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Andrew Wynford Davies (/ ˈ d eɪ v ɪ s /; born 20 September 1936) is a Welsh screenwriter and novelist, best known for his television adaptations of To Serve Them All My Days, House of Cards, Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, Bleak House, War & Peace, and his original serial A Very Peculiar Practice. [1]
In a 28 March 1994 review for The New York Times, Elizabeth Kolbert said the mini-series was a hit in Britain as it "mesmerized millions of viewers here, setting off a mini-craze for Victorian fiction. In its wake there were Middlemarch lectures, Middlemarch comics, even a wave of Middlemarch debates. Authors and columnists argued in the London ...
Middlemarch originates in two unfinished pieces that Eliot worked on during 1869 and 1870: the novel "Middlemarch " [a] (which focused on the character of Lydgate) and the long story "Miss Brooke" (which focused on the character of Dorothea). [4] The former piece is first mentioned in her journal on 1 January 1869 as one of the tasks for the ...
The screenwriter and Man Booker Prize-winning author of Atonement and Lessons on James Joyce, Middlemarch, and the book that made him miss a train stop. Ian McEwan on James Joyce, 'Middlemarch ...
Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian [1] [2]), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. [3] She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola ...
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by English author George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans.It was published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, the novel is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation to community.
In 1954, Hamner wrote "Hit and Run", an episode of the early legal drama Justice. He reprised the theme a decade later in the 1964 "You Drive" episode of The Twilight Zone. In the early 1960s, Hamner contributed eight more episodes to the highly regarded science fiction series The Twilight Zone. His first script acceptance for the series was ...
[3] [8] He often includes gay, bisexual, and Jewish characters in his work. [3] [9] Since the late 1990s, he has written in increasingly diverse styles for varied outlets; he is a notable defender of the merits of genre fiction and plot-driven fiction, and, along with novels, has published screenplays, children's books, comics, and newspaper ...