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The Malayan Trilogy, also published as The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy in the United States, [1] is a comic 'triptych' of novels by Anthony Burgess set amidst the decolonisation of Malaya. It is a detailed fictional exploration of the effects of the Malayan Emergency and of Britain's final withdrawal from its Southeast Asian territories.
The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl, As Told by Herself is a novel by Dorothy Richardson. The book was originally published anonymously in 1905 by Century Company in New York. Dorothy Richardson, who was a middle-class woman born in 1882, was not the same Dorothy Richardson who wrote stream-of-consciousness novels in Great Britain.
Finishing up after a long day, perhaps 19 March 1964, [89] [90] he commented "it's been a hard day", and, on noticing it was dark, added " 's night" ("it's been a hard day's night"). [91] While both Lennon and Starr later identified the phrase as Starr's, [ 92 ] Lewisohn raises doubts that the phrase originated with him. [ 89 ]
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At the time Sanchez was finishing the book he read novels including War and Peace, The Name of the Rose, A Hundred Years of Solitude, and Rabbit, Run. [1] Sanchez has said "poetic asides" in Rabbit, Run influenced All Day is a Long Time. [1]
It is a 1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King. It was King's 22nd book and the 17th novel written under his own name. The story follows the experiences of seven preteens as they are terrorized by an evil entity that exploits the fears of its victims to disguise itself while hunting its prey.
Frederick Buechner's A Long Day's Dying is a novel of sheer magic. The richness of the prose, the delicacy in handling situations belong to a more refined era of American fiction. I think the book will be read by anyone curious as to what a wonderful novel can and does do. [12]
The Longest Day is a 1959 book by Cornelius Ryan telling the story of D-Day, the first day of the World War II invasion of Normandy.It details the coup de main operation by gliderborne troops, which captured the Caen canal and Orne river bridges (Pegasus Bridge and Horsa Bridge) before the main assault on the Normandy beaches.