These narratives of coarse action and crude language appeared first in local newspapers, as a rule, and later found their way between book covers, though rarely into the planters' libraries beside the morocco-bound volumes of Horace, Mr. Addison, Mr. Pope, and Sir Walter Scott.

After he had finished the first two volumes of his Lincoln, Sandburg went to work assembling a book of songs out of hobo and childhood days and from the memory of songs others had taught him.

Perhaps Mrs. Meynell would do me the undeserved kindness to keep my own copy of the first edition of my first book, with all its mementos of her and the dear ones.

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.

My last gift to him is complete silence until the book is out and the first heated discussion dies down.

The work as it stands is not the entire book that Malraux wrote at that time -- it is only the first section of a three-part novel called La Lutte avec l'Ange ; ;

His first book, Before The Brave ( 1936 ), is a collection of poems that are almost all Communistic, but after publication of this book he rejected Communism, and advocated a pacifistic anarchy, though retaining his revolutionary idiom.

The purpose set forth at the beginning of this book was first to introduce the reader to a general background knowledge of the various types and capabilities of the forecasting methods already in use, so that he might then be in a position to evaluate for himself the validity of the rather astonishing empirical correlation that is to follow, and to appraise the forecast that its interpretation suggests for the future of farm prices over the years immediately ahead.

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 ; ;

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.

This reviewer read the book when it was first brought out in England with a sense of discovery and excitement.

His first book, Manhood of Humanity, was published in 1921.

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

Some consider this more of a short story collection ; Milne didn't like it and considered The Day's Play as his first book.

In his spare time, Grand polishes up his Latin, and he is also writing a book, but he is such a perfectionist that he continually rewrites the first sentence and can get no further.

Unlike the models mentioned above, Christie's Poirot was clearly the result of her early development of the detective in her first book, written in 1916 but not published until 1920.

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 character of Jane Marple in the first Miss Marple book, The Murder at the Vicarage, is markedly different from how she appears in later books.

This book, which established his reputation, was first translated into English by William Montgomery and published in 1910 as The Quest of the Historical Jesus.

The original 256-page game book was published in 1991 by Phage Press, covering material from the first five novels ( the " Corwin Cycle ") and some details-sorcery and the Logrus-from the remaining five novels ( the " Merlin Cycle "), in order to allow players to roleplay characters from the Courts of Chaos.

The first book assumes that gamemasters will set their campaigns after the Patternfall war ; that is, after the end of the fifth book in the series, The Courts of Chaos, but uses material from the following books to describe those parts of Zelazny's cosmology that were featured there in more detail.

According to Lovecraft's " History of the Necronomicon " ( written 1927, first published 1938 ), Alhazred was:

The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu — a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus of Lovecraft's famous short story The Call of Cthulhu ( first published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928 )— to identify the system of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors.

The first stage, termed the " Cthulhu Mythos proper " by Price, was formulated during Lovecraft's lifetime and was subject to his guidance.

Lovecraft's essay " Supernatural Horror in Literature ", first published in 1927, is a historical survey of horror literature available with endnotes as The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature.

* The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos by S. T. Joshi ( Mythos Books, 2008 ) is the first full-length critical study since Lin Carter's to examine the development of Lovecraft's Mythos and its outworking in the oeuvres of various modern writers.

It was first mentioned in Lovecraft's 1924

Shub-Niggurath is first mentioned in Lovecraft's revision story " The Last Test " ( 1928 ); she is never actually described in Lovecraft's fiction, but is frequently mentioned or called upon in incantations.

Her first mention under Lovecraft's byline was in The Dunwich Horror ( 1928 ), where a quote from the Necronomicon discussing the Old Ones breaks into an exclamation of " Iä!

The name was first applied to the creatures in Lovecraft's short story " The Whisperer in Darkness " ( 1931 ), elaborating on a reference to ' What fungi sprout in Yuggoth ' in his sonnet cycle Fungi from Yuggoth ( 1929 – 30 ) which described the contrasting vegetation on alien dream-worlds.

The Mi-go appeared in comic books in the first three issues of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness that featured the Miskatonic Project, created by Mark Ellis.

The Pnakotic Manuscripts are noteworthy for being the first of Lovecraft's fictional arcane books.

Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright first rejected the story, and only accepted it after writer Donald Wandrei, a friend of Lovecraft's, falsely claimed that Lovecraft was thinking of submitting it elsewhere.

French novelist Michel Houellebecq, in his book H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, describes " The Call of Cthulhu " as the first of Lovecraft's " great texts ".

Lovecraft's attempts to work this idea into a novel floundered ( a 500-word fragment survives, first published under the title " Azathoth " in the journal Leaves in 1938 ), although Lovecraftian scholar Will Murray suggests that Lovecraft recycled the idea into his Dream Cycle novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, written in 1926.

It's notable as the first story to make use of Lovecraft's imaginary New England setting, introducing the fictional town of Kingsport.

They first appeared in Lovecraft's short story " The Shadow Out of Time " ( 1936 ).

His first appearance in print, however, was in H. P. Lovecraft's story " The Whisperer in Darkness ", written in 1930 and published in the August 1931 Weird Tales.

Yog-Sothoth's name was first mentioned in Lovecraft's novella, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward ( written 1927, first published 1941 ).

The beings first appeared, although not named, in H. P. Lovecraft's short story " The Dreams in the Witch-House " ( 1933 ).

Schwartz and Weisinger also founded the Solar Sales Service literary agency ( 1934 – 1944 ) where Schwartz represented such writers as Alfred Bester, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, and H. P. Lovecraft, including some of Bradbury's first published work and Lovecraft's last.

In addition to being his personal favorite of all of his short stories, critics have considered " The Colour Out of Space " to be one of Lovecraft's best works, as well as the first to establish his trademark blending of science fiction and horror.