary and philosophical antecedents of the original novel. The book's reception was strong. The Washington Post Book World declared it ""a remarkably affecting novel...vividly imagined...Superb."" The New York Times Book Review said it ""pulses with life."" Publishers Weekly wrote ""Bisson's prose is a wonder of seemingly effortless control and precision."" Time Magazine called it ""an extraordinary novel...chillingly effective."" The Chicago Tribune hailed it as ""an extraordinary novel...Prodigiously imaginative, richly comic,"
"in the collection. The second story, ""Skeleton Men of Jupiter"", was first published in ""Amazing Stories"" in 1943. Intended as the first in a series of novelettes to be later collected in book form, in the fashion of ""Llana of Gathol"", it ends with the plot unresolved, and the intended sequels were never written. Several other writers have written pastiche endings for the story. The first edition of ""John Carter of Mars"" (a title that Burroughs never used for any book in the ""Barsoom"" series) was published in 1964 by Canaveral Press, fourteen years after his death. This book is"
"Immortality (novel) Immortality () is a novel in seven parts, written by Milan Kundera in 1988 in Czech. First published 1990 in French. English edition 345 p., translation by Peter Kussi. This novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman, seemingly to her swimming instructor. Immortality is the last of a trilogy that includes ""The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting"", and ""The Unbearable Lightness Of Being."" Divided into seven parts, Immortality centers on Agnes, her husband Paul and her sister Laura. Part One: the Face establishes these characters. Part Two: Immortality depicts Goethe's fraught relationship with Bettina, a young"
"thirty-four and Laura was now only eighteen, her father was initially opposed to the idea. Dr Epps finally agreed on the condition that they should wait until they knew each other better. They married in July 1871. Laura, under her married name, also won a high reputation as an artist, and appears in numerous of Alma-Tadema's canvases after their marriage (""The Women of Amphissa"" (1887) being a notable example). This second marriage was enduring and happy, though childless, and Laura became stepmother to Anna and Laurence. Anna became a painter and Laurence became a novelist. He would initially adopt the"
"The Lancashire Witches The Lancashire Witches is the only one of William Harrison Ainsworth's forty novels that has remained continuously in print since its first publication. It was serialised in the ""Sunday Times"" newspaper in 1848; a book edition appeared the following year, published by Henry Colburn. The novel is based on the true story of the Pendle witches, who were executed in 1612 for causing harm by witchcraft. Modern critics such as David Punter consider the book to be Ainsworth's best work. E. F. Bleiler rated the novel as ""one of the major English novels about witchcraft"". The subject"
"novels, ""Playback"" is the only one never to have been adapted into a film. In 2011, ""Playback"" was adapted for radio by BBC Radio Four as part of a season of Chandler adaptations. Marlowe was played by Toby Stephens. Playback (novel) Playback is a novel by Raymond Chandler, featuring the private detective Philip Marlowe. It was first published in Britain in July 1958; the US edition followed in October that year. Chandler died the following year; ""Playback"" is his last completed novel. At the beginning of 1952 (some 18 months after the parting of Marlowe and Linda Loring in ""The"