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  2. The Gun (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The Gun is a novel by C.S. Forester about an imaginary series of incidents involving a single eighteen-pounder cannon during the Peninsular War (1807–1814). The book was first published in 1933 and has as its background the brutal war of liberation of Spanish and Portuguese forces (regular and partisans) and their British allies against the occupying armies of Napoleonic France.

  3. The Gun That Won the West - Wikipedia

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    Colonel Carrington (Roy Gordon) and his command are assigned the job of constructing a chain of forts in the Sioux Indian territory of Wyoming during the 1880s. The Colonel recruits former cavalry soldiers turned frontier scouts Jim Bridger (Dennis Morgan) and "Dakota Jack" Gaines (Richard Denning), now running a Wild West show, to head the fort building.

  4. C. S. Forester - Wikipedia

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    Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare, such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic Wars.

  5. Chekhov's gun - Wikipedia

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    Chekhov's gun (or Chekhov's rifle; Russian: Чеховское ружьё) is a narrative principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary and irrelevant elements should be removed. For example, if a writer features a gun in a story, there must be a reason for it, such as it being fired some time later in the plot.

  6. The Gun (Chivers book) - Wikipedia

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    The Gun is a nonfiction book written by journalist C. J. Chivers about the AK-47 rifle and its variants, and the impact they have had on the world.It covers the origins of the design, its invention and distribution, and the consequences of the pattern's spread around the world.

  7. The Gun (short story) - Wikipedia

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    "The Gun" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1952 September issue of Planet Stories, and later published in Beyond Lies the Wub in 1984. "The Gun" has been published in Italian, German, French and Polish translations.

  8. Bookshops & Bonedust - Wikipedia

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    She also meets the gnome Gallina and begins a summer romance with a dwarf baker named Maylee. Throughout the next few weeks, Viv grows close with her new companions. They renovate Fern’s struggling bookshop, invite a local author for a book signing, and begin a book club. One day while working in Fern’s shop, Viv fights with a man named ...

  9. Where the Red Fern Grows - Wikipedia

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    Where the Red Fern Grows Statue at the Idaho Falls Public Library. Although sales of the novel began slowly, by 1974 over 90,000 copies had been sold. [3] In 2001, Publishers Weekly estimated that it had sold 6,754,308 copies. [4] There is a statue of Billy, Old Dan, and Little Ann at the Idaho Falls Public Library. [5]

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