"who lives in hopeful expectation. This has formed the basis for the Micawber Principle, based upon his observation in Chapter 12: The amounts quoted are equivalent to £20, £19 97½p and £20 2½p, in the United Kingdom's present currency. The character was played by W.C. Fields in the 1935 screen classic, ""Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger"". Bob Hoskins took the role in a 1999 BBC serial. Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones named one of his guitars (an early 1950s Fender Telecaster with a Gibson PAF humbucking pickup installed in the neck position) ""Micawber."""
"itself by a market garden. The novel begins with the journey of Dora Greenfield from London to Imber by train. Dora is a young former art student who is married to the difficult and demanding Paul Greenfield, an art historian who is staying at Imber Court as a guest while studying 14th-century manuscripts belonging to the Abbey. Dora left her husband six months earlier, but he has persuaded her to return to him. On the same train are Toby Gashe, an 18-year-old boy who has just finished school and is going to spend a few weeks as a guest at"
"literature""—but he has received exceptional acclaim from underground and alternative sites. His books have been the subject of numerous scholarly articles and theses, and have been taught in dozens of colleges and universities across the world. This includes a course in Madrid called ""In Search of the Great American Novel,"" where Dara's work was read alongside that of Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack Kerouac, Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon, and Toni Morrison. The only other writer of Dara's generation to be included in this survey was David Foster Wallace. In 1995, his first novel, ""The Lost"
"The Coffee Trader The Coffee Trader is a historical novel by David Liss, set in 17th-century Amsterdam. The story revolves around the activities of commodity trader Miguel Lienzo, who is a Jewish refugee from the Portuguese Inquisition. Recovering from near financial ruin, he embarks on a coffee trading scheme with a Dutch woman, kept secret because it is forbidden by his community council. Miguel navigates the social structures of the Amsterdam business world, the politics of the council, and the plots of competitors bringing this new import to Europe. The character of Miguel Lienzo is the great-uncle of Benjamin Weaver,"
"The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Robert Lewis Taylor, which was later made into a short-running television series on ABC from September 1963 through March 1964, featuring Kurt Russell as Jaimie, Dan O'Herlihy as his father, ""Doc"" Sardius McPheeters, and Michael Witney and Charles Bronson as the wagon masters, Buck Coulter and Linc Murdock, respectively. Taylor's realistic novel—despite the Tom-Sawyer-like protagonist and narrator, it is aimed at an adult audience and contains episodes that would have kept it off any school list at the time—was published in 1958 and"
"diary of the eponymous tenant inside it. In the late 19th century, Bram Stoker released one of the most widely recognized and successful novels in the epistolary form to date, ""Dracula"". Printed in 1897, the novel is compiled entirely of letters, diary entries, newspaper clippings, telegrams, doctor's notes, ship's logs, and the like. There are three types of epistolary novels: monologic (giving the letters of only one character, like ""Letters of a Portuguese Nun"" and ""The Sorrows of Young Werther""), dialogic (giving the letters of two characters, like Mme Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's ""Letters of Fanni Butlerd"" (1757), and polylogic (with"
"The Transmigration of Timothy Archer The Transmigration of Timothy Archer is a 1982 novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. As his final work, the book was published shortly after his death in March 1982, although it was written the previous year. The book was originally titled ""Bishop Timothy Archer"". The novel was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1982. Set in the late 1960s and 1970s, the story describes the efforts of Episcopal Bishop Timothy Archer, who must cope with the theological and philosophical implications of the newly discovered Gnostic Zadokite scroll fragments. The character of"
"I Was Dora Suarez I was Dora Suarez, published in 1990, is a detective novel by Derek Raymond. It is the fourth book in the Factory series, following ""He Died with His Eyes Open"", ""The Devil's Home on Leave"", and ""How the Dead Live"". In the fourth novel in the Factory series opens, young prostitute Dora Suarez is axed into pieces. The killer then smashes the head of her neighbour, an 86-year-old widow. On the same night, a mile away in the West End, a shotgun blows the top off the head of Felix Roatta, part owner of the seedy"
"singing sons of the Kissel family on the wagon train. The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Robert Lewis Taylor, which was later made into a short-running television series on ABC from September 1963 through March 1964, featuring Kurt Russell as Jaimie, Dan O'Herlihy as his father, ""Doc"" Sardius McPheeters, and Michael Witney and Charles Bronson as the wagon masters, Buck Coulter and Linc Murdock, respectively. Taylor's realistic novel—despite the Tom-Sawyer-like protagonist and narrator, it is aimed at an adult audience and contains episodes that would have kept it off"
"her companion Miss Dove who venture into the American South to help with an Underground Railroad. They are captured, flagellated and raped, and Dolly Morton is forced to be the mistress of a plantation owner. The book is written as the memoirs of Dolly Morton after she has become a madam. Among the upper class in 19th century Victorian Britain, pubic hair from a lover was frequently collected as a souvenir. The curls were, for instance, worn like cockades in men's hats as potency talismans, or exchanged among lovers as tokens of affection. The museum of St. Andrews University in"
"partner was Stan Raiff, a theatre producer. The couple lived in Manhattan. Donovan died on April 29, 1992 of cancer. His niece Stacey Donovan was the executor of his estate, and was involved in the 2010 republication of ""I'll Get There"". ""I'll Get There"" was the subject of an essay by Martin Wilson in the 2010 book """". John Donovan (writer) John Donovan (1928 - April 29, 1992) was an American writer of young adult literature. He is best known for his 1969 novel ""I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip"", the first known young adult novel to"
"was made bishop. A thinly veiled fictionalized version of this essay is criticized in Philip K. Dick's fictionalized memoir/biography of James Pike, ""The Transmigration of Timothy Archer"" which was published posthumously as the third volume in Dick's VALIS Trilogy. In TOTA, Didion and The White Album, respectively, are given the aliases ""Jane Marione"" and ""The Green Cover."" The White Album (book) The White Album is a 1979 book of essays by Joan Didion. Like her previous book ""Slouching Towards Bethlehem"", ""The White Album"" is a collection of works previously published in magazines such as ""Life"" and ""Esquire"". The subjects of"
"a US edition in 1991. The narrative follows the age-old pattern of separate stories embedded within a primary story, as in the ""Panchatantra"", the ""Arabian Nights"" and the ""Canterbury Tales"". Each of the stories is linked to a different piece of furniture in an antique shop, and the question arises as to whether the stories are pure invention (""a pack of lies"") or could perhaps be true – and what their being ""true"" would mean about the narrator. A young man with the unlikely name of MCC Berkshire (""from Reading"") follows Ailsa home from the library and talks himself into"
"to create Docuteller, an American version. By 1969 work began on the prototype and the first working Docutel ABM was installed at Chemical Bank in New York. A television miniseries bearing the same name and based on the novel aired on NBC in 1976 (and repeated in 1978). The Moneychangers The Moneychangers is a 1975 novel written by Arthur Hailey. The plot revolves around the politics inside a major bank. As the novel begins, the position of CEO of one of America's largest banks, ""First Mercantile American"" (very loosely based on the Bank of America, although it is located in"
"Manhattan Transfer (novel) Manhattan Transfer is an American novel by John Dos Passos published in 1925. It focuses on the development of urban life in New York City from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age as told through a series of overlapping individual stories. It is considered to be one of Dos Passos' most important works. The book attacks the consumerism and social indifference of contemporary urban life, portraying a Manhattan that is merciless yet teeming with energy and restlessness. The book shows some of Dos Passos' experimental writing techniques and narrative collages that would become more pronounced in"
"of Aunt Dot is based on Rose Macaulay's friend Dorothy L. Sayers, and that Father Hugh Chantry-Pigg has elements of Frs. Patrick McLaughlin, Gilbert Shaw and Gerard Irvine. The book was described in ""The New York Times"": ""Fantasy, farce, high comedy, lively travel material, delicious japes at many aspects of the frenzied modern world, and a succession of illuminating thoughts about love, sex, life, organized churches and religion are all tossed together with enchanting results."" The Towers of Trebizond The Towers of Trebizond is a novel by Rose Macaulay (1881–1958). Published in 1956, it was the last of her novels,"
"Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's Minotaur in 2010. The novel marked Stanley's move from a small press to a major publisher. The first novel in the Miranda Corbie mystery series, ""City of Dragons"" is set in 1940 San Francisco, particularly Chinatown, and tackles issues relating to the Second Sino-Japanese War. The protagonist, Miranda Corbie, is a private investigator, former Spanish Civil War nurse and ex-escort. Stanley has said that she wanted to create a femme fatale as a hero, playing tribute to noir conventions while at the same time challenging them. ""City of Secrets"", the sequel to ""City of Dragons"", was published"
"here in his memoirs ""Far Off Things"" (1922) and ""Things Near and Far"" (1923). His mystical work ""The Hill of Dreams"" (1907, though written ten years earlier) has scenes set in Notting Hill; it is here that the protagonist Lucian Taylor encounters the beautiful bronze-haired prostitute who will later connive at his death. The reputation of the district altered over the course of the 20th century. As middle-class households ceased to employ servants, the large Notting Hill houses lost their market and were increasingly split into multiple occupation. During the Blitz a number of buildings were damaged or destroyed by"
"Continent"", he was nicknamed """"Two Chairs"""" by Ridcully, on the basis that he was the only person able to sit on two chairs at once. In ""Hogfather"", Ridcully is impressed by Hex, the UU ""computer"", and asks if there is any chance they could fit a similar one in the Dean's head. Ponder Stibbons then informs him that the resulting brain would weigh ten tons, upon which Ridcully merely remarks ""Really? Quite a large crowbar would be in order, then."" In ""Unseen Academicals"" it is revealed that The Dean has left UU to become the new Archchancellor of the new"
"former tutor, Lord Marchpayne, a once-close friend with whom he has lost touch, and fellow Scot Ranald McKechnie, now a lecturer at the college. McKechnie's wife, Janet, is Duncan's first love. The second novel, ""Young Patullo"", tells the story of their former relationships and Patullo's undergraduate career. Fantasy writer and Oxford don J. R. R. Tolkien appears as the elderly ""Professor Timbermill"" in this novel. In ""The Madonna of the Astrolabe"" Patullo copes with his ex-wife, the undergraduates' production of ""Tamburlaine"", and the problems of raising enough money for the urgently needed restoration of the crumbling Great Tower. The discovery"
"Codrington Affair, a scandalous divorce case that gripped Britain in 1864. The protagonist is Emily Faithfull. ""The Sealed Letter"" was longlisted for the Giller Prize, and was joint winner, with Chandra Mayor's ""All the Pretty Girls"", of the 2009 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction. On 27 July 2010, Donoghue's novel ""Room"" was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and on 7 September 2010 it made the shortlist. On 2 November 2010, it was announced that ""Room"" had been awarded the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. ""Room"" was also shortlisted for the 2010 Governor General's Awards in Canada, and was"
"Trade routes thread space like capillaries in living tissue; thousands of worlds have been colonized, each different from every other, each working its specific change upon those men who live there. Never has the human race been less homogenous."" The planet has two continents, Uaia to the north and Szintarre to the south, separated by the Persimmon Sea. The littoral of Uaia, known as the Alouan, is inhabited by the Uldras, consisting of various tribes, some of which signed the so-called Submission Treaties with the Land Barons two hundred years prior to the timeframe of the novel, while the others"
"claimed that an ancient Kickapoo Indian Princess is buried in her backyard. This makes Bob's sister very jealous. Later, Mrs. Dowdel and Cora Shellabarger knock on the Barnhart house and tells Bob's family that his older sister, Phyllis, has fallen in love with one of the bullies who dipped Bobby in the crick, got drunk, and was left by the bully in the remains of a car crash at the Shellabargers' front steps. The third part of the book starts off talking about the local convenience store and how the veterans of foreign war sell Christmas trees there. As Grandma"
"and gives us our first glance at one of the series' long running mutant menaces : Stickies. This book also introduces the Redoubts, in particular the Cerberus Redoubt, and the MAT-TRANS teleport chambers that are a major plot device driving the series. Ryan Cawdor (Introduced) Krysty Wroth (Introduced) J.B. Dix (Introduced) Dr. Theophilus Tanner (Introduced) Okie (Introduced) Hunaker (Introduced) Hennings (Introduced) Finnagan (Introduced) The Trader (Introduced) Pilgrimage to Hell Pilgrimage to Hell is the first book in the Deathlands Saga of novels. Written by Christopher Lowder under his pen name Jack Adrian and published on May 1, 1986, it follows"
"The Getaway (novel) The Getaway is a 1958 crime novel by Jim Thompson. Doc McCoy pulls off what he thinks is the perfect a bank robbery, but there are things he has forgotten, a treacherous partner, his amateur criminal wife, and that there is no such thing as a clean getaway. Carter ""Doc"" McCoy, an expert criminal who was recently released from prison on a pardon, plans to commit a bank robbery with three accomplices. One is his wife Carol, a former librarian who was charmed by McCoy's ruthlessness and immorality and thus became his partner-in-crime; she is waiting with"
"A number of elements in the novel were inspired by Adams' time at university. For example, one plot thread involves moving a sofa which is irreversibly stuck on the staircase to Richard MacDuff's apartment; according to his simulations, not only is it impossible to remove it, but there is no way for it to have got into that position in the first place. In a similar incident that occurred while Douglas Adams attended St John's College, Cambridge, furniture was placed in the rooms overlooking the river in Third Court while the staircases were being refurbished. When the staircases were completed,"
"Dealing: or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues is a novel written by Michael Crichton and his brother Douglas Crichton under the joint pseudonym Michael Douglas. It was originally published in 1970. It was serialized in the December 1970, January 1971 and February 1971 issues of ""Playboy"" magazine. In order to hook up with his new California girlfriend, a Harvard graduate involves her in an ill-fated plan to smuggle a suitcase full of marijuana bricks from Berkeley to Boston. Crichton wrote the book with his brother, then 19 years old. He said he wrote"
"metaphor for contemporary Egypt and a unifying location in which most of the primary characters either live or work and in which much of the novel's action takes place. The author, a dentist by profession, had his first office in the Yacoubian Building in Cairo. ""The Yacoubian Building"" was the best-selling Arabic novel for 2002 and 2003, and was voted Best Novel for 2003 by listeners to Egypt's Middle East Broadcasting Service. It has been translated into 23 languages. The actual namesake building, constructed in the Art Deco style, still stands in downtown Cairo at the address given in the"
"it were, a Mythos Studies Department."" Price traces the influence of Leiber's story on such works as Philip José Farmer's ""The Freshman"", Lin Carter's ""Zoth-Ommog"" and Brian Lumley's ""The Burrowers Beneath"" and ""The Transition of Titus Crow"". The story's unnamed narrator arrives at Arkham to visit Miskatonic University, noting changes that had occurred there since the 1920s and 1930s. (The story is apparently set in the mid-1960s; references to Fidel Castro and the International Geophysical Year—1957-58—place it no earlier than the late 1950s.) He is met by Albert Wilmarth, the narrator of Lovecraft's ""The Whisperer in Darkness"", now the chair"
"The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company"" under the pseudonym Multatuli. Douwes Dekker's pen name is derived from the Latin phrase ""multa tuli"", meaning ""I have suffered much"" (or more literally: ""I have borne much""). It refers both to himself and to the victims of the injustices he saw. Although Multatuli's friend and fellow writer Jacob van Lennep had seen to it that identifiable place names were changed before publication, the book still caused enormous controversy. Apologists for colonialism accused Multatuli of exaggeration, and he was unsuccesssfully pressured to withdraw the inflammatory book. Critics claimed it lacked literary merit;"
"the bag of bricks on a cross-country flight from Berkeley to Boston. Dealing: or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues is a novel written by Michael Crichton and his brother Douglas Crichton under the joint pseudonym Michael Douglas. It was originally published in 1970. It was serialized in the December 1970, January 1971 and February 1971 issues of ""Playboy"" magazine. In order to hook up with his new California girlfriend, a Harvard graduate involves her in an ill-fated plan to smuggle a suitcase full of marijuana bricks from Berkeley to Boston. Crichton wrote the"
"ambition leads to the story of an entrepreneurial Chinese trading family who arrange the transferring of the arms. The central, third story features an American couple, Greg and Dorothy Nilsen, who are tourists of the Far East used to legitimize the transaction, and so find themselves in great danger — the recurrent theme of ″innocents abroad″ that characterizes the novels of Eric Ambler. As a novel, the narrative of ""Passage of Arms"" combines high and low humor, political and social suspense, and military action populated by vivid characters acting in ″exotic″ locales. Passage of Arms Passage of Arms (1959), by"
"to ""the wild tales of cosmic hill things from outside told by a folklorist colleague in Miskatonic's English department."" Wilmarth is the main character in Fritz Leiber's ""To Arkham and the Stars"", written and presumably set in 1966, when the now-septugenarian professor is chair of Miskatonic's Literature Department. Leiber describes him as ""slender [and] silver-haired"", with a ""mocking sardonic note which has caused some to call him 'unpleasantly' rather than simply 'very' erudite."" He acknowledges keeping ""in rather closer touch with the Plutonians or Yuggothians than perhaps even old Dyer guesses."" Wilmarth remarks in the story, ""[A]fter you've spent an"