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Regarded as the first story of modern speculative fiction to depict the end of the world [2] Poem 1816 Sun "Darkness" Lord Byron Describes the end of life on Earth after the Sun's extinction Novel 1826 Disease The Last Man [3] Mary Shelley: Novel 1872 Technology "The Book of Machines" The novel Erewhon 's section "The Book of Machines" Novel ...
She has been published under the pseudonyms Elizabeth Walker, Elizabeth Neff Walker, and Laura Matthews. As Laura Matthews, she has released more than 30 Regency romance novels. [ 1 ] Under her other pseudonyms, she writes mainstream women's fiction or contemporary romances, most of them revolving around people working at a hospital.
Like Wilkie Collins' novel The Woman in White (1859), Laura is narrated in the first person by several alternating characters. [2] These individual stories all revolve around the apparent murder of the title character, a successful New York advertiser killed in the doorway of her apartment with a shotgun blast that obliterated her face.
Night is the first in a trilogy—Night, Dawn, Day—marking Wiesel's transition during and after the Holocaust from darkness to light, according to the Jewish tradition of beginning a new day at nightfall. "In Night," he said, "I wanted to show the end, the finality of the event. Everything came to an end—man, history, literature, religion, God.
She praised Adams's inventive fantasy world and said the plot was "just so much 'Star Wars' and lots of fun." However, she said that what appeared to be an attempt at feminist sensibility was marred by "something basically wrongheaded about his female characters," noting that Occula, despite her spirituality, ends up being satisfied as a rich ...
The cover of the Moonlighting: The Complete Seasons One to Five Region 2 DVD box set (18 discs). Moonlighting is an American comedy-drama television show created in 1985 by writer Glenn Gordon Caron. [1]
One night, Nathan learns that his wife and daughter were killed in a car accident. While trying to comfort him, Jodie discovers that she can channel spirits of the dead from the Infraworld; she helps the spirits speak to the living through a psychic link created by her physical contact.
The Sterile Cuckoo is a 1965 novel by John Nichols.It tells the story of a quirky young couple – eccentric, imaginative Pookie Adams and conventional, unimaginative Jerry Payne – whose relationship deepens despite their differences, but eventually falls apart.