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* Bernard Cornwell: Sharpe series set in 19th century Europe and India, the Starbuck Chronicles, set during the American Civil War, the Saxon Stories set in Alfred the Great's pre-England, the Grail Quest Novels set in mid-14th century England / Normandy, and The Warlord Chronicles, set in Arthurian Britain.
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Bernard and Cornwell
* The same is true in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell and was used mainly to portray gambling much the same way poker is today.
* The Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell star the character Richard Sharpe, a soldier in the British Army, who fights throughout the Napoleonic Wars.
She is also an important figure in The Saxon Stories of Bernard Cornwell, especially from Sword Song on.
It is also a setting in the Warlord Chronicles a trilogy of books about Arthurian Britain written by Bernard Cornwell.
* Bernard Cornwell is one of today's best-known historical novelists, with his Sharpe and The Warlord Chronicles.
A warrior by the name of Culhwch appears prominently in the Warlord Chronicles trilogy by Bernard Cornwell.
The Sharpe novels ( 1981 – 2007 ) by Bernard Cornwell were a series likewise following the adventures of a British Army officer and set, partly, during the Peninsular War.
The battle features in ' Sharpe's Sword ' by Bernard Cornwell, in which Richard Sharpe helps Wellington bring the French to battle by feeding a known French spy false information.
Bernard Cornwell also duplicated Wellington's tactics, in this battle, in his re-telling of Arthur's victory at the Battle of Mount Badon, in The Warlord Chronicles.
Bernard and Sharpe
In Bernard Cornwell's series of novels Sharpe, the protagonist Richard Sharpe's mother was killed during the riots when he was three.
In 1993, he was cast as Richard Sharpe, the lead character in the Sharpe series of made-for-TV movies based on Bernard Cornwell's novels, however he injured his knee while playing football just days into filming Sharpe's Rifles in the Ukraine.
Sharpe is a series of historical fiction stories by Bernard Cornwell centred on the character of Richard Sharpe.
The siege of Seringapatam is featured in the Richard Sharpe novel Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Cornwell.
The 16-episode Sharpe television series was based on Bernard Cornwell's novels about the Peninsular War, and the fictional experiences of a band of soldiers in the famed 95th Rifles.
* Cornwell, Bernard, Sharpe's Triumph: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Assaye, September 1803, HarperCollins, 1998, ISBN 0-00-225630-4.
The Hervey novels are almost similar to the Sharpe novels written by Bernard Cornwell in that the heroes of both series of novels are British Army officers.
The Gaunt's Ghosts series of books have been said to be inspired heavily by the Sharpe series of books written by Bernard Cornwell.
The Warlord Chronicles is a trilogy of books about Arthurian Britain written by Bernard Cornwell ( perhaps best known for his Richard Sharpe adventures ).
* Bernard Cornwell's novel Sharpe's Devil features a meeting between Napoleon, and the fictional Richard Sharpe.
Talavera is the setting for Sharpe's Eagle, the first book written in Bernard Cornwell's " Sharpe " series, and is depicted in the conclusion of the film adaptation of the same name.
* Richard Sharpe – fictional hero of Bernard Cornwell's " Sharpe " novels, which prominently feature the 95th.
Bernard and series
As Hamlet was very popular, Bernard Lott, the series editor of New Swan, believes it " unlikely that he would have overlooked ... so significant a piece ".
The Grail has been used as a theme in fantasy, historical fiction and science fiction ; a quest for the Grail appears in Bernard Cornwell's series of books The Grail Quest, set during The Hundred Years War.
A celebrated medieval series of commentaries was that composed by the Cistercians Bernard of Clairvaux, Gilbert of Hoilandia, and John of Ford over the course of several decades, each continuing the work of the previous.
* Bernard Cornwell's The Saxon Stories series of books features her, most prominently in Sword Song ( 2007 ISBN 978-0-00-721971-1 ) and The Burning Land ( 2009 ISBN 978-0-00-721975-9 ).
The first trilogy of his Bernard Samson novel series was made into a twelve-part television series by Granada Television in 1988, shown only once, then withdrawn on instructions from Deighton.
Joseph W. Randall ( Edward G. Robinson ), the city editor of a tabloid newspaper, reluctantly agrees when publisher Bernard Hinchecliffe ( Oscar Apfel ) plans to boost circulation with a restrospective series on a 20-year-old murder and scandal, involving a secretary, Nancy Voorhees ( Frances Starr ), who shot the man who got her pregnant and then refused to marry her.
Harris first came to general notice as the editor of a series of London papers including the Evening News, the Fortnightly Review and the Saturday Review, the last-named being the high point of his journalistic career, with H. G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw as regular contributors.
Harris also wrote short stories and novels, two books on Shakespeare, a series of biographical sketches in five volumes under the title Contemporary Portraits and biographies of his friends Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw.
Bernard Lonergan's hermeneutics is less well-known, but in a series of masterly articles, Fred Lawrence has outlined a case for considering his work as the culmination and achievement of the postmodern hermeneutical revolution that began with Heidegger.
* William Marshal is a significant secondary character in the novel The Witch Hunter by Bernard Knight, in the author's John Crowner medieval mystery series, published in 2004.
In art, Myrrha's seduction of her father has been illustrated by German engraver Virgil Solis, her tree-metamorphosis by French engraver Bernard Picart and Italian painter Marcantonio Franceschini, while French engraver Gustave Doré chose to depict Myrrha in Hell as a part of his series of engravings for Dante's Divine Comedy.
The Partridge Family series creator Bernard Slade and producers Paul Junger Witt and Robert " Bob " Claver did not care whether Cassidy could sing, knowing only that his androgynous good looks would guarantee success.
After the third series, following Sir Humphrey's promotion to Cabinet Secretary, Hacker becomes Prime Minister and requests that Bernard Woolley continue as his Principal Private Secretary.
In a programme screened by the BBC in early 2004, paying tribute to the series, it was revealed that Jay and Lynn had drawn on information provided by two insiders from the governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, namely Marcia Williams and Bernard Donoughue.
* Novelist Bernard Knight, a former Home Office pathologist and a professor of forensic pathology at the University of Wales College of Medicine, is well known for his Crowner John Mysteries series set in 12th century Devon, England.
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