The film is based on the 1927 novel Benighted by J.

The film is based on 1927 novel Benighted by J.

In terms of a rudimentary chronology, Poirot speaks of retiring to grow marrows in Chapter 18 of The Big Four ( 1927 ), which places that novel out of published order before Roger Ackroyd.

In Willa Cather's novel Death Comes for the Archbishop ( 1927 ), the legend of Kit Carson is explored, first as compassionate friend to the natives, later as " misguided " soldier.

A 1927 Soviet poster advertising the 1924 movie Aelita: Queen of Mars, based on the novel by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy | Aleksey Tolstoy.

* Oil !, a novel by Upton Sinclair published in 1927

The novel about the 1927 failed Communist rebellion in Shanghai was written with obvious sympathy for the Communists ; Malraux was awarded the 1933 Prix Goncourt for this work.

Porgy is a novel written by the American author DuBose Heyward in 1925, as well as a play which Dorothy Heyward helped him to write which was premiered in 1927.

* 1927 A Connecticut Yankee, based on the Mark Twain novel

The second was awarded to Knut Hamsun for the idealistic novel Markens Grøde ( Growth of the Soil, 1917 ) in 1920 and the third Sigrid Undset for the trilogy of Kristin Lavransdatter and the two books of Olav Audunssøn, in 1927.

Tolkien's concept of hobbits, in turn, seems to have been inspired by Edward Wyke Smith's 1927 children's book The Marvellous Land of Snergs, and by Sinclair Lewis's 1922 novel Babbitt.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a 1927 novel by the mysterious German-English bilingual author B. Traven, in which two penurious Americans of the 1920s join with an old-timer, in Mexico, to prospect for gold.

Set from late 1925 to late 1927, the novel includes detailed descriptions of Sam and Fran's tours across Europe.

In 1927, Remarque made a second literary start with the novel Station at the Horizon ( Station am Horizont ), which was serialized in the sports journal " Sport im Bild " for which Remarque was working.

Shi, the first actual novel written by Mao Dun, was composed of three volumes, Huanmie ( 1927 ), Dongyao ( 1928 ), and Zhuiqiu ( 1928 ).

In 1927, he published his first novel, Disillusion ( 幻滅 ).

Pan entices villagers to listen to his pipes as if in a trance in Lord Dunsany's novel ' The Blessing of Pan ' published in 1927.

It is an adaptation by Angus MacPhail and Ben Hecht of the novel The House of Dr. Edwardes ( 1927 ) by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer ( writing as " Francis Beeding ").

William Faulkner named the cruise ship Nausikaa in his 1927 novel " Mosquitoes.

Elmer Gantry is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis in 1926 and published by Harcourt in March 1927.

The period after 1927 marked the advent of new measurements of the speed of light using novel electro-optic devices, all substantially lower than Michelson's 1926 value.

Marcel Proust is an important early example of a writer using the stream of consciousness technique in his novel sequence À la recherche du temps perdu ( 1913 – 1927 ) ( In Search of Lost Time ), while Dorothy Richardson is the first to use it in English, in Pointed Roofs ( 1915 ), the first novel in her novel sequence Pilgrimage ( 1915 – 35 ).

By summer 1927 they had built the lake by damming a creek and had created a beach, water slide, diving platforms and a playground with " equipment of the most novel design.

The novel was not only the presenter of the new, secular, rationalistic, private world of the middle class.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

Krim was able to get an advance for a novel, and time and opportunity to write at Yaddo, but it was no good.

He was thinking his way into a new novel, a big one, one that people had been waiting for.

His lordship was concerned in the management of Drury Lane but, if there were no opportunities there, would he read and criticize her novel??

Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who must deal with matters of postal censorship, is himself author of a novel, Bartholf Street, albeit one he was obliged to publish at his own expense.

A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.

Mr. Remarque's conception of this novel was sound and perhaps even noble.

the book was a fine historical novel about Edward 3,, and I did a week of research to get the details just right: the fifteenth-century armor, furnishings, clothes.

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.

Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.

According to Burgess, the novel was a jeu d ' esprit written in just three weeks.

In 1950 it was combined with " War of Nerves " ( 1950 ), " Discord in Scarlet " ( 1939 ) and " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ) to form the novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle ( 1950 ).

He wrote a mainstream novel that was set in Communist China, The Violent Man ( 1962 ); he said that to research this book he had read 100 books about China.

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.

The scenes at the end of the novel, when Oran's gates are reopened, recall the jubilant scenes in Paris when the city was liberated in 1944.

Her first appearance in a full-length novel was in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930.

The novel was not published until shortly after Christie's death in 1976, some thirty-six years after it was originally written.

This first film was based on the 1957 novel 4: 50 from Paddington ( U. S. title, What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!