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...r to do? Crash the party, that’s what! Join Alan and his friends and enemies in this ground-breaking work of “atheist pulp fiction”, the spellbinding sequel to 'Orange Car with Stripes'...

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... that requires an answer because what happened could all too easily be the political future for us. So, Fidel is a prequel to NumbaCruncha, and a sequel to my other five novels—Rough Justice, Dome of Death, Sebastian, Jarek and Mortaumal. Fidel is fifteen when the story begins sometime in the near future. He’s running away from home to the big city where he falls i...

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...al and invisible church, and so far forth it looked forward and has been applied in the sequel of the revelation of the divine purpose. But further, ... ...ere by perusing the context it will be perceived that it is introduced in the train and sequel of that great exploit with which he shall reveal himse... ...ure expresseth not, and proceeding to write treatises and books, which appear more like novels, fit only to amuse the idle. But, in one word, these ...

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... it, gut it and then fry it up in a pan. 9) Reality briefly dissolved into chaos. 10) The book ends open ended with the possibility of multiple sequels. 11) Once again, everyone at the end of the book turns into a monkey. You know kids, parents really don’t understand. ...

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... handle the reoccurring need to jump back in bed and see if that dream had a sequel. Love at First Stake 27 Chapter Seven With my report f... ...she had an answer. Well, one that wasn’t totally stupid or based on romance novels. She pursed her lips. “I guess you just do. You know as well a...

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... inspirational and mind-invigorating, that kills the miasmatic influence which novels exhale, and which gives nourishment to laudable ambition towards... ... sailor of the olden time was a curiosity. All remember him as depicted in the novels and romances of Dana and Marryatt and others; his bronzed visage... ...en I described the Natche at Tonge-taboo, I mentioned that, on the approaching sequel of that festival, we had been told that ten men were to be sacri...

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...This is the second in Trollope’s ‘Barsetshire’ series of novels. The later novels in the series move away from Barchester itself but 'Barchester Towers' is very much a sequel to the first book ‘The Warden’, which is also available from . The old bishop dies, the archdeacon, Dr. Gra...

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...erry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by Mark Twain and published in 1884. It is commonly regarded as one of the Great American Novels, and is one of the first major American novels written in the vernacular, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry Huck Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two...

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...uthor's in that the culminating event of his school career was a cricket match. Tom Brown was tremendously influential on the genre of British school novels, which began in the 19th century, and is one of the few still in print. A sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford, was published in 1861 but is not as well known. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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... 1894. Since then it has never been out of print and has spawned plays, operettas, musicals, several films and TV series. He subsequently wrote other novels, but none achieved similar success except perhaps ‘Rupert of Hentzau’, a sequel to the ‘Prisoner’. (Summary by Andy Minter)...

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...he shape of their sideboards; but there had not as yet been, among English novels, such an example of beauty of ex- ecution and “intimate” importance ... ...the Renaissance; he understood everything. The scene of one of his earlier novels was laid in Rome, the scene of another in Florence, and I had moved ... ... I asked. “Surely he can’t tell one from another. Has he read his father’s novels?” “He’s very precocious and very sensitive, and his mother thinks sh... ... if it were his opinion in general, then, that young people shouldn’t read novels. “Good ones—certainly not!” said my companion. I sup- pose I had had... ...I remember saying that for myself I wasn’t sure it was bad for them if the novels were “good” to the right intensity of goodness. “Bad for them, I don... ...he event relieved her little nephew’s condition. The truth is that, as the sequel was to prove, Miss Ambient had some of the qualities of the sibyl an...

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...ch attest their fidelity to facts. In the former class stand the admirable novels of De Foe; and, on a lower range, within the same category, the inim... ...e sued. It appeared that this artless young rustic, who had never heard of novels and romances as a bare possibility amongst all the shameless de- vic... ...n general—to peasants even more than to gentlemen—in our English plays and novels, is a childish and fantastic babble, belonging to no form of real br... ...deliest welcomed to this world That e’er was woman’s child. Happy be the sequel! Thou hast as chiding a nativity As fire, air, water, earth, and... ...who have no personal access to their presence. In the fabulous pictures of novels (such novels as once abounded), and in newspaper reports of conversa... ...udgment de- scend? Attempts have been made to impress that coloring of the sequel in two of these cases, indeed, but without effect upon any man’s min... ...ve to her brother at the certain price of a grave to herself—these are the sequels and arrears of the family over- throw accomplished through the dark...

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...put a stop to the monstrous romantic jargon made popular by certain famous novels. The comedy of the Femmes Savantes exposed the later and less appare... ...gle we have to conduct is essence against essence. Let no one doubt of the sequel when this emanation of what is firmest in us is launched to strike d... ...traight into a com- edy, were the plot arranged for them. Galt’s neglected novels have some characters and strokes of shrewd comedy. In our poetic lit... ...glish. Many of them now swelling a plethoric market, in the composition of novels, in pun-manufactories and in jour- nalism; attached to the machinery...

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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 ... ...d in the same summary elliptic method as the book you have been reading and admiring.’ I was here brought up with a reflection exceedingly just in its...

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...vel Newspaper, 143]) and (London: N. Bruce, 72 pp., 1842 (Series: Standard Novels, 5]). It also appeared by itself as “Imagination: A Tale for Young W... ...imagination gets the better of her, presumably because of reading romantic novels. This, of course, was a commonplace notion in the 1820s, except that... ...mit two at the same time to its sanctuary. How much Julia was mistaken the sequel of our tale will show. So long as Anna Miller was the inmate of the ... ...t not. How gratifying this speech was to the feelings of the gay girl, the sequel of our tale must show. The young man however did not judge her too f...

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...s mingled with singular embar- rassment. How was he to contrive a suitable sequel to this stratagem? “Bah! I shall see her,” he said over and over aga... ...e Alps, an Italian (to re- sume) made the following comment on some French novels which she had been reading. “I cannot see,” she remarked, “why these...

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...ction 5 FREDERICK BARNET’S WANDER JAHRE is one of those autobio- graphical novels that were popular throughout the third and fourth decades of the twe... ...uneasy complaint that was presently an innumerable multitude of books. The novels more particularly of the nine- teenth century, if one excludes the m... ...ation. Religion was the privilege of the pulpit…. It was not only from the novels that religion was omitted. It was ignored by the newspapers; it was ... ...pectives of the new dawn…. 150 The World Set Free But if we return to our novels for our evidence of the spirit of the times it becomes evident as on... ...learer their vision and the subtler their art, the more certainly do these novels tell of the possibility of salvation for all the world. For any road... ...e other day about Bismarck, that hero of nineteenth-century politics, that sequel to Napoleon, that god of blood and iron. And he was just a beery, ob...

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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... ...a great hold upon me. Where the devil shall I go next?This is simply the tale of a coup de tete of a young man and a young woman; with a nearly, perha... ...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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... all the rooms on one floor, and all the indecent propinquities that their novels described. It amused Newland Archer (who had 21 Edith Wharton secre... ...an revolutionary glazed ware, subscribed to “Good Words,” and read Ouida’s novels for the sake of the Italian atmosphere. (They preferred those about ... ...s of scenery and the pleasanter sen- timents, though in general they liked novels about people in society, whose motives and habits were more comprehe... ... so happy.” “But then—why not be happier?” “We can’t behave like people in novels, though, can we?” “Why not—why not—why not?” She looked a little bor... ...nsidered that a sug- gestion to be acted on, and the meeting was without a sequel. They had even managed to avoid May’s English aunt, the banker’s wif... ...his authoritative text is reprinted from the Library of America edition of Novels by Edith Wharton, and is based on the sixth impression of the first ...

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...in a letter the next day, but I saw the rest only in the light of a barren sequel. A whole year after my visit to him I became aware once, in dining o... ... for you. That means she can’t turn round.” “She’ll do for the fashionable novels.” “Oh yes, she’ll do for them!” my model humorously declared. “Ain’t... ...terary relations. She would have read the long-winded obsolete memoirs and novels that both the figures and the setting ought clearly to remind one of...