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Despite this preference for Anglophone works, he also read a number of French novels, such as General Dourakine, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later.
Ten Amber novels were written by Zelazny and released individually between 1970 and 1991.
Ten of these novels were of the three volume form, which she so detested and found hard to comply with.
He has since written twenty more novels, the majority of which have been Sunday Times Top Ten best-sellers in the UK.
** In the four-volume edition, the novels are titled The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Ten Years Later, Louise de la Vallière and The Man in the Iron Mask.
It is the first of three novels in the The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox series.
Two more Lord Darcy novels, Ten Little Wizards ( 1988 ), and A Study in Sorcery ( 1989 ), were written by Garrett's friend Michael Kurland after Garrett's death — the two names manifestly modeled on those of famous detective novels by, respectively, Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle, as that of Too Many Magicians was modeled on a famous novel by Rex Stout ( whose Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin have counterparts in the novel's universe in the Marquis de London and his Special Investigator, Lord Bontriomphe ).
Tribal history claims she died during an attack of saurian creatures called allos, but it is revealed to readers in the " Blood Of Ten Chiefs " novels that she barely survived, and was cared for by pure-blooded plains elves known as " Trickster's Clan ".
It is claimed in the " Blood Of Ten Chiefs " novels that she bore a daughter named Nightstar after Dreamsinger was killed by a mad elf, which leaves some readers questioning how Freefoot came into existence.
The " Blood Of Ten Chiefs " novels say he Recognized Two Shadows, an elf from a tribe of plain-dwelling elves who claimed to be Wolfriders who had once followed Two-Spear and Greywolf, but their number was small and the wolf-blood was weak.
* In the last of the Three Musketeers novels of Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, published in 1847, the musketeer Aramis appears as bishop of Vannes before becoming General of the Society of Jesus.
Upon release, Halo: The Flood cracked the Publishers Weekly Top Ten Bestsellers List for Paperbacks, but critical reception to the novel was less positive than Eric Nylund's Fall of Reach or other Halo novels.
She wrote two novels, both of which were not published until she was in her sixties: The Ten Thousand Things ( De tienduizend dingen 1955 ) and Days Before Yesterday — also published as Just Yesterday ( Nog pas gisteren 1951 ).
Ten years ( 1840 – 1850 ) were mainly devoted to further studies, the result of which was revealed in 1851 – 1854, when she published a series of three novels dealing with the first Earl of Leicester's adventures in the Low Countries.
The term is also used in literary criticism to describe a mannered " Chinese-esque " style of writing, such as that employed by Ernest Bramah in his Kai Lung stories, Barry Hughart in his Master Li & Number Ten Ox novels and Stephen Marley in his Chia Black Dragon series.
Agatha Christie used this motif in Ten Little Indians and a number of other novels constructed around the basis of a nursery rhyme ( Hickory Dickory Dock, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, etc.
Kurland has also written two novels, Ten Little Wizards and A Study in Sorcery, set in the world of Randall Garrett's Lord Darcy, prefiguring his later success as a mystery writer.
* The character of Herbert West has had brief cameo appearances in Kim Newman's Anno Dracula series novels The Bloody Red Baron and Dracula Cha Cha Cha, serving as a colleague of Dr. Moreau, Jakob Ten Brincken, and Doctor Septimus Pretorius.
Later Tatsukawa Bunko published two novels in the Taisho period Sarutobi Sasuke and The Sanada Ten Braves.
His most acclaimed detective novels, including Ten to sen ( 1958 ; Points and Lines, 1970 ); Suna no utsuwa ( 1961 ; Inspector Imanishi Investigates, 1989 ) and Kiri no hata ( 1961 ; Pro Bono, 2012 ), have been translated into a number of languages, including English.

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Ten salesmen were tested in the morning and ten more in the afternoon.
Ten days after the questionnaires were mailed, follow-up airmail postcards were sent urging those companies which had not yet returned their questionnaires to do so at once.
Her book titles, changed by American publishers, for example Ten Little Niggers to Ten Little Indians, were kept the same across the Atlantic, after bushels of fan mail.
Ten of the tests, which had a total of 300 participants, involved subjects picking the correct chart interpretation out of a number of others which were not the astrologically correct chart interpretation ( usually 3 to 5 others ).
Aron Habrit ), also known as the Ark of the Testimony, is a chest described in Book of Exodus as containing the Tablets of Stone on which the Ten Commandments were inscribed and pieces of manna.
Ten infantry colours were lost to the Bavarians, and hundreds of prisoners taken ; it was only through the leadership of Eugene and the Prussian Prince that the Imperialist infantry were prevented from abandoning the field.
The bulletin was joined in being simulcast on 10 April 2006 when the BBC News at One ( with British Sign Language in-vision signing ) and BBC News at Six bulletins were added to the schedule following a similar format to the News at Ten in terms of content on the channel once each simulcast ends.
Thus, in the Eucharist, gone were the words Mass and altar ; the ' Lord have mercy ' was interleaved into a recitation of the Ten Commandments and the Gloria was removed to the end of the service.
During this same time, sections of southern and western China were occupied by ten, more stable, regimes so the period is also referred to as the Ten Kingdoms.
: Ten thousand eyes were on him as he rubbed his hands with dirt ;
Ten days later, on 14 November 1501, they were married at Old St. Paul's Cathedral.
Ten years later there were five ministers in the Toronto area alone.
Ten stories in his next book, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog ( 1940 ), were based less on lavish fantasy than The Map of Love and more on real life romances featuring himself in Wales.
Ten to 20 percent of the scientific publications of these ten universities in the period 2006 – 2008 were the result of partnerships with researchers in industry.
Ten percent of the world's active volcanoes — forty in the early 1990s ( another 148 were dormant )— are found in Japan, which lies in a zone of extreme crustal instability.
According to Rabbinic tradition, the Ten Commandments were given on this day.
Ten of his songs were nominated for the Oscar, many written with Cahn, including " I've Heard That Song Before " (# 1 for 13 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1943 ), " I'll Walk Alone ", " It's Magic " ( a # 2 hit for Doris Day in 1948 ) and " I Fall in Love Too Easily ".
As a result of this backfire, the Sabirs settled there were forced to attack the Alan strongholds of the Dulo Ten Tribe Confederation in the Kuban steppe.
Within a few years, the Dulo " Ten Tribe " Confederation in Atyrau Province allied themselves to the Ashinas forming the Western part of the Gokturk Empire and were able to snatch Phanagoria back from the Avars renaming the Sabirs as Khazars under the rule of Kaghan Kazarig.
His detailed observations, included in his De Re Aedificatoria ( 1452, Ten Books of Architecture ), were patterned after the De architectura by the Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius ( fl.
Ten were considered of minor importance ; the remaining key six pertained one each to films, cameras, and the Latham loop, and three to projectors.
Ten years later, the Grey Smith Stand and the open concrete stand next to it were replaced by the Western Stand ; the Duke of Edinburgh laid a foundation stone for the Western Stand on 3 March 1967, and it was completed in 1968.

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