If this practice should take root and spread, the man who submits a manuscript to a publisher will find himself reviewed before he is accepted and publication will become a sort of post-mortem formality.

In a metafictional touch, the husband is a writer working on a manuscript called " A Clockwork Orange ," and Alex contemptuously reads out a paragraph that states the novel's main theme before shredding the manuscript.

After returning home, Thomas worked on Under Milk Wood in Wales, before sending the original manuscript to the BBC's Douglas Cleverdon on 15 October 1953.

John Ernest Grabe found an otherwise unreported saying of Jesus, attributed to the Apostle Barnabas, amongst the Greek manuscripts in the Baroccian collection in the Bodleian Library ; which he speculated might be a quotation from this lost gospel ; and John Toland claimed to have identified a corresponding phrase when he examined the surviving Italian manuscript of the Gospel of Barnabas in Amsterdam before 1709.

Metzger and Aland list the probable date for this manuscript as c. 125 but the difficulty of estimating the date of a literary text based solely on paleographic evidence must allow potentially for a range that extends from before 100 to well into the second half of the 2nd century.

In 1927, Florence Deeks sued Wells for plagiarism, claiming that he had stolen much of the content of The Outline of History from a work, The Web, she had submitted to the Canadian Macmillan Company, but who held onto the manuscript for eight months before rejecting it.

" During the same year, Jack Stillinger claimed that " Coleridge wrote only a few poems of the first rank – perhaps no more than a dozen, all told – and he seems to have taken a very casual attitude toward them ... he kept Kubla Khan in manuscript for nearly twenty years before offering it to the public ' rather as a psychological curiosity, than on the grounds of any supposed poetic merits '".

He seems to have begun furiously, scrubbing out Plautus ' alphabetically arranged plays with zest, before growing lazy, before finally regaining his vigour at the end of the manuscript to ensure not a word of Plautus was legible.

There is speculation that Regiomontanus had arrived at a theory of heliocentrism before he died ; a manuscript shows particular attention to the heliocentric theory of the Pythagorean Aristarchus, mention was also given to the motion of the earth in a letter to a friend.

Although the book was published years before Patriot Games, there are repeated references to it, which strongly suggests that The Hunt for Red October was in fact written after the Patriot Games manuscript ( or at least the first draft of the novel ) was completed.

The original purpose of tarot cards was for playing games, the first basic rules appearing in the manuscript of Martiano da Tortona before 1425, and the next from the year 1637.

In 385, Jerome was forced out of Rome, and eventually settled in Bethlehem, where he was able to use a surviving manuscript of the Hexapla, likely from the nearby Theological Library of Caesarea Maritima, a columnar comparison of the variant versions of the Old Testament undertaken 150 years before by Origen.

However before the manuscript was destroyed, Zinov had made notes of it which he subsequently sent to the renowned Baltist Vladimir Toporov.

Proverbs of Hendyng, a manuscript from some time before 1325, includes the advice:

It was written while he was living on the island of Port-Cros in Provence as a development of a manuscript from a decade before.

The pantomime under " review " was a fabrication ( though it inspired a hack to turn it into an actual pantomime, The Ol ’ Clo's Man, in which Deburau probably appeared < ref > Gautier's " review " appeared in the Revue de Paris on September 4, 1842, but the manuscript of The Ol ’ Clo's Man that was submitted for approval to the censor's office before production of the pantomime bears the date October 17, 1842.

Euler first published a proof in 1736 in a paper entitled " Theorematum Quorundam ad Numeros Primos Spectantium Demonstratio ", but Leibniz left virtually the same proof in an unpublished manuscript from sometime before 1683.

The first one who gave a proof was Gottfried Leibniz in a manuscript without a date, where he wrote also that he knew a proof before 1683.

Shooter leaves, but not before leaving his manuscript, " Sowing Season ".

Bellow's stanza 138 ( Ljóðalok ) is taken from the very end of the poem in the manuscript, placed before

Wells took considerable pains over the manuscript and said of it that " the writing was an altogether more serious undertaking than I have ever done before.

* Flother, a synonym for snowflake, is a hapax legomenon of written English before 1900 and is found in a manuscript from around 1275.

Despite being an imperfect translation, Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete remained the standard one for centuries, circulating in manuscript before being printed in the 1543 edition published in Basel by Theodor Bibliander.

In 1731, the manuscript was badly damaged by a fire that swept through a building housing a collection of Medieval manuscripts assembled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton.

Goldoni thanked his critic, went back to his inn and ordered a fire, into which he threw the manuscript of his Amalasunta.

The manuscript, by now detached, was burned in the Cotton library fire at Ashburnham House in 1731.

The Chinese applied the use of double-piston bellows to pump petrol out of a single cylinder ( with an upstroke and a downstroke ), lit at the end by a slow-burning gunpowder match to fire a continuous stream of flame ( as referred to in the Wujing Zongyao manuscript of 1044 AD ).

On the morning of Saturday, 23 October 1731, a fire broke out and the Cotton manuscript was destroyed.

One was originally a complete copy of Ine's laws, part of British Library MS Cotton Otho B xi, but that manuscript was largely destroyed in 1731 by a fire at Ashburnham House in which only Chapters 66 to 76. 2 of Ine's laws escaped destruction.

Julien Barneuve, an intellectual active during the Second World War, realizes the disastrous results of his collaboration with the pro-Nazi Vichy government and burns himself to death in a hut-starting the fire by burning his own manuscript of a work praising Hippomanes and condemning de Noyen.

In 1944, the manuscript was nearly lost in a fire at Lowry's shack in British Columbia.

The best surviving manuscript was the Heidelberg manuscript, written in Heidelberg, Germany, probably in the 8th century, but this was destroyed in a fire at Mommsen's house on July 7, 1880.

In the colophons of the Malatia Gospel of 1268 ( MS No. 10675 ), Armenian manuscript illuminator Toros Roslin described the brutal sack of Antioch by Baibars: "... at this time great Antioch was captured by the wicked king of Egypt, and many were killed and became his prisoners, and a cause of anguish to the holy and famous temples, houses of God, which are in it ; the wonderful elegance of the beauty of those that were destroyed by fire is beyond the power of words.

Wheaton translated the Code of Napoleon, but the manuscript was destroyed by fire.

As a celebration, he asks Annie for a cigarette and a match, as per his normal practice after finishing a novel, but uses them to seemingly light his manuscript on fire in front of her.

His wife recounts seeing him feeding manuscript papers into a fire in 1945, and some believe that among these papers was the completed Eighth Symphony.

The original manuscript was claimed to have burned in the great Moscow fire of 1812 ( during the Napoleonic occupation ), together with Musin-Pushkin's entire library.

Damage to the manuscript was caused by the Cotton fire of 1731 and readings have been lost.

In the summer of 1918, a house fire destroyed the manuscript of his autobiography and other personal papers at his Lake George home.

The Epistle survived only in one manuscript, was destroyed in a fire in the year 1870, and was found in a 13th century codex that included writings ascribed to Justin Martyr.

Although he was published as a poet while still young, The Wandering Islands ( 1955 ) was his first collection, what remained of his early work after it was mostly destroyed in manuscript in a fire.

* The Beowulf manuscript was damaged in a fire in Ashburnham House on October 23, 1731.

The book is based on an old manuscript collection of poetry, which Percy claimed to have rescued in Humphrey Pitt's house at Shifnal, Shropshire, " from the hands of the housemaid who was about to light the fire with it.

Chinese fire ships from the Wujing Zongyao military manuscript, 1044, Song Dynasty.

As was common practice at the time, all the possessions of plague victims were destroyed by fire, so most of his manuscript music was lost.

After repeated delays the projected fourth volume was eventually abandoned, or at least not completed ; an early manuscript may have been lost in a fire.

His friend Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz kept the manuscript, but it was destroyed in a fire in Warsaw, during the siege of that city in 1939.