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An English sailor who travels to Japan and is given the titles of samurai and hatamoto based on the real life story of William Adams. Date masamune: Sengoku Basara: A fictional samurai loosely based on the real historical figure Date Masamune. Jack Fletcher Young Samurai: An English boy shipwrecked in Japan who eventually becomes a samurai ...
Middle-earth represents the Old World of our planet Earth (named Arda in the stories) in a fictional (pre)historic era. Mistborn: The Final Empire: 2006 Brandon Sanderson: Misterland: Mr. Tickle: 1971 Roger Hargreaves: Setting of Mr. Men and Little Miss series. Mortal Engines Quartet: Mortal Engines: 2001 Philip Reeve: Monster Hunter universe ...
Toy Story: Tin Toy (1988) 1988/1995 Present Tin Toy, Toy Story, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, and Lightyear: Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out: 1989 Present A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave, Cracking Contraptions, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, A Matter of Loaf and Death, Shaun the Sheep and Timmy Time: World of Twelve
In the 1930s the story was translated into Spanish in for Sherlock Holmes Memorias intimas del rey de los detectives No. 3, "El Destripador" (The Ripper), recently reprinted in a new book and translated into English for the first time. [7] Cullen called the story "amusing Sherlock Holmes pastiche". [4]
[11] [12] Borchester is the fictional county town of fictional Borsetshire, in the English Midlands, scene of the long-running BBC Radio series The Archers. The University of Bums on Seats: Cynicalbastards.com: Internet: UK: England "Formerly Peckham Polytechnic". A satirical invention reflecting the changing UK Higher Education system, online ...
Dr. Gideon Fell is a fictional character created by John Dickson Carr. [1] He is the protagonist of 23 mystery novels from 1933 through 1967, as well as a few short stories. Carr was an American who lived most of his adult life in England; Dr. Fell is an Englishman who lives in the London suburbs.
Agatha Raisin is a fictional detective in a series of humorous mystery novels, originally written by Marion Chesney using the pseudonym M. C. Beaton. Chesney's friend Rod W. Green took over as writer with Hot to Trot. The books are published in the U.K. by Constable & Robinson and in the US by St Martin's Press.
The Carl Hamilton novels is a book series by Swedish author and journalist Jan Guillou centered on the fictional Swedish spy Carl Gustaf Gilbert Hamilton. The main character is an elite military officer working for the Swedish Security agency and Intelligence agency during the end of the Cold War, residing in Stockholm but active internationally.