"(the Hit Record Productions Ltd.'s boss) who saw the band at the Blues Loft club in High Wycombe. ""I thought they were a band I could develop and I took them on that basis,"" remembered Bron later. He became the band's manager and signed them to Vertigo Records, the newly formed Philips label. The four-piece found themselves booked into the Lansdowne Studios in London, still under the name of Spice. Then the name was changed to that of the well-known character from ""David Copperfield"", Uriah Heep (for, according to biographer Kirk Blows, ""Dickens' name being everywhere around Christmas '69 due"
"writing the novel. Uriah Heep's schemes and behaviour are more likely based on Thomas Powell, employee of Thomas Chapman, a friend of Dickens. Powell ""...ingratiated himself into the Dickens household"" and was discovered to be a forger and a thief, having embezzled £10,000 from his employer. He later attacked Dickens in pamphlets, calling particular attention to Dickens' social class and background. The characteristics of grasping manipulation and insincerity can lead to a person being labelled ""a Uriah Heep"" as Lyndon Johnson is called in Robert Caro's biography ""The Years of Lyndon Johnson"". Seymour Fleming, a character in the play ""Babes"
"A. Caro's The Path to Power, Lyndon B. Johnson is said to have resembled the personality of Uriah Heep. A reference to the character of Uriah Heep exists in the ""Half Life 2"" franchise. A friendly NPC character of one of the aliens from the game was considered, during development, to be a companion to the player for parts of the game, named ""Heep"". This idea was scrapped in the original game but recycled for """", where a lab assistant of the same species is named Uriah. Uriah Heep Uriah Heep is a fictional character created by Charles Dickens in"
"Charles Dickens novels are littered with stock-market speculations, villains, swindlers and fictional speculators. Little Dorrit (1857) The financial house of Mr Merdle; Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) 'Anglo-Bengalee Disinterested Loan and Life Company, modeled loosely on the South Sea Bubble,- is in essence a classic Ponzi scheme; Nicholas Nickleby (1839) Ralph Nickleby's great Joint Stock Company, United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company; David Copperfield (1850) the false accounting by the sycophant Uriah Heep, clerk to lawyer Mr Wickfield; South Sea Company The South Sea Company (officially The Governor and Company of the merchants of Great Britain,"
"Wilkins Micawber Wilkins Micawber is a clerk in Charles Dickens's 1850 novel ""David Copperfield"". He is traditionally identified with the optimistic belief that ""something will turn up."" Micawber was incarcerated in debtors' prison (the King's Bench Prison) after failing to meet his creditors' demands. His long-suffering wife, Emma, stands by him despite his financial exigencies that force her to pawn all of her family's heirlooms. She lives by the maxims, ""I will never desert Mr. Micawber!"" and ""Experientia does it!"" (from ""Experientia docet"", ""One learns by experience."") Micawber is hired as a clerk by the scheming Uriah Heep, who assumes"
"baby half-brother. Because of his hate for the boy, Murdstone and his sister decide to send David to work in the family bottling factory. Life at the factory is miserable, where David is befriended by the penniless Wilkins Micawber, a humorous character based on Dickens' father John Dickens. He soon runs away to his great-aunt Betsey Trotwood in Dover. Aunt Betsey adopts him and sends him to Dr. Strong's private school in Canterbury. There, David resides in the house of Mr. Wickfield; his daughter Agnes becomes David's friend and confidante. David also makes acquaintance of cunning and treacherous Uriah Heep,"
"the main character in its sequel, ""Kushiel's Justice"". The character Lucy Snowe in Charlotte Brontë's novel ""Villette"" is given the nickname Diogenes. Diogenes also features in Part Four of Elizabeth Smart's ""By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept"". He is a figure in Seamus Heaney's ""The Haw Lantern"". In Christopher Moore's """", one of Jesus' apostles is a devotee of Diogenes, complete with his own pack of dogs which he refers to as his own disciples. His story opens the first chapter of Dolly Freed's 1978 book ""Possum Living"". The dog that Paul Dombey befriends in Charles Dickens'"
"David Copperfield (1974 TV serial) David Copperfield is a British six-part television serial of the Charles Dickens novel adapted by Hugh Whitemore, directed by Joan Craft and first shown on BBC 1 in weekly parts from 1 December 1974. It was a co-production with Time-Life Television Productions. This version was generally well received. In Clive James review for ""The Observer"" he wrote: """"David Copperfield"" is as good as everybody says. Steerforth's flaw is well conveyed by Anthony Andrews, and Uriah Heep, played by Martin Jarvis, is a miracle of unction: to hear him talk is like stepping on a toad"
"Quilp Daniel Quilp is one of the main antagonists in the novel ""The Old Curiosity Shop"" by Charles Dickens, written in 1840. Quilp is a vicious, ill-tempered and grotesque dwarf and is the villain of the story. Quilp is as near that Dickens ever came to creating a monster. Actors who have portrayed him include Hay Petrie, Anthony Newley, Patrick Troughton and Toby Jones. Dickens describes Quilp as ""so low in stature as to be quite a dwarf, though his head and face were large enough for a giant. His black eyes were restless, sly and cunning, his mouth and"
"Rick Deckard Rick Deckard is a fictional character, the protagonist of Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel ""Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"". Harrison Ford portrayed the character in the 1982 film adaptation, ""Blade Runner"", and reprised his role in the 2017 sequel, ""Blade Runner 2049"". James Purefoy voiced the character in the 2014 BBC Radio 4 adaptation. Rick Deckard is a bounty-hunter who becomes a specialist plainclothes police officer with the San Francisco Police Department in the early 21st century, responsible for killing (euphemistically, ""retiring"") androids that escape from off-world colonies. In the film adaptation, he was/is with the Replicant"
"with the addition, among other things, of a fictionalised Dickens character and plot-line. Carey's novel won the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1998. ""Mister Pip"" (2006) is a novel by Lloyd Jones, a New Zealand author. The winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Lloyd Jones's novel is set in a village on the Papua New Guinea island of Bougainville during a brutal civil war there in the 1990s, where the young protagonist's life is impacted in a major way by her reading of ""Great Expectations"". Like many other Dickens novels, ""Great Expectations"" has been filmed for the cinema or television"
"The Weaver Who Loved a Princess, The Ungrateful Man, Leap and Creep, The Blue Jackal, Passion and the Owl, Ugly's Trust Abused, The Lion and the Carpenter, The Plover Who Fought the Ocean, Shell-Neck Slim and Grim, Forethought Readywit and Fatalist, The Duel Between Elephant and Sparrow, The Shrewd Old Gander, The Lion and the Ram, Smart the Jackal, The Monk Who Left His Body Behind, The Girl Who Married a Snake, Poor Blossom, The Unteachable Monkey, Right-Mind and Wrong-Mind, A Remedy Worse than the Disease, The Mice That Ate Iron, The Results of Education, The Sensible Enemy, The Foolish"
"title references the signature phrase of the Dickens character Uriah Heep (""very 'umble""). Hensley had little to contribute to the debut: Box and Byron wrote most of the material, including ""Gypsy"", in many ways (according to Blows) ""...a marriage of contrasts"" that, in time, became their trademark. In a 1989 interview, Mick Box recalled, ""The funny thing was we wrote it at the Hanwell Community Centre, and Deep Purple were rehearsing in the room next door to us. You can imagine the kind of racket we were both making between us."" During the winter of 1970, three quarters into the"
"their experience of life. After they reconcile, they hold hands, and Pip sees no shadow to part them again. The novel has been adapted into films often. The character of Pip has been played in films (in order by year through 2012) by: Jack Pickford (1917)<br>Phillips Holmes (1934)<br>John Mills (1946)<br>Dinsdale Landen (1959)<br>Gary Bond (1967)<br>Simon Gipps-Kent (1974)<br>Michael York (1974)<br>Gerry Sundquist (1981)<br>Todd Boyce (1986)<br>Anthony Calf (1989)<br>Ethan Hawke (1998)<br>Ioan Gruffudd (1999)<br>Douglas Booth (2011)<br>Jeremy Irvine (2012) Pip (Great Expectations) Philip Pirrip, called Pip, is the protagonist and narrator in Charles Dickens's novel ""Great Expectations"" (1861). He is amongst the most popular characters in English"
"1862. The account of this meeting and the supposed insight into Dickens' character and literary motivations revealed in a - wholly fictitious - letter by Dostoevsky was subsequently quoted in a number of scholarly articles and books, including major biographies of Dickens. The hoax, along with Harvey's record of pseudonymous publications and falsified citations, was exposed in an April 2013 article in the Times Literary Supplement by Eric Naiman, Professor of Comparative Literature & Department Chair of Slavic Languages and Literatures at University of California, Berkeley. Besides ""Oxford: the Novel"", he has also published another novel called ""Warriors of the"
"fleeing their home for purposes of safety (as in response to political oppression or natural disaster), is typically considered not a waif but a refugee. Orphaned children, left to fend for themselves, are common as literary protagonists, especially in children's and fantasy literature. The characters Heathcliff in Emily Brontë's 1847 novel ""Wuthering Heights"" and Jo, the crossing sweeper in Charles Dickens' 1852 novel ""Bleak House"" are waifs. Dickens, it may be noted, has been called ""the Master of Waif Literature."" Bret Harte's 1890 novel ""A Waif of the Plains"", set against the backdrop of the Oregon Trail in the 1850s,"
"David Copperfield (1986 TV serial) David Copperfield is a 10 episode BBC serial broadcast in 1986 and 1987 and based on the novel ""David Copperfield"" by Charles Dickens. The series was written by James Andrew Hall and directed by Barry Letts. It was produced by Terrance Dicks. The adaptation follows the story of David Copperfield as he grows up under the care of the cruel Murdstones after the death of his mother, escapes to the care of his aunt Betsey Trotwood and later travels to London where he meets the gentle Micawbers and the scheming Uriah Heep, and falls in"
"Pip (Great Expectations) Philip Pirrip, called Pip, is the protagonist and narrator in Charles Dickens's novel ""Great Expectations"" (1861). He is amongst the most popular characters in English literature, widely portrayed all over the world on stage and screen. Pip narrates his story many years after the events of the novel take place. The novel follows Pip's process from childhood innocence to adulthood. The financial and social rise of the protagonist is accompanied by an emotional and moral deterioration, which forces Pip to recognize his negative expectations in a new self-awareness. When the novel begins in the ear1800s, Philip is"
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (retitled Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in some later printings) is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1968. The novel is set in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco, where Earth's life has been greatly damaged by nuclear global war. Most animal species are endangered or extinct from extreme radiation poisoning, so that owning an animal is now a sign of status and empathy, an attitude encouraged towards animals. The book served as the primary basis for the 1982 film"
"Kyle Johnson is the third member of Atticus's team. He is the tech wizard and back-up of the group. He develops a crush on Indigo, and is greatly disappointed to find out that she is dating Ukiah. His first appearance is in ""Dog Warrior"". Ukiah Oregon Ukiah Oregon is the hero of an eponymous series of science fiction/adventure novels written by Wen Spencer. As of 2005, the ""Ukiah Oregon series"" consists of four novels: The four novels form a near-continuous series of adventures located, with flashbacks, between June and September 2004. Ukiah Oregon is described in the first novel, ""Alien"
"Wickfield, and his daughter Agnes, who becomes David's friend and confidante. Wickfield has a secretary, the 15-year-old Uriah Heep. By devious means, Uriah Heep gradually gains a complete ascendancy over the aging and alcoholic Wickfield, to Agnes's great sorrow. Heep hopes, and maliciously confides to David, that he aspires to marry Agnes. Ultimately with the aid of Micawber, who has been employed by Heep as a secretary, his fraudulent behaviour is revealed. At the end of the book, David encounters him in prison, convicted of attempting to defraud the Bank of England. After completing school, David apprentices to be a"
"the town of Ukiah, Oregon, from which he takes his name, having been raised by a pack of wolves. He has a remarkable ability to track people and sense the details of a subject's DNA, which he attributes to his lupine upbringing. His lack of human contact in his childhood has deprived him of much of the knowledge of how to behave socially, as well as pop culture references. During the course of the first novel it becomes apparent that Ukiah is, in fact, not human—or at least not ""completely"" human. When he is severely injured his blood forms into"
"Dickens by his friend, Angela Burdett-Coutts. In an 1844 stage version of ""Martin Chuzzlewit"" authorised by Dickens at the Queen's Theatre Sarah Gamp was played by the actor and comedian Thomas Manders. Mrs. Gamp appears in ""Dickensian"", at first nursing Little Nell at the Old Curiosity Shop and later tending to Silas Wegg (from ""Our Mutual Friend""), played by Pauline Collins. Sarah Gamp Sarah or Sairey Gamp is a nurse in the novel ""Martin Chuzzlewit"" by Charles Dickens, first published as a serial in 1843–1844. Mrs. Gamp, as she is usually referred to, is dissolute, sloppy and generally drunk. She"
"of all classes. One of his most popular works to this day is ""A Christmas Carol"" (1843). In more recent years Dickens has been most admired for his later novels, such as ""Dombey and Son"" (1846–48), ""Great Expectations"" (1860–61), ""Bleak House"" (1852–53) and ""Little Dorrit"" (1855–57) and ""Our Mutual Friend"" (1864–65). An early rival to Dickens was William Makepeace Thackeray, who during the Victorian period ranked second only to him, but he is now much less read and is known almost exclusively for ""Vanity Fair"" (1847). In that novel he satirizes whole swaths of humanity while retaining a light touch."
"villainous clerk, Uriah Heep, taking advantage of Mr. Wickfield's alcoholism and his affection for his daughter, becomes powerful. He becomes a partner in the law-firm by devious means and wants Agnes' hand in marriage. Agnes, refusing to do so; resists Heep throughout the years. Hiding her true feelings for David, she helps and advises him in his infatuation and marriage with Dora Spenlow. Later, when Wilkins Micawber is recruited as a clerk by Heep, she urges him to gather evidence against the latter; which ultimately leads to Heep's downfall. After Dora's death, Agnes consoles and encourages David to return to"
"wooden leg, who has an acute interest in the dust heap, Silas Wegg, and another character, Jenny Wren, with ""poor withered legs"". In 1862 Dickens jotted down in his notebook: ""LEADING INCIDENT FOR A STORY. A man—young and eccentric?—feigns to be dead, and is dead to all intents and purposes, and ... for years retains that singular view of life and character"". Additionally, Dickens's longtime friend John Forster was a possible model for the wealthy, pompous John Podsnap. ""Our Mutual Friend"" was published in nineteen monthly numbers, in the fashion of many earlier Dickens novels, for the first time since"
"and was slightly revised to become the first five chapters of Chambers' episodic novel ""In Search of the Unknown"", (Harper and Brothers Publishers, New York, 1904). In his novel ""Ulysses"", James Joyce mentions the bird while the novel's main character is drifting into sleep. He associates the great auk with the mythical roc as a method of formally returning the main character to a sleepy land of fantasy and memory. ""Penguin Island"", a 1908 French satirical novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Anatole France, narrates the fictional history of a great auk population that mistakenly, is baptized by a"
"the backs of four elephants, who in turn rest on the back of the gigantic world turtle Great A'Tuin. In the Discworld novel ""Small Gods"", the Great God Om manifests as a tortoise. In ""The Grapes of Wrath"", John Steinbeck uses the tortoise as an emblem of the resolve and persistence of the ""Okies"" that travel west across the US for a better life. Ursula K. Le Guin's novel ""The Lathe of Heaven"" introduces a person whose dreams involuntarily become reality. The novel eventually features sea turtle aliens. There is a character called the Mock Turtle in Lewis Carroll's ""Alice's"
"""The Trojan Horse"" (1961), Piero Lulli in ""The Fury of Achilles"" (1962), and Sean Bean in ""Troy"" (2004). In TV miniseries he has been played by Bekim Fehmiu in ""L'Odissea"" (1968), Armand Assante in ""The Odyssey"" (1997), and by Joseph Mawle in """" (2018). ""Ulysses 31"" is a French-Japanese animated television series (1981) that updates the Greek mythology of Odysseus to the 31st century. Joel and Ethan Coen's film ""O Brother Where Art Thou?"" (2000) is loosely based on the ""Odyssey"". However, the Coens have stated that they had never read the epic. George Clooney plays Ulysses Everett McGill, leading"
"in Arms"", is also called Uriah Heep. Author Philip Roth once compared President Richard Nixon to Uriah Heep. More recently, historian Tony Judt used the term to describe Marshal Philippe Pétain of the French Vichy government. Pakistani-British historian and leftist political commentator Tariq Ali likened Pakistani dictator Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq to the character. Late Australian journalist Padraic (Paddy) McGuinness, writing in the Australian Financial Review, referred to former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating as Uriah Heep, after a fawning interview on ABC television in which Mr. Keating, the owner of extensive real estate holdings and a man generally acknowledged to have"
"Thomas More's ""Utopia"" (1516), Jonathan Swift's ""Gulliver's Travels"" (1726), Voltaire's ""Candide"" (1759), and Harriet Beecher Stowe's ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" (1852). Political fiction frequently employs satire, often in the utopian and dystopian genres. This includes totalitarian dystopias of the early 20th century such as Jack London's ""The Iron Heel"", Sinclair Lewis' ""It Can't Happen Here"", and George Orwell's ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"". The Greek playwright Aristophanes' plays are known for their political and social satire, particularly in his criticism of the powerful Athenian general, Cleon, in plays such as ""The Knights"". Aristophanes is also notable for the persecution he underwent. Aristophanes' plays turned"
"Mister Pip Mister Pip (2006) is a novel by Lloyd Jones, a New Zealand author. It is named after the chief character in, and shaped by the plot of, Charles Dickens' novel ""Great Expectations"". Jones wrote 11 versions of the novel originally setting it on an unnamed Pacific island. The novel was ultimately set against the backdrop of the civil war on Bougainville Island during the early 1990s. The novel is the story of a girl caught in the throes of war on the island of Bougainville. It is through the guidance of her devoted but strict Christian mother and"
"D. H. Lawrence), Mr Bumble (Oliver! by Charles Dickens/Lionel Bart), Azdak (The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht), The Doctor (A Film Short Woyzeck by Buchner), John The Baptist/Judas (Godspell), Christopher Columbus (Christopher Columbus by Michel De Ghelderode), God (Mystery play, Noahs Flood). In Pantomime: The Emperor, Widow Twankey – five times, Sgt Pong (Aladdin), Ugly Sister – five times, Baron Hardup (Cinderella), Bill Jukes (Peter Pan), Nanny (Hansel & Gretal) Dame Trot (four times)and Sam Shiley (Jack & The Beanstalk) Joy, Dame Dorothy Doo It (Beauty & The Beast), Nurse Nanny Norah (Sleeping Beauty), Mother Goose, Billy Goose(Mother Goose)"