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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Though he is remembered as a children's author, Frederick Marryat began his fiction-writing as a novelist, and before that spent over 20 years at sea. His earliest books, in fact, are pamphlets on naval subjects. The...
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From: English Studies in Canada[In the following essay, McKenzie examines the influence of the nineteenth-century toy theatre upon Stevenson's aesthetic sensibility. She focuses on elements of excitement, imagination, chance, and playfulness in both...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)For many people The Prisoner of Zenda's entitlement to recognition rests on little more than the fact that it introduced the word ``Ruritania'' into the English language, the name given by Anthony Hope to an imaginary...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Louis L'Amour is undoubtedly the most widely read and best selling western author ever. His domination of the popular western for over forty years has helped to develop the genre, which continues to fascinate readers of...
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From: BooklistA companion volume to Turkey Brother, and Other Tales, this offers eight more selections in a mix of prose and free verse. A creation story tells how the wife of an ancient chief brought the first plants to earth; a...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersJohn le Carré is best known as a Cold War spy novelist, like his older contemporary Eric Ambler. Le Carré describes in intricate and convincing detail the intelligence service conflicts between the West (represented by...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)John Buchan's reputation, like that of Scott, has suffered from his novels' appeal to youth. Regarding him as a novelist of adventure, and remembering him later for swashbuckling travel yarns and vivid (and undeniably...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersClive Cussler writes adventure novels for the young at heart. The hero of all of his books is Dirk Pitt, a cross between James Bond and Jacques Cousteau. Pitt solves mysteries that take place mostly underwater, working...
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From:Reference Guide to Short Fiction"Kaa's Hunting," the second story in The Jungle Book (1894), tells of an early adventure in the life of Mowgli, the boy brought up by wolves, and their associates, Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear, who teaches him...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Robert Louis Stevenson was, in the best sense of that 19th-century term, a man of letters. Unlike most of their kind, however, he achieved high distinction as a novelist, as an essayist, and as a poetic miniaturist....
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Hugh Walpole is a comparatively prolific author of fiction—mainly novels—who began writing before World War I but whose reputation received a considerable boost from a long article by Henry James in the Times Literary...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersNovelist Jean Auel is known for her depictions of early human history in her "Earth's Children" series. Praised for their authenticity, the four novels challenge conventional theories about Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon...
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From: Children's Literature[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Gannon studies the symbiotic relationship between Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novels and N. C. Wyeth's illustrations in the Scribner's Illustrated Classics series.]...
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From:Twentieth-Century Children's Writers (4th ed.)E. Nesbit was one of those writers who do not perceive when they have found their level, and repine for the career they think they should have had in some other field of literature. She believed in herself primarily as a...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Jack London was a talented writer so caught up in certain myths that they were part of what destroyed him. The illegitimate son of an impoverished spiritualist, Flora Wellman, he early learned self-reliance. Although he...
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From:St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.)Although he is best known as a mainstream novelist of considerable stature (The Blackboard Jungle, Last Summer, Sons), and as today's finest practitioner of the police procedural novel (the 87th Precinct series of more...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersFor the greater part of the century, the contributions of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to young adult fiction have been at best underrated and at worst obscured by his Sherlock Holmes mysteries. It has been only in the recent...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)The book that made H. Rider Haggard's reputation, King Solomon's Mines, was modeled on Stevenson's Treasure Island, but substituted Africa, then still the ``Dark Continent,'' for the Spanish Main. Two years later,...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)At the head of innumerable copies of Blackie & Sons list of books for the young stands a quotation from the Athenaeum: ``English boys owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Henty.'' It could almost claim that the very idea of...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Jules Verne wrote novels that captured the essence of the mid- to late-19th century in more ways than were perhaps apparent to the youngsters who were their first enthusiastic readers, not only in France, but throughout...