He was the lawman who survived more gunfights than any other famous gun-slinging character in the book.

Time's editor, Thomas Griffith, in his book, The Waist-High Culture, wrote: `` most of what was different about it ( the Deep South ) I found myself unsympathetic to.

Lubell offers his book as an explanation of why there was no clue.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

Steele apparently professed his sentiments in this book too openly and honestly for his own good, since the government was soon to use it as evidence against him in his trial before the House.

His nationalism was not a new characteristic, but its self-consciousness, even its self-satisfaction, is more obvious in a book that stretches over the long reach of English history.

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.

Victor's book on John Lloyd Stephens was largely written in my study in the house at Weston.

I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

Both Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace had written him enthusiastic praise of Elmer Gantry ( any changes could be made in proof, which was already coming from the printer ) and they had ordered 140,000 copies -- the largest first printing of any book in history.

He was outraged by the book and announced that he had discovered fifty technical errors in its account of church practices.

But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

Even so apparently impartial a critic as W. H. Frohock has taken for granted that the book was originally intended as a piece of Loyalist propaganda ; ;

In 1966, Morita wrote a book called Gakureki Muyō Ron ( 学歴無用論, Never Mind School Records ), where he stresses that school records are not important to success or one's business skills.

The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and success ; therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade.

Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it first privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-colour illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. She became unofficially engaged to her editor Norman Warne in 1905 despite the disapproval of her parents, but he died suddenly a month later, of leukemia.

The first book turned out to be a success, and was listed on the New York Times bestseller list for six months.

The book proved to be an enormous success and established Wyndham as an important exponent of science fiction.

The book was a success, becoming the best-selling children's book of the year.

This book had enjoyed considerable success in the 1520s, when it went through half a dozen editions ( see External links below for facsimiles and translations ) but did not sustain its influence, perhaps owing to its mostly Latin text, Gothic script and many difficult abbreviations.

Sin City was a critical hit in 2005 as well as a box office success, particularly for a hyperviolent comic book adaptation that did not have name recognition comparable to the X-Men or Spider-Man.

Disappointed with the lack of interest from government in Mars exploration and after the success of his book The Case for Mars as well as leadership experience at the National Space Society, Zubrin established the Mars Society in 1998.

The clause requiring book deposits, however, was not seen as a success.

Raimi achieved great critical and commercial success with the blockbuster Spider-Man ( 2002 ), which was adapted from the comic book series of the same name.

President Ronald Reagan helped to fuel the success of The Hunt for Red October when he announced that he enjoyed the book at a televised press conference, calling it " unputdown-able " and a " perfect yarn.

Bentham's book was not an immediate success but his ideas were spread further when Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont translated edited selections from a variety of Bentham's manuscripts into French.

The success of this book spawned a distinctive vampire genre, still popular in the 21st century, with books, films, video games, and television shows.

His book was a smashing success among intellectuals worldwide as it predicted the disintegration of European and American civilization after a violent " age of Caesarism ," arguing by detailed analogies with other civilizations.

Her second book " Das Urteil " (" The Verdict ") from 1975 was a moderate success.

The book became an enormous success, especially in the United States, where Struther went on a lecture tour shortly after the book's release.

As the book met with critical success, Johanna felt estimulated to pursue a career as an authoress — a career on which her livelihood would depend, after the aforementioned financial difficulties.

Much of the success of Marshall's teaching and Principles book derived from his effective use of diagrams, which were soon emulated by other teachers worldwide.

On the success of the book, Hoffman was quoted as saying, " It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.

" Indeed, an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson helped to propel the success of the book, as well as Ehrlich's celebrity.

The book was a popular success, selling just over 17, 000 copies — though this was somewhat lower than the total for the previous book, The Emerald City of Oz, and marked the start of a trend in declining sales for the Oz books that would not reverse until The Tin Woodman of Oz in 1918.

This is brought out in the next to last chapter of the book, `` A Hero's Funeral '', written in the form of an impassioned prose poem.

In the last pages of the book Sibylla comes to Rome to seek an audience with the great Pope and to give her confession.

My last gift to him is complete silence until the book is out and the first heated discussion dies down.

He is by no means the country boy he might have been in the last century, down from the hills with bear grease on his hair and a zeal for book learning in his heart.

The Poirot books take readers through the whole of his life in England, from the first book ( The Mysterious Affair at Styles ), where he is a refugee staying at Styles, to the last Poirot book ( Curtain ), where he visits Styles once again before his death.

The last section of the book ( 7: 1 to 9: 8 ), commonly referred to as the Book of Visions, contains the only narrative section.

* In the film and book City of Ember, the principal city is either the last or one of several underground cities used to escape a devastating war.

In addition to these geometrical constructions, Dürer discusses in this last book of Underweysung der Messung an assortment of mechanisms for drawing in perspective from models and provides woodcut illustrations of these methods that are often reproduced in discussions of perspective.

Appended to the last book, however, is a self-contained essay on aesthetics, which Dürer worked on between 1512 and 1528, and it is here that we learn of his theories concerning ' ideal beauty '.

As his last work he prepared the text for the book Paris sans fin, a sequence of 150 lithographs containing memories of all the places where he had lived.

The 2009 novel Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy takes its title from Housman's poem " Reveille ", and a line from Housman's poem XVI " How Clear, How Lovely Bright ", was used for the title of the last Inspector Morse book The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter.

However, forgetting the last word, he tries to trick the book by mumbling / coughing the missing word.

A substantial piece of the last part of the book is set in the resulting riotous trial at the Bronx County Court House.

Translated to English by John Bester, the book was a biography of one of the last traditional Yakuza bosses in Japan.

Smith claimed that the last prophet to contribute to the book, a man named Moroni, buried it in a hill in present-day New York and then returned to earth in 1827 as an angel, revealing the location of the book to Smith and instructing him to translate and disseminate it as evidence of the restoration of Christ's true church in the latter days.

In the Masoretic Text, it appears as a single work, either the first or last book of the Ketuvim ( the latter arrangement also making it the final book of the Jewish Bible ).

In most printed versions it is the last book in Ketuvim ( following Ezra-Nehemiah ).

Steven Tuell argues that having Chronicles as the last book in the canon is appropriate since it " attempts to distill and summarize the entire history of God's dealings with God's people.

However, it is also possible to divide the book into three parts rather than four by combining the sections treating David and Solomon, since they both ruled over a combined Judah and Israel, unlike the last section that contains the chronicle of the Davidic kings who ruled the Kingdom of Judah alone.

The last events in Chronicles take place in the reign of Cyrus the Great, the Persian king who conquered Babylon in 539 BCE ; this sets an earliest possible date for the book.

According to the book, the Prophet Jeremiah was a son of a priest from Anatot in the land of Benjamin, who lived in the last years of the Kingdom of Judah just prior to, during, and immediately after the siege of Jerusalem, culminating in the destruction of Solomon's Temple and the raiding of the city by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.