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Gap Creek (1999, ISBN 1-56512-242-9) is a novel by American writer Robert Morgan, [1] and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in January 2000. [2] The paperback version was published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill on August 21, 2012. Gap Creek is a sequel to Morgan's other novel, The Truest Pleasure. Gap Creek is a story about a ...
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books. 2013. ISBN 978-1-61620-161-6. Gap Creek. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books. 1999. ISBN 978-0-7432-0363-0. Brave Enemies: A Novel of the American Revolution. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books. 2003. ISBN 978-1-56512-356-4. The Truest Pleasure. Chapel Hill, North Carolina ...
The Outpost is a science fiction novel by American writer Mike Resnick, first published as hardback by Tor Books in May 2001, followed by paperback edition in August 2002. It is a satirical anthology centered on a tavern called the Outpost on the planet Henry II at the edge of the galaxy, in the neutral territory known as the Inner Frontier where fighting is forbidden.
The Outpost is an American fantasy-adventure drama television series, acquired by The CW, which premiered on July 10, 2018. [1] [4] [5] It was produced by Syfy's international channels for international broadcast. The series was renewed for a third season in October 2019 which premiered on October 8, 2020.
In 1905, Robertson's book The Submarine Destroyer was published. It described a submarine that used a device known as a periscope.Despite Robertson's later claims that he had "invented" a prototype periscope himself (and was refused a patent), Simon Lake and Harold Grubb had perfected the model used by the U.S. Navy by 1902, three years before Robertson's "prescient" novel.
Conrad served his “apprenticeship” under the influence of the French author Gustave Flaubert and British author Rudyard Kipling. [6] [7]The two ivory dealers portrayed in “The Outpost of Progress” closely resemble the chief protagonists in Flaubert’s novel Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881), “as classic revelation of bourgeois stupidity and pretension.” [8] Literary critic Laurence ...
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Conclave. "We are mortal men; we serve an ideal. We cannot always be ideal." At the center of Robert Harris' 2016 novel Conclave is this admission, a ...
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.