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Charles and Saunders
* Saunders, JB de CM and O ' Malley, Charles D. The Illustrations from the Works of Andreas Vesalius of Brussels.
* December 7 – Charles Saunders, British admiral
The logging operation was established by Daniel Saunders Jr. and Charles W. Saunders, members of the Saunders family.
Charles Benbow and his brother-in-law, Jesse Saunders, established Benbow & Co. in 1837 to operate the Cross Creek Textile Mill in Fayetteville.
Wolfe's troops were supported by a fleet of 49 ships and 140 smaller craft led by Admiral Charles Saunders.
In 1754, the first of the provisional Carnatic treaties was signed between Thomas Saunders, the Company president at Madras, and Charles Godeheu, the French commander who displaced Dupleix.
( one episode, 1955 ) — Dr. Charles Saunders
Born on 27 July 1882 at Magdala House, Terriers, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, de Havilland was the second son of the Revd Charles de Havilland and his first wife, Alice Jeannette ( née Saunders ).
On his return to England Pocock is said to have been disappointed because another officer, Sir Charles Saunders, was chosen in preference to himself as a member of the Admiralty Board, and to have resigned in consequence.
* February 2 – Charles E. Saunders, agronomist ( died 1937 )
* October 12-Albert Charles Saunders, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island ( d. 1943 )
* Captain Charles Saunders, 1755 – 1756
Charles Saunders may refer to:
* Charles Saunders ( Royal Navy officer ) ( 1713 – 1775 ), British admiral
* Charles Saunders ( administrator ) ( died 1931 ), British administrator
* Charles Saunders ( tennis ), real tennis world champion, 1890 – 1895
* Charles Saunders ( director ) ( 1904 – 1997 ), English film director and screenwriter
* Charles Saunders ( rower ) ( 1902 – 1994 ), New Zealand rower
* Charles E. Saunders ( 1867 – 1937 ), Canadian agronomist
* Charles H. Saunders ( 1821 – 1901 ), City Councilor, Alderman and Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts
* Charles R. Saunders ( born 1946 ), Canadian fantasy author
* Charles Saunders ( bishop ) ( 1884 – 1973 ), Bishop of Lucknow, 1928 – 1938

Charles and novels
With the first of a group of historical novels, The Charles Men ( Karolinerna ), published in 1897-8, he achieved the masterpiece of his career.
For example, out of the social evils of the English industrial revolution came the novels of Charles Dickens ; ;
It became the expectation — rather than the exception — that those in the public eye should write about themselves — not only writers such as Charles Dickens ( who also incorporated autobiographical elements in his novels ) and Anthony Trollope, but also politicians ( e. g. Henry Brooks Adams ), philosophers ( e. g. John Stuart Mill ), churchmen such as Cardinal Newman, and entertainers such as P. T. Barnum.
Charles Dickens makes frequent use of the riverside and docklands in novels such as Our Mutual Friend and Great Expectations, and there is a memorable description of the docks, their buildings and people, in Joseph Conrad's The Mirror of the Sea.
The genre was also a heavy influence on more mainstream writers, such as Charles Dickens, who read Gothic novels as a teenager and incorporated their gloomy atmosphere and melodrama into his own works, shifting them to a more modern period and an urban setting, including Oliver Twist ( 1837-8 ), Bleak House ( 1854 ) ( Mighall 2003 ) and Great Expectations ( 1860 – 61 ).
He also learned rudimentary English skills by reading the Bible and novels by Charles Dickens.
She also read the plays of William Shakespeare, and novels by Charles Dickens and Sir Walter Scott.
novels for the Charles Scribner's Sons publishing company that was to last through the 1950s ( at the rate of one book per year ).
In the US, the new novels Moscow Club ( 1991 ) by Joseph Finder, Masquerade ( 1996 ) by Gayle Lynds, and The Unlikely Spy ( 1996 ) by Daniel Silva, and in the UK, A Spy By Nature ( 2001 ) by Charles Cumming and Remembrance Day ( 2000 ) by Henry Porter, maintained the spy novel in the post – Cold War world.
A pair of SF novels by Gene DeWeese and Robert " Buck " Coulson, Now You See It / Him / Them and Charles Fort Never Mentioned Wombats are set at Worldcons ; the latter includes an in-character " introduction " by Wilson Tucker ( himself a character in the novel ) which is a sly self-parody verging on a self-tuckerization.
Many years ago, Mrs. Grey, author of The Gambler's Wife and other novels, was on a visit at Ombersley Court, when Lady Sandys chanced to remark that she wished she could get some very good curry powder, which elicited from Mrs. Grey that she had in her desk an excellent recipe, which her uncle, Sir Charles, Chief Justice of India, had brought thence, and given her.
Authors who write both fiction and non-fiction, or in different genres, may use different pen names to avoid confusing their readers, as in the case of mathematician Charles Dodgson, who wrote fantasy novels under the pen name Lewis Carroll and mathematical treatises under his own name.
Like most of Charles Dickens ' novels, David Copperfield was published in 19 monthly one-shilling installments, containing 32 pages of text and two illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne (" Phiz "), with the last being a double-number:
Charles Dickens, who was influenced by Fielding, wrote his first six novels in the picaresque form, with Martin Chuzzlewit ( 1844 ) being the transitional novel to his later more serious and mature works.
He is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady ( 1748 ) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison ( 1753 ).
Seventy-five novels and twenty-eight short stories about Maigret were published between 1931 and 1972, starting with Pietr-le-Leton ( Latvian Pete ) and concluding with Maigret et Monsieur Charles ( Maigret and Monsieur Charles ).
In classical drama, for example, the role of the chorus was to comment on the proceedings and draw out a message for the audience to take away with them ; while the novels of Charles Dickens are a vehicle for morals regarding the social and economic system of Victorian Britain.
Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), and A Passage to India ( 1984 ); for bringing Charles Dickens ' novels to the silver screen with films such as Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ); and for the renowned romantic drama Brief Encounter ( 1945 ).
Riis was influenced by his father, whose school Riis delighted in disrupting, and who persuaded him to read ( and improve his English via ) Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round and the novels of James Fenimore Cooper.
* The prison appears in a number of novels by Charles Dickens, including Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of ' Eighty and Great Expectations, and is the subject of an entire essay in his work Sketches by Boz.
Charles Dickens set several of his novels in the old borough where he lived as a young man.
The area is featured briefly in two Charles Dickens novels.
Primary influences on the style of Russian Symbolism were the irrationalistic and mystical poetry and philosophy of Fyodor Tyutchev and Vladimir Solovyov, the novels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the operas of Richard Wagner, the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche, French symbolist and decadent poets ( such as Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine and Charles Baudelaire ), and the dramas of Henrik Ibsen.

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