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Robert Cedric Sherriff, FSA, FRSL (6 June 1896 – 13 November 1975) [1] was an English writer best known for his play Journey's End, [2] which was based on his experiences as an army officer in the First World War. [3] He wrote several plays, many novels, and multiple screenplays, and was nominated for an Academy Award and two BAFTA awards. [4]
Townsend was born in Leeds and educated at Leeds Grammar School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. [4] His popular works include Gumble's Yard , his debut novel published in 1961; Widdershins Crescent (1965); and The Intruder (1969), which won the 1971 Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery from the Mystery Writers of America .
Le Quart Livre (The Fourth Book in English) is a novel by François Rabelais and published in its final version in 1552.The author was confronted with significant challenges in the context of this sequel to the adventures of Pantagruel, particularly in the wake of the publication of The Third Book and the subsequent opposition from theologians at the Sorbonne.
The Longest Journey is a bildungsroman by E. M. Forster, first published in 1907. It is the second of Forster's six published novels, following Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) and preceding A Room with a View (1908) and Howards End (1910). It was Forster’s favourite among his own novels. [1]
The novel was adapted by artist I.N.J. Culbard in 2012, in a comic book published by Self Made Hero under the novel's title, featuring a foreword by comic book creator Jeff Lemire. The art in this rendition was described by one critic as "a brilliant job of communicating [a] vision of a rotting afterlife to... readers." [22]
In the blink of an eye, on December 28, 1964, 12-year-old Carol Jarosz Bartos’ life changed forever. That’s the day her 16-year-old sister, Beverly Jarosz, was murdered. Sixty years later ...
Blue Highways Revisited: Written and photographed by Edgar I. Ailor III, and Edgar I. Ailor IV, Blue Highways Revisited is a 30-year follow-up to Heat-Moon's original book. The Ailors re-travel the routes of Heat-Moon and seek out the sites he visited, as well as the people he interacted with along the way. [2]
A car driving on Interstate 4 in Tampa was hit with an overhead road sign. ∎ Helene is the 4th U.S. landfalling hurricane of 2024. Only five other years on record have had four or more hurricane ...