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Pilgrims is a collection of twelve short stories by American author Elizabeth Gilbert.It was named a New York Times Notable Book, won a Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award.
He saw his Jack Albany stories turned into the 1968 Walt Disney film Never a Dull Moment, starring Dick Van Dyke. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three , his novel about the hijacking of a New York City Subway train, was a best seller in 1973 and was made into the 1974 movie starring Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw , a 1998 TV-movie remake of the ...
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (/ ˈ w ʊ d h aʊ s /; 1881–1975) was a prolific English author, humorist and scriptwriter.After being educated at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life, he was employed by a bank, but disliked the work and wrote magazine pieces in his spare time. [1]
Pelham is an 1828 novel by the British writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton, originally published in three volumes. It was his breakthrough novel, launching him as one of Britain's leading authors. It is part of the tradition of silver fork novels that enjoyed great popularity in the late Regency and early Victorian eras
Kid Brady Stories and A Man of Means (2013) – – November 1905 Pearson's (US) Kid Brady 83 6 "How Kid Brady Won the Championship" Kid Brady Stories and A Man of Means (2013) – – January 1906 Pearson's (US) Kid Brady 84 7 "How Kid Brady Assisted a Damsel in Distress" Kid Brady Stories and A Man of Means (2013) – – March 1906 Pearson's ...
Originally the character of Felix Krull appeared in a short story written in 1911. The story was not published until 1936, in the book Stories of Three Decades , along with 23 other stories written between 1896 and 1929, the year in which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature .
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1973) is a thriller novel by Morton Freedgood, writing under the pen name John Godey. The novel's title is derived from the train's radio call sign. When a New York City Subway train leaves to start a run, it is given a call sign based upon the time it left and where; in this case, Pelham Bay Park station at ...
The story was previously filmed as a 30 minute short for television as part of the series Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Series 1 Episode 11: "The Case of Mr Pelham", starring Tom Ewell and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The story was also adapted twice for BBC television (in 1948 [5] and 1955 [6]) and for BBC radio (in 1946).