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... Fleming, Ian Ian Lancaster Fleming (1908-1964), the author of the James Bond 007 novels, was the grandson of a Scottish banker and the son of a C... ..., translated to 11 languages and with total sales of 18 million copies. James Bond novels are now being authored by a new generation of writers. ... ...itle as one of his favorite books. Many movie plots were loosely based on Fleming's novels and have grossed, in total, more than $1 billion. The 007... ...n. He accumulated a library of anatomy books, porn magazines, horror and adventure novels, historical accounts of the Nazi medical experiments in A... ... redesigned the modern toilet and received a series of related patents between 1861-1904. The Kleenex tissue was not introduced until 1920 and the ... ... disheartening. The first performance of his "Madame Butterfly" on February 17, 1904 in La Scala was an unmitigated fiasco. It was booed because... ...0s. This was, at the time, the cause of an enormous scandal. They married only in 1904, after her husband died. Nor was "Madame Butterfly" Pucc... ... on 4 July 1958. The first patent for color television was issued in Germany in 1904. Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, the Russia- born American innovato... ...But his actions defied his speech. He pursued the British proposal to his death (in 1904) as did many other prominent Jewish leaders, organized in t...

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...uppress them. This is no mere fantasy, Macaulay tells us. After praising the novels of Samuel Richardson in terms that, to modern eyes, seem a little ... ... the work, but because the work would be altogether suppressed. Richardson’s novels—Pamela, Clarissa Har- lowe, and so on—are now the preserve of the ... ...ur intuitive understanding that “Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels. All of this was much clearer before the assim... ...ver new types of products, whose economics were very different from those of novels. Rather than let the dominant software compa- nies use copyright t... ...en if the red dot rule were only to be applied to hardback books, or graphic novels, or cassette tapes, it would still be unconstitutional. Nor do we ... ... has expired. So has the copyright over the music. The song was published in 1904. Copyright had only been extended to musical composi- tions in 1881.... ...Benjamin Franklin, ed. John Bigelow, vol. 1 (New York: G. P . Putnam’s Sons, 1904), 237–238. 58. Kenneth Arrow, “Economic Welfare and the Allocation o...

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... shillings (compared to the usual guinea or more). The Railway Library of novels (1,300 volumes) costs 1 shilling apiece only eight decades later. T... ... files. By far the best among the three is the Catholic Encyclopedia. The 1904 edition of this magnificent work of reference is fully and freely ava...

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...H. Beam Piper (1904–1964) was an American science fiction author. He wrote many short stories and several novels. He is best known for his extensive Terro-Human Future History series of stories and a shorter series of Paratime alternate his...

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...nd when the play was afterward published. “The Cherry Orchard” appeared in 1904 and was Tchekoff ’ s last play. At its production, just before his dea... ...of Himself 1899 The Three Sisters 1901 Uncle Vanya 1902 The Cherry Orchard 1904 Novels and Short Stories: Humorous Folk 1887 Twilight, and Other Stori... ...mself 1899 The Three Sisters 1901 Uncle Vanya 1902 The Cherry Orchard 1904 Novels and Short Stories: Humorous Folk 1887 Twilight, and Other Stories 18...

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.........................140 4 Robert Louis Stevenson MERRY MEN by Robert Louis Stevenson 1904 edition THE MERRY MEN CHAPTER I: EILEAN AROS IT WA S A BE... ...xcept when she went to Fontainebleau shopping, to be kept in a continual supply of racy novels, 150 Robert Louis Stevenson and to be married to Docto...

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... free to become samurai. Here, too, it will be manifest there is scope for novels and the drama of life. In practice, it seems that it is only men of ... ... also an excellent paper in the American Journal of Soci- ology for March, 1904, The Psychology of Race Prejudice, by W . I. Thomas. 201 H G Wells ge...

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...terary map and made her a famous and beloved author, both during her own life and after her death. She published hundreds of short stories and twenty novels; her public-domain short stories have been collected in chronological order by Project Gutenberg. This project consists of stories published in 1904....

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...The Bobbsey Twins are the principal characters of what was, for many years, the Stratemeyer Syndicate's longest-running series of children's novels, penned under the pseudonym Laura Lee Hope. The first of 72 books was published in 1904, the last in 1979. The books related the adventures of the children of the middle-class Bobbsey family, which included two sets of...

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...................................................................................................................................... 22 ANATOLE FRANCE?1904 ....................................................................................................................................... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ............................................

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.......................................................... 22 ANA TOLE FRANCE—1904 ......................................................................... ...ong ago—in his giddy youth maybe—were about. And the books in question are novels, or, at any rate, were written as novels. I proceed thus cau- tiousl... ...he lifetime of one fleeting generation. 11 Joseph Conrad II OF ALL BOOKS, novels, which the Muses should love, make a serious claim on our compassion... ...y the truth of a childish theatrical ardour in the game of life, as in the novels of Dumas the father. But the fair truth of human delicacy can be fou... ...er. But the fair truth of human delicacy can be found in Mr. Henry James’s novels; and the comical, appall- ing truth of human rapacity let loose amon... ...ormulas. And Stendhal was pre-eminently courageous. He wrote his two great novels, which so few people have read, in a spirit of fearless liberty. It ... ...ely in- teresting, and of not the slightest consequence. GUY DE MAUPASSANT—1904* TO INTRODUCE Maupassant to English readers with apologetic explanatio... ...—least of all to the miserable vanity of a catching phrase. ANATOLE FRANCE—1904 I.—”CRAINQUEBILLE” THE LATEST VOLUME of M. Anatole France purports, by...

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...The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written in 1904 by E. Nesbit. It is the second in a trilogy of novels that began with Five Children and It (1902), and follows the adventures of the same five protagonists – Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and the Lamb. Their mother buys th...

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...Still one of the most radical novels of the 20th Century, James Joyce's Ulysses is considered to have ushered in the era of the modern novel. Loosely based on Homer's Odyssey, the book follows Leopold Bloom and a number of other characters through an ordi...

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...her Anne of Green Gables books, she was also a prolific writer of short stories and poetry. She published some 500 short stories and poems and twenty novels before her death in 1942. The Project Gutenberg collection of her short stories was gathered from numerous sources and is presented in chronological publishing order: Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 Lu...

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...her Anne of Green Gables books, she was also a prolific writer of short stories and poetry. She published some 500 short stories and poems and twenty novels before her death in 1942. The Project Gutenberg collection of her short stories was gathered from numerous sources and is presented in chronological publishing order: Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 Lu...

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....... 4 A PAUSE IN THE STRIFE?1886 .................................................................................................. 6 LESLIE STEPHEN?1904 ............................................................................................................. 13 CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY ............................................... 14...

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............................................................ 6 LESLIE STEPHEN—1904 ......................................................................... ...the seri- ous method, while they rarely overstep the line of justness. The Novels by Eminent Hands do not pervert the originals they exaggerate. ‘Siey... ...stooped to conquer fact through fiction. Thackeray’s attitude in his great novels is that of the composedly urbane lecturer, on a level with a select ... ...e manlier, conjecturably the right one. 13 George Meredith LESLIE STEPHEN—1904 WHEN THAT NOBLE BODY of scholarly and cheerful pedestri- ans, the Sund...

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...as saying to myself, fiercely, hissing it between my teeth, as they say in novels—and really clenching them together: I was saying to myself: ‘Now, I’... ...sses the mind of man to imagine. III IT WA S A VERY HOT SUMMER, in August, 1904; and Florence had already been taking the baths for a month. I don’t k... ...t add that poor dear Edward was a great reader—he would pass hours lost in novels of a sentimental type—novels in which typewriter girls mar- ried Mar... ...d Soldier PART II I THE DEATH OF MRS MAIDAN occurred on the 4th of August, 1904. And then nothing happened until the 4th of August, 1913. There is the... ... Florence. I find, on looking at my diaries, that on the 4th of September, 1904, Edward accompanied Florence and myself to Paris, where we put him up ... ...re. Even when he was twenty-two he would pass hours reading one of Scott’s novels or the Chronicles of Froissart. Mrs Ashburnham considered that she w... ...well read as Lenora, at any rate in learned books. Leonora could not stand novels. But, even with all her differences, Mrs Basil did not appear to Leo... ...excess, his nights out, his, let us say, rutting seasons. She had read few novels, so that the idea of a pure and constant love succeeding the sound o...

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...ut himself, even as, on the side, he was trying to write short stories. In 1904 Anderson married and three years later moved to Elyria, a town forty m... ... a cru- dity of thought and unsteadiness of language. No one reading these novels was likely to suppose that its author could soon produce anything as... ...an to remember that when he was a student in college and occasionally read novels, good al- though somewhat worldly women, had smoked through the page...

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...Republic upon the American or any other existing pattern before Christmas, 1904, we consider we have only begun to look at the thing. We have then to ... ...iography may give facts of infinite suggestion, and the great multitude of novels at present are, in fact, experi- ments in the science of this centra... ...s, and always these attacks base themselves on the fact that the number of novels taken out was so many times, so many hundred times greater than the ... ...fiction can be. A novel is fairly com- plete in itself, and in sticking to novels, the Public Library readers show, I submit, a better literary sense ...

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...86.) **”Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods,” vol. i, 1904. Reprinted in “Essays in Radical Empiricism” (Longmans, Green & Co., 1... ...organism. Following a suggestion derived from Semon (“Die Mneme,” Leipzig, 1904; 2nd edition, 1908, English transla- tion, Allen & Unwin, 1921; “Die m... ...ed. There are also its narrative and imagi- native uses, as in history and novels. Let us take as an instance the telling of some remembered event. We...

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...The Golden Bowl HENRY JAMES 1904 Contents PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... the coincidence is extraordinary—the sort of thing that happens mainly in novels and plays. But I don’t see, you must let me say, the importance or t...