Poirot's first appearance was in The Mysterious Affair at Styles ( published 1920 ) and his last in Curtain ( published 1975, the year before Christie died ).

From 1850 onwards he became well known as a critic and essay-writer, and in 1860 he began working on his magnum opus, his History of Music, which was published at intervals from 1862 in five volumes, the last two ( 1878, 1882 ) being edited and completed by Otto Kade and Wilhelm Langhans.

The works of Anderson amount to six thin quarto volumes, and as the last of them was published in 1619, it is probable that the author died soon after that year, but the precise date is unknown.

The Gulf News published on 30 November 2011, saying " This is the biggest drug bust of its kind in 2011 and the second big one in the last three years worldwide ," said Dr. Wadia Maalouf, International expert at the United Nation's Drug and Crime office.

In the last year of his life he published The Musical Theatre: A Celebration, a well-reviewed history of the theatre replete with personal anecdotes and his trademark wit.

In Whorf's last year he also published three articles in the MIT Technology Review titled " Science and Linguistics ", " Linguistics as an Exact Science " and " Language and Logic ".

Bardot wrote a 1999 letter to Chinese President Jiang Zemin, published in French magazine VSD, in which she accused the Chinese of " torturing bears and killing the world's last tigers and rhinos to make aphrodisiacs ".

The last strip of Calvin and Hobbes was published on December 31, 1995.

Alphonsus Maria de Liguori ( d. 1787 ), founder of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, then brought some attention back to casuistry by publishing again Hermann Busembaum's Medulla Theologiae Moralis ; the last edition published in 1785 and receiving the approbation of the Holy See in 1803.

Charlotte's third published novel, the last to be published during her lifetime, was Villette, which came out in 1853.

Chaosium, from 1979 to 1985, published the thirty-eight first ones and Sleuth Publications, from 1985 to 1987, the nine last ones.

# The final piece of the puzzle, thermal transpiration, was theorized by Osborne Reynolds, but first published by James Clerk Maxwell in the last paper before his death in 1879.

The last new comic book story drawn by Carl Barks was a Daisy Duck tale (" The Dainty Daredevil ") published in Walt Disney Comics Digest issue 5 ( Nov. 1968 ).

The last English translation of the novel in the 20th century was by Burton Raffel, published in 1996.

The last major revision was the fourth edition (" DSM-IV "), published in 1994, although a " text revision " was produced in 2000.

Thomas ' last collection Collected Poems, 1934 – 1952, published when he was 38, won the Foyle poetry prize.

Fern Hill ( 1945 ) is a poem by Dylan Thomas, first published in the October, 1945, Horizon magazine, with its first book publication as the last poem in Deaths and Entrances.

Collier's has not been in print since 1998 ; the Encyclopedia Americana was last published in 2006 and Britannica announced the discontinuation of its print editions in 2012.

This last aspect of Erewhon reveals the influence of Charles Darwin's evolution theory ; Butler had read On the Origin of Species soon after it was published in 1859.

Living Room Games last published in 2005, and they no longer have a license with FASA to publish Earthdawn material.

In 1847, Emily published her novel, Wuthering Heights, as two volumes of a three-volume set ( the last volume being Agnes Grey by her sister Anne ).

The last volumes in her most famous series were published in 1963.

This last publication was so successful that it was translated into German and published in the famous German scientific journal Physikalische Zeitschrift.

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.

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.

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.