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But [she] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers ... it really is a bloody wonderful book." [ 3 ] Markham was the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean from east to west in a non-stop solo flight (a westbound flight requires more endurance, fuel, and time than the eastward journey, because the craft must ...
A tale from West with the Night was excerpted and illustrated by Don Brown as a children's book, The Good Lion. In 1988, CBS aired the biographical miniseries, Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun, with Stefanie Powers in the title role. Both West with the Night and Splendid Outcast appeared on the New York Times best-seller list of hardcover ...
In this respect, James Light, in his book Violence, Dreams, and Dostoevsky: The Art of Nathanael West, suggests that The Day of the Locust falls in with a motif in West's fiction; the exposure of hopeful narratives in modern American culture as frauds. [13] As some critics point out, West's novel was a radical challenge to modernist literature.
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Errol Trzebinski (born 24 June 1936 in Gloucester), is a British writer of books on the Happy Valley set of colonial Kenya. Her book Silence Will Speak was a source for the script of the 1985 Hollywood movie Out of Africa. [1] Her late husband Sbish Trzebinski appears as a drunkard in the film and is slapped by Meryl Streep when he insults her.
The innovative approach of the "Night Mail" story, termed "indirect exposition" (or "incluing"), strongly influenced the style of the later post-war science-fiction author Robert A. Heinlein. The tales inspired a substantial role-playing game, Forgotten Futures , which had as its first source book The A.B.C. Files: A Role Playing Sourcebook For ...
The Night Diary is a young adult novel written by American writer Veera Hiranandani and published by Penguin Random House in 2018. It is set in 1947, during the months before and after the independence of India and subsequent partition, and is written as diary entries from the perspective of Nisha, a girl who has just celebrated her twelfth birthday along with her twin brother, Amil.