Stead's Letty Fox: Her Luck, often regarded as an equally fine novel, was officially banned in Australia for several years because it was considered amoral and salacious.

The 1986 drama For Love Alone, set in the 1930s and based on Christina Stead's 1945 best-seller novel of the same name, marked her debut in film.

Stead's novel, The Man Who Loved Children was recently heralded as a forgotten 20th Century " masterpiece " by American author Jonathan Franzen in the New York Times, who compared her to James Joyce and William Faulkner.

" Overall, in Stead's opinion, with Thunderball " the mixture, exotic as ever, generates an extravagant and exhilarating tale and Bond connoisseurs will be glad to have it.

Stead was linked with a move to Blackpool in July 2010, with Ipswich accepting a fee of 250k, but Blackpool refused to match Stead's £ 12, 000-a-week wages.

Although Mrs. Butler had no problem with Rebecca meeting Stead, she did not know Stead's reason for doing so.

In 1728, Richmond's Sussex played twice against Edward Stead's Kent and lost both matches, with Kent effectively claiming the Champion County title as "( its ) men have been too expert for those of Sussex ".

The Sussex teams of Richmond and Gage enjoyed an inter-county rivalry with Stead's Kent that could have originated the concept of the county championship ( see Champion County ).

The first time a source refers to the superiority of one county is in respect of a match between Edward Stead's XI and Sir William Gage's XI at Penshurst Park in August 1728.

Philip John Stead's review in the Times Literary Supplement of December 23, 1955 began, " Poirot's return to the happy hunting grounds of detective fiction is something of an event.

* Stead's plaque on the Sydney Writers Walk

The third subspecies, X. l. variabilis or Stead's Bushwren, was found on Stewart Island / Rakiura and nearby islands.

He would go on to score again for the Blades in the next match against his former club Blackburn Rovers where Stead's muted celebration further endeared him to the Rovers fans, who remained grateful for the considerable contribution he had made during the relegation scrap in 2004.

While many denounced Stead's exposé, it did what it was intended to do: it prompted Parliament to resume the debate over the Criminal Law Amendment Bill on 9 July 1885.

Philip John Stead's review in The Times Literary Supplement of 29 November 1957, concluded, " Miss Christie never harrows her readers, being content to intrigue and amuse them.

Anne was no doubt responsible for Stead's reasonable attempt at conveying the local accent.

Stead's account was widely translated and the revelation of " padded rooms for the purpose of stifling the cries of the tortured victims of lust and brutality " and the symbolic figure of " The Minotaur of London " confirmed European observers worst imaginings about " Le Sadisme anglais " and inspired erotic writers to write of similar scenes set in London or involving sadistic English gentlemen.

The source states that ( Stead's victory over Sir William Gage's XI ) was the third time this summer that the Kent men have been too expert for those of Sussex.

While many groups protested against Stead's imprisonment, it seemed that he was treated well in prison.

Stead's team had earlier won two games against the Duke of Richmond's XI ( also representing Sussex ) and their victory over Gage's XI was reported as " the third time this summer that the Kent men have been too expert for those of Sussex ".

In 1908 the paper was taken over by Stead's brothers-in-law, D. J.

* William Thomas Stead's series of articles in 1885, The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon regarding child prostitution in Victorian London, resulted in the Eliza Armstrong case.

In the 19th century, the sensational journalism of W. T. Stead's The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon ( 1885 ) about the procuring of underage girls into the brothels of Victorian London provided a stimulus for the erotic imagination.

William Thomas Stead's editorship from 1883 to 1889 saw the paper cover such subjects as child prostitution ; their campaign helped get the government to increase the age of consent from 12 to 16 in 1885.

He viewed this question as traditional within Christianity and likely drew some inspiration from William T. Stead's If Christ came to Chicago!

The British sought efficiency as the solution, and after the publication of Alfred Stead's 1906 book Great Japan: A Study of National Efficiency, pundits in Britain looked to Japan for lessons.

However, many members of Parliament, already infuriated by Stead's tactics, sought to obstruct any alterations to the laws.

Stead's revelations struck a responsive chord in the public.

Another writer in this tradition was Henry Farrell whose best-known work was the Hollywood horror novel What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

* On the Beach ( 1957 ), Shute's best-known novel, is set in Melbourne, whose population is awaiting death from the effects of an atomic war.

The story of Faust is also woven into Dr. Mikhail Bulgakov's best-known novel, The Master and Margarita with Margarita being modeled on Gretchen and the Master on Faust.

The Masters is the best-known novel of the sequence.

His best-known work is a novel in verse, Eugene Onegin.

One of Eliade's best-known works, the novel Maitreyi, dwells on Eliade's own experience, comprising camouflaged details of his relationships with Surendranath Dasgupta and Dasgupta's daughter Maitreyi Devi.

Barnes wrote her best-known novel, Nightwood, while staying at the Devonshire country manor, ' Hayford Hall ', that Guggenheim had rented for two summers.

Baldwin's best-known novel is his first, Go Tell It on the Mountain ( 1953 ).

The conversations there between Charles and his father Edward Ryder provide some of the best-known comic scenes in the novel.

Māori author Keri Hulme named her best-known ( 1985 Booker Prize ) novel The Bone People, a title linked directly to the dual meaning of bone and " tribal people ".

* Anthony Hope's novel The Prisoner of Zenda ( see " Literature ", above ) has been the basis for many film and stage adaptations, the first film version being in 1913 ; the best-known film version is John Cromwell's 1937 film.

Shortly afterward came his best-known work, the Gothic novel Vathek ( 1786 ), written originally in French ; he boasted that it took a single sitting of three days and two nights, though there is reason to believe that this was a flight of his imagination.

Anna of the Five Towns is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1902 and one of his best-known works.

Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 1937 novel and the best-known work by African American writer Zora Neale Hurston.

The novel White Eskimo ( 1972 ), arguably his best-known work, was inspired in part by Wilfred Grenfell.

Although the majority of her writing is poetry, Kogawa's best-known work is Obasan ( 1981 ), a semi-autobiographical novel.

The novel features one of Wodehouse's best-known characters, Jeeves.

Outside Sweden, her best-known work is probably the novel Kallocain.

In China's best-known novel, Dream of the Red Chamber, from the Qing Dynasty, there are examples of males engaging in both same-sex and opposite-sex acts.

His best-known works include the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which has been cited as an inspiration by radical environmental groups, and the non-fiction work Desert Solitaire.

* Craig Thomas ( author ) ( 1942-2011 ), Welsh writer of techno-thrillers, whose best-known novel, Firefox ( 1977 ), became a successful film

His best-known novel is Seven Days in May ( 1962 ), ( co-written with Charles W. Bailey ), about an attempted military coup in the United States.

It is Davies ' best-known novel, and considered his finest.

Shaara's son, Jeffrey Shaara, is also a popular writer of historical fiction ; most notably sequels to his father's best-known novel.