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The book's title comes from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, [a] a Dissenter allegory first published in 1678. In that work, "Vanity Fair" refers to a stop along the pilgrim's route: a never-ending fair held in a town called Vanity, which represents man's sinful attachment to worldly things.
Ashbless also features (as Sir William Ashbless) in Powers' 1979 novel The Drawing of the Dark, credited with a brief quote before the book's prologue: If but we Christians have our beer, Nothing's to fear. In his 1992 novel Last Call (ISBN 0-688-10732-X), Tim Powers includes a poem attributed to William Ashbless in the introduction to Book One ...
The Book of Snobs is a collection of satirical works by William Makepeace Thackeray published in book form in 1848, the same year as his more famous Vanity Fair.The pieces first appeared in fifty-three weekly pieces from February 28, 1846 to February 27, 1847, as "The Snobs of England, by one of themselves", in the satirical magazine Punch.
Jackie French Koller (born 1948) is an American author of picture books, chapter books, and novels for children and young adults. She lives and writes in western Massachusetts . Koller is also an accomplished painter.
Nothing to Fear (MC Lars album), 1999 "Nothing to Fear" (song), a 1992 song by Chris Rea "Nothing to Fear", a song by Depeche Mode from A Broken Frame "Nothing to Fear" (Batman: The Animated Series), a 1992 television episode "Nothing to Fear", a 1999 episode of the American children’s television series Bear in the Big Blue House "Nothing to ...
William Wall is the author of seven novels, five collections of poetry and three volumes of short stories. For many years he taught English at Presentation Brothers College, Cork , where he inspired Cillian Murphy to enter acting.
The fear expressed in line 1–2, "If there be nothing new, but that which is Hath been before, how are our brains beguiled", is remedied by the strength of Shakespeare's own "invention" and its ability to influence future ages. [5]
No Shame, No Fear is a 2003 novel for young adults by Ann Turnbull. [1] Set in the fictional town of Hemsbury in the 1660s, the novel depicts the love between a Quaker girl, Susanna, and Will, the son of a rich merchant. Their story takes place during the persecution of religious dissenters after the restoration of the monarchy.