In his book Civilization And Ethics Albert Schweitzer faces the moral problems which arise when moral law is recognized in business life, for example.

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.

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.

This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.

Patchen does read some of his earlier works to music, but he has written an entire book of short poems which seem to be especially suited for reading with jazz.

Whether in his forthcoming book C. P. Snow commits the errors of judgment and of fact with which your heavily autobiographical critic charged him is important.

`` I have read an advance copy of the Snow book which is to be titled, ' Science And Government.

But I have compared its text with already published commentaries on the 1960 series of Godkin lectures at Harvard, from which the book was derived, and I can with confidence challenge the gist of C. P. Snow's incautious tale ''.

Representatives of Harvard University Press, which is publishing the book this month of April, recognize and freely acknowledge that they invited such reaction by allowing Life magazine to print an excerpt from the book in advance of the book's publication date.

To the unfortunate people unable to attend the Godkin lectures it casts an unjustifiable aura of falsehood over the book which may dissuade some people from reading it.

`` Although it is not the best of which he is capable '', said Shelley as he closed the book, `` it is still poetry of a high order ''.

Since this book is concerned only incidentally with railroad rates, it will not attempt to analyze the methods by which the staff of the Interstate Commerce Commission has estimated out-of-pocket costs and apportioned residue costs.

And the evidence that he does, indeed, stand there derives quite simply from the vigorous interest with which rather casual readers have responded to that book for the past century or so.

In his analysis, however, he touches upon but fails to explore an idea, generally neglected in discussions of the book, which I believe is central to its art -- the importance of human hands as a recurring feature of the narrative.

In one now-historic first interview, for example, the transcript ( reproduced from the book, The First Five Minutes ) goes like this: The therapist's level tone is bland and neutral -- he has, for example, avoided stressing `` you '', which would imply disapproval ; ;

Sir Julian Huxley in his book Uniqueness Of Man makes the novel point that just as man is unique in being the only animal which requires a long period of infancy and childhood under family protection, so is he the only animal who has a long period after the decline of his procreativity.

After years of digging, nights and weekends, he put together the big, profusely illustrated book, Of Garryowen And Glory, which is probably the most complete history of any military unit.

In this carefree sentence he summed up the essence of the prevailin' custom of buyin' by book count, and created a sayin' which has survived through the years.

Mr. Black's life was an open book, so to speak, from his birth in Jackson, Mississippi, through his basketball-playing days at L.S.U. and his attainment of a B.A. degree, which had presumably prepared him for his career as district sales manager for Peerless Business Machines.

It is connected by teletype with the State Library in Albany, which will supply any book to a system that the system itself cannot provide.

About all that remains to be said is that the present selection, most of which appeared first in The New Yorker, comprises ( as usual ) a slightly unstrung necklace, held together by little more than a slender thread cunningly inserted in the spine of the book.

Two criticisms of this generally admirable and fascinating book involve the treatment of wartime diplomacy which is jagged at the edges -- there is no mention of the Potsdam Conference or the Morgenthau Plan.

The book carries a disclaimer in which Remarque says it has been necessary for him to take minor liberties with some of the procedures and formalities of racing.

" Near the end of his life, he fictionalized this experience in his book New Connecticut, originally circulated only among friends before its publication in 1881.

In 2010, the novelist Jack Whyte gave another fictionalized account of Wallace ’ s life, particularly his early life, in The Forest Laird, the first book in The Guardians of Scotland trilogy.

Other zombie-themed films include Val Lewton's I Walked With a Zombie ( 1943 ) and Wes Craven's The Serpent and the Rainbow, ( 1988 ) a heavily fictionalized account of Wade Davis ' book.

A fictionalized version of this attack was recreated in the 1971 book by Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal, and in the 1973 film of the same name.

James Fenimore Cooper created a fictionalized version of the episode in his classic book The Last of the Mohicans ( 1826 ).

follows a fictionalized version of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman as he struggles to adapt a book into a script, while the movie features scenes about the making of Being John Malkovich, previously written by Kaufman and directed by Jonze.

Frank Miller's 1998 comic book 300, presents a fictionalized version of Leonidas and the Battle of Thermopylae, as does the 2007 feature film adapted from it.

Myles Standish Monument in Duxbury, MassachusettsStandish's true-life role in defending Plymouth Colony ( and the sometimes brutal tactics he employed ) were largely obscured by the fictionalized character created by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his book The Courtship of Miles Standish.

The film was adapted and fictionalized by Ernest Tidyman from the non-fiction book by Robin Moore.

The book is a fictionalized autobiography of Ostrovsky's life, who had a difficult working-class childhood and became a Komsomol member in July 1919 and went to the front as a volunteer.

* Robbie Mannheim, a. k. a. Roland Doe, alleged demonically possessed boy who inspired William Peter Blatty to write the fictionalized book, The Exorcist

The book and movie Rabbit, Run and the other three novels of the Rabbit series by John Updike were set in fictionalized versions of Reading and nearby Shillington, called Brewer and Olinger respectively.

Graves provides a theme for the story by having the fictionalized Claudius describe a visit to Cumae, where he receives a prophecy in verse from the Sibyl, and an additional prophecy contained in a book of " Sibylline Curiosities ".

" Rippon left the band during the final mixing of the album in order to concentrate on writing, though his book Cold Turkey Sandwich — a fictionalized chronicle of his time touring — was rejected by publishers.

* A fictionalized account of her around the world trip was used in the comic book " Julie Walker is The Phantom " published by Moonstone Books ( Story: Elizabeth Massie, art: Paul Daly, colors: Stephen Downer ).

* Blackstone, the Magic Detective, a radio series and comic book starring a fictionalized version of Harry Blackstone, Sr.

Science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson's book Antarctica features a fictionalized account of the culture at Amundsen – Scott and McMurdo, set in the near future.

Niccol rewrote the script twelve times, while Weir created a fictionalized book about the show's history.

A fictionalized version of these events is at the center of Yukio Mishima's 1956 book The Temple of the Golden Pavilion.

Samuel Goldwyn Films, the film ’ s distributor, stated that the film was not based on the book and is a fictionalized, dramatic presentation.

Frank Miller's 1998 comic book 300, and the 2007 feature film adapted from it, present a heavily fictionalized version of the Immortals at the Battle of Thermopylae.

Time called the book a roman a clef for its fictionalized versions of real people and organizations, including Zbigniew Brzezinski and the radical left-wing magazine Ramparts.

The book was semi-autobiographical in the sense that she fictionalized and satirized real life events such as her drug addiction of the late 1970s.

In addition to writing her own zines and books, Carver has also written for various magazines ( including Peter Bagge's comic book Hate ) and kept a fictionalized journal about her sex life for the website Nerve.