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Love on a Branch Line is a 1959 comic novel by John Hadfield. The novel tells the story of a diffident member of the British Civil Service, Jasper Pye, who is sent to East Anglia to close a government department headquartered at a country estate. During the weekend he spends at the estate, he meets the people of the area and develops an ...
The novel has been adapted into two films of the same name. The first, starring Parker Stevenson as Gene and John Heyl as Finny, with a screenplay by Fred Segal and John Knowles, was released in 1972. [8] The second, directed by Peter Yates, with a screenplay by Wendy Kesselman, was released in 2004. [9]
L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais (Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred) Louis-Sébastien Mercier: An unnamed man falls asleep and finds himself in a Paris of the future. 1781 Anno 7603: Johan Herman Wessel: Play – A good fairy sends people forward to the year 7603 AD. [1] The people find themselves in a society where gender roles ...
The Overstory is a novel by American author Richard Powers, published in 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company.The book follows nine Americans whose unique life experiences with trees bring them together to address the destruction of forests.
A parallel novel is an in-universe (but often non-canonical) pastiche (or sometimes sequel) piece of literature written within, derived from, or taking place during the framework of another work of fiction by the same or another author with respect to continuity.
Two Steps Forward is a 2017 novel by Australian husband and wife novelists Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist. [1] The work was first published on October 2, 2017 in Australia and New Zealand by Text Publishing. The novel follows two dissimilar people, Zoe and Martin, as their paths cross during a 2000 kilometre walk on the Camino de Santiago.
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Amy Kaplan, in contrast, debates race relations, empire, and literary regionalism in the nineteenth century, noting that "regions painted with 'local color' are traversed by the forgotten history of racial conflict with prior regional inhabitants, and are ultimately produced and engulfed by the centralized capitalist economy that generates the ...