"Alfred Jingle Alfred Jingle is a fictional character who appears in the novel ""The Pickwick Papers"" by Charles Dickens. He is a strolling actor and an engaging charlatan and trickster noted for his bizarre anecdotes and distinctive mangling of English syntax. He first appears in chapter two of the novel and accompanies the Pickwickians on their first coach journey. As they leave the Golden Cross Inn at Charing Cross, Jingle holds forth in characteristic mode on the dangers of decapitation as illustrated by low archways and the example of King Charles I, beheaded at nearby Whitehall Palace: ""Heads, heads -"
"feature of the work is the generally accurate description of the old coaching inns of England. (One of the main families running the Bristol to Bath coaches at the time was started by Eleazer Pickwick). Its main literary value and appeal is formed by its numerous memorable characters. Each character in ""The Pickwick Papers"", as in many other Dickens novels, is drawn comically, often with exaggerated personality traits. Alfred Jingle, who joins the cast in chapter two, provides an aura of comic villainy, with his devious tricks repeatedly landing the Pickwickians into trouble. These include a nearly successful attempted elopement"
"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,"
"Robert Helmont Robert Helmont (1874; English: ""Robert Helmont, The Diary of a Recluse, 1870-1871"" (1892)) is a novella by French author Alphonse Daudet. It is partly based on Daudet's actual experiences during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, as described in the Preface. The book was originally published by Dentu in the 1873 ""Musel Universel"" but received little notice. It was re-published in 1891 with illustrations by ""Picard and Montégut"". The forest Sénart is the same described in his novel ""Jack"" and contains some of the same characters. Robert Helmont breaks his leg on the day of the start of the"
"the film bears a resemblance to the illustrations in the book. However, the novel ""The Dragon and the George"" by Gordon R. Dickson was the inspiration for the film's plot. One of the main characters is Peter Dickinson, the book's author himself struggling to complete his text. Peter Dickinson Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE FRSL (16 December 1927 – 16 December 2015) was an English author and poet, best known for children's books and detective stories. Dickinson won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for both ""Tulku"" (1979) and ""City of Gold"" (1980), each being recognised as"
"The interlude is full of ""obscure classical characters: Scaramouche, a clown from the ""commedia dell'arte""; astronomer Galileo; Figaro, the principal character in Beaumarchais' ""The Barber of Seville"" and ""The Marriage of Figaro""...Beelzebub; identified in the Christian New Testament as Satan, Prince of Demons, but in Arabic as ""Lord of the Flies"". Also in Arabic the word ""Bismillah',"" which is a noun from a phrase in the Qur'an; """"Bismi-llahi r-rahmani r-rahiim"","" meaning ""In the name of God, most gracious, most merciful"". During the recording, the song became affectionately known as ""Fred's Thing"" to the band, and the title only emerged during"
"as well. ""The Hum and the Shiver"" by Alex Bledsoe includes references to a lost version of the painting. The painting and the artist are also referenced in Elizabeth Hand's novel ""Mortal Love"". The British fantasy writer Angela Carter wrote ""Come unto these Yellow Sands"", a radio-play based on Dadd's life. The full name of the eccentric character Mr Dick in ""David Copperfield"" by Charles Dickens is Richard Babley, which echoes the name of Dickens' contemporary Richard Dadd. Canadian author R.J. Anderson acknowledges Dadd as the basis of her fictional painter Alfred Wrenfield, who figures prominently in her young adult"
"a letter to the ""Morning Chronicle"" of London (23 June 1816) denying any such correspondence between fiction and life, and these objections animate his preface to the second edition. Framing letters written by an ""editor"" serve to distance the author from the work. However, close parallels between figures in his autobiography and characters in the novel have led to a great deal of speculation ever since. The novel was adapted into a 2002 film directed by Benoît Jacquot and starring Isabelle Adjani as Ellénore. Adolphe Adolphe is a classic French novel by Benjamin Constant, first published in 1816. It tells"
"as letters sent to his nephew Ben. Ardagh has achieved both critical and popular acclaim for his work. Set in Victorian England, his Eddie Dickens books have been described as ""A cross between Dickens and Monty Python"" (""The Guardian"") and he himself as ""a national treasure"" (""The Independent""). Popular in Germany, he has won both the Luchs (Lynx) Prize and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German youth literature prize) for ""Awful End"". Some American critics have accused Ardagh of ""jumping on the Lemony Snicket bandwagon"", but he created Eddie Dickens in letters to Ben long before the first Snicket book was published."
"a friendly agent by the name of Kazak, who happens to be a large English Mastiff in a nod to the novel. In a 2018 episode of the HBO series Westworld, the novel appears briefly as decoration in a room where an immortality experiment occurs. The Sirens of Titan The Sirens of Titan is a comic science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., first published in 1959. His second novel, it involves issues of free will, omniscience, and the overall purpose of human history. Much of the story revolves around a Martian invasion of Earth. Malachi Constant is the richest"
"Awful End Awful End (published in the US as A House Called Awful End) a 2000 children's novel by Philip Ardagh and the first book of the Eddie Dickens trilogy, which was followed by The Further Adventures of Eddie Dickens. It was shortlisted for the 2002 Stockton Children's Book of the Year Award. The German translation by Harry Rowohlt won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 2003. The book is essentially a comical adventure about Eddie Dickens who has to go live with his Great Uncle and Great Aunt at Awful End as his parents have the yellow fever. Philip Ardagh uses"
"Foundling Mick Foundling Mick (""A Lad of Grit""; , lit. ""Lit'l Fellow"") is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne first published in 1893. It describes adventures in Ireland, more specifically the rags to riches tale of an orphan. The story begins in Westport, Connacht, with the wandering puppeteer Thornpipe demonstrating his puppets to the destitute populace. After the mechanism animating the puppets unexpectedly goes off, the onlooking public with a priest among them discovers that the mechanism was operated by a tortured, hungry, pale boy of scarcely 3 years, concealed in the cart, whom the master spurred with a"
"on their 2012 album ""The Future Is Medieval"". A new play 'A Child of the Jago' based on Arthur Morrison's novel was written and produced by Lights of London Productions for performance in 2015/2016 A Child of the Jago A Child of the Jago is an 1896 novel by Arthur Morrison. A bestseller in its time, it recounts the brief life of Dicky Perrott, a child growing up in the ""Old Jago"", a fictionalisation of the Old Nichol, a slum located between Shoreditch High Street and Bethnal Green Road in the East End of London. The novel opens after midnight"
"Arm and the Darkness"" (1943) also deals with this period in France, while Hilda Lewis' ""Wife to Great Buckingham"" (1959) goes so far as to make Buckingham's love for the French queen the main cause of his undoing. The Duke also figures in historical romances like Evelyn Anthony's ""Charles, The King"" (1963) and Bertrice Small's ""Darling Jasmine"" (2007), although the main focus there is on other protagonists. In Philippa Gregory's ""Earthly Joys"" (1998), which has as its subject the famous gardener John Tradescant the elder; the bewitching Duke appears halfway through the novel as the object of Tradescant's love. Another"
"bit."" In cinema, the CGI movie ""Barbie in a Christmas Carol"" features a snooty cat named Chuzzlewit who is the pet of Barbie's character Eden Starling. John Travolta's character quotes from the novel in ""A Love Song for Bobby Long"". The novel features prominently in Jasper Fforde's novel ""The Eyre Affair"". Martin Chuzzlewit The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (commonly known as Martin Chuzzlewit) is a novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. It was originally serialised between 1842 and 1844. While writing it Dickens told a friend that he thought it his best work,"
"Oliver Twist Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial 1837–39. The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets ""The Artful Dodger"", a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal, Fagin. ""Oliver Twist"" is notable for its unromantic portrayal by Dickens of criminals and their sordid lives, as well as for exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century."
"was particularly true in the era before the Second World War, for example, during the Edwardian era, and in the 1920s and 1930s. An early chapter of Dickens's famous first novel ""The Pickwick Papers"", serialised as early as 1836, features a brief description of a cricket match between the All-Muggleton team and the Dingley Dell Cricket Club. Mr Pickwick watches as Mr Jingle provides a running commentary on the game (""""Capital game—smart sport—fine exercise—very"""" is a typical Jingle comment.) Cricket also plays a prominent part in ""Tom Brown's Schooldays"" (1857), Thomas Hughes' classic novel of life at Rugby. A century"
"their affinity with the police, is referenced in Banjo Paterson's ""Waltzing Matilda"", Australia's most famous folk song. Clara Morison by Catherine Helen Spence explores the transformative power of Australia to transform those with a lowly social station in Britain to transform into the Aristocracy of a new world. Mary Theresa Vidal's 1860 novel Bengala is an Austenesque social comedy exploring the evolution of the pseudo-aristocratic manners which define the squattocracy. In Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, the title character, The Honourable Phyrne Fisher, is resistant to her class and acts as a contrast to her Aunt Prudence, who typifies grazier and"
"The height of his development occurs at the Fleet Prison where, as the result of a breach of promise suit against his landlady, Mrs. Bardell, he is imprisoned for refusing to pay her damages and costs. In the Fleet Pickwick encounters his nemesis Alfred Jingle as a fellow resident. Moved with compassion, Pickwick forgives him and charitably bails him out and later arranges for Jingle and his servant Job Trotter to pursue their fortune in the West Indies. When Mrs. Bardell herself is sent to the Fleet Prison Pickwick learns that the only way he can relieve her suffering is"
"the piano, and Bing and Bowie chat about their musical tastes before singing a duet of ""Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy"". Kathyrn chats with Mrs. Bridges in the kitchen as the children continue looking for written proof of their relation to Sir Percy. Meanwhile, in the library, Bing is surprised to encounter the house's former owner, Charles Dickens, played by Ron Moody. They are soon joined by Twiggy, who comments on Dickens' wide array of memorable characters and several of Dickens' heroes and villains including Ebenezer Scrooge and Tiny Tim (from ""A Christmas Carol""), Fagin and The Artful Dodger (from"
"CE) Zephyrus, the west wind, carries Psyche away. Later an ant feels sorry for her and helps her in her quest. Building on the popularity of fables and fairy tales, specifically ""children's"" literature began to emerge in the nineteenth century with works such as ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" (1865) by Lewis Carroll, ""The Adventures of Pinocchio"" (1883) by Carlo Collodi and ""The Jungle Book"" (1894) by Rudyard Kipling, all employing anthropomorphic elements. This continued in the twentieth century with many of the most popular titles having anthropomorphic characters, examples being ""The Tale of Peter Rabbit"" (1901) and later books by"
"in the genus ""Schistura"" which are each named after one of the Three Musketeers, ""S. aramis"" and ""S. porthos"". Athos (character) Athos, Count de la Fère, is a fictional character in the novels ""The Three Musketeers"", ""Twenty Years After"", and ""The Vicomte de Bragelonne"" by Alexandre Dumas, père. He is a highly fictionalised version of the historical musketeer Armand de Sillègue d'Athos d'Autevielle (1615–1644). In ""The Three Musketeers"", he and the other two musketeers, Porthos and Aramis, are friends of the novel's protagonist, d'Artagnan. He has a mysterious past connecting him with the villain of the novel, Milady de Winter."
"The Sailors' Rendezvous The Sailors Rendezvous (Fr: ""Au rendezvous des Terre-Neuvas"", ""The Meeting-place of the Newfoundlanders"") is a detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring his character Inspector Jules Maigret. Published in 1931, it is one of the earliest of Simenon's ""Maigret"" novels, and one of eleven he had published that year. Whilst on holiday in Fecamp, Maigret answers a plea from an old friend to look into the case of a local boy, Pierre Le Clinche, who is accused of murder. Le Clinche, a radio operator on a deep sea trawler, is charged with killing the captain of"
"premonition of the signalman's own death. Another story features, in a thinly disguised form, the town of Rugby in Warwickshire and the town's railway station. One of the stories satirizes the refreshment rooms where Dickens was humiliated by the proprietess when he was ordering a cup of coffee. She refused to pass him the sugar bowl until she had been paid, clearly not recognising the celebrity author. Mugby Junction ""Mugby Junction"" is a set of short stories written in 1866 by Charles Dickens and collaborators Charles Collins, Amelia B. Edwards, Andrew Halliday, and Hesba Stretton. It was first published in"
"in part historically recognizable but also obeys different physical laws is Poul Anderson's ""Three Hearts and Three Lions"" in which the Matter of France is history, and the fairy folk are real and powerful. A partly familiar European history for which the author provides a point of divergence is Randall Garrett's ""Lord Darcy"" series: a monk systemizing magic rather than science, so the use of foxglove to treat heart disease is called superstition. The other great point of divergence in this timeline occurs in 1199, when Richard the Lionheart survives the Siege of Chaluz and returns to England, making the"
"tales of humanised monkeys like ""King Kong"" and ""Planet of the Apes"". Jocko ou le Singe du Brésil Jocko ou le Singe du Brésil (""Jocko or the Monkey of Brazil"") is a two-act play by Edmond Rochefort, inspired by a novel of Charles de Pougens (1824). A rich Portuguese man travelling to Brazil captures a monkey which, during the Atlantic crossing, saves the man's child from shipwreck and dies in doing so. In the second production the public demanded that the monkey survive. The play gave rise to a ballet by Frédéric-Auguste Blache, with music by Alexandre Piccinni and sets"
"Captain Alonzo Wilberforce Sloane (retired). The sequel to this novel is ""Convergence"". Transcendence (Sheffield novel) Transcendence (1992) is a science fiction novel by American writer Charles Sheffield, part of his Heritage Universe series. This book is the sequel to ""Divergence"" and ""Summertide"". After discovering new artifacts in the previous books, the team gets together again this time to search for the Zardalu unwittingly unleashed upon the galaxy during the previous adventure. This search leads them to the Zardalu Communion and the exploration of a huge space-time anomaly called the Torvil Anfract. The novel includes excerpts from the ""Hot Rocks, Warm"
"It features his most memorable character, the engagingly roguish Becky Sharp. The Brontë sisters were other significant novelists in the 1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a sensation when they were first published but were subsequently accepted as classics. They had written compulsively from early childhood and were first published, at their own expense in 1846 as poets under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. The sisters returned to prose, producing a novel each the following year: Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"", Emily's ""Wuthering Heights"" and Anne's ""Agnes Grey"". Later, Anne's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (1848) and Charlotte's ""Villette"" (1853)"
"Eddie Dickens Eddie Dickens is the lead character in six books by British author Philip Ardagh: and a number of Christmas short-stories specially written for Philip Ardagh's website. The character first appeared in print in the UK in 2000, but originally as a character in letters from Philip Ardagh to his young nephew Ben, who lived in Moscow at the time. Eddie's adventures have been translated into over 30 languages. The son of Laudanum and Florinda Dickens (referred to as Mr and Mrs Dickens throughout), Eddie is usually a victim of circumstances in a Victorian world populated by absurd relatives,"
"Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), author of the epistolary novels ""Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded"" (1740) and ""Clarissa"" (1747–48); Henry Fielding (1707–1754), who wrote ""Joseph Andrews"" (1742) and ""The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling"" (1749); Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), who published ""Tristram Shandy"" in parts between 1759 and 1767; Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774), author of ""The Vicar of Wakefield"" (1766); Tobias Smollett (1721–1771), a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as ""The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle"" (1751) and ""The Expedition of Humphry Clinker"" (1771), who influenced Charles Dickens; and Fanny Burney (1752–1840), whose novels ""were enjoyed and admired by Jane"
"to provide intrigue and distraction to an otherwise uneventful voyage home. Uneventful the voyage is not, for the ""Calliope"" is captured by a formidable French warship, the ""Revenant"". The French warship is headed to its own fleet, carrying a stolen treaty that, if delivered, could provoke Indians into a new war against the British. The arrival of Admiral Horatio Nelson's well-led fleet leads to a confrontation with the Spanish fleet. Sharpe's Trafalgar Sharpe's Trafalgar is the fourth historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 2000. It is the first of the novels in the"
"US and Great Britain. André Gide acknowledged the influence of ""The Thibaults"" on his own novel, ""The Counterfeiters"". It has also been suggested that the novel influenced Evelyn Waugh's ""Brideshead Revisited"", another novel that centers on an intense relationship between two young men of opposing religious backgrounds. The author was awarded the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature largely on the basis of this novel sequence. The Thibaults The Thibaults (""Les Thibault"" in French) is a multi-volume ""roman fleuve"" by Roger Martin du Gard, which follows the fortunes of two brothers, Antoine and Jacques Thibault, from their upbringing in a prosperous"
"Khan onto a dead strangler fig tree and eventually defeats him by causing him to fall into a pit of fire to his death, ending his tyranny once and for all. Shere Khan Shere Khan (; ) is a fictional Bengal tiger and the main antagonist of Rudyard Kipling's ""Jungle Book"" and its adaptations. According to The Kipling Society, the word ""Shere"" (or """"shir"""") translates as ""tiger"" and ""Khan"" is a title of distinction, used together ""to show that he is chief among tigers."" Other sources indicate ""Shere"" may mean ""tiger"" or ""lion"" in Persian, Urdu, and Punjabi, and that"