Marie-Louise Damien ( December 5, 1889 – January 31, 1978 ) was a French singer and actress better known by the stage name Damia.

When asked in 1974 by the Anglo-French biographer David Bret to divulge the secret of her long life and fabulous voice, Damia replied, " Three packs of Gitanes a day!

Having met the music-hall singer Damia and written some songs for her, Clair was persuaded by her to visit Gaumont studios in 1920 where a film was being cast and he then agreed to take on a leading role in Le Lys de la vie.

Their songs were performed not only by Piaf, but by many of the most famous female singers of the day, including Damia, Mona Goya, and Line Viala.

Although her songs were also sung by such well-known singers as Damia, Josephine Baker, Suzy Solidor, and Yves Montand, the successful ones were few and far between.

" Ma môme, ma p ’ tite môme gosse " ( sung by Damia and Yves Montand ) and the songs from " Irma " were the exception.

* The Discovery of Heaven, a 1992 novel by Harry Mulisch, claims heaven is located " at the end of the Big Bang in negative space ".

Early novels in this renaissance were Jack Williamson's novel Beachhead and Ben Bova's novel Mars ( both 1992 ), which envisioned large-scale expeditions to Mars according to the thinking of the 1990s.

Stephenson's breakthrough came in 1992 with Snow Crash, a novel in the late cyberpunk or post-cyberpunk tradition fusing memetics, computer viruses, and other high-tech themes with Sumerian mythology, along with a sociological extrapolation of laissez-faire capitalism and collectivism.

Renwick integrated some of the plots and dialogue from the series into a novel, which was first published by BBC Books in 1992.

The novel takes place in the " North American Confederation " of 1992, wherein technology has advanced to the extent of permitting civilians to reach the Moon and psi phenomena are common.

The novel is a day in the life of bounty hunter Rick Deckard, January 3 / 1992, as he tracks down renegade androids who have assumed human identities in a post-apocalyptic world where animals a rare and the human population have largely migrated off-world.

In his 1992 novel Last Call ( ISBN 0-688-10732-X ), Tim Powers includes a poem attributed to William Ashbless in the introduction to Book One.

* Fata Morgana, a 1992 crime novel by Roy Jacobsen

The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Sri Lankan-Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje.

* Crassus is a major character in the 1992 novel Arms of Nemesis by Steven Saylor.

* Transit ( Doctor Who ), a 1992 novel by Ben Aaronovitch based on the TV series Doctor Who

* British — Gaiman, Neil ( has lived in U. S. A. since 1992 ): " Harlequin Valentine " ( 1999 ), Harlequin Valentine ( 2001 ; graphic novel, illustrated by John Bolton ); Greenland, Colin: " A Passion for Lord Pierrot " ( 1990 ); Moorcock, Michael: The English Assassin and The Condition of Muzak ( 1972, 1977 ; hero Jerry Cornelius morphs with increasing frequency into role of Pierrot ), " Feu Pierrot " ( 1978 ); Stevenson, Helen: Pierrot Lunaire ( 1995 ).

In Kim Newman's 1992 novel Anno Dracula, Count Dracula takes the title of Lord Protector upon marrying Queen Victoria and becoming Prince Consort.

The Crow Road is a novel by the Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1992.

In 1992 a Congressional study in the U. S. led to NASA being directed to undertake a Spaceguard Survey with the novel being named as the inspiration for the name to search for Earth-impacting asteroids.

Dolores Claiborne is a 1992 psychological thriller novel by Stephen King.

It was the best selling novel of 1992 in the United States.

Gerald's Game ( 1992 ) is a suspense novel by Stephen King.

His 1992 anthology Uncanny Banquet was notable for including the first ever reprint of the obscure 1914 horror novel The Hole of the Pit by Adrian Ross.

Rabshakeh is also the title of a novel by J Francis Hudson ( Lion Publishing 1992 ).

Harris appears as a vampire in Kim Newman's 1992 novel Anno Dracula, as the mentor and vampire sire of one of the novel's main characters.

The novel chronicles the lives of a group of Jews-or rather, a Jewish family-in the U. S. A., in particular New York City, over a period of roughly seven months during 1991 and 1992.

A 2007 poll revealed his 1992 novel The Discovery of Heaven as the " Best Dutch Book Ever ".

His novel The Discovery of Heaven ( 1992 ) is considered his masterpiece, it was voted “ the best Dutch-language book ever ” by Dutch readers in a 2007 newspaper poll.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

A man in a novel who is defeated in his childhood and condemned by unconscious forces within him to tiredly repeat his earliest failure in love, only makes us a little weary of man ; ;

The tradition reached its apex, perhaps, in the works of Thomas Nelson Page toward the end of the century, and reappeared undiminished as late as 1934 in the best-selling novel So Red The Rose, by Stark Young.

In this novel arrangement the `` pill '' is much smaller and contains only a resonant circuit in which the capacitor is formed by a pressure-sensing transducer.

Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

Such associations suit well with the gothic or mystery-story aspects of Dickens' novel, but, on a deeper plane, they relate to the themes of sin, guilt, and pursuit that have recently been analyzed by other critics.

As a first step, Algerian literature was marked by works whose main concern was the assertion of the Algerian national entity, there is the publication of novels as the Algerian trilogy of Mohammed Dib, or even Nedjma of Kateb Yacine novel which is often regarded as a monumental and major work.

Among the most noted recent works, there is the writer, the swallows of Kabul and the attack of Yasmina Khadra, the oath of barbarians of Boualem Sansal, memory of the flesh of Ahlam Mosteghanemi and the last novel by Assia Djebar nowhere in my father's House.

* Aliens ( 1902 novel ), by Mary Tappan Wright

* Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, 1969 novel by Vladimir Nabokov

The abbreviation " andy ", coined as a pejorative by writer Philip K. Dick in his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, has seen some further usage, such as within the TV series Total Recall 2070.

* Atlas Shrugged, a novel by Ayn Rand

* The Atlas ( novel ), by American author William T. Vollmann

Northern ( and British ) readers recoiled in anger at the horrors of slavery through the novel and play Uncle Tom ’ s Cabin ( 1852 ) by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe.

A special introduction written by Milne is included in some editions of Grahame's novel.

' This novel features sorcerers who become destroyed by forbidden knowledge and takes place in the Warhammer 40, 000 setting, itself utilizing Lovecraftian themes.

The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.

* 1928 Alibi ( dramatised by Michael Morton from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd )

* 2005 And Then There Were None ( dramatised by Kevin Elyot from the novel And Then There Were None )

La Peste ) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of medical workers finding solidarity in their labour as the Algerian city of Oran is swept by a plague.

Oran and its environs were struck by disease multiple times before Camus published this novel.

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.