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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 ; ;

book and extended
" We'd be oversimplifying things in calling film noir oneiric, strange, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel ": this set of attributes constitutes the first of many attempts to define film noir made by French critics Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton in their 1955 book Panorama du film noir américain 1941 – 1953 ( A Panorama of American Film Noir ), the original and seminal extended treatment of the subject.
He brought out, in the Annals of Oriental Literature ( London, 1820 ), an essay entitled, " Analytical Comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Teutonic Languages ", in which he extended to all parts of the grammar what he had done in his first book for the verb alone.
He extended his work on biological complexity into a general theory of systems in a book titled General Systems Theory.
Howison, in his book The Limits of Evolution and Other Essays Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Idealism, created a democratic notion of personal idealism that extended all the way to God, who was no more the ultimate monarch but the ultimate democrat in eternal relation to other eternal persons.
It was extended and published in the 1989 book Neural Darwinism – The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection.
" The book was also extended greatly: the original thirteen chapters became twenty, and the final chapter was divided into two new chapters.
The first three novels in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series were dubbed a trilogy, and even after he extended the series, author Douglas Adams continued to use the term for humorous effect-for example, calling Mostly Harmless " the fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named trilogy.
Surviving preliminary materials show that Newton ( up to some time in 1685 ) conceived his book as a two-volume work: The first volume was to be ' De motu corporum, Liber primus ', with contents that later appeared ( in extended form ) as Book 1 of the ' Principia '.
In 1822 Jacob Grimm, the elder of the Brothers Grimm, in his book Deutsche Grammatik, formulated the law as a general rule ( and extended to include standard German ).
Beatus followed the views of Saint Augustine whose work, The City of God, influenced the Commentaries which followed the premise that the History of the World was structured in six ages: the first five ones extended between the creation of Adam, and the Passion of Jesus, while the sixth, subsequent to Christ and contemporary to us, had to end with the unleashing of the happenings prophesied by the book of Revelation.
Christopher Wise in his book Derrida, Africa, and the Middle East ( 2009 ) places Derrida's work in the historical context of his North African origins, an argument first briefly made by Robert J. C. Young in White Mythologies: Writing History and the West ( 1990 ) and extended in his Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction ( 2001 ) where Young surveys the writings of numerous theorists and situates the whole framework of Derrida's thinking in relation to the impact of growing up in the colonial conditions of French Algeria.
However, as he was required to take extended walks around London to travel between his students, de Moivre had little time for study so he would tear pages from the book and carry them around in his pocket to read between lessons.
Adams ' editor Sonny Mehta moved in with the author to ensure that the book met its ( extended ) deadline.
In Jim Butcher's book of the Dresdenverse Dead Beat, the central plot behind the book has to do with Harry Dresden's search for an infamous necromancer's book containing the enchantment with which to summon the Erlking and begin the Wild Hunt, but the Hunt is extended to include any animal, including humans.
novella is one of the richest and most rewarding of literary forms ... it allows for more extended development of theme and character than does the short story, without making the elaborate structural demands of the full-length book.
Charles Clarence Beck, artistic creator and long-time chief artist of comic book superhero Captain Marvel, and his extended family of " Shazam!
In his book " Life on Mars ", Schiaparelli wrote: " Rather than true channels in a form familiar to us, we must imagine depressions in the soil that are not very deep, extended in a straight direction for thousands of miles, over a width of 100, 200 kilometers and maybe more.
The activities of the Inquisition extended to book censorship, repression and trial for divination, witchcraft and bigamy, as well as the prosecution of sexual crimes, especially sodomy.
* Neil Gaiman has extended this story in his comic book series 1602, where a Native American named Rojhaz meets Virginia Dare when she is about twelve, and an artifact of his travels causes her to transform into a series of white creatures whenever she is in danger.
Services include: Funding for academic enrichment, assistance to 157 clubs and societies, an extended health and dental insurance plan, scholarships, grad class events, used book sales, yearbooks, orientation, Shinerama, a student housing directory, delivery condom service, entertainment, an exam database, faxing and photocopying.
Jaynes ' last book, Probability Theory: The Logic of Science gathers various threads of modern thinking about Bayesian probability and statistical inference, develops the notion of probability theory as extended logic, and contrasts the advantages of Bayesian techniques with the results of other approaches.
Kwame Nkrumah, president of Ghana ( 1960 – 66 ), coined the term neo-colonialism in the book Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism ( 1965 ) As a political scientist, Nkrumah theoretically developed and extended, to the post – War 20th century, the socio-economic and political arguments presented by Lenin in the pamphlet Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism ( 1917 ), about 19th-century imperialism as the logical extension of geopolitical power to meet the financial investment needs of the political economy of capitalism.
The book appeared at the same time that Parliament enacted the Reform Act of 1867, requiring Bagehot to write an extended introduction to the second edition, which appeared in 1872.

book and satire
Typical of his satire and cynical humour, the book included a discourse on Parkinson's Law of Triviality ( debates about expenses for a nuclear plant, a bicycle shed, and refreshments ), a note on why driving on the left side of the road ( see road transport ) is natural, and suggested that the Royal Navy would eventually have more admirals than ships.
One of Hofstadter's columns in Scientific American concerned the damaging effects of sexist language, and two chapters of his book Metamagical Themas are devoted to that topic, one of which is a biting analogy-based satire entitled " A Person Paper on Purity in Language ", in which the reader's presumed revulsion at racism and racist language is used as a lever to motivate an analogous revulsion at sexism and sexist language.
He is best known for his book Twenty-one Days in India ( 1878 – 1879 ), a satire upon Anglo-Indian society and modes of thought.
George Shipway ( 1908 – 1982 ) was a British author best known for his historical novels, but he also tried his hand at political satire in his book The Chilian Club.
He also produced religious art, satire, and Reformation propaganda, and made a significant contribution to the history of book design.
Before he left Oxford ( sometime in 1600 or 1601 ), he wrote and published three long poems in popular Elizabethan styles ; none appears to have been especially successful, and one, his book of satires, ran afoul of the Anglican Church's ban on verse satire and was burned.
Bacque's latest book, Putting On Conrad, about the experiences of producers trying to put on his play in the face of libel chill, is an amusing satire on Canada's literary establishment.
This jest would later be the cause of much satire, as in book 4 of Athenaeus ' Deipnosophistae where a group of Cynics sit down for a meal and are served course after course of lentil soup.
Impressed by Crumb's sharp satire, Bakshi purchased the book and suggested to Krantz that it would work as a film.
The book had been intended in part as a satire, a tract against child labour, as well as a serious critique of the closed-minded approaches of many scientists of the day in their response to Charles Darwin's ideas on evolution, which Kingsley had been one of the first to praise.
As discussed by many authors have historically argued that " the book is, first and foremost, a satire, so that many of the things we find in it which are morally absurd, specious, and contradictory, are there quite deliberately in order to ridicule ... the very notion of tyrannical rule ".
Impressed by Crumb's sharp satire, Bakshi purchased the book and suggested to Krantz that it would work as a film.
The political satire in " Part III " of the book reflects the author's view of Great Britain's treatment of Ireland.
Lucian admired the works of Epicurus, for he breaks off a witty satire against Alexander of Abonoteichus, who burned a book of Epicurus, to exclaim:
This was followed by the children's book Die Konferenz der Tiere ( The Animals ' Conference ), a Pacifist satire in which the world's animals unite to successfully force humans to disarm and make peace with each other ; it was made into an animated film by Curt Linda.
" The book was intended as satire directed at the Imagism poetry movement.
The Dilbert Future ( 1997 ) is a book published by Scott Adams as a satire of humanity that breaks the net motivations of humanity down into stupidity, selfishness, and " horniness ", and presents various ideas for profiting from human nature.
In response to the bootleg editions, Simon & Schuster brought out a new hardcover edition in 1996 under their Free Press imprint, authorized by the author Lewin, with a new introduction by Navasky and afterword by Lewin both admitting the book was fictional and satire, and discussing the original controversy over the book and the more recent interest in it by conspiracy theorists.
He contributed to a BBC Four season about the history of satire, and he appeared as a guest on The One Show on 2 October 2008 to talk about his life and career as well as his book.
* Walt Kelly used his comic strip Pogo to produce a satire that appeared in book form as " The Jack Acid Society Black Book.
Impressed by Crumb's sharp satire, Bakshi purchased the book and suggested to Krantz that it would work as a film.
… The wit, humour and satire of the book have not been surpassed in any of the author's previous operas, the composer's fascinating vein of melody flows as freshly as ever, and the orchestration is full of characteristically happy fancies.
David Brooks argued in his 2011 book, The Sons of Clovis: Ern Malley, Adoré Floupette and a Secret History of Australian Poetry, that the Ern Malley hoax was modelled on the 1885 satire on French Symbolism and the Decadent movement, Les Déliquescences d ' Adoré Floupette by Henri Beauclair and Gabriel Vicaire.

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