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...The Last of the Mohicans is an epic novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1826. It was one of the most popular English-language novels of its time, and helped establish Cooper as one of the first world-famous American writers.The story takes place in 1757 during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for cont...

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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...

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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 ...

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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... ...r a million e-Books per month. Q. The Internet is often castigated as an English-language, affluent people's toy. PG includes predominantly English...

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...sh Religion Pg 1767 Flies on the Wall Pg 1768 Ritual Sacrifice and Mystery Novels Pg 1774 The Undead and Dreams Pg 1775 The Undead, Astral Tra... ... You can see the modern equivalent of exclusive love in Harlequin Romance novels. Where the heroine falls in love only with the most handsome, ... ...ivilization on Humans 809 Do you ever see any heroines in these novels falling in Romantic Affairs with a male who is not perfect, who... ...eries of the lower classes simply do not exist in these books. These romance novels are pure selective adult fairy tales: whose format, plot, and c... ...nimals? The oldest human ancestors who settled down took it. Read Tolkien’s novels. The oldest male hobbit was always called the ‘Took;’ as a sub...

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... Portfolio Management Theory and Technical Analysis Lecture Notes In American novels, well into the 1950's, one finds protagonists using the f...

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...Joseph Andrews ... was the first published full-length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and indeed among the first novels in the English language. Published in 1742 and defined by Fielding as a ‘comic romance,’ it is the story of a good-natured footman's adventures on the road home from London with his friend and mentor, the absent-minded...

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...Trilby, published in 1894, fits into the gothic horror genre which was undergoing a revival during the Fin de siècle and is one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin de siècle period after Bram Stoker's Dracula. The story of the poor artist's model Trilby O'Ferrall, transformed into a diva under the spell of the evil mus...

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...terary work which conveys faithful facts or pleasing impressions is a service to the public. It is even a service to be thankfully proud of having ren... ... in themselves, that they communicate. I should never forgive myself if I forgot The Egoist. It is art, if you like, but it belongs purely to didactic... ...se on despair; but I shut my mouth hard, and during the journey to Davos, where I was to pass the winter, had the resolution to think of other things ...

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... written reviews; but his education had not been liberal. He had read some novels from the adjoining circulating library, and had even bought the stor...

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...sed nine days on deck in my sea-chair, with my heels up, reading Tauchnitz novels. There was a great lot of people, but no one in particular, save som...

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... this book, begun in ’89 and finished in ’94—with that shortest of all the novels which it was to be my lot to write. Between its opening exclamation ... ...and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, history, voyages, novels; I knew “Gil Blas” and “Don Quixote” in abridged editions; I had rea... ...as a novel, and it is quite possible that it was one of Anthony Trollope’s novels. It is very likely. My acquaintance with him was then very recent. H... ...ve only a vague notion that it might have been one of Trollope’s political novels. And I remember, too, the character of the day. It was an au- tumn d... ...f posterity—”life is not all beer and skittles.” Neither is the writing of novels. It isn’t, really. Je vous donne ma parole d’honneur that it—is—not....

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...ich occurred was the project of that complete and corrected edition of his Novels and Romances (whose real parentage had of necessity been dis- closed... ...s to preserve my incognito on the subject of what were called the Waverley Novels? I did not immediately see the purpose of his lordship’s question, a... ...oposing my health to the meeting, to say something on the subject of these Novels so strongly connecting them with me as the author, that by remaining... ...d respectable company assembled, as the sole and un- aided author of these Novels of Waverley, the paternity of which was likely at one time to have f... ..., London, who (died during the publication of the present edition of these Novels. (Aug. 1831.)] had said, upon the appearance of the work, that he wa...

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... this book, begun in ’89 and finished in ’94—with that shortest of all the novels which it was to be my lot to write. Between its opening exclamation ... ...d other ro- mantics. I had read in Polish and in French, history, voyages, novels; I knew “Gil Blas” and “Don 70 Some Reminiscences Quixote” in abrid... ...ve only a vague notion that it might have been one of Trollope’s political novels. And I remem- ber, too, the character of the day. It was an autumn ... ...f posterity—”life is not all beer and skittles.” Neither is the writing of novels. It isn’t re- ally. Je vous donne ma parole d’honneur that it—is— no...

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...for unrealizing the effects of dramatic situations: 1. We may see, even in novels and prose comedies, a keen attention paid to the inspiriting and dre...

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...defect in the child’s imagination which prevents him from carrying out his novels in the pri- vacy of his own heart. He does not yet know enough of th...

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...a horse; Thursday I was better, but still out of ability to do aught but read awful trash. This is the time one misses civilisation; I wished to send ... ...but when I remem- ber I had the Treasure of Franchard refused as unfit for a family magazine, I feel despair weigh upon my wrists. As I know you are a... ...d already) right at Lady Jersey’s shoulder. She started in fine style. —‘There,’ I said, ‘we have been giving you a chap- ter of Scott, but this goes ... ... adventure, rambling along; but that is perhaps the guard that ‘sets my genius best,’ as Alan might have said. I wish I could feel as easy about the o... ...weeks past, I have only struggled from p. 58 to p. 82: twenty-four pages, et encore sure to be rewritten, in twenty-one days. This is no prize-taker...

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... in diamonds. They talked in English, not in bad French, as they do in the novels. They talked about each oth- ers’ houses, and characters, and famili... ...leman was a missionary; but, for common reading, he had brought a stock of novels and plays which he lent to the rest of the ship, and rendered himsel... ... been in their humble cot, as Miss Clapp called it, in the language of the novels which she loved. Let us hope she was wrong in her judgement. Poor Em...

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...st these popular plans we here solemnly appeal. We say, let your rogues in novels act like rogues, and your honest men like honest men; don’t let us h... ...om for military service. What is one to do after that? Had we been writing novels instead of authentic histories, we might have carried them any- wher... ...rd, the dauntless Turpin, and indeed many other heroes of our most popular novels, had pursued,—or were pursuing, in their time. And so considerable w...

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...tions, we ought to begin with his Sportsman’s Note Book. But so far as his novels go, he is the last writer to be taken chronologically. He was old en... ...translation); The Watch, from the Russian, by J. E. Williams, 1893. WORKS: Novels, translated by Constance Garnett, 15 vols., 1894-99. 1906. Novels an... ... us do?” Nejdanov almost screamed at him. “Would you have us write preachy novels? Paklin folded his arms and put his head on one side. 25 Turgenev “... ... and put his head on one side. 25 Turgenev “You, at any rate, could write novels. You have a decidedly literary turn of mind. All right, I won’t say ...