In Uncle Dynamite, as Major Brabazon-Plank, he is back from leading an expedition up the Amazon with Bill Oakshott.

* Uncle Dynamite ( 1948 )-an Uncle Fred novel

* Uncle Dynamite ( 1948 )

The novel Uncle Dynamite was adapted as a serial in six half-hour episodes for BBC Radio 4, starring Richard Briers as Uncle Fred and Hugh Grant as Pongo, with narration by Paul Eddington.

However, in Uncle Dynamite, he finally got himself engaged to the truly ghastly Hermione Bostock, though exactly how he managed to do so is still a mystery.

Pongo Twistleton appears in the novels Uncle Fred in the Springtime, Uncle Dynamite, Cocktail Time, and Service With a Smile as well as in the short stories " Uncle Fred Flits By " and " Tried in the Furnace ".

He is known for his role in Napoleon Dynamite as Uncle Rico, and more recently as recurring character Roger Linus on Lost.

He played Lazlo Hollyfeld in Real Genius ( 1985 ), Azzolini in Rainbow Drive, Shawn McDermott in the TV series Martin ( 1992-1994 ), Ronnie Wingate in Get Shorty ( 1995 ), Harvey in The Rundown, and Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite ( 2004 ).

And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.

It is, of course, easy to see how `` J '' will mean Uncle Jack to one person and little Jane to another.

It is evident that Lizzie did not tell everything she overheard between her father and her Uncle Morse.

Joel Chandler Harris's ' Br ' er Rabbit ' of the Uncle Remus stories is said to be patterned after High John the Conqueror.

* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.

An Uncle Sam is mentioned as early as 1775, in the original " Yankee Doodle " lyrics of the Revolutionary War.

The best-selling anti-slavery novel from the 19th century is Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852.

Uncle Tom's Cabin is mentioned briefly in Gone with the Wind as being accepted by the Yankees as, " revelation second only to the Bible ".

Uncle Peter is Aunt Pittypat's coach driver.

Uncle is nearly asleep when he feels the bugs walking on his nose.

Algernon, however, refuses his consent until Ernest explains why his cigarette case bears the inscription, “ From little Cecily, with her fondest love to her dear Uncle Jack .” John-Ernest is forced to admit to living a double life.

Long fascinated by Uncle Jack ’ s hitherto absent black sheep brother, she is predisposed to fall for Algernon in his role of Ernest -- whose name she ’ s particularly fond of.

* March 20 – Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published.

* Uncle John Joad – Older brother of Pa Joad ( Tom describes him as " a fella about 60 ", but the narrator later tells you he is 50 ), feels responsible for the death of his young wife years before when he ignored her pleas for a doctor because he thought she just had a stomachache, when she actually had a burst appendix.

* Jesse L. Duke ( Denver Pyle ), referred to by just about everyone in Hazzard other than Boss Hogg as " Uncle Jesse ", is the patriarch of the Duke clan, and the father-figure to all Dukes who stayed with him on the dilapidated " Duke Farm.

* Coy Duke ( Byron Cherry ) ( 1982 – 83 ), the replacement for Bo, is another blond-haired cousin who moved to Uncle Jesse's farm along with cousin Vance after Bo and Luke left Hazzard to join the NASCAR circuit.

The beginning of the propagation of dance and accompanying music called polka is generally attributed to a young woman, Anna Slezakova ( born Anna Chadimova ) of Labska Tynice, Bohemia, who danced to accompany a local folk song called " Strycek Nimra koupil simla ", or " Uncle Nimra Bought a White Horse ", in 1834.

It became the best-selling American novel of the 19th century, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and is considered " the most influential Christian book of the ...

Clark quickly realizes that once Uncle Tom is released, no matter what happens, their kidnappers will have little reason to keep their prisoners alive.

Uncle Tom feels that Clark is dangerous and maladjusted, and attributes this to the mother giving priority to her career.

: This article is about the character from the Harriet Beecher Stowe novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the resulting epithet.

Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

The phrase " Uncle Tom " has also become an epithet for a person who is slavish and excessively subservient to perceived authority figures, particularly a black person who behaves in a subservient manner to white people ; or any person perceived to be a participant in the oppression of their own group.

At the time of the novel's initial publication in 1851 Uncle Tom was a rejection of the existing stereotypes of minstrel shows ; Stowe's melodramatic story humanized the suffering of slavery for White audiences by portraying Tom as a Christlike figure who is ultimately martyred, beaten to death by a cruel master because Tom refuses to betray the whereabouts of two women who escape from slavery.

Northern ( and British ) readers recoiled in anger at the horrors of slavery through the novel and play Uncle Tom ’ s Cabin ( 1852 ) by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Another verse was first recorded in Harriet Beecher Stowe's immensely influential 1852 anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Peake also wrote poetry and literary nonsense in verse form, short stories for adults and children ( Letters from a Lost Uncle ), stage and radio plays, and Mr Pye, a relatively tightly-structured novel in which God implicitly mocks the evangelical pretensions and cosy world-view of the eponymous hero.

* The protagonist of the novel My Uncle Napoleon

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, the bestselling novel that fueled abolitionist work, was the best known of the anti-slavery novels that portrayed such escapes across the Ohio.

* " Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess " ( 1839 ), an early version of his later novel Uncle Silas.

* Uncle Silas ( 1864 ), a macabre mystery novel and classic of gothic horror.

Published when the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was a bestseller, Northup's book sold 30, 000 copies within three years.

* To generate publicity for the novel Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis, British publisher Tony Faber offered a $ 1, 000, 000 prize if a proof was submitted before April 2002.

" Even though the 1852 pro-slavery novel Life at the South ; or, " Uncle Tom's Cabin " As It Is, by W. L. G.

According to Debra J. Rosenthal in an introduction to a collection of critical appraisals for the Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, overall reactions have been mixed with some critics praising the novel for affirming the humanity of the African American characters and for the risks Stowe assumed in taking a very public stand against slavery before abolitionism had become a socially acceptable cause, and others criticizing the very limited terms upon which those characters ' humanity was affirmed and the artistic shortcomings of political melodrama.

The popular negative connotation of " Uncle Tom " has largely been attributed to numerous derivative works inspired by Uncle Tom's Cabin in the decade after its release, rather than the original novel itself, whose title character is a more positive figure.

Claire Parfait, author of The Publishing History of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852-2002, opines that " the many alterations in retellings of the Uncle Tom story demonstrate an impulse to correct the retellers ' perceptions of its flaws and " the capacity of the novel to irritate and rankle, even a century and a half after its first publication.

* The movie Goodbye Uncle Tom ( 1971 ) ends with an unidentified man's fantasy re-enactment of Styron's novel.

Sophia Jane Goulden used the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin – written by Beecher's sister Harriet Beecher Stowe – as a regular source of bedtime stories for their sons and daughters.

Uncle Tom's Cabin ; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible.

Stowe's novel lent its name to Henson's home — Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site, near Dresden, Ontario — which since the 1940s has been a museum.