The book treats, in an unorthodox fashion, the Earwicker family, composed of the father HCE, the mother ALP, and their three children Shem the Penman, Shaun the Postman, and Issy.

" Penman lives in New Jersey, and in the early 1980s moved to Wales to research her second book, Here Be Dragons.

As Penman explains: '“ After I ’ d finished Here Be Dragons, I knew I wanted to continue the story .... At first I ’ d planned to write one book in which Simon de Montfort would share top billing with Llewelyn Fawr ’ s grandson, Llewelyn ap Gruffydd, who later wed Simon ’ s daughter.

Julia Kenna reviewed the book for Rolling Stone, commenting, " Full of contradictions and witty one-liners, Penman uses language as an art form, playing with puns, synonyms, repetition, and punctuation for added effect ... Two decades of politics, music and pop culture with a whip-smart wit and wisdom that draws you in and doesn ’ t let go.

Henri is a major character in the new book Lionheart by historical novelist Sharon Kay Penman about the life and times of Richard I.

Recently, Robinson has completed a screenplay for his novel The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman and a book on Jack the Ripper which has yet to be published.

Kathleen Norris in her book Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith characterizes this transformation of the original words as " wretched English " making the line that replaces the original " laughably bland ".

The Loeb Classical Library introduction characterizes the book as

In the book, Nasiri describes al-Libi as one of the leaders at the Afghan camp, and characterizes him as " brilliant in every way.

Otto Weininger has been accused of misogyny in his book Sex and Character, in which he characterizes the " woman " part of each individual as being essentially " nothing ," and having no real existence, having no effective consciousness or rationality.

In the process of coming up with the title of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald had considered several titles for his book including " Trimalchio " and " Trimalchio in West Egg ;" Fitzgerald characterizes Gatsby as Trimalchio in the novel, notably in the first paragraph of Chapter VII: " It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night — and, as obscurely as it had begun, his career as Trimalchio was over.

Kolish characterizes Cooper ’ s book as “ un texte qui se situe à mi-chemin entre le roman historique et l ’ essai journalistique anti-esclavagiste ” ( a text that is situated halfway between an historical novel and a journalistic anti-slavery essay ).

The book characterizes the killing as the result of a lovers ' quarrel, not a pre-meditated murder.

Friedlander wrote that the glorification of Judaism in the letter was no more than self-defense, though “ the book does not mention the antagonists of Judaism by name, nor does it admit that its intention is to refute direct attacks .” Stein sees in the letter “ a special kind of defense, which practices diplomatic tactics ,” and Tramontano also speaks of “ an apologetic and propagandist tendency .” Vincent characterizes it as “ a small unapologetic novel written for the Egyptians ” ( i. e. the Greeks in Egypt ).

Joss Whedon characterizes the comic book Connor as " the closest thing to a superhero hell has ' because he has powers without any of the weaknesses of the vampire, and is well adjusted.

Historian Peter R. Prifti described the book's treatment of the Corfu Channel incident as " a masterful exposition of that tragic incident, and a good indication of the level of scholarship that characterizes the contents of the book.

Bertie is unimpressed by the book, while Jeeves delicately characterizes it as a " somewhat immature production ," but it is apparently reasonably well received in literary circles, as Bertie states that Florence is " like ham and eggs with the boys with the bulging foreheads round Bloomsbury way.

This book posited that society characterizes people with disabilities as deviant, sub-human and burdens of charity, resulting in the adoption of that " deviant " role.

The most famous proponent of this argument is perhaps Maurice Bucaille, a French physician and author of the book The Bible, The Quran and Science, whose translator into Indonesian, Dr. Muhammad Rasjidi, former Professor for Islamic Studies at McGill University and former Indonesian Minister for Religious Affairs characterizes as " a half-baked mish-mash of pseudo-science and pseudo-exegesis ".

Lewy criticized Noam Chomsky in the book for his role in proliferating charges of American war crimes through the aegis of the Committee of Concerned Asia Scholars, which Lewy characterizes as part of a " veritable industry " of war crimes allegations.

Talageri asserts that " this strong condemnation of a book ", as he characterizes " unread and unseen by them, is both unacademic and unethical.

In his book Economic Calculations and Forms of Ownership ( Calcul économique et formes de proprieté ), Bettelheim re-thinks the problems of transition to socialism, while criticizing the supposition that nationalization and state ownership of the means of production was already " socialist "— it is not the legal form of property, but true socialization of the web of production, which characterizes such a transition ; the crucial problem in socialist planning is the replacement of the form of " value " with the development of a method of measurement which takes into account the social utility of production.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

However, since some feel that being the children of the main characters is too limiting, it is fairly common to either start with King Oberon's death before the book begins and roleplay the Elder Amberites as they vie for the throne ; or to populate Amber from scratch with a different set of Elder Amberites.

) Two years later, Capp's studio issued Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, a 1958 biographical comic book distributed by The Fellowship of Reconciliation.

In 1757 King George II gave the Old Royal Library and with it the right to a copy of every book published in the country, thereby ensuring that the Museum's library would expand indefinitely.

Following the accession of King James VI of Scotland to the throne of England, his son King Charles I, with the assistance of Archbishop Laud sought to impose the prayer book on Scotland.

* In the book Faithful by Steward O ' Nan and Stephen King, describing the 2004 season of the Boston Red Sox, there is a chapter contributed by King, named " The Gloom is gone from Mudville ".

An evolution expounded in the book which attempts to explain the facts leading up to the Act of Union 1707 dates all the way back to the 6 December 1604 when King James was presented with a proposed embellishment for unification.

While traditionally accepted as the genuine words of Moses delivered on the eve of the occupation of Canaan, a broad consensus of modern scholars now see its origins in traditions from Israel ( the northern kingdom ) brought south to the Kingdom of Judah in the wake of the Assyrian destruction of Samaria ( 8th century BCE ) and then adapted to a program of nationalist reform in the time of King Josiah ( late 7th century ), with the final form of the modern book emerging in the milieu of the return from the Babylonian exile during the late 6th century.

The Danish historian Caspar Paludan-Müller in 1873 in his book " Sagnet om den himmelfaldne Danebrogsfane " put forth the theory that it is a banner sent by the Pope to the Danish King to use in his crusades in the Baltic countries.

" Authorship of the book is usually attributed to King Solomon.

* TIB = The Interpreter ’ s Bible, The Holy Scriptures in the King James and Revised Standard versions with general articles and introduction, exegesis, exposition for each book of the Bible in twelve volumes, George Arthur Buttrick, Commentary Editor, Walter Russell Bowie, Associate Editor of Exposition, Paul Scherer, Associate Editor of Exposition, John Knox Associate Editor of New Testament Introduction and Exegesis, Samuel Terrien, Associate Editor of Old Testament Introduction and Exegesis, Nolan B. Harmon Editor, Abingdon Press, copyright 1955 by Pierce and Washabaugh, set up printed, and bound by the Parthenon Press, at Nashville, Tennessee, Volume XI, Philippians, Colossians and Exegesis by Francis W. Beare, Exposition by G. Preston MacLeod, Thessalonians, Pastoral Epistles First and Second Epistles to Timothy, and the Epistle to Titus, Philemon, Hebrews

Peter Wright, in his book Spycatcher, claimed that in 1967 Mountbatten attended a private meeting with press baron and MI5 agent Cecil King, and the Government's chief scientific adviser, Solly Zuckerman.

Bart Ehrman suggests in his book Misquoting Jesus that the King James Version would not have included the passage if Desiderius Erasmus had not given in to pressure to include it in the Textus Receptus even though he doubted its authenticity.

* The King in Yellow appearing in the book of the same name by Robert W. Chambers purports to be an actual play that is capable of driving the reader insane.

He kept all of the stories submitted to his magazine, even the ones he rejected ; Stephen King has stated that Ackerman showed up to a King book signing with a copy of a story King had submitted for publication when he was 11.

Glorantha has been, so far, the background for 2 board-games ( White Bear and Red Moon / Dragon Pass and Nomad Gods ), two role-playing games ( RuneQuest and HeroQuest ), one video game ( King of Dragon Pass ), one comic book series ( Path of the Damned ), five novels or collections of fiction ( King of Sartar by Greg Stafford, The Collected / Complete Griselda by Oliver Dickinson, Gloranthan Visions by various authors, The Widow's Tale and Eurhol's Vale & Other Tales by Penelope Love, and numerous pieces of myth and fiction created by the Glorantha community, featuring in magazines such as Tales of the Reaching Moon.

The last event described in the last book ( Book 16 ) is King Canute VI of Denmark subduing Pomerania under Duke Bogislaw I, in 1186.

Since this book is so large and Absalon has greater importance than King Valdemar I, this book may have been written first and comprised a work on its own.

Wells wrote in his book God the Invisible King that his idea of God did not draw upon the traditional religions of the world: " This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer.