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The Golden Ocean is a historical novel written by Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1956. It tells the story of a novice midshipman , Peter Palafox, who joins George Anson's voyage around the world beginning in 1740.
In the book, his second daughter, Samara, is seen in the very last chapter. Nikita Jagan is the fourth Pandava sister and the twin sister of Sheela who is found by the others in the book and later appears in their dreams when she is not able to accompany them in real life. Sheela Jagan is the fifth and final Pandava sister. She can see the ...
Joe Gould's Secret is a 1965 book by Joseph Mitchell, based upon his two New Yorker profiles, "Professor Sea Gull" (1942) and "Joe Gould's Secret" (1964). Mitchell's work details the true story of the eponymous Joe Gould , a writer who lived in Greenwich Village in the first half of the 20th century.
A further annoyance is the diction, clumsily erudite as ever [...] If only some editor had cleaned out this nonsense and trimmed the book to liftable size." [1] Dave Pringle reviewed White Gold Wielder for Imagine magazine, and stated that "White Gold Wielder is a stronger work than the preceding tome (The One Tree)." [2] Ruth Campbell noted ...
The book was the inspiration for the 1982-1983 French cartoon TV series Les Mystérieuses Cités d'or (The Mysterious Cities of Gold).A few of the central characters take their names from the book, the high-level quest (searching for the Cities of Gold) is the same, and the "golden lake" scene from the book is also present in the cartoon, but the similarities end there (the cartoon has motifs ...
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions is a collection of short stories and poems by. English writer Neil Gaiman . It was first published in the United States in 1998, and in the United Kingdom in 1999. [ 1 ]
The City of Mirrors is a 2016 horror novel by Justin Cronin and is the final novel in The Passage trilogy, following the novel The Twelve. The City of Mirrors was released for publication on May 24, 2016 by Ballantine Books .
It centres on Morgan's assault and sacking of Panama City (the "Cup of Gold"), and the woman (La Santa Roja, or the Red Saint) he seeks there, reputed to be fairer than the sun. [1] [2] As of January 1, 2025 the book is in the public domain in the United States, becoming the first of Steinbeck’s novels to no longer be under copyright.