Mainly because the re-publication of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was prevented by Charlotte Brontë after Anne's death, she is less known than her sisters Charlotte, author of four novels including Jane Eyre, and Emily, author of Wuthering Heights.

The Claudine books are a series of four early novels by the French author Colette published from 1900-1904.

Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories featuring Holmes, and all but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend, assistant, and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson.

Doom has appeared in several forms in addition to games, including a comic book, four novels by Dafydd Ab Hugh and Brad Linaweaver ( loosely based on events and locations in the games ), a board game and even a live-action film starring Karl Urban and The Rock released in 2005.

Kate Lock also wrote four novels centred around more recent characters ; Steve Owen, Grant Mitchell, Bianca Jackson and Tiffany Mitchell.

Series of this type include the Famous Five ( 21 novels, 1942 – 1963, based on four children and their dog ), the Five Find-Outers and Dog, ( 15 novels, 1943 – 1961, where five children regularly outwit the local police ) as well as The Secret Seven ( 15 novels, 1949 – 1963, a society of seven children who solve various mysteries ).

Roger Ebert gave The Rainmaker three stars out of four, remarking: " I have enjoyed several of the movies based on Grisham novels ... but I've usually seen the storyteller's craft rather than the novelist's art being reflected.

After the war Wyndham returned to writing, inspired by the success of his brother who had had four novels published.

His reputation rests mainly on the first four of the novels published in his lifetime as by John Wyndham.

Carson appears as a supporting character in the The Berrybender Narratives ( 2002 – 2004 ), a series of four novels by Larry McMurtry.

Lord Peter Wimsey was played by Ian Carmichael in a series of independent serials that ran from 1972 to 1975 and adapted five novels ( Clouds of Witness, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Five Red Herrings, Murder Must Advertise and The Nine Tailors ) and by Edward Petherbridge in 1987, in which three of the four major Wimsey / Vane novels ( Strong Poison, Have his Carcase and Gaudy Night ) were dramatised.

He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works ( 55 novels in total, plus four " lost " novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings ), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen.

After being rejected by four publishers, The Warrior's Apprentice was accepted by Baen Books, who agreed to a three-book deal to include the two other novels.

' Le Cimetière marin ' is mentioned or indirectly implied or referred to in at least four of Iris Murdoch's novels, The Unicorn, The Time of the Angels, The Nice and the Good and The Sea, The Sea.

Heinlein won Hugo Awards for four of his novels ; in addition, fifty years after publication, three of his works were awarded " Retro Hugos "— awards given retrospectively for years in which Hugo Awards had not been awarded.

In 1940, the year after selling ' Life-Line ' to Campbell, he wrote three short novels, four novelettes, and seven short stories.

Jeff Riggenbach described The Moon is a Harsh Mistress as " unquestionably one of the three or four most influential libertarian novels of the last century " in the Mises Daily.

Holmes, who first appeared in publication in 1887, was featured in four novels and 56 short stories.

The Shadowrun role-playing game has spawned Shadowrun: The Trading Card Game, four video games, an action figure game ( Shadowrun Duels ), two magazines, an art book and more than 50 novels, starting with the Secrets of Power series which introduces some of the original characters of Shadowrun and gives a good introduction to this fictional universe.

In the novel " Hyperion " by Dan Simmons, the Yggdrasil is one of four miles-long Treeships in existence, and the spaceship on which the seven pilgrims to Hyperion are transported, under the command of " the true voice of the tree " Het Masteen and his Templar crew.

The Choir now records with Hyperion Records, and has released four discs to date with the label: one of the music of Mendelssohn, a collection of music for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, Christmas at St John's, a recording of the choral and vocal music of Jongen and Peeters and most recently, a collection of the music of Bairstow.

* The consolidated big four " megavendors ", which are SAP BusinessObjects, IBM Cognos, Oracle Hyperion, and Microsoft BI.

In his introduction to Orphans of the Helix, Simmons elaborates :" Some readers may know that I've written four novels set in the ' Hyperion Universe '— Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, and The Rise of Endymion.

A perceptive subset of those readers — perhaps the majority — know that this so-called epic actually consists of two long and mutually dependent tales, the two Hyperion stories combined and the two Endymion stories combined, broken into four books because of the realities of publishing.

It appears in all four Hyperion Cantos books and is an enigma in the initial two ; its purpose is not revealed until the second book, but even then left somewhat nebulous.

An unrelated four issue limited series titled Squadron Supreme: Hyperion vs. Nighthawk, written by Marc Guggenheim and with art by Paul Gulacy, relates how Hyperion and Nighthawk, after an initial skirmish, join forces to try and alleviate the Darfur conflict in war-torn Sudan.

This story arc introduced the supervillain team the Squadron Sinister, whose four members were loosely based on heroes in DC Comics ' Justice League of America, with Hyperion based on Superman.

The Earth-712 Hyperion appears on every occasion with the Squadron Supreme, and the group first encounter beings from the Earth-616 universe when four Avengers-the Vision ; Scarlet Witch ; Quicksilver and the second Goliath-accidentally arrive.

Other recordings include: Handel: Opera Arias and Overtures 2 for Hyperion, Johann Sebastian Bach wedding cantatas for Decca, Bach Cantatas 82a and 199 for Carus ; and four projects for BIS: with London Baroque, one of Handel motets and one of Christmas music by Scarlatti, Bach and others ; with the Royal Academy Baroque Orchestra the first recording of the newly-rediscovered Gloria by Handel ; and with the Romantic Chamber Group of London, Chanson d ' amour, an album of songs by the American composer Amy Beach, who died in 1944.

* The consolidated big four " megavendors ", which include Oracle Hyperion as well as SAP BusinessObjects, IBM Cognos, and Microsoft BI.

The four team up and embark on a journey to find the Hyperion, intending on salvaging its riches.

In the end, the four barely escape the burning and falling Hyperion safely, coming away with 40 gold bricks as their reward.

Tom had received four years of education at the University of North Carolina and two at Harvard, and Fred had been in and out of Georgia Tech and Carneigie Tech and part of the time had been a self-help student.

Lincoln finished eighth out of 13 candidates ( the top four were elected ), though he received 277 of the 300 votes cast in the New Salem precinct.

Thus, by the end of 1992, Azerbaijan received arms and military hardware sufficient for approximately four motor rifle divisions with prescribed army units.

He has written and produced seventy-three full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their first performance.

In 2011 the production received four Lucille Lortel Award nominations including Outstanding Musical, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League nominations, as well as five Drama Desk nominations including Outstanding Musical and won for Outstanding Ensemble Performance.

During his post-ABBA career Andersson won four Swedish Grammis awards, and together with Ulvaeus received the " Special International " Ivor Novello award from ' The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters ', twice " The Music Export Prize " from the Swedish Ministry of Industry and Trade ( 2008 ), as well as the " Lifetime Achievement " award from the Swedish Music Publishers Association ( SMFF ).

In December 1978, Wardas received a sentence of four and a half years ' imprisonment and Gantcho a suspended sentence for disturbing the peace of the dead and for the attempt of extortion.

The film received an overwhelmingly positive reception and won four Guldbagge Awards ( Sweden's official film awards ) at the 1999 ceremony.

Fay had originally received a sentence of six lashes of the cane, but the then President of Singapore Ong Teng Cheong agreed to reduce his caning sentence to four lashes.

Since that time Merriam-Webster has received about four letters each year asking the question.

The boycott by Virginia delegates of the March 12 caucus removed the chances of Monroe's opponents, and he received the caucus nomination four days later.

They all received the same diet but, in addition, group one was given a quart of cider daily, group two twenty-five drops of elixir of vitriol ( sulfuric acid ), group three six spoonfuls of vinegar, group four half a pint of seawater, group five received two oranges and one lemon, and the last group a spicy paste plus a drink of barley water.

Frankenheimer won four consecutive Emmy Awards in the 1990s for the television movies Against the Wall, The Burning Season, Andersonville, and George Wallace, which also received a Golden Globe award.

After a week four bye-week, the Vikings received star wide receiver Randy Moss in a trade with the New England Patriots.

Polls showed that Kach would have likely received three to four seats in the coming November 1988 elections, with some earlier polls forecasting as many as twelve seats ( 10 % of popular vote ), possibly making Kach Israel's third largest party.

On October 7, 2008, his 1959 album Kind of Blue received its fourth platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ), for shipments of at least four million copies in the United States.

Works in the series have received numerous awards and nominations, including winning four Hugo awards.

He had instructions to investigate any colonies the British may have established and learned of the intention to settle Botany Bay and Norfolk Island from despatches sent to him from Paris through St. Petersburg and by land across Siberia to Petropavlovsk in Kamchatka, where he received them on 26 September 1787, just four days before his departure from that port.

She received three years of Spanish ballet training and four years of theater at Cristina Rota's New York school.

This first studio recording was circulated in two variations: the first, mixed in a dorm room as late as 1985, received a higher distribution than the second studio remix of the original four tracks, circa 1987.

It cost them A $ 3 million, and they received four of eight seats on the board of directors.

He was on the NL All-Star team 15 times, received 12 Gold Glove Awards, and led the NL in batting average four times.

Inside those new republics, four major areas have claimed their own independence, but not received widespread international recognition.

It was also nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor ( De Niro ), and received the Palme d ' Or, at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.