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back on Page 1: top of page • Anthologies & Literary History • History of Britain • Links • Authors A thru F
here on Page 2: Authors G thru L {just below} • Authors M thru R • Authors S thru V • Authors W thru Z
'The Inklings' Literary Society [1933-63] of Britain Page
Herbert Allen Giles entry at Wikipedia
search for Herbert Allen Giles books online {returns 150+ items} at Internet Archive
"Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer" [Shanghai 1926] by Herbert Allen Giles
http://www.amazon.com/Chuang-Tzu-Mystic-Moralist-Reformer-ebook/dp/B081QNJD4M/
"Tao: The Way by Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, and Lieh Tzu - Special Edition" [9/2010] translated by Lionel Giles & Herbert A. Giles
http://www.amazon.com/Tao-Way-Special-Lao-Tzu-dp-1934255777/dp/1934255777/
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Kenneth Grahame [1859-1932]
http://www.kennethgrahamesociety.net/ + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Grahame
"The Wind In The Willows" [1908]
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poet & author Robert Graves [1895-1985]
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Graham Greene [1904-91]
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 | Martin Handford creator of the "Where's Wally/Waldo?" children's books browse Martin Handford Store at Amazon • IMDb listing • Wikipedia "Where's Wally/Waldo?" children's books [created 1986, sold in 2007 for £2.5M]
"Wally's World Magazine" [52 issues, Jan 1997 - Jan 1998]
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Thomas Hardy [1840-1928]
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The Thomas Hardy Assn. [est. 1997] at University of St. Andrews in Scotland
"Far From The Madding Crowd" [1874]
"The Return of The Native" [1878]
"The Mayor of Casterbridge" [1886]
"Wessex Tales" [short stories 1888]
"Tess of The d'Urbervilles" [1891]
"Jude The Obscure" [1895]
"Wessex Poems and Other Verses" [1898]
"Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems" [Macmillan, 1976]
"Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems" [Palgrave, 2001] Edited by James Gibson
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physicist Stephen W. Hawking [1942-2018] Page
at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
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James Hilton [1900-54]
remembered for several best-sellers, including "Lost Horizon" and "Goodbye, Mr. Chips", plus "Was It Murder?"
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Aldous Huxley [1894-1963]
The Inklings of Oxford [1931-63]
The Inklings were a loose literary discussion society based at Magdalen College in Oxford, U.K. The group restarted in 1933 under leadership of C.S. Lewis; his tenure ended in late 1949; regular meetings 'during term' were on Thursday evenings at Lewis's or Tolkien's rooms and often on Tuesday midday at the Eagle and Child public house; after 1949, meetings were Thursday evenings at the Lamb and Flag across the street; regular meetings ended in 1963. Prominent and regular members included solicitor Owen Barfield, J.A.W. Bennett, Lord David Cecil, Nevill Coghill, Hugo Dyson, Adam Fox, Roger Lancelyn Green, Dr. Robert Havard, C.S. Lewis, his brother Warren Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, his son Christopher Tolkien, and publisher Charles Williams; sometimes attendees included John David Arnett, Sir Percy Bates, James Dundas-Grant, Jon Fromke, Colin Hardie, Gervase Mathew, R.B. McCallum, C.E. Stevens, John Wain, and Charles Leslie Wrenn. (Some accounts suggest that G.K. Chesterton and Dorothy L. Sayers were members, but neither actually attended any Inklings meetings.)
The information from this section was cut to 'The Inklings' Literary Society [1933-63] of Britain Page in Spring 2017.
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mystery author P.D. James [1920-2014]
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Dr. Samuel Johnson [1709-84]
Samuel Johnson entry at Wikipedia
27 works by Samuel Johnson online at Project Gutenberg
Dr. Samuel Johnson [1709-84] Quotations Page at Working Minds
 | "Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Johnson (Illustrated)" for Kindle [2013] Kindle Edition from Delphi Classics [9/2013] for $2.51 {sic} Quite complete, according to list on Amazon: sections include Essays & Pamphlets, selections from the Dictionary, Biographies (3), Criticism, The Poems (2 indexes), Criticism by others, one novella, one stageplay, plus the Boswell biography & three others |
author James Joyce [1882-1941] expatriate to Europe from Dublin, Ireland
http://www.amazon.com/Works-James-Joyce-Illustrated-ebook/dp/B005UHIYN8/
James Joyce Irish Bar [est. 1996] in Downtown Santa Barbara, California
"In Bed With Ulysses: The Story Behind James Joyce's Ulysses"
documentary feature [indep June 2012]
 | The creation of the book that many consider the greatest in English literature took an extreme toll on the author and his family. Written, co-produced & co-directed by Alan Adelson; co-produced, co-directed & edited by Kate Taverna; featuring Michael Barsanti, Sylvia Beach, Christopher Cerf, Michael Groden, Colum McCann, Helen Monaghan, Robert Nicholson, Edna O'Brien, Rafael Siev, with actors & voice actors including Allyn Burrows, Chris Ceraso, Kathleen Chalfant, Rufus Collins, Jerry Matz, Paul McIsaac, Robert Zukerman
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb • official movie site • watch official trailer [1:41] at Vimeo |
"The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle For James Joyce's Ulysses" [Penguin Press] by Kevin Birmingham 9781594203367
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mystery author H.R.F. Keating [1926-2011] Page
at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
creator of the Inspector Ghote of Bombay, India mystery series
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[Joseph] Rudyard Kipling [1865-1936] Page
top of page • short profile • stories • novels • poems • other works • movies, plays, other media
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architect & editor Sir James Thomas Knowles [1831-1908]
Sir James Knowles entry at Wikipedia
180+ works by James Knowles online at the Internet Archive
 | "The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights" [1862] by Sir James Knowles, Illustrated by Lancelot Speed Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [5/2012] for FREE {sic} CreateSpace 10x8 pb [11/2013] for $5.99 BiblioLife 9¼x6 hardcover [8/2009] for $32.99 Frederick Warne hardcover [1925] out of print/used |
 | "King Arthur and His Knights" [1895] by Sir James Knowles, Illustrated by Louis Rhead Kindle Edition from Dover Publns [4/2014] for $11.49 Dover Publns 9x6 pb [6/2014] for $13.09 Quality Paperback Book Club pb [1994] out of print/used Children's Classics 9½x8 hardcover [10/87] out of print/50+ used |
writer & essayist Charles Lamb [1775-1834]
best known for his "Essays of Elia" and for the children's book "Tales From Shakespeare", which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb [1764–1847]
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poet Philip (Arthur) Larkin [1922-85]
One of Britain's greatest and most misunderstood post-World War II poets; his poems
are beloved in Britain, though largely unknown in America.
"The North Ship" [poetry 1945]
"Jill" [1946 novel]
"A Girl In Winter" [1947 novel]
"The Less Deceived" [poetry 1955]
"The Whitsun Weddings" [poetry 1964]
"High Windows" [poetry 1974]
"Philip Larkin: Life, Art, and Love" biography [Bloomsbury] by James Booth 9781620407813
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author D.H. Lawrence [1885-1930]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._H._Lawrence
http://www.amazon.com/Works-D-H-Lawrence-Illustrated-ebook/dp/B0050SQLMS/
 | "Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays, Illustrated" [1932] by D.H. Lawrence Lawrence travelled through the countryside of Tuscany with his friend Earl Brewster during the spring of 1927; the resulting seven travel essays contrasted the life-affirming culture of the Etruscans with the shabbiness of Benito Mussolini's Italy; published posthumously; Cambridge editions edited by Simon-etta de Filippis • book entry at Wikipedia 15 essays: 453-page Kindle Edition from RosettaBooks [2/2019] for $7.99 15 essays: 464-page Cambridge Univ Press 8½x5½ pb [7/2002] for $48.72 15 essays: 464-page Cambridge Univ Press 9x5¾ hardcover [10/92] out of print/used "Etruscan Places: Travels Through Forgotten Italy" [2011] Foreword by Michael Squires 176-page Tauris Parke 7¾x5¼ pb [7/2011] for $18.95 222-page 1933 British edition available as free online flip-book at Internet Archive |
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soldier & author T.E. Lawrence [1888-1935]
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British author John le Carré [1931-2020]
{ real name David John Moore Cornwell }
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sinologist & translator James Legge [1815-97]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Legge
"James Legge and The Chinese Classics: A Brilliant Scot In The Turmoil of Colonial Hong Kong" [8/2016] by Marilyn Laura Bowman
http://www.amazon.com/James-Legge-Chinese-Classics-brilliant/dp/1460288831/
http://www.amazon.com/James-Legge-Chinese-Classics-brilliant/dp/1460288823
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British author C.S. Lewis [1898-1963] Page
at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
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British TV writer-producer John Lloyd
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TED Talks homepage (videos from 2009 & 2012)
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British author Andrew Martin Page
at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
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W. Somerset Maugham [1874-1965]
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George Mikes [1912-87]
Hungarian-born British travel writer and author of dozens of popular books of humor
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"How To Be An Alien: A Handbook For Beginners and More Advanced Pupils" [1946]
"How To Scrape Skies: The United States Explored, Rediscovered, and Explained" [1948]
http://www.amazon.com/How-Scrape-Skies-Rediscovered-Explained/dp/B000KROMX4/
http://www.amazon.com/How-Scrape-Skies-George-Mikes/dp/023395502X/
"Wisdom For Others" [1950]
"Down With Everybody" [1951]
"Shakespeare and Myself" [1952]
"Uber Alles: Germany Explored" [1953]
"Italy For Beginners" [1956]
"Switzerland For Beginners" [1962]
"How To Unite Nations" [1963]
"Mortal Passion: A Novel" [1963]
"How To Be Affluent" [1966]
"Boomerang: Australia Rediscovered" [1968]
"The Land of The Rising Yen: Japan" [1970]
"Humour In Memoriam" [1970]
"How To Be Decadent" [1977]
 | "English Humour For Beginners" [1980] by George Mikes
Kindle Edition from Penguin U.K. [6/2016] for $9.99 Penguin Books 7¾x5 pb [6/2016] out of print/many used HarperCollins 8¼x5½ hardcover [10/80] out of print/used |
"How To Be Poor" [1983]
"How To Be A Guru" [1984]
"How To Be A Yank and More Wisdom: How To Scrape Skies, Wisdom For Others, and Shakespeare and Myself" [Jan 1989]
http://www.amazon.com/How-Yank-Scrape-Shakespeare-1989-01-26/dp/B01K91UQ5I/
http://www.amazon.com/How-Yank-Scrape-Shakespeare-1989-01-26/dp/B01K91UQ5I/
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British mystery author Keith Miles Page
at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
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A.A. {Alan Alexander} Milne [1882-1956]
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 | "The Red House Mystery" [1922] by A.A. Milne Mark Ablett's house party goes well until his brother Robert returns from Australia and joins the festivities. Shortly after Robert's arrival, he is found dead, and Mark disappears. Tony Gillingham is the stranger who decides to investigate, and what follows is a witty whodunit, the only murder mystery that Milne ever wrote. Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [5/2012] for FREE {sic} Dell mass pb [7/87] out of print/90+ used Serenity Publrs 9x6 pb [10/2009] for $5.99 North Books 8½x5¾ hardcover [6/2005] for $23.49 E.P. Dutton hardcover [5/70] out of print/used |
 | "Winnie: The True Story of The Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh" [ages 4-9; 2015] by Sally M. Walker, Illustrated by Jonathan D. Voss Henry Holt and Co. BYR hardcover [1/2015] for $13.73 |
more details (synopses, sequels, stageplays, posters, books & ebooks, links, merchandise) on
the "Winnie The Pooh & Friends" Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
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Canadian author L.M. {Lucy Maud} Montgomery, OBE [1874-1942] Page
Most famous for the "Anne of Green Gables" books; during her lifetime she published 22 novels, over 500 short stories, 700 articles,
an autobiography, and a book of poetry, and left behind a series of journals going back 50 years.
Spirit of America Bookstore's "Anne of Green Gables" Novels & Stories Page
 | "The Works of L.M. Montgomery (Illustrated)" for Kindle [2012]
5300-page Kindle Edition from Delphi Classics [11/2012] for $1.99 {sic} includes eight original (public domain) 'Green Gables' novels; two books of 'Green Gables' short stories; three 'Emily' novels; "Kilmeny of The Orchard" [1910 novel]; "The Story Girl" [1911 novel]; "The Golden Road" [1913 novel]; uncollected short stories (with two indexes); poetry (with two indexes); scarce non-fiction book "Courageous Women" [1934]; autobiography "The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career" [serialized 1917, book 1974]; and eight critical & contextual pieces |
Sir John Clifford Mortimer, CBE [1923-2009]
"The Best of Rumpole: Chosen By the Author" [11/1994] by John Mortimer
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Rumpole-Chosen-Author/dp/0140176845/
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Sir Andrew Motion
poet, critic, novelist, biographer, professor, and former U.K. Poet Laureate
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"Silver: Return To Treasure Island" [2012] by Andrew Motion Jim Hawkins's son and John Silver's daughter organize a return to Treasure Island to bring back the pirate treasure left behind forty years previous. Kindle Edition from Random House Digital [8/2012] for $11.99 Jonathan Cape 9x6 pb [8/2012] out of print/used Crown Books 9½x6½ hardcover [8/2012] for $16.32 |
short story writer Alice Munro [b. 1931] of Canada
winner of the 1986 Marian Engel Award, the 1998 Giller Prize, and the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature
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 | "Selected Stories, 1968-1994" [1996] by Alice Munro Kindle Edition from Vintage/Random House [12/2011] for $10.45 Vintage 8x5¼ pb [11/97] for $11.00 Knopf 9½x6½ hardcover [10/96] out of print/used |
 | "Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014" [2014] by Alice Munro Kindle Edition from Knopf/Random House [11/2014] for $12.99 Knopf 9½x6½ deckle-edge hardcover [11/2014] for $22.89 |
author Edith Nesbit [1858-1924] of U.K.
Seven months pregnant, Edith married bank clerk Hubert Bland in April 1880; their marriage was both open and stormy; Hubert fathered several more children by other women, and brought them into the household; Edith is said to have had an affair with fellow Fabian Society member George Bernard Shaw. Nesbit's children were Paul Bland [1880-1940], Iris Bland [1881-1950s]; and Fabian Bland [1885-1900]; her adopted children (fathered by Hubert) were Rosamund Bland [1886-1950] and John Bland [1899-1971].
English author and poet Edith Nesbit published books for children under the name of E. Nesbit; she wrote or collaborated on more than 60 books of fiction for children.
She was also a political activist and co-founded socialist organisation The Fabian Society in 1884.
Edith Nesbit entry at Wikipedia •
Edith Nesbit credits list at IMDb
see also Spirit of America Bookstore's "The Railway Children" Novel & Movies Page
 | "The Essential E. Nesbit Collection, Illustrated (16 books)" for Kindle [6/2009]
Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [6/2009] for $1.99 {sic} contains 16 books of fiction, with 10 unique illustrations: "In Homespun" [1896]; "Beautiful Stories From Shake-speare" [1897 & 1907]; "The Story of The Treasure Seekers" [1899]; "The Wouldbegoods" [1901]; "The Book of Dragons" [stories 1901]; "Five Children and It" [1902]; "New Treasure Seekers" [1904]; "The Phoenix and The Carpet" [1904]; "Oswald Bastable and Others" [stories 1905]; "The Railway Children" [1906]; "The Story of The Amulet" [1906]; "The Incomplete Amorist" [1906]; "The Enchanted Castle" [1907]; "Harding's Luck" [1909]; "The Magic City" [1910]; and "The Magic World" [stories 1912] |
 | "The Complete {Works} of E. Nesbit" for Kindle [2013] Kindle Edition from Delphi Classics [10/2013] for $2.51 contains 14 children's novels, 8 novels for adults, 10 short story collections (with 2 indexes), 6 poetry collections (with 2 indexes), plus non-fiction, Nesbit's autobiography, and critical essays by others |
 | "The E. Nesbit Megapack: 26 Classic Novels and Stories" for Kindle [2014]
Kindle Edition from Wildside Press [1/2014] for 99¢ {sic} contains 7 novels: "The Story of The Treasure Seekers" [1899]; "Five Children and It" [1902]; "The Phoenix and The Carpet" [1904]; "The Story of The Amulet" [1906]; "The Railway Children" [1906]; "The Enchanted Castle" [1907]; and "The Magic City" [1910]; and 19 short stories |
 | "Edith Nesbit Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 200+ Short Stories, Tales For Children & Poems (Illustrated)" [2016]
7,268-page Kindle Edition from e-artnow [12/2016] for 99¢ {sic} contains 23 novels, 31 story collections, 6 books of poetry - The Novels: "The Bastable Trilogy", "Daphne In Fitzroy Street", "Dormant aka Rose Royal", "The Enchanted Castle", "Five Children and It", "Harding's Luck", "The House of Arden", "The Incomplete Amorist", "The Incredible Honey-moon", "The Lark", "The Magic City", "The Mouldiwarp Chronicles", "The New Treasure Seekers", "The Phoenix and The Carpet", "The Psammead Trilogy", "The Railway Children" [1906], "The Red House", "Salome and The Head (The House With No Address)", "The Story of The Amulet", "The Story of The Treasure Seekers", "Wet Magic", "The Wonderful Garden", "The Wouldbegoods"; Short Story Collections: "Accidental Magic", "Belinda and Bellamant", "Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare", "The Book of Beasts", "The Book of Dragons", "The Cat-hood of Maurice", "Collected Short Stories", "The Deliverers of Their Country", "The Dragon Tamers", "The Fiery Dragon, or The Heart of Stone and The Heart of Gold", "Grim Tales", "The Ice Dragon, or Do As You Are Told", "In Homespun", "The Island of The Nine Whirlpools", "Justnowland", "Kind Little Edmund, or The Caves and The Cockatrice", "The Literary Sense", "The Magic World", "The Magician's Heart", "Man and Maid", "The Mixed Mine", "Nine Unlikely Tales", "Oswald Bastable and Others", "The Princess and The Hedge-pig", "Pussy and Doggy Tales", "The Related Muff", "Royal Children of English History", "Septimus Septimusson", "These Little Ones", "Uncle James, or The Purple Stranger", "The White Cat"; Poetry Collections: "All Round The Year", "Landscape and Song", "Lays and Legends", "Many Voices", "The Rainbow and The Rose", "Songs of Love and Empire" |
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author Edna O'Brien [b. 1930] of U.K.
important Irish author living in London since 1960s
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Faber & Faber published her memoir "Country Girl" in 2012
"The Love Object: Selected Stories" [Little, Brown 2015] by Edna O'Brien, Introduction by John Banville
The 31 stories represent a half-century of O'Brien's literary short fiction, collected in one volume for the first time.
http://www.amazon.com/Love-Object-Selected-Stories-ebook/dp/B00NERQSD4/
http://www.amazon.com/Love-Object-Selected-Stories/dp/0316378267/
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novelist E. (Edward) Phillips Oppenheim [1866-1946] aka 'The Prince of Storytellers'
featured on the cover of TIME Magazine in 1927; produced more than 100 novels and 38 collections of short stories
between 1887 and 1943; his works were adapted to 40+ movies.
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230+ free online etexts & flip-books available at Internet Archive
autobiography "The Pool of Memory: Memoirs" [1941]
http://www.amazon.com/Pool-Memory-Phillips-Oppennheim/dp/1406702226/
http://www.amazon.com/pool-memory-Memoirs-Phillips-Oppenheim/dp/B0007ISWBY/
 | "E. Phillips Oppenheim Ultimate Collection (Illustrated): 72 Novels & 100+ Short Stories in One Volume - Spy Novels, Murder Mysteries & Thriller Classics" for Kindle [2016]
Kindle Edition from e-artnow [2/2016] for 99¢ Kindle Edition from Musaicum Books [7/2017] for 99¢ |
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"The {Mis-named} Collected Complete Works of E. Phillips Oppenheim" for Kindle [2017]
Kindle Edition from indep [2/2017] for $2.99 only 54 novels (of over 100) are listed |
 | "E. Phillips Oppenheim: Tales of Mystery & Suspense - 25+ Thrillers in One Edition" for Kindle [2017]
Kindle Edition from Musaicum Books [7/2017] for 99¢ |
Baroness Emma Orczy [1865-1947]
full name Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála 'Emmuska' Orczy de Orci
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armchair detective The Old Man series
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard series
The Scarlet Pimpernel series
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Pimpernel
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George Orwell [1903-50] Page
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mystery author Ellis Peters {real name Edith Pargeter} [1913-95]
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Brother Cadfael in XIIth Century Britain series
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Insp. George Felse series: series books
Edith Pargeter entry at U.K. Literary Heritage
Bastulli's Felse Family fanpage
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SC's "Cadfael Chronicles" fansite
AK's Brother Cadfael fansite {in German or English}
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Harold Pinter [1930-2008]
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children's author Beatrix Potter [1866-1943]
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"The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots", a 'lost' Potter work first published in Fall 2016; includes only one of her illustrations
https://www.amazon.com/Tale-Kitty-Boots-Peter-Rabbit/dp/0241249449/
 | "A Celebration of Beatrix Potter: Art and Letters By More Than 30 of Today's Favorite Children's Book Illustrators" [ages 8 & up; 2016]
Kindle Edition from Warne/Penguin Group [11/2016] for $12.99 Frederick Warne Books 11x8¾ hardcover [11/2016] for $16.65 |
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Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch [1863-1944] who was known as 'Q'
Scottish mystery author Ian Rankin
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children's author Arthur Ransome [1884-1967]
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Sax Rohmer [1853-1959]
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creator of Dr. Fu Manchu
J.K. (Joanne) Rowling
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creator of student wizard Harry Potter
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Salman Rushdie
entry at Wikipedia
1992 "Out of Kansas" essay by Salman Rushdie in The New Yorker Magazine about the "Wizard of Oz" 1939 movie being his very first literary influence
read essay at New Yorker Magazine website {requires signup/login}
"Midnight's Children: A Novel" [1981] by Salman Rushdie
novel entry at Wikipedia
won the Booker Prize in 1981
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812976533/
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philosopher Bertrand Russell [1872-1970]
Bertrand Russell Quotations Page at Working Minds Philosophy website
Bertrand Russell Page at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
http://www.amazon.com/The-Rafael-Sabatini-Megapack-ebook/dp/B008PRT470/
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Victoria Mary 'Vita' Sackville-West [1892-1962]
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 | "The Spoken Word: The Bloomsbury Group" [2009] from The British Library
The British Library audio CD set [11/2009] 21 tracks on 2 disks for $25.00 speakers include: Clive Bell; Quentin Bell; Elizabeth Bowen; Gerald Brenan; David Cecil; Margery Fry; Angelica Garnett; David Garnett; Duncan Grant (discussing the infamous Dreadnought Hoax); Grace Higgins; John Lehmann; Desmond McCarthy; Benedict Nicholson; Harold Nicholson; Frances Partridge; Ralph Partridge; William Plomer; Bertrand Russell; Vita Sackville-West (about the inspi-ration behind Virginia Woolf’s "Orlando"); Leonard Woolf; and Virginia Woolf |
"Behind The Mask: A Life of Vita Sackville-West" [St. Martin's Press 6/2015] by Matthew Dennison
http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Mask-Life-Vita-Sackville-West-ebook/dp/B00PP63PAG/
http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Mask-Life-Vita-Sackville-West/dp/0007486987/
http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Mask-Life-Vita-Sackville-West/dp/1250033942/
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short story master Saki {Hector Hugh 'H.H.' Munro} [1870-1916]
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"The Complete Saki: 144 Collected Novels and Short Stories" for Kindle [2014]
Kindle Edition from Bybliotech [4/2014] for 99¢ {sic} 'perfectly captures the trivial absurdities of the Edwardian era in England' • contents includes two novels: "When William Came" and "The Unbearable Bassington", and six short story collections: "Reginald", "Reginald In Russia and Other Sketches", "The Chronicles of Clovis", "Beasts and Super-Beasts", "The Toys of Peace and Other Papers", and "The Square Egg and Other Sketches" |
mystery author Dorothy L. Sayers [1893-1957] Page
at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
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historian Simon Schama
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 | "Simon Schama: A History of Britain" TV series [2000]
15-episode TV series written & hosted by historian Simon Schama; begins circa 3500 BCE and ends at 1965; first broadcast in U.K. from 9/2000 to 2002, in USA on A&E from 10/2001 to ?? series credits at IMDb • series entry at Wikipedia "Simon Schama: A History of Britain (Special Edition)" DVD Box Set [2010] includes 15 episodes plus promo, interviews & John Donne docufilm BBC Home Ent. widescreen color DVD set [8/2010] 6 disks for $32.49 "A History of Britain: The Complete Collection" DVD Box Set [2002] A&E Home Video color DVD set [11/2002] 5 disks - out of prodn/used |
 | "A History of Britain, Volume 1: At The Edge of The World, 3000 BC - 1603 AD" [2000]
Miramax Books pb [10/2000] out of print/used Miramax/Hyperion 10x7¾ hardcover [10/2000] out of print/100+ used Miramax Books hardcover [10/2000] out of print/70+ used "A History of Britain, Volume 2: The Wars of The British, 1603-1776" [2001] Random House pb [2009] out of print/many used BBC Books 9¾x7¾ hardcover [10/2001] out of print/40+ used Miramax Books 9¾x7½ hardcover [10/2001] out of print/used "A History of Britain, Volume 3: Fate of Empire, 1776-2000" [2002] BBC Books 9¼x6 pb [5/2003] out of print/used BBC Books 10x8 hardcover [10/2002] out of print/used |
"Simon Schama's Shakespeare" [2012] /tt2206714/
two-episode TV miniseries: "Hollow Crowns" and "This England (2012)
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Sir Walter Scott [1771-1832]
Walter Scott was born on 15 August 1771 at Edinburgh, Scotland; childhood polio crippled his left foot. Although he grew into a tall and energetic man, poor health interrupted his studies at Edinburgh University; he apprenticed at his father's legal firm for a year, then returned to Edinburgh University to become a lawyer. He married Charlotte Charpentier, a Frenchwoman, on Christmas Day 1797; they had four children and remained happily married until her death in 1826. Walter Scott was granted a baronetcy in 1820.
Walter Scott was so successful at writing poetry that he was offered the Poet Laureateship of the U.K. in 1813, which he turned down. He anonymously published his first novel "Waverley" in 1814, which quickly became one of the most successful English language novels ever published. The 27 'Waverly novels' were published thru 1831 (and the posthumous 'Siege of Malta' in 2008). "Rob Roy" was published in 1817, "Ivanhoe" in 1820, "Kenilworth" in 1821, "Quentin Durward" in 1823, and a biography of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1827.
After suffering a stroke and paralysis in 1831, Sir Walter Scott died at age 61 on 21 September 1832.
Walter Scott credits at Internet Movie Database • Walter Scott entry at Wikipedia
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"Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott (Illustrated)" for Kindle [2011]
Kindle Edition from Delphi Classics [2/2011] for $2.99 {sic} contains 26 novels beautifully illustrated with images relating to Scott’s life and works; concise introductions to the novels and other texts; many works are fully illustrated with their original artwork; rare novels and shorter fiction; rare poetry collections and plays, with special chronological & alpha-betical contents tables for the poetry; a wide selection of non-fiction; two biographies; and a special criticism section with essays by Henry James, Leslie Stephen, Charles Dickens, Andrew Lang, Victor Hugo, and others. |
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George Bernard Shaw [1856-1950]
George Bernard Shaw Quotations Page at Working Minds Philosophy website
"Immaturity" [1879 novel]
"Captain Brassbound’s Conversion" [1900 stageplay]
"Dark Lady of The Sonnets" [1910 stageplay]
"Back To Methuselah" [1921 science fiction play cycle]
Wm. Shakespeare [1564-1616] Page
Broadway credits •
entry at Wikipedia
"The Irrational Knot" [1880 novel]
"Love Among The Artists" [1881 novel]
"Cashel Byron’s Profession" [1882 novel]
"An Unsocial Socialist" [1883 novel]
"The Miraculous Revenge" [1885 story]
"Mrs. Warren’s Profession" [1893 stageplay]
"The Philanderer" [1893 stageplay]
"Arms and The Man" [1894 stageplay]
"Candida" [1894 stageplay]
"The Devil’s Disciple" [1897 stageplay]
"The Man of Destiny" [1897 stageplay]
"You Never Can Tell" [1897 stageplay]
"Caesar and Cleopatra" [1898 stageplay]
"The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary On The Ring" [1898]
"The Admirable Bashville" [1901 stageplay]
"Man and Superman" [1903 stageplay]
"Maxims For Revolutionists" [1903]
"Revolutionist’s Handbook and Pocket Companion" [1903]
"How He Lied To Her Husband" [1904 one-act play]
"John Bull’s Other Island" [1904 stageplay]
'Preface' and "Major Barbara" [1905 stageplay]
'Preface On Doctors' and "The Doctor’s Dilemma" [1906 stageplay]
"Getting Married" [1908 stageplay]
"Press Cuttings" [1909 stageplay]
"The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet" [1909 one-act play]
"Fanny’s First Play" [1910 stageplay] first major stage success
"Misalliance" [1910 stageplay]
"Treatise On Parents and Children" [1910]
'Preface' and "Androcles and The Lion" [1912 stageplay]
"Overruled" [1912 one-act play]
"Great Catherine: Whom Glory Still Adores" [1913 one-act play]
"Pygmalion" [1913 stageplay]
"The Inca of Perusalem" [1915 one-act play]
"O’Flaherty V.C." [1915 one-act play]
"Augustus Does His Bit: A True To Life Farce" [1916 one-act play]
"Annajanska, The Bolshevik Empress" [1917 one-act play]
"Heartbreak House" [1919 stageplay]
Shaw's play is written in five parts; it was produced in three parts at Washington Stage Guild [est. 1986] in DC - the third was staged in March-April 2017
 | "The Spoken Word: Bernard Shaw" [2009] from The British Library
audio CD with booklet [9/2009] 2 disks - out of prodn/used ten radio programmes, from 1931 to 1947; shortest 47 seconds, longest 32:15, total 128 minutes |
 | "The Essential Bernard Shaw Collection" for Kindle [2012]
Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [11/2012] for $1.99 contains Shaw's novels and stageplays and other works, and the biography by G.K. Chesterton [1874-1936]: "The Admirable Bashville" [1901 stageplay]; 'Preface' and "Androcles and The Lion" [1912 stageplay]; "Annajanska, The Bolshevik Empress" [1917 one-act play]; "Arms and The Man" [1894 stageplay]; "Augustus Does His Bit: A True To Life Farce" [1916 one-act play]; "Back To Methuselah" [1921]; "Caesar and Cleopatra" [1898 stageplay]; "Candida" [1894 stageplay]; "Captain Brass-bound’s Conversion" [1900 stageplay]; "Cashel Byron’s Profession" [1882 novel]; "Dark Lady of The Sonnets" [1910 stageplay]; "The Devil’s Disciple" [1897 stage-play]; 'Preface On Doctors' and "The Doctor’s Dilemma" [1906 stageplay]; "Fanny’s First Play" [1910 stageplay]; "Getting Married" [1908 stageplay]; "Great Cath-erine: Whom Glory Still Adores" [1913 one-act play]; "Heartbreak House" [1919 stageplay]; "How He Lied To Her Husband" [1904 one-act play]; "The Inca of Peru-salem" [1915 one-act play]; "The Irrational Knot" [1880 novel]; "John Bull’s Other Island" [1904 stageplay]; 'Preface' and "Major Barbara" [1905 stageplay]; "Man and Superman" [1903 stageplay]; "The Man of Destiny" [1897 stageplay]; "Maxims For Revolutionists" [1903]; "The Miraculous Revenge" [1885 story]; "Mis-alliance" [1910 stageplay]; "Mrs. Warren’s Profession" [1893 stageplay]; "O’Flaherty V.C." [1915 one-act play]; "Overruled" [1912 one-act play]; "The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary On The Ring" [1898]; "The Philanderer" [1893 stageplay]; "Press Cuttings" [1909 stageplay]; "Pygmalion" [1913 stageplay]; "Revolutionist’s Handbook and Pocket Companion" [1903]; "The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet" [1909 one-act play]; "Treatise On Parents and Children" [1910]; "An Unsocial Socialist" [1883 novel]; and "You Never Can Tell" [1897 stageplay] |
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Scottish children's author Jane Shaw [1910-2000]
{ real name Jean Bell Shaw Patrick Evans }
entry at Wikipedia
"Susan and Friends: The Jane Shaw Companion" [Bettany Press, UK 2002] by Alison Lindsay ISBN 0-9524680-6-9
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Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft Shelley [1797-1851]
browse books at Amazon •
IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
'list of works by Mary Shelley' at Wikipedia
 | "Delphi Complete Works of Mary Shelley (Illustrated)" for Kindle [2013]
Kindle Edition from Delphi Classics [2/2013] for $1.40 {sic} contains beautiful images related to Shelley's life & works; concise introductions to the novels and other texts; rare short stories and poems appearing here for the first time in digital print; two travel books, 1817 & 1844; Shelley's letters; bonus text of Peake's famous play adapta-tion of "Frankenstein"; all 7 novels: "Frankenstein" [1818 version & 1831 version]; "Mathilda" [1819]; "Valperga; or, The Life and Ad-ventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca" [1823]; "The Last Man" [1826]; "The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck" [1830]; "Lodore" [1835]; "Falkner" [1837]; Short Stories: (with two indexes); Works for Children: "Proserpine" drama in verse [1832], and "Midas" drama in verse [1922]; Poems: (with two indexes); Non-Fiction: "Notes To The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley" [1839]; stageplay: "Presumption: or, The Fate of Frankenstein" stageplay [1823] by Richard Brinsley Peake [1792-1847]; Biographies: "The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley" [1889] by Florence A. Thomas Marshall, and "Mrs. Shelley" [1890] by Lucy M. Rossetti |
"Mary Shelley" [I.F.C. Films May 2018] 
 | original title "A Storm In The Stars" • A teenage dreamer meets the dashing and brilliant poet Percy Shelley, and they begin a torrid, bohemian love affair marked by both passion and personal tragedy • Co-written & directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour; co-written by Emma Jensen; starring Elle Fanning {as Mary Shelley}, Douglas Booth {as Percy Shelley}, Tom Sturridge {as Lord Byron}, Maisie Williams, Joanne Froggatt, Stephen Dillane, Bel Powley, Ben Hardy, Hugh O'Conor, Ciara Charteris, Jack Hickey, Sarah Lamesch, Donna Marie Sludds, Laurence Foster, Michael Cloke, Andy McKell, Ondra Dorian, Gilbert Johnston, Owen Richards, Ingridi Verardo De Moraes, Dean Gregory
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 4/2018 official trailer [2:20] at YouTube |
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philosopher-economist Adam Smith [1723-90] Page
at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
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Zadie Smith
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"Treasure Island" Movies [1912-2010] Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
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British playwright Sir Tom Stoppard
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson [1809-92]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson
 | "The Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson" for Kindle [2014] The Complete Poetry section includes: "Ballads and Other Poems"; "The Death of Œnone and Other Poems"; "Demeter and Other Poems"; "Enoch Arden and Other Poems"; "Idylls of The King"; "In Memoriam, A.H.H."; "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, Etc."; "The Lover’s Tale: A Fragment"; "Maud and Other Poems"; "Miscellaneous Poems"; "Poems, By Two Brothers"; "Poems, Chiefly Lyrical"; "Poems, 1832"; "Poems, 1842"; "The Princess: A Medley"; "Timbuctoo: A Poem"; and "Tiresias and Other Poems"; The Complete Plays section includes: "Becket"; "The Cup: A Tragedy"; "The Falcon"; "The Foresters: Robin Hood and Maid Marian"; "Harold: A Drama"; "The Promise of May"; and "Queen Mary: A Drama" Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [2/2014] for 99¢ |
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Welsh poet Dylan Thomas [1914-54]
 | "Set Fire To The Stars" b&w feature film [indep U.K. Nov 2014] An aspiring poet in 1950s New York City takes a job handling his hell-raising hero, the poet Dylan Thomas – "How much trouble can one poet be?" • Co-written & directed by Andy Goddard; co-written by & starring Celyn Jones {as Dylan Thomas}; music by Gruff Rhys; also starring Elijah Wood, Kelly Reilly, Steven Mackintosh, Shirley Henderson, Kevin Eldon, Steve Speirs & Richard Brake DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb • official movie site • watch official trailer [1:46] at YouTube |
Spirit of America Bookstore's
fantasist J.R.R. Tolkien [1892-1973] Page
creator of "The Hobbit" [1937]
creator of "The Lord of The Rings" Trilogy [1954-55]
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Anthony Trollope [1815-82]
Some of his best-loved works are collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire
IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
"The Palliser Novels" in six volumes, 1864-79; Trollope writes about an arranged marriage and how the newlyweds
can’t stand each other, but they grow into one of the greatest love stories in English fiction.
"The Pallisers" TV series of 26 episodes /tt0075557/
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Elizabeth von Arnim [1866-1941]
Born Mary Annette Beauchamp in Australia and raised in England; her first marriage was to Count Henning August von Arnim-Schlagenthin; they lived in Berlin and Pomerania and had five children, who were tutored by E.M. Forster. After her husband's death, she moved to Switzerland, where she had a brief affair with H.G. Wells before marrying Francis, second Earl Russell, brother of Bertrand Russell. On the failure of her second marriage failed although they never divorced. She died of influenza at age 74 in South Carolina, having written twenty-two books.
browse {incomplete} Elizabeth von Arnim Store at Amazon •
IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
12 free etexts online at Project Gutenberg
The Elizabeth von Arnim Society [est. 2015]
"Elizabeth and Her German Garden" [1898]
"The Solitary Summer" [1899]
"The Benefactress" [1901]
"The Ordeal of Elizabeth" [1901 draft of a novel, published posthumously]
"The Adventures of Elizabeth In Rugen" [1904]
"Princess Priscilla's Fortnight" [1905]
"Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther" [1907]
"The Caravaners" [1909]
"The Pastor's Wife" [1914]
"Christine" published under the pseudonym Alice Cholmondeley [1917]
"Christopher and Columbus" [1919]
"In The Mountains" [1920]
"Vera" [1921]
"The Enchanted April" [1922]
"Love" [1925]
"Introduction To Sally" [1926]
"Expiation" [1929]
"Father" [1931]
"The Jasmine Farm" [1934]
"All The Dogs of My Life" memoir [1936]
"Mr. Skeffington" [1940] online at Project Gutenberg Australia
{Richard Horatio} Edgar Wallace [1875-1932]
Wallace was an English crime writer, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright; he wrote 175 novels, 24 plays,
and numerous articles in newspapers & journals, and his works have been made into over 200 feature films and TV programs;
he is most famous for writing the script and then the novel of "King Kong".
IMDb listing [200+ titles since 1915] •
Wikipedia
The Edgar Wallace Society [est. 1969] {defunct?}
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Denys James Watkins-Pitchford, MBE [1905-90]
used the pen name 'B.B.'; wrote 60 children's, YA, and outdoor books, 1937 to 1987
browse books •
official 'B.B. Society' website •
entry at Wikipedia
 | "The Forest of Boland Light Railway" [1955] Written {as 'B.B.'} and Illustrated by Denys Watkins-Pitchford [1905-90] Forest-dwelling gnomes build a steam railway to aid their mining activities while fending off evil leprechauns; interspecies tension builds until gnome Sneezerod must step forward to save his people; book aka "The Forest of The Railway" Knight Books mass pb [1976] out of print/used Hodder Children's Books 8x5½ hardcover [7/84] out of print/used Dodd, Mead & Co. hardcover [1976] out of print/used Eyre & Spottiswoode hardcover [1955] out of print/used |
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sci-fi pioneer H.G. Wells [1866-1946]
Spirit of America Bookstore's
"The War of The Worlds" 1898 Novel & Movies Page
"15 Classical Sci-Fi Books: Fifteen Novels by H.G. Wells" for Kindle [4/2015]
http://www.amazon.com/Classical-Sci-Fi-Books-Boxed-Set-ebook/dp/B00VO8Y8WS/
 | "Delphi Collected Works of H.G. Wells (Illustrated)" for Kindle [2011]
Kindle Edition from Delphi Classics [4/2011] for $1.99 {sic} Giant Kindle file (42MB!) that contains: all 32 novels in the U.S. public domain, with individual contents tables: "The Time Machine" [1895]; "The Wonderful Visit" [1895]; "The Island of Doctor Moreau" [1896]; "The Wheels of Chance" [1896]; "The Invisible Man" [1897]; "The War of The Worlds" [1898]; "When The Sleeper Wakes" [1899]; "Love and Mr Lewisham" [1900]; "The First Men In The Moon" [1901]; "The Sea Lady" [1902]; "The Food of The Gods and How It Came To Earth" [1904]; "Kipps" [1905]; "A Modern Utopia" [1905]; "In The Days of The Comet" [1906]; "The War In The Air" [1908]; "Tono-Bungay" [1909]; "Ann Veronica" [1909]; "The History of Mr Polly" [1910]; "The Sleeper Awakes" [1910] revision of the 1899 edition; "The New Machiavelli" [1911]; "Marriage" [1912]; "The Passionate Friends" [1913]; "The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman" [1914]; "The World Set Free" [1914]; "Bealby: A Holiday" [1915]; "Boon" [1915) (as Reginald Bliss]; "The Research Magnificent" [1915]; "Mr Britling Sees It Through" [1916]; "The Soul of a Bishop" [1917]; "Joan and Peter: The Story of An Education" [1918]; "The Undying Fire" [1919]; "The Secret Places of The Heart" [1922]; {his 19 later novels are still under copyright}; all of the U.S. public domain short stories, including rare tales available in no other collection (listed in both alphabetical and |
| chronological order): "The Early Short Stories"; "Select Conversations With An Uncle (Now Extinct)" [1895]; "The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents" [1895]; "The Plattner Story and Others" [1897]; "Tales of Space and Time" [1899]; "Twelve Stories and A Dream" [1903]; "The Country of The Blind and Other Stories" [1911]; "The Door In The Wall and Other Stories" [1911]; "Uncollected Short Stories"; a wide selection of Wells’ non-fiction: "Text-Book of Biology" [1893]; "Certain Personal Matters" [1897]; "Anticipations of The Reactions of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought" [1901]; "The Discovery of The Future" [1902 lecture]; Preface to ‘Underground Man by Gabriel Tarde’; "Mankind In The Making" [1903]; "The Future In America" [1906]; "This Misery of Boots" [1907]; "New Worlds For Old" [1908]; "First and Last Things" [1908]; "Floor Games" [1911]; "Little Wars" [1913]; "The War That Will End War" [1914]; "An Englishman Looks At The World" [1914]; "What Is Coming?" [1916]; "The Elements of Reconstruction" [1916] using pseudonym D.P.; Introduction to ‘Nocturne by Frank Swinnerton’ [1917]; Introduction to ‘The Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger’; "God The Invisible King" [1917]; "War and The Future (aka Italy, France and Britain At War)" [1917]; "In The Fourth Year" [1918]; "The Idea of A League of Nations" [1919]; "The Outline of History" [1920]; "Russia In The Shadows" [1920]; "The Salvaging of Civilization" [1921]; "A Short History of The World" [1922, rev 1946]; "Washington and The Hope of Peace (aka Washington and The Riddle of Peace)" [1922]; {over 40 later works are still under copyright}; and one critical essay: "H.G. Wells" by admirer J.D. Beresford [1915] |
Baxter's sixth novel "The Time Ships" was a sequel to HG Wells’s "The Time Machine"
"The Lodger" debut novel [Thomas Dunne, 2014] by Louisa Treger 9781250051936
Circa 1906; family tragedy has left Dorothy Richardson living hand-to-mouth. She is relieved when Jane, an old friend, extends an invitation to visit
her country estate for a weekend of relaxation. Jane has recently married an up-and-coming writer, H.G. Wells, who is called Bertie . . .
Based on the real life of Dorothy Richardson, a groundbreaking but little-known author of the early XXth Century.
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British author Dennis Yates Wheatley [1897-1977]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Wheatley
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British author Fred M. White [1859-1935]
entry at IMDb not found • entry at Wikipedia
 | "The Greatest Tales of Fred M. White: 200+ Short Stories & 60+ Crime Novels (Illustrated Edition)" for Kindle [2017] 15,000 pages of fiction (mystery and science fiction): 60+ novels, including "The Corner House: A Web of Deception" [1906] and 200+ short stories, including "The Doom of London" [1903] Kindle Edition from Musaicum Books [10/2017] for 99¢ |
 | "The Complete Doom of London Series (Illustrated Edition)" for Kindle [2017] the six 'Doom of London' science-fiction stories, in which various catastrophes beset London, first appeared in Pearson's Magazine in 1903; illustrated by Warwick Goble "The Four White Days" in which a sudden and deep winter paralyses the city under snow and ice "The Four Days' Night" in which London is beset by a massive killer smog "The Dust of Death" in which diphtheria infects the city "A Bubble Burst", "The Invisible Force", and "The River of Death" Kindle Edition from Musaicum Books [10/2017] for 99¢ |
 | "The Corner House: A Web of Deception" [1906] by Fred M. White
'Trilogy' Kindle Edition from Smoking Gun Mystery Books [4/2014] for 99¢ CreateSpace 9½x6¾ pb [9/2015] for $7.95 Palala Press 9¼x6 hardcover [5/2016] for $26.95 Forgotten Books 9x6 hardcover [1/2018] for $30.64 R.F. Fenno & Co. hardcover [1906] long out of print/scarce "The Mystery of The Corner House" silent film [Nordisk Film Denmark 1913] full credits at IMDb • larger view of the trade ad in new window |
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Leonard Wibberley [1915-83] Page
creator of "The Mouse That Roared" Novels Series
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Oscar Wilde [1854-1900]
browse the Oscar Wilde Store at Amazon •
entry at Wikipedia
Oscar Wilde credits [200 titles since 1908] at Internet Movie Database
Oscar Wilde Quotations Page at Working Minds Philosophy website
"The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy For Serious People" stageplay [London 1895]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Importance_of_Being_Earnest
"The Importance of Being Earnest" feature film [1952] starring Dame Edith Evans
"The Importance of Being Earnest" feature film [1992] by Kurt Baker - used an all-black cast
"The Importance of Being Earnest" feature film [2002] by Oliver Parker
 | "Wilde West" [1991] by Walter Satterthwaite In 1882, British poet & playwright Oscar Wilde goes on a lecture tour across the American West; hard-drinking U.S. Marshall Bob Griggs connects murders of red-headed prostitutes in each city visited by Wilde, and confronts Wilde and his mixed-bag entourage. Fontana Press 7½x5 pb [6/93] out of print/used St Martin's Press 8¼x5¾ hardcover [8/91] out of print/many, many used |
 | "Complete Works of Oscar Wilde" for Kindle [2011]
Kindle Edition from Delphi Classics [4/2011] for $1.99 includes: ten stageplays, Complete Poetry {chronological index, aphabetical index}, novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" [1890] {3 versions}, three short story collections, 20 non-fiction works, journalism, and three biographies by Frank Harris, George Bernard Shaw, and Edgar Saltus |
 | "Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Color Illustrated, Formatted For E-Readers" [2015] Kindle Edition from HMDS Printing Press [10/2015] for 99¢ Illustrated by Leonardo; Amazon reviewers unhappy with formatting, i.e. there is no index; a short biography of Oscar Wilde is followed by Chapter 1 of "Dorian Gray" . . . |
Announced 5/2012: Written, directed by & starring Rupert Everett {as Wilde}; Colin Firth will portray
Wilde's friend Reginald Turner • not yet listed on IMDb
"Oscar: The Opera" [premiere July 2013 in Santa Fe, NM]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_(opera)
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P.G. Wodehouse, KBE [1881-1975]
British author Virginia Stephen Woolf [1882-1941]
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author entry at Wikipedia
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"Mrs. Dalloway" novel [Hogarth Press May 1925] by Virginia Woolf
Details of a day in the life - similar to Joyce's "Ulysses" - of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post-WWI England; Clarissa goes around London in the morning, getting ready to host a party that evening, which is also described in detail. Critics are recently saying that "Mrs. Dalloway" is 'the first novel of the internet' - hogwash! - because Clarissa believes that her parties offer 'the gift' of connectedness to the inhabitants of London (and somehow are an ancestor of online social media) • novel entry at Wikipedia Kindle Edition from Canterbury Classics [DUE 10/2022] for $4.99 Kindle Edition from e-artnow [5/2013] for 99¢ Mariner Books mass pb [5/90] out of print/used indep 9x6 pb [3/2022] for $5.65 Classic Wisdom Reprint 9x6 hardcover [1/2021] for $11.58 1953 pb edition available as free online flip-book at Internet Archive |
 | "Mrs. Dalloway's Party: A Short Story Sequence" [1973] by Virginia Woolf, recent editions Edited With An Introduction by Stella McNichol includes seven short stories: "Mrs. Dalloway In Bond Street"; "The Man Who Loved His Kind" whose main character is Richard Dalloway; "The Introduction" whose main character is Lily Everit; "Ancestors"; "Together and Apart"; "The New Dress"; and "A Summing Up" Kindle Edition from Vintage Classics [5/2012] for $4.99 Mariner Books 8x5¼ pb [1/2004] for $13.95 Vintage Classics 8x5¼ hardcover [11/2010] out of print/used |
 | "The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway, Illustrated" [2021] by Virginia Woolf, Edited With An Introduction and Notes by Merve Emre acclaimed Oxford don & literary critic Merve Emre gives us an authoritative version of this landmark novel, supporting it with generous commentary that reveals Woolf’s aesthetic and political ambitions Kindle Edition from Liveright [8/2021] for $16.05 Liveright 9½x7¾ hardcover [8/2021] for $19.99 |
 | "Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway" [First Look/BBC Films Feb 1998] Framed as memories of that fateful day . . . • Directed by Marleen Gorris; screenplay by Eileen Atkins, based on the Virginia Woolf novel; starring Vanessa Redgrave {as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway}, Natascha McElhone {as young Clarissa}, Michael Kitchen {as Peter Walsh}, Alan Cox {as young Peter}, John Standing {as Richard Dalloway}, Robert Portal {as young Richard}, Sarah Badel, Lena Headey, Oliver Ford Davies, Hal Cruttenden, Rupert Graves, Amelia Bullmore, Robert Hardy, Margaret Tyzack, Richenda Carey, Katie Carr, Selina Cadell, Amanda Drew, Phyllis Calvert, John Franklyn-Robbins, Alistair Petrie, Rupert Baker, Janet Henfrey, Polly Pritchett, Jane Whittenshaw, Susie Fairfax, Richard Bradshaw, Hilda Braid, Derek Smee, Fanny Carby, Denis Lill, Richard Stirling, Neville Phillips, Peter Cellier, Kate Binchy, Edward Jewesbury, Jack Galloway, Tony Steedman, Faith Brook, Nancy Nevinson, Christopher Staines, Oscar Pearce, Reg Thomason full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia Fox Lorber letterboxed color DVD [1/2003] out of prodn/used Millennium Video color VHS [5/2004] for $7.58 |
 | "Classic Serial: Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf" [May 2012]
Dramatised by Michelene Wandor for B.B.C. Radio 4 FM; directed by Marc Beeby; starring Fenella Woolgar, Sam Dale, Paul Ready, Susie Riddell Episode 1: From Breakfast to Luncheon listen to audio recording [9/2021 upload; 56:59] online at Internet Archive Episode 2: From Afternoon to Nightfall listen to audio recording [9/2021 upload; 56:50] online at Internet Archive |
"To The Lighthouse" [1927]
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English Romantic poet William Wordsworth [1770-1850]
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In 1928, George Bernard Shaw and G.K. Chesterton staged a debate in London that was chaired by Hilaire Belloc. This photograph
is from that event, and the link just below is to an online .TXT format transcript at De Montfort University, Leicester, U.K.
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"Do We Agree?: A Debate Between G.K. Chesterton and Bernard Shaw, With Hilaire Belloc In The Chair" [1928]
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