Darcy McCallum, director of Miffmania & Color Blind Addiction is very interested in adapting Moers ' City of Dreaming Books to screen, a book Darcy described as ' the best book about books, ever '.

Garrett is best known for the Lord Darcy books, the novel Too Many Magicians and two short story collections, set in an alternate world where a joint Anglo-French empire still led by a Plantagenet dynasty has survived into the twentieth century and where magic works and has been scientifically codified.

* Lord Darcy ( 1983 ), omnibus containing all three books above.

The Darcy biography is drawn from Niland's immense archive of books, photographs, clippings, letters, unpublished memoirs and taped interviews about the ill-fated boxer, supplemented by subsequent research.

His two sons are killed in the war ; the older Darcy at Gettysburg, and the younger Phil as a member of the Confederate Home Guard during the Battle of Atlanta.

Elizabeth and her hosts are frequently invited to Rosings Park, home of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Darcy's aunt ; coincidentally, Darcy also arrives to visit.

Lydia and Wickham are soon found, then married by the clergy ; they visit Longbourn, where Lydia lets slip that Mr Darcy was responsible for finding the couple and negotiating their marriage — at great expense to himself.

* Darcy Parker-Darcy was a ruthless and predatory crime boss who led the " Parker Girls ," women who are skilled in various acts of seduction and espionage.

In this description, on the other hand, although there are many elements of the description that we could transfer directly from the grounds to the suitor ( natural beauty, lack of artifice ), Austen is emphasizing the consistency of the domain of use rather than stretching to make a fresh comparison: each of the things she describes she associates with Darcy, and in the end we feel that Darcy is as beautiful as the place to which he is compared and that he belongs within it.

The Prony equation and its replacement by the Darcy – Weisbach equation are on pp. 11 – 12.

Home grounds are Darcy Wentworth Park

Although magic is a central part of all the stories, none of the murders Lord Darcy investigates are directly caused by magic.

Poland is a major power and the chief rival of the Anglo-French, and the two exist in a situation of Cold War ; some of the stories are spy thrillers, where Lord Darcy is pitted against Polish agents and takes on some of the attributes of James Bond ( with some magic ingredients added, such as a spell used to make him fall madly in love with a beautiful female Polish agent ).

However, while several minor characters from the Lord Darcy series appear in The Unicorn Girl, neither Lord Darcy nor Sean are featured.

Film critic James Berardinelli would later state that Firth " plays this part Mark Darcy exactly as he played the earlier role, making it evident that the two Darcys are essentially the same ".

Rather than simply being versions of contemporary romance stories transported to a historical setting, Regency romances are a distinct genre with their own plot and stylistic conventions that derive from the works of Jane Austen, ( and to some extent from distinguished Austen progeny such as Georgette Heyer and Clare Darcy ), and from the fiction genre known as the novel of manners.

In a nutshell, Brizola opposed policies for shantytowns based on forcible resettlement to housing projects, proposing instead, in the words of his chief adviser Darcy Ribeiro, that " slums are not part of the problem, but part of the solution "-once property rights were acknowledged and basic infrastructure provided, it was up to the shantytown dwellers themselves to find their own solutions as far as house-building was concerned.

As Australian world middleweight champ, Darcy defeated such top-flight visiting Americans as Eddie McGoorty, Billy Murray, Jimmy Clabby, George Chip, George " KO " Brown, and Buck Crouse, as well as knocking out Smith and Holland in rematches. Darcy's opponents are said to have admired his courage, stamina, and punching power.

Sands and his predecessor Les Darcy are considered by many sporting commentators to have been the two outstanding middleweight boxers in Australian pugilistic history, with both proving themselves capable of defeating opponents of true international calibre.

( Elizabeth Bennet, in Pride and Prejudice, notably refuses to join Mr. Darcy and the Bingley sisters in a stroll with the teasing observation, " You are charmingly group'd, and ... The picturesque would be spoilt by admitting a fourth.

* Caroline Bingley makes a comment regarding the local dance in Pride and Prejudice " We are a long way from Grosvenor Square, are we not, Mr Darcy ".

A darcy ( or darcy unit ) and millidarcy ( mD ) are units of permeability, named after Henry Darcy.

Darcy v Allin was the first definitive statement by a court that state-established monopolies are inherently harmful and therefore contrary to law.

The two collaborations are Ruth Park's Sydney, a guidebook, and Home Before Dark, a biography of Australian boxer Les Darcy.

Set in England in the early 19th century, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet's ( Benjamin Whitrow and Alison Steadman ) five unmarried daughters ( Susannah Harker, Jennifer Ehle, Lucy Briers, Polly Maberly, Julia Sawalha ) after the rich and eligible Mr. Bingley ( Crispin Bonham-Carter ) and his status-conscious friend, Mr. Darcy, have moved into their neighbourhood.

Bingley takes an immediate liking to Jane at a local country-dance, while his best friend Mr. Darcy, rumoured to be twice as rich, refuses to stand up with anyone including Elizabeth.

It chronicles Bridget Jones's adventures after she begins to suspect that her boyfriend, Mark Darcy, is falling for a rich young solicitor who works in the same firm as him, a woman called Rebecca.

By contrast, Darcy slights Elizabeth, who overhears and jokes about it despite feeling a budding resentment.

The producers imagined Darcy to be dark despite no such references in the novel and asked Firth to dye black his light-brown hair, eyebrows and lashes ; they instructed all male actors to let their hair grow before filming and shave off their moustaches.

Sue Birtwistle particularly wanted Colin Firth, a relatively unknown British actor in his mid-30s at the time, to play the wealthy and aloof Mr. Darcy ( the novel gives his first name as Fitzwilliam ).

This movie is noted for being Ringwald's final " teen " movie, and is cited as one of her most mature performances, particularly in a scene where Darcy is suffering from postpartum depression after the birth of her child.

He often tells disturbing stories, particularly about bad incidents with gourmet food, which can annoy Darcy.

Darcy is later attracted more particularly to her " light and pleasing " figure, the " easy playfulness " of her manners, her mind and personality, and eventually considers her " one of the handsomest women " in his acquaintance.

Sometime Garrett collaborator Michael Kurland ( who would himself write later Lord Darcy works, with the permission of Garrett's estate ) appears as Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Coeur-Terre in Too Many Magicians ; and in " A Case of Identity " the Marquise of Rouen, worried about her missing husband, is described as drinking herself into a stupor on " the best brandy, the St.

Elizabeth Bear, whose novel New Amsterdam is set in a ( quite different ) alternate timeline where magic works, acknowledged her debt to the Darcy stories by giving her protagonist, a forensic sorceress, the name Abigail Irene Garrett.

On the advice of her guidance counselor, Darcy drops out of high school but works toward her GED.

Paxton was subsequently cast in the lead role of the Discovery Kids television series, Darcy's Wild Life, playing Darcy Fields, a girl who works at a rural veterinary ; the series was filmed on a farm in Toronto and aired from 2004 to 2006, often featuring Paxton's music track, " Take a Walk ".

* The character of the Marquis of London in Randall Garrett's Lord Darcy stories, while mostly based on Nero Wolfe, also has elements of Mycroft, in that he is a government official related to the detective and, while just as intelligent as his relative, has little interest in using his intellect to solve crimes.

Lord Darcy is a detective in an alternate history, created by Randall Garrett.

Darcy is described in The Spell of War as an 18-year-old lieutenant in the autumn of the War of ' 39, so he was born in 1921 or late 1920, and he is in his early forties when we first encounter him as a detective.

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 ).

In David Weber's Honorverse novel, Mission of Honor, a character is reading " a novel about the psychically gifted detective Garrett Randall by the highly popular Darcy Lord.

* Lord Darcy ( fiction ), a detective created by Randall Garrett