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See Table of years in literature for an overview of all "year in literature" pages. Several attempts have been made to create a list of world literature. Among these are the great books project including the book series Great Books of the Western World, now containing 60 volumes.
This list of historical fiction is designed to provide examples of notable works of historical fiction (in literature, film, comics, etc.) organized by time period.. For a more exhaustive list of historical novels by period, see Category:Historical novels by setting, which lists relevant Wikipedia categories; see also the larger List of historical novels, which is organized by country, as well ...
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (account of Great Plague of London, 1666) Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks (Great Plague, 1666) Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor (17th century, Restoration period) Royal Escape by Georgette Heyer (Cromwell and Charles II) Micah Clarke by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (17th century, Monmouth Rebellion)
A 20th-century Polish engineer is transported back to 13th-century Poland, ten years before the Mongol invasion. 1987 Sphere: Michael Crichton: A man made space ship from the far future passes through a wormhole. It crashes onto the Earth where it is thought to be an alien vessel. 1987 A Tale of Time City: Diana Wynne Jones
David Martin AM (22 December 1915 – 1 July 1997), born Lajos or Ludwig Detsinyi, into a Jewish family in Hungary (then part of Austria-Hungary), was an Australian novelist, poet, playwright, journalist, editor, literary reviewer and lecturer. He also used the names Louis Adam and Louis Destiny, adopting the name David Martin after moving to ...
This is a list of classic children's books published no later than 2008 and still available in the English language. [1] [2] [3] Books specifically for children existed by the 17th century. Before that, books were written mainly for adults – although some later became popular with children.
Elizabeth David, the British cookery writer, published eight books in the 34 years between 1950 and 1984; the last was issued eight years before her death.After David's death, her literary executor, Jill Norman, supervised the publication of eight more books, drawing on David's unpublished manuscripts and research and on her published writings for books and magazines.
David Dodge was born in Berkeley, California, the youngest child of George Andrew Dodge, a San Francisco architect, and Maude Ellingwood Bennett Dodge. Following George's death in an automobile accident, Maude "Monnie" Dodge moved the family (David and his three older sisters, Kathryn, Frances, and Marian) to Southern California, where David attended Lincoln High School in Los Angeles but did ...