# The Town and the City
The \"city\" represents a number of figures of the early beat circle: Allen Ginsberg (as Leon Levinsky), Lucien Carr (as Kenneth Wood), William Burroughs (as Will Dennison), Herbert Huncke (as Junky), David Kammerer (as Waldo Meister), Edie Parker (as Judie Smith) and also Joan Vollmer (as Mary Dennison) \-- though she essentially has a non-speaking role (however some of her ideas are quoted by the Ginsberg-figure). Near the end of the novel, the Waldo Meister character dies by falling from the window of Kenneth Wood\'s apartment (a distant echo of the real event: David Kammerer knifed by Lucien Carr, possibly in self-defense). In the novel the police largely just accept this as a suicide. A version of the events closer to the truth can be found in *Vanity of Duluoz*, in which Carr was arrested and eventually accepted a plea of manslaughter and a prison sentence; and Kerouac was arrested and held briefly as an accessory after the fact. Still another version of the story can be found in an early novel Kerouac collaborated on with William S. Burroughs, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, published after Kerouac's death.
Kerouac began writing *The Town and the City* in late 1945, according to Ellis Amburn, who edited Kerouac\'s last two novels and wrote the biography *Subterranean Kerouac*. Heavily influenced by Thomas Wolfe, he sent the completed manuscript to Wolfe\'s publisher, Charles Scribner\'s Sons, in 1948. Kerouac told his friend Allen Ginsberg that he hoped that he would hook up with Wolfe\'s editor Maxwell Perkins, not knowing that Perkins had died the previous year. Scribner\'s rejected the book.


# The Town and the City
Ginsberg lobbied his former teacher at Columbia University (Kerouac had also attended Columbia), Mark Van Doren for help, and Van Doren set up an interview with Alfred Kazin, who worked as a scout for Harcourt Brace. Kerouac was unable to make the interview with Kazin but Ginsberg introduced Kerouac to *New Yorker* editor Ed Stringham, who arranged a meeting between Kerouac and the editor-in-chief of Viking Press. Kazin eventually decided to read the manuscript and if he liked it, he would pass it to the top publishers in New York. His contacts also included Houghton Mifflin, Alfred A. Knopf, Little Brown and Company, and Random House. Kazin recommended the book.
In December 1948, Scribner\'s again rejected the manuscript, despite changes that Kerouac had made to the text. Little Brown also rejected the book that same month, declining publication due to its excessive length, which meant the book would be prohibitively expensive for a first novel. (Most of the costs of publishing a first novel are the costs of paper and binding, and a long book makes it harder for the publisher to recoup its costs.)
After reading sample chapters of *The Town and the City* (along with Kerouac\'s work-in-progress *Dr. Sax*), Mark Van Doren recommended the novel to Robert Giroux at Harcourt Brace in March 1949. Giroux, like Van Doren and Kerouac, was associated with Columbia. Giroux was impressed with the 1,100-page-long manuscript, which he thought comparable to Wolfe\'s *Look Homeward, Angel* in terms of its lyricism and poetry, and offered Kerouac a \$1,000 advance against royalties. He did require that the manuscript be cut to reduce production costs.


# The Town and the City
Cutting and revising *The Town and the City* under the supervision of Giroux took months, according to Kerouac\'s friend John Clellon Holmes. Giroux wanted a 500-page novel that could retail for the then-standard \$3.50 per copy. After many months, the proofs were ready in November 1949. The publication date was set for February 1950, with a run of 15,000 copies, 10,500 of which were bound. (The additional 4,500 sets of pages were warehoused, should demand require additional copies.) The English publisher Eyre and Spottiswoode bought the UK rights of the book and prepared their own edition for 1950.
Kerouac decided to use the name \"John Kerouac\" for the book. (Subsequent paperback and hardback editions have used the name \"Jack Kerouac\" in lieu of John.) Kerouac dedicated the book To Robert Giroux, \"Friend and Editor\". Giroux told Kerouac that movie producer David O. Selznick was interested in buying the rights to the book.
Publication eventually was pushed back to March 2, 1950. It received good notices from Charles Poore, reviewing the book for *The New York Times* daily edition, and John Brooks, reviewing it for the Sunday *Times Book Review.* The book was trashed by reviewers for the *New Yorker* and the *Saturday Review*.
The book was not a success, and Kerouac complained in a September 1950 letter to a Worcester, Massachusetts reviewer who had praised the book that it was no longer selling. Kerouac made no more money on *The Town and the City*, as his royalties did not exceed his advance and a movie sale never materialized.
Giroux subsequently rejected *On the Road* in 1951, and all other Kerouac novels submitted to him over the years. The 1951 rejection of *On the Road* effectively ended Kerouac\'s personal and professional relationship with Giroux, whom he had considered a friend, and his professional relationship with Harcourt Brace. It would be another six years before he was again published professionally, when Viking published *On the Road* at the urging of Malcolm Cowley.
Kerouac often based his fictional characters on friends and family.
`Real-life person`
`Character name`
`Jack Kerouac`
`Peter Martin`
`Leo Kerouac`
`George Martin`


# The Town and the City
`Caroline Kerouac`
`Ruth and Elizabeth Martin`
`Gabrielle Kerouac`
`Marguerite Courbet Martin`
`Gerard Kerouac`
`Julian Martin`
`George "G.J." Apostolos`
`Danny "D.J." Mulverhill`
`Henry "Scotty" Beaulieu`
`Scotcho Rouleau`
`William S. Burroughs`
`Will Dennison`
`Joan Vollmer`
`Mary Dennison`
`Mary Carney`
`Mary Gilhooley`
`Lucien Carr`
`Kenneth Wood`
`Billy Chandler`
`Tommy Campbell`
`Allen Ginsberg`
`Leon Levinsky`
`Herbert Huncke`
`Junky`
`David Kammerer`
`Waldo Meister`
`Edie Parker`
`Judie Smith`
`Sebastian "Sammy" Sampas`
`Alex Panos`


# The Town and the City
- And what does the rain say at night in a small town, what does the rain have to say? Who walks beneath dripping melancholy branches listening to the rain? Who is there in the rain\'s million-needled blurring splash, listening to the grave music of the rain at night, September rain, September rain, so dark and soft? Who is there listening to steady level roaring rain all around, brooding and listening and waiting, in the rain-washed, rain-twinkled dark of night? \-- Book 2, Chapter 5.
- \"Tell you about cockroaches,\" said Clint with intense enthusiasm, leaning forward with a finger pointed. \"Now! The place I live in has a lot of cockroaches, but I don\'t have trouble with them, understand, I\'m on the best terms with them. Tell you how I do this. Some years ago I sat down and thought about the whole matter: I said to myself, cockroaches are human too, just as much as us human beings. Reason for that is this: I\'ve watched them long enough to realize their sense of discretion, their feelings, their emotions, their thoughts, see. But you laugh. You think I\'m talking through my hat. You doubt my word. Wait! Wait!\"---Book 4, Chapter 5
- There\'s no doubt about the fact that Mary Dennison is mad, but that\'s only because she wants to be mad. What she has to say about the world, about everybody falling apart, about everybody clawing aggressively at one another in one grand finale of our glorious culture, about the madness in high places and the insane disorganized stupidity of the people who let themselves be told what to do and what to think by charlatans---all that is true! All the advertising men who dream up unreal bugaboos for people to flee from, like B.O. or if you don\'t have such-and-such a color to your wash you\'re an outcast from society. Don\'t you see it, man? The world\'s going mad! Therefore, it\'s quite possible there \*must be\* some sort of disease that\'s started. There\'s only one real conclusion to be drawn. In Mary\'s words, everybody got the atomic disease, everybody\'s radioactive. \-- \"Leon Levinsky\" (Allen Ginsberg) about \"Mary Dennison\" (Joan Vollmer), Book 4, Chapter 3


# Last Exit to Brooklyn
***Last Exit to Brooklyn*** is a 1964 novel by American author Hubert Selby Jr. The novel takes a harsh, uncompromising look at lower class Brooklyn in the 1950s written in a brusque, everyman style of prose.
Critics and fellow writers praised the book on its release. Due to its frank portrayals of taboo subjects, such as drug use, street violence, gang rape, homosexuality, transgenderism and domestic violence it was the subject of an obscenity trial in the United Kingdom and was banned in Italy.
The stories are set almost entirely in what is now considered the Sunset Park section of Brooklyn; the location is widely misreported as Red Hook, where one story is set and parts of the 1989 movie were filmed. *Last Exit to Brooklyn* is divided into six parts that can, more or less, be read separately. Each part is prefaced with a passage from the Bible.


# Last Exit to Brooklyn
- *Another Day, Another Dollar*: A gang of young Brooklyn hoodlums hang around an all-night diner and get into a vicious fight with a group of Army soldiers on leave.
- *The Queen Is Dead*: Georgette, a sassy transgender prostitute, is thrown out of the family home by her homophobic brother and tries to attract the attention of a ruthless hoodlum named Vinnie at a benzedrine-driven party. Georgette dies of a drug overdose after the party.
- *And Baby Makes Three*: A story told by an unknown narrator about a couple, Suzy and Tommy, who have a baby out of wedlock, and their wedding, and baby\'s christening party is quickly thrown by Suzy\'s parents.
- *Tralala*: The title character of an earlier Selby short story, she is a young Brooklyn prostitute who makes a living propositioning sailors in bars and stealing their money. In perhaps the novel\'s most notorious scene, she is brutally gang-raped after a night of heavy drinking. She is left for dead in a vacant lot and ends up most likely dying.
- *Strike*: Harry, a machinist in a factory, becomes a local official in the union. He is a closeted gay man, he abuses his wife, tries to boast of his accomplishments and his high status to anyone who might listen to convince himself that he is a man. He gains a temporary status and importance during a long strike, and uses the union\'s money to entertain the young street punks and buy the company of drag queens and gay men. He is ultimately beaten viciously by the hoodlums from the opening chapter, after he forcibly fellates a 10-year-old boy.
- *Landsend*: Described as a \"coda\" for the book, this section presents the intertwined, yet ordinary day of numerous denizens in a housing project.


# Last Exit to Brooklyn
*Last Exit to Brooklyn* was written in an idiosyncratic style that ignores most conventions of grammar. Selby wrote most of the prose as if it were a story told from one friend to another at a bar rather than a novel, using coarse and casual language. He used slang-like conjunctions of words, such as *tahell* for \"to hell\" and *yago* for \"you go.\" The paragraphs were often written in a stream of consciousness style with many parentheses and fragments. Selby often indented new paragraphs to the middle or end of the line.
Also, Selby did not use quotation marks to distinguish dialogue but instead merely blended it into the text. He used a slash instead of an apostrophe mark for contractions and did not use an apostrophe at all for possessives.
*Last Exit to Brooklyn* started as *The Queen is Dead,* one of several short stories Selby wrote about people he had met around Brooklyn while working as a copywriter and general laborer. The piece was published in three literary magazines in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
*Tralala* first appeared in *The Provincetown Review* in 1961, drawing criticism which resulted in an obscenity trial.
The pieces later evolved into the full-length book, which was published in 1964 by Grove Press, which had previously published such controversial authors as William S. Burroughs and Henry Miller.
Critics praised and censured the publication. Poet Allen Ginsberg said that it will \"explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years.\"

## Trial
The rights for the British edition were acquired by Marion Boyars and John Calder and the novel ended up in the hands of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The manuscript was published in January 1966, received positive reviews and sold almost 14,000 copies. The director of Blackwell\'s bookshop in Oxford complained to the DPP about the detailed depictions of brutality and cruelty in the book but the DPP did not pursue the allegations.


# Last Exit to Brooklyn
## Trial
Sir Cyril Black, the then-Conservative Member of Parliament for Wimbledon, initiated a private prosecution of the novel before Marlborough Street Magistrates\' Court, under judge Leo Gradwell. The public prosecutor brought an action under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act. During the hearing the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate ordered that all copies of the book within the jurisdiction of the Magistrate\'s Court be seized. Not a single bookseller possessed a copy, but the publishing offices of Calder and Boyars, within the Bow Street Magistrate\'s jurisdiction, were discovered to be in possession of three copies. The books were duly seized, and Mrs. Boyars was summoned to show cause why they should not be forfeited. Expert witnesses spoke, \"unprecedentedly,\" for the prosecution: they included the publishers Sir Basil Blackwell and Robert Maxwell. On the defense side were the scholars Al Alvarez II, and Professor Frank Kermode, who had previously compared the work to Charles Dickens. Others who provided rebuttal evidence included H. Montgomery Hyde.
The order had no effect beyond the borders of the Marlborough Street Court, the London neighborhood of Soho. At the hearing Calder declared that the book would continue to be published and would be sold everywhere else outside of that jurisdiction. In response the prosecutor brought criminal charges under Section 2 of the Act, which entitled the defendants to trial by jury under Section 4.
The jury was all male. Judge Graham Rigers directed that the women \"might be embarrassed at having to read a book which dealt with homosexuality, prostitution, drug-taking and sexual perversion.\" The trial lasted nine days; on November 23 the jury returned a guilty verdict.
In 1968, an appeal issued by lawyer and writer John Mortimer resulted in a judgment by Mr Justice Lane that reversed the ruling. The case marked a turning point in British censorship laws. By that time, the novel had sold over 33,000 hardback and 500,000 paperback copies in the United States.
In 1989, director Uli Edel helmed a film adaptation of the novel.


# Last Exit to Brooklyn
## Trial
- *The Queen Is Dead*: the title of the 1986 album by the Smiths is taken from the book.
- Last Exit on Brooklyn, a Seattle coffeehouse named in homage to the book
- \"Last Exit to Springfield\", an episode of *The Simpsons*, which parodied the title
- Alt-J, British band composed a song entitled \"Fitzpleasure\", inspired by the novel.
- The Novembers, a Japanese band, composed the song \"Last Exit to Brooklyn\".
- The Velvet Underground song \"Sister Ray\"\'s lyrics are based on a scene in the novel.


# Redburn
***Redburn: His First Voyage*** is the fourth book by the American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. The book is semi-autobiographical and recounts the adventures of a refined youth among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool. Melville wrote *Redburn* in less than ten weeks. While one scholar describes it as \"arguably his funniest work\", scholar F. O. Matthiessen calls it \"the most moving of its author\'s books before *Moby-Dick*\".
Unable to find employment at home, young Wellingborough Redburn signs on the *Highlander*, a merchantman out of New York City bound for Liverpool, England. Representing himself as the \"son of a gentleman\" and expecting to be treated as such, he discovers that he is just a green hand, a \"boy\", the lowest rank on the ship, assigned all the duties no other sailor wants, like cleaning out the \"pig-pen\", a longboat that serves as a shipboard sty. The first mate promptly nicknames him \"Buttons\" for the shiny ones on his impractical jacket. Redburn quickly grasps the workings of social relations aboard ship. As a common seaman he can have no contact with those \"behind the mast\" where the officers command the ship. Before the mast, where the common seaman work and live, a bully named Jackson, the best seaman aboard, rules through fear with an iron fist. Uneducated yet cunning, with broken nose and squinting eye, he is described as \"a Cain afloat, branded on his yellow brow with some inscrutable curse and going about corrupting and searing every heart that beat near him.\" Redburn soon experiences all the trials of a greenhorn: seasickness, scrubbing decks, climbing masts in the dead of night to unfurl sails, cramped quarters, and bad food.
Launcelott\'s Hey, 1843
When the ship lands in Liverpool he is given liberty ashore. He rents a room and walks the city every day. One day in a street called Launcelott\'s Hey he hears \"a feeble wail\" from a cellar beneath an old warehouse and looking into it sees \"the figure of what had been a woman. Her blue arms folded to her livid bosom two shrunken things like children, that leaned toward her, one on each side. At first I knew not whether they were alive or dead. They made no sign; they did not move or stir; but from the vault came that soul-sickening wail.\" He runs for help but is met with indifference by a ragpicker, a porter, his landlady, even by a policeman who tells him to mind his own business. He returns with some bread and cheese and drops them into the vault to the mother and children, but they are too weak to lift it to their mouths. The mother whispers \"water\" so he runs and fills his tarpaulin hat at an open hydrant. The girls drink and revive enough to nibble some cheese. He clasps the mother\'s arms and pulls them aside to see \"a meager babe, the lower part of its body thrust into an old bonnet. Its face was dazzlingly white, even in its squalor; but the closed eyes looked like balls of indigo. It must have been dead for some hours.\" Judging them beyond the point at which medicine could help, he returns to his room. A few days later he revisits the street and finds the vault empty: \"In place of the woman and children, a heap of quick-lime was glistening.\"


# Redburn
On the docks he meets Harry Bolton, a dandy who claims to be a sailor looking for a job, and Redburn helps him procure a berth on the *Highlander* for the return voyage. They become fast friends and make a trip to London where they visit a luxurious private club, Aladdin\'s Palace, with an exotic environment Redburn struggles to make sense of, concluding it must be a gambling house. The ship soon departs for New York and Bolton\'s deficits as sailor become apparent. Redburn suspects that Bolton has never been to sea before and Bolton is tormented by the crew. Jackson, after being ill in bed for four weeks, returns to active duty: he climbs to the topsail yard, then suddenly vomits \"a torrent of blood from his lungs\", and falls headfirst into the sea and disappears. The crew never speak his name again. Reaching port, Redburn heads for his home and Bolton signs on a whaler. Redburn later hears that Bolton, far out in the Pacific, fell over the side and drowned.
- Wellingborough Redburn (a.k.a., Buttons)
- Redburn\'s elder brother (unnamed in the book)
- Mr. Jones
- Captain Riga
- **The Highlander Crew**
  - The suicidal sailor
  - Jackson
  - Max the Dutchman
  - The Greenlander
  - Mr Thompson, the cook, aka, the Doctor
  - Lavender
  - Jack Blunt
  - Larry
  - Gun-Deck
- **The Liverpool Docks**
  - Danby
  - Mary, Danby\'s wife
  - Bob Still, Danby\'s old crony
  - Townspeople, other foreign sailors, policemen, the poor, the beggars, the depraved
- Harry Bolton
- Miguel Saveda
- Carlo
- The O\'Briens and the O\'Regans
- Goodwell
Melville alluded to *Redburn* for the first time in a letter to his English publisher in the late spring of 1849, in which he wrote that the novel would be practical rather than follow the \"unwise\" course of his previous novel, *Mardi*, which had been harshly criticized:


# Redburn
Melville adopted this more commercial approach to writing as his family obligations increased and his working conditions became more difficult. Living with him in the small house in New York City were his wife, child, mother, sisters, and his brother Allen with *his* wife and child. Melville later portrayed himself at this time as being forced to write \"with duns all around him, & looking over the back of his chair---& perching on his pen & diving in his inkstand---like the devils about St. Anthony.\"


# Redburn
The book is a fictional narrative based loosely on Melville\'s own first voyage to Liverpool in 1839. The manuscript was completed in less than ten weeks and, without any attempt at polishing it, Melville submitted it to his American publisher Harper & Bros who published it in November 1849. Melville checked the proof sheets, which came out in August, and sent them along to Bentley for publication in England, where it appeared six weeks before the American version. In 1922 it was published as a volume of the Constable edition of Melville\'s complete works. Since then it has been continuously in print in inexpensive hard cover editions and since 1957 in paperback.
Melville referred to *Redburn* and his next book *White-Jacket* as \"two *jobs* which I have done for money---being forced to it as other men are to sawing wood\". It was reviewed favorably in all the influential publications, American and British, with many critics hailing it as Melville\'s return to his original style. The critics were divided along national lines when reviewing the scene in Launcelots Hey, the British dubbing it \"improbable\", the Americans \"powerful\". In 1884 William Clark Russell, the most popular writer of sea stories in his generation, praised the book\'s force and accuracy in print. He also sent Melville a personal letter where, among other items, he said \"I have been reading your *Redburn* for the third or fourth time and have closed it more deeply impressed with the descriptive power that vitalises every page.\" John Masefield would later single the book out as his favorite of Melville\'s works. When *Redburn* was praised, Melville wrote in his journal, \"I, the author, know it to be trash, & wrote it to buy some tobacco with\". He later complained: \"What I feel most moved to write, that is banned---it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the *other* way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches.\"
Elizabeth Hardwick finds that passages of the book display a rhetorical brilliance: \"Throughout Melville\'s writings there is a liberality of mind, a freedom from vulgar superstition, occasions again and again for an oratorical insertion of enlightened opinion.\" She points to the passage in chapter 33 where Melville describes the German immigrants preparing for their voyage to America:


# Redburn
Interpretations of *Redburn* generally fall into two schools. The first, usually called the biographical school, may be found in studies of Melville written in the 1920s by critics such as Raymond Weaver, John Freeman, and Lewis Mumford. Typifying this school\'s approach is Mumford\'s statement that:
By the 1950s, a second school arose which might be called the \"mythic\" school. Newton Arvin wrote:
This new approach represented a broad trend that sought to reinterpret American literature---Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne, Twain, James, Faulkner, and Hemingway---in the light of mythic quests and patterns. In one view, *Redburn* is \"a stronger indictment of an American embarking upon a voyage of international experience than Henry James would produce and a more ironic and embittered portrait of the young protagonist\'s incapacity for art than James Joyce would produce.\"
Critics have clarified or called attention to particular points. After some debate in the 1980s when the notion was first proposed, critics seem to agree that Aladdin\'s Palace is a \"male brothel\", including Elizabeth Hardwick who describes it as \"a strange, fastidiously observed, rococo urban landscape unlike any other dramatic intrusion in Melville\'s writings or in American literature at the time.\" Following Hardwick, critic Evan Lang Pandya argued that Aladdin\'s Palace draws on \"fantasies of the blank Arabian signifier, the obscure desert of ambiguities, including sexual ambiguity.\"
In addition to the social criticism of the Launcelott\'s Hey incident (Ch. 37), Melville attacks the evils of alcohol and the exploitation of emigrants by shipping services. The chapter \"A Living Corpse\", like Charles Dickens\' *Bleak House*, contains an example of spontaneous human combustion in literature (Ch. 48).
- Blum, Hester (2011). \"Melville and the novel of the sea.\" *The Cambridge History of the American Novel*. Eds. Leonard Cassuto, Clare Virginia Eby, and Benjamin Reiss. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Matthiessen, F.O. (1941). *American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman*. London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press.
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# Anita and Me
***Anita and Me*** is Meera Syal\'s debut novel, and was first published in 1996. It is a semi-autobiographical novel, based on Syal\'s childhood in the mining village of Essington, Staffordshire, which won the Betty Trask Award.
The story revolves around Meena, a British Punjabi girl (the \"me\" of the title), and her relationship with her best friend, English neighbour Anita, as they grow up in the fictional Midlands village of Tollington in the late 1960s.
The novel is used as a GCSE set text for an English literature examination provided by examination boards AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC. It is also used by other lower years in British schools.
The novel was made into a film of the same name in 2002, in which Syal appears as Meena\'s Auntie Shaila. Syal also wrote the screenplay for the film. The film starred Chandeep Uppal and Anna Brewster in the title roles.
The story follows young Meena Kumar, an everyday girl, and the life she lives with her parents in Tollington, near Wolverhampton. One seemingly ordinary day, her life is turned upside down by Anita Rutter. Meena is a bright girl, with a wise head on young shoulders, but one who retains a childlike exuberance and naivety. An aspiring writer, Meena pines for some of the breaks that she believes white children have; upon being asked \"what do you want to be when you grow up\", Meena replies \"blonde\".
The novel was adapted for the stage by Tanika Gupta for the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, where it premiered on 9 October and ran until 24 October 2015. It was followed by a transfer to the Theatre Royal, Stratford East from 29 October to 21 November 2015. Ayesha Dharker reprised her role from the film for the stage version.
In 2017, a theatrical production toured the UK.it always deals with the political system of the society


# Anita and Me
- Rocío G. Davis, \"India in Britain: Myths of Childhood in Meera Syal\'s Anita and Me\", in Fernando Galván & Mercedes Bengoechea (ed.), *On Writing (and) Race in Contemporary Britain*, Universidad de Alcalá 1999, 139-46.
- Graeme Dunphy, \"Meena\'s Mockingbird: From Harper Lee to Meera Syal\", in *Neophilologus* 88, 2004, 637-59.


# Novel with Cocaine
***Novel with Cocaine***, (, also translated as ***Cocain Romance*** and ***Romance with Cocaine***), is a novel first published in 1934 in a Russian émigré literary magazine *Chisla* (*Numbers*) under a pen name M. Ageyev. The English translation of the title fails to convey the double meaning of the Russian \"Роман,\" meaning both \"novel\" and \"romance\".
*Novel with Cocaine* is a Dostoevskyan psychological novel of ideas, which explores the interaction between psychology, philosophy, and ideology in its frank portrayal of an adolescent\'s cocaine addiction. The story relates the formative experiences of narrator Vadim at school and with women before he turns to drug abuse and the philosophical reflections to which it gives rise. Although Ageyev makes little explicit reference to the Russian Revolution of 1917, the novel\'s obsession with addictive forms of thinking finds resonance in the historical background, in which \"our inborn feelings of humanity and justice\" provoke \"the cruelties and satanic transgressions committed in its name\".
Following its original publication in *Numbers,* the novel was published in book form; it was scorned as decadent and disgusting, to use the term applied to it by Vladimir Nabokov. In 1983 the novel was translated into French and published to nearly unanimous praise; an English translation (by Michael Henry Heim) was published in 1984. After the French translation was published, there was some brief speculation in literary circles as to whether *Novel with Cocaine* might actually be the work of Nabokov, perhaps one of his mystifications; the consensus is now that Nabokov was not the author. Nabokov\'s son Dmitri addresses this issue in an afterword to his 1986 English translation of VN\'s novel *The Enchanter*, in which he claims the author is Mark Levi.
- *Novel with Cocaine*, translated by Michael Henry Heim, 1984
- *A Romance with Cocaine*, translated by Hugh Aplin, 2008


# Dobry
***Dobry*** is a book by Monica Shannon first published in 1934 that won the Newbery Medal for most distinguished contribution to American literature for children in 1935. Bulgarian-born sculptor Atanas Katchamakoff illustrated the book.
Dobry is a young boy who lives in a small farming village in Bulgaria with his widowed mother and grandfather. Both of them are dedicated farmers, and Dobry spends much of his early life helping them in the fields. The majority of his free time is spent with his best friend, Neda, the daughter of the village shoemaker.
While still young, Dobry discovers a found love for art, in which he displays an unusually high amount of natural talent. In order to pay for the art supplies he needs to practice, he takes on the job as the village cow herder, and spends the next several years honing his artistic skills. While Neda and Dobry\'s grandfather are impressed and supportive of his dedication to his craft, his mother becomes increasingly worried and agitated. She had always assumed that Dobry would take over the family farm as an adult, and sees the time that Dobry spends with his art as wasted time that he could be using to help with the work. However, Dobry\'s grandfather is slowly able to convince her that talent like his should be allowed to develop. When Dobry creates a beautiful snow sculpture of the nativity that the whole town praises, his mother finally realizes how skilled her son truly is.
At the following New Year celebration, Dobry\'s mother presents him with a surprise gift: money that she has saved up in order for him to enroll in an art academy. While Dobry excitedly begins to prepare for his new life, Neda worries that he will be leaving the village forever. However, he assures her that once he has completed his education, he will return to the village and marry her.
**Dobry** - The protagonist of the novel, who first appears as a young farm boy. As he grows up throughout the story, he develops an increasingly impressive love and skill in art. He displays talent both in drawing and sculpting.


# Dobry
**Neda** - The daughter of the village shoe maker, and Dobry\'s lifelong best friend. They spend much of their free time together, and many of Dobry\'s artistic creations were made as gifts to her. Their friendship begins to blossom into romantic interest for one another as they grow older, and Dobry leaves the village with the promise that he will one day marry her.
**Roda** - Dobry\'s mother, whose husband died when Dobry was still a young child. Although other village men have been known to show interest in her, she insists that she will never remarry. She is completely dedicated to the family farm. Although she is a devoted mother, she is initially upset when Dobry begins to show more interest in art than taking over the fields. Eventually, she comes around, and gives Dobry the money needed to attend an art school.
**Grandfather** - Dobry\'s grandfather, who lives and works with them on the farm. He is renowned as a great story teller throughout the region, and often entertains others with his tales. Not only does he know a great number of Bulgarian folk tales, he displays a talent at inventing his own stories as well. It is largely due to this creative streak that he immediately supports Dobry in his artistic endeavors, and helps to convince Dobry\'s mother to let him explore his talents.
*Kirkus Reviews* said of *Dobry*, \"There\'s the real feel of the land in the story\". Children\'s literature expert May Hill Arbuthnot calls it \"One of the greatest children\'s books about people of other countries\". She suggests that adults \"Read it aloud, discuss and savor the colorful episodes.\" *Twentieth-Century Children\'s Writers* says the book is \"inspiring\", and that \"the major characters in *Dobry* are strong and well-delineated\". *Dobry* won the 1935 Newbery Medal.


# Junk (novel)
***Junk**\'\', known as***Smack**\'\' in the US, is a realistic novel for young adults, written by British author Melvin Burgess and published in 1996 by Andersen in the UK. Set on the streets of Bristol, England, it features two runaway teenagers who join a group of squatters, where they fall into heroin addiction and embrace anarchism. Both critically and commercially, it is the best received of Burgess\' novels. Yet it was unusually controversial at first, criticised negatively for its \'how-to\' aspect, or its dark realism, or its moral relativism.
Burgess won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year\'s outstanding children\'s book by a British author. For the 70th anniversary of the Medal, in 2007, *Junk* was named one of the Top 10 winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite. *Junk* also won the Guardian Children\'s Fiction Prize, a similar award that authors may not win twice; it is the latest of six books to win both awards.
In the US, Henry Holt published the novel in 1997 as *Smack* --- another slang term for heroin.
*Junk* is told in the first person, with each chapter having a different character narrating. At the beginning of the story, fourteen-year old Gemma Brogan is spending time with David \'Tar\' Lawson, a boy of the same age. Tar is a victim of physical abuse at the hands of his father, and --- as he later realises --- emotional abuse from his mother. Both of his parents are alcoholics. After a particularly violent incident, he decides to run away to Bristol, even though he knows no-one there and has no money. Gemma, despite having loving (albeit strict) parents, also decides to leave home and join Tar in Bristol shortly afterwards.


# Junk (novel)
In Bristol, Tar sleeps rough, interacting regularly only with Skolly, a local newsagent who likes his naive, trusting attitude. Skolly eventually introduces Tar to Richard, an absent-minded, vegan anarchist, who opens up abandoned houses for use as squats. Tar joins Richard and his friends Vonny, an eighteen-year old \'motherly\' woman; and her boyfriend Jerry, who is described as a bit useless. Between them, the young adults support Tar financially in order to keep him safe and away from his father, even though it is illegal. Gemma comes \'to visit\', intending to stay. Vonny is frustrated by this, as she does not see it as the same situation; they are protecting Tar, but Gemma is unafraid and merely wants a more \'interesting\' life. Vonny reluctantly allows Gemma to remain with them, but she insists that both teenagers notify their families from a telephone box that they are safe. Tar is happy with their situation, but Gemma gradually grows more restless, wanting to find some people their own age.
The adults decide after a few weeks that Gemma must return home. Richard holds a \'farewell\' party in the abandoned house and, to Vonny\'s chagrin, he invites Lily and Rob, a couple whom she suspects to be on hard drugs. Gemma is enamoured with Lily from the moment she sees her. The two girls connect instantly, and Lily invites the pair to stay the night with them. Whilst they are there, Lily and Rob encourage Gemma and Tar to smoke heroin with them, and they do, believing that only smoking it will not get them addicted. The pair are subsequently invited to live with Lily and Rob, and they do.
Tar and Gemma live with Lily and Rob for a long time, and in the early days, it is all fun. They have frequent parties, shoplift to feed themselves, and heat their house with fuel from skips. They know all the local squatters and drug-users, becoming particularly close to Sally, another girl their age. However, their heroin-smoking habit quickly turns into long-term addiction. Eventually, the girls become prostitutes to fund their habit.


# Junk (novel)
After an event involving a friend who overdoses at their home, the police arrest Tar. He is sent to a drug rehabilitation centre as an alternative to prison, and receives treatment. Through counselling, he also faces some of the trauma he has endured. He leaves the centre clean, determined to stay off drugs, but he uses heroin almost immediately once he arrives back at the squat.
Lily, who does not work in the massage parlours as Gemma and Sally do, and instead works on the street with the protection of Rob, discovers she is pregnant. She decides to keep the baby, and the five of them vow to get clean. They travel to Wales, with the aim of getting themselves away from heroin and detoxing in a safe environment. However, the trip quickly falls apart. Rob and Sally both smuggle some heroin along with them, Tar hitchhikes back to Bristol on the second day, and Lily discovers Rob\'s heroin and injects some herself. Gemma initially resists, but once she realises she is the only one still trying to stop using drugs, she starts using them again. They return to Bristol, scared by what they have realised about their addictions: that they truly cannot stop just because they want to.
In time, Lily has the baby and continues to inject heroin whilst the baby is breastfeeding. Meanwhile, Rob starts cottaging himself in public toilets, to fund their habit. Tar has totally changed; the naive, joyful person he once was, has been replaced by someone who lies to and steals from his friends and even from Gemma. Both boys become drug dealers. They have a traumatic experience when they discover a friend and his girlfriend dead after overdosing. However, they do nothing to alert the authorities, instead just stealing their drug stash.


# Junk (novel)
The catalyst comes when Gemma realises that she, too, is pregnant. After a particularly vulnerable moment with Lily, who non-verbally admits she is overwhelmed, Gemma realises that she cannot let the same thing happen to her own baby. She leaves the house in the middle of the night and phones the police, telling them the address of the house and that it is being used to deal drugs. Tar, Rob and Lily are arrested, and Tar takes the rap again, which means he is given a custodial sentence. Meanwhile, Gemma locates Vonny and asks for her help. She allows Vonny to get in touch with her parents, who come to the hospital where she has been admitted with severe withdrawal symptoms. For the first time in three-and-a-half years, the Brogans are reunited with their daughter, who asks to come home.
Gemma returns to live in her hometown drug-free. She gives birth to her daughter Oona, whilst waiting for Tar to come out of prison. However, once he is released, Gemma realises that she no longer feels the same way about Tar, and they end their relationship. The reader learns that Tar ends up forcing his way into Gemma\'s home and hits her at least once, in a bleak repetition of his own father\'s behaviour. Gemma remains free of heroin, once she has gone through withdrawal, whereas Tar finds it much more difficult and slips several times, even though he is on methadone. The story ends with Tar having a new girlfriend and seeing Oona occasionally whilst lamenting the life he lost, still craving heroin and still holding onto the hope that Gemma will one day agree to renew their romantic relationship.


# Junk (novel)
- David \'Tar\' Lawson - protagonist, fourteen years old at the start of the book. Abused by his father, he is never proud of taking drugs but becomes a heroin addict after discovering that the drug helps him forget the abuse he has endured.
- Gemma Brogan - Tar\'s girlfriend, a rebellious fourteen-year old, who runs away with him. She later becomes a prostitute and a heroin addict.
- Richard - an anarchist and left-wing activist who helps Gemma and Tar find somewhere to live. He is in his twenties.
- Vonny - eighteen-year old anarchist who lives with Richard and Jerry, who ultimately helps Gemma along the path to rehabilitation.
- Jerry - boyfriend of Vonny, lives with Richard and Vonny in the squat.
- Lily - a fifteen-year old heroin addict who takes a liking to Gemma. She grew up in the care system and it is hinted that she, too, suffered abuse.
- Rob - sixteen-year old addict boyfriend of Lily. He has had a transient upbringing.
- Sally - a good friend of Lily and Rob, also addicted to heroin.
- Mr. and Mrs Brogan - Gemma\'s parents
- Mr. and Mrs Lawson - Tar\'s parents
- Skolly - a tobacconist who introduces Tar to Richard. He later pays for sexual services from Gemma, although he does not realise who she is.
*Junk* has been adapted for the theatre by John Retallack (published by Methuen ). It was also made into a television drama in 1999, as part of the BBC\'s *Scene* series for teenagers.
*Junk* also been revised as of 2003, with the new title of *Smack*, and it is often used as a thesis basis for drama (GCSE and A level) examinations.
- *Trainspotting*, a 1993 novel
- *Trainspotting*, a 1996 film
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# Consuelo (novel)
***Consuelo*** is a novel by George Sand, first published serially in 1842-1843 in *La Revue indépendante*, a periodical founded in 1841 by Sand, Pierre Leroux and Louis Viardot. According to *The Nuttall Encyclopædia*, it is \"Sand\'s masterpiece; the impersonation of the triumph of moral purity over manifold temptations.\"
The character of Consuelo was supposedly modeled after Louis Viardot\'s wife, the soprano Pauline Viardot. Pauline Viardot was a good friend of both Sand\'s and of her lover, Frédéric Chopin.
Pauline Viardot, the supposed inspiration for Consuelo
«Oui, oui, Mesdemoiselles, hochez la tête tant qu\'il vous plaira; la plus sage et la meilleure d\'entre vous, c\'est \... Mais je ne veux pas le dire; car c\'est la seule de ma classe qui ait de la modestie, et je craindrais, en la nommant, de lui faire perdre à l\'instant même cette rare vertu que je vous souhaite.... »
\"Go on then, young ladies, shake your heads at me, but I\'ll tell you this\... the best behaved and the cleverest girl among you is\... --- no, I won\'t tell you who, because she is the only one of my class who has any modesty. I am afraid that if I pointed her out here, she would instantly lose that rare virtue. It is one that I wish the rest of you had more of\...\" ---


# Consuelo (novel)
Consuelo is a Spanish girl abandoned in Italy whose voice attracts the old maestro Porpora. Through him she is presented to Count Zustiniani. The latter, after her successful début on the stage, falls in love with her, but is repulsed. When her early lover Angoletto forgets her, Consuelo is sent by Porpora to the home of a German family in Bohemia. Her entrance into this household prepares the way for the sequel, *La Comtesse de Rudolstadt* (1843).
Through all these adventures, Consuelo becomes an untouchable figure of the European artistic landscape of the eighteenth century thanks to the music and the support of her master, the Porpora. The two volumes, *Consuelo* et *La comtesse de Rudolstadt* were edited separately but constitute a single work. Consuelo\'s adventures continue in *La comtesse de Rudolstadt* where they take a more philosophical and esoteric dimension.
After the death of George Sand, numerous of her novels disappear into oblivion and her work was quickly reduced to a handful of so-called «country» novels such as La Mare au diable or La Petite Fadette. However, from the 1960s to the 1970s, the rest of Sand\'s work began to be rediscovered through critical editions, colloquia and scholarly studies. Consuelo is rehabilitated and recognized as one of her masterpieces.
Two operas are based on this novel:
- *Consuelo* by Alfonso Rendano (1888)
- *Consuelo* by Giacomo Orefice (1895)


# Chander Pahar
***Chander Pahar*** () is a Bengali adventure novel written by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay and published in 1937. The novel follows the adventures of a young Bengali man in the forests of Africa. The novel is one of the most-loved adventure novels in the Bengali literature and is one of Bibhutibhushan\'s most popular works. It spawned a media franchise.
Shankar facing a lion.
This novel tells the story of an ordinary young Bengali man, Shankar Ray Choudhuri, as he adventures in Africa in the years 1909 and 1910. After graduating from college at 20-years-old, his family\'s financial struggles almost force him take a job in a jute mill in Shyamnagar --- a prospect he absolutely loathes.
Shankar loves the subject of geography, he wants to follow the footsteps of renowned explorers like Livingstone, Mungo Park, and Marco Polo. He wants to explore the wilderness, passionate for learning about African forests and animals. By a stroke of luck, he gets a job as a clerk at the Uganda Railway and rushes to Africa without a second thought.
After a few months laying rail tracks, he encounters the first of many dangers in pre-World War I Africa: a man-eating lion. Later, he takes up a job as station-master in a desolate station amidst the Veldts, where he narrowly escapes a deadly black mamba. While at this post, Shankar encounters, rescues and nurses Diego Alvarez, a middle-age Portuguese explorer and gold/diamond prospector. Alvarez\'s arrival becomes a turning point in Shankar\'s life.
While recovering, Alvarez describes his exploits in Africa with his friend Jim Carter. He explains that, lured by the prospect of a priceless yellow diamond from a Kaafi village chief, Alvarez and Carter searched for these yellow diamond caves, on the Mountain of the Moon (Chander Pahar) in the Richtersveld. Rumors suggested a mythical monster, the Bunyip, guards the mine. The explorers set off into the dense jungle, much against the villagers\' advice, and Carter was gruesomely killed, supposedly by the Bunyip.


# Chander Pahar
Shankar, inspired by Alvarez\'s exploits, resigns from his job and accompanies Alvarez to venture again for the mines. They meet hardships, like a racist gambler, legends about Dingonek the monster and later, a raging volcano. Eventually, they get lost in the forests where Alvarez is killed by the Bunyip. Demoralised, Shankar tries to return to civilization. He finds the Bunyip\'s cave and the diamond mines by accident. Almost getting lost, he finds the remains of the Italian explorer, Attilio Gatti, and learns that the cave is in fact the diamond mine.
Leaving, he becomes lost in the deserts of Kalahari and nearly dies of thirst. Fortunately, he is rescued by a survey team and taken to a hospital in Salisbury, Rhodesia, from where he sets sail for home. Before going back, he writes his account in a newspaper, earning him money. He names the volcano after Alvarez. He ends the book saying that he will return to the cave one day with a large team, and continue the legacy of Alvarez, Carter, and Gatti.
- Shankar Ray Choudhuri --- The main protagonist, a young man from a village in Bengal. He is a smart, brave person who has a penchant for adventures.
- Diego Alvarez --- A Portuguese explorer. He is a friend and mentor to Shankar, and together they explore the deepest reaches of Richtersveld for the Mountain of the Moon.
- Jim Carter --- A British explorer who was Alvarez\'s companion in his previous expedition. Alvarez revealed to Shankar that Carter was killed by the Bunyip while he and Carter were exploring the Mountains of the Moon.
- Attilio Gatti --- An Italian explorer. He discovered the diamond mine caves in *c.* 1879 but dies in a cave (later discovered by Shankar) on his way back, at the hands of his traitorous followers.
- Prasad Das Bandyopadhyay
- Tirumal Appa
- Shankar\'s mother
- Shankar\'s father


# Chander Pahar
### Films
- A film based on the novel, named *Chander Pahar* directed by Kamaleshwar Mukherjee was released on 20 December 2013 (27 December 2013 in all over India). The film, joyfully received by critics and the Bengali audience, was produced by Shree Venkatesh Films and has been shot on locations across Africa. It was reportedly being made with a budget of nearly , making it one of the most expensive in the Bengali film industry.
Director Kamaleshwar Mukherjee mentioned *Chander Pahar* as his \"Dream Project\". The film has reportedly incorporated CGI and visual effects at par with Hollywood and Bollywood standards. Dev plays the role of the main protagonist, Shankar. Most of the other cast members are from South Africa. According to the crew members, it took a considerable time to decide who would play the role of Diego Alvarez, and South African actor Gérard Rudolf was selected. The first theatrical trailer of the film was released by Shree Venkatesh Films, at the Kolkata Nicco Park on 14 November 2013.
Shooting locations include Kruger National Park, the mountains of Drakensberg, and the deserts of Kalahari.
- A sequel film *Amazon Obhijaan* also directed by Kamaleshwar Mukherjee and starring Dev, was released in 2017. The film is based on the characters of *Chander Pahar* created by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay.

### Graphic novels
- *Moon Mountain* is a 2014 Graphic novel adapted from Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay\'s classic *Chander Pahar*. The graphic novel is published by Penguin Books India, has its script written by Saurav Mohapatra with illustrations by Sayan Mukherjee
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- Another graphic novel named *Amazon Obhijaan* released as a promotional activity of the film of same name, written by films director Kamaleshwar Mukherjee.


# Chander Pahar
### Graphic novels
Inspired by Shankar\'s character in *Chander Pahar* Bengali adventurer Anindya Mukhopadhyay took an expedition to explore the \"Chander Pahar\" or \"Mountain of the Moon\" in Africa, which inspired Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay to write the novel, and he finds the real \"Mountain of the Moon\" is Rwenzori Mountains. Anindya Mukhopadhyay travelled the mountain and have written a book called *Abar Chander Pahar*, where he explained about his journey to Rwenzori Mountains.
- Writer Partha De has written two of the novels featuring Shanhar as the protagonist. Name of those novels are - *Chander Upatyaka* and *Rajhangsir Sarobar*. In both novel another character Prasad Das Bandyopadhyay from the original novel also featured along with Shankar Roy Chowdhury. Later in 2017, two of the novels were published in a collection book named *Chander Upatyaka* by Prativas Prakashan.
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- - ***Chander Upatyaka*** - Prasad Das Bandyopadhyay is now at Brazil and doing rubber business. Where Shankar was called by him to take a part in that business. Soon Shankar finds that he has been called here for a different reason. He learns, the treasure of last Inca king Atahualpa was hidden somewhere in Amazon. He tries to explore the place.
  - ***Rajhangsir Sarobar*** - Prasad Das Bandyopadhyay is now at Russian jail. A mysterious lady invites Shankar to Russia to hel Prasad Das. After arriving Russia Shankar gets involved into a conspiracy, which might led to a worldwide devastation.
- Shankar Ray Choudhuri
- Diego Alvarez


# HaJaBaRaLa
***HaJaBaRaLa*** (), or ***HJBRL: A Nonsense Story***, is a children\'s novella by Sukumar Ray. *Ha Ja Ba Ra La* is considered one of the best nonsense stories of Bengali literature. To highlight its genre, artistic merit and style, it is frequently compared to *Alice In Wonderland.*
The story starts with a child, the narrator, suddenly waking up from sleep and finding that the handkerchief they had placed just beside them before sleeping has turned into a cat. The child starts talking to the cat, who speaks nonsensically about a handkerchief before disappearing over the hedge. Then the child finds Kakeshwar doing mathematical calculations on a slate, that appears very unusual to the narrator. This includes multiplication that is purely illogical and fallacious. After arguing over math, a goat appears and narrates his life about eating paper and other artificial things. Hijibijbij appears and laughs hysterically at improbable situations and keeps changing his mind about the names of his family members. Then many animals appear, and confusion results. The child wakes up from their odd dream and finds the cat, which does not talk.
Most of the characters have found idiomatic usage in Bengali language, which is true for many of Ray\'s works.
Some of the main characters are:
Shree Kakkeshwar kuchkuche (): A raven/crow who wears a clerk\'s green eyeshade while performing mathematics.
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Gechhodada (): A character that is only alluded to by the cat but never appears in the story. he is completely unpredictable, and according to the cat, can only be found solving a very complicated, irrational and nonsensical mathematics, which depends on many probabilities about where Gechodada can be that moment.
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# HaJaBaRaLa
Heejibeejbeej ():A person who imagines very improbable situations and laughs at them.\
Sheyal : The fox and the advocate against Kumir\
Byakaran Shing BA Khadyabisharad ():A goat who delivers academic lectures on non-academic subjects, such as what goats do not eat.\
Pyancha : The owl judge in the court\
Udhho and Budhho (): dwarf-like creatures who are fighting one moment and hugging the next. The phrase \"Udhor pindi Budhor ghare\", meaning (but not literally translated to) \"the shoe is on the other foot\", has become a very common idiom.\
Shojaru : A porcupine who makes a court case for insult\
Kumir : A crocodile, the advocate of Shojaru\
Beraal: A nonsense cat who speaks about nonsense things like gechodada (grandpa tree) and other people.\
Nera (): A person who has no hair. He loves to sing nonsense songs.\
Gechhoboudi : Who dos not appear in the story but is the wife of gechhodada who cooks\
Mejomama : Maternal uncle who finds everything about the story nonsense.


# The Ice People (Barjavel novel)
First edition
***The Ice People*** () is a 1968 French science fiction novel by René Barjavel.
Zoran\'s Equation
When a French expedition in Antarctica reveals the ruins of a 900,000-year-old civilization, scientists from all over the world flock to the site to help explore and understand. The entire planet watches via global satellite television, mesmerized, as the explorers uncover a chamber in which a man and a woman have been in suspended animation since, as the French title suggests, \"the night of time\". The woman, Eléa, is awakened, and through a translating machine she tells the story of her world, herself and her man Païkan, and how war destroyed her civilization. She also hints at an incredibly advanced knowledge that her still-dormant companion possesses. The man she says was frozen with her, a scientist, Coban, was the main source of interpretation of this knowledge, knowledge that could give energy and food to all humans at no cost. She hates him for having separated her from her lover Païkan. The superpowers of the world are not ready to let Eléa\'s secrets spread, and show that, 900,000 years and an apocalypse later, mankind has not grown up and is ready to make the same mistakes again. Thus, the international team of scientists works under the constant fear of sabotage, a fear that eventually is fulfilled when one of the scientists kills one of his comrades and commits suicide.
The scientists then decide to wake up the man, Coban, who could personally deliver the knowledge they seek. He would require a blood transfusion, but Eléa, the only living donor for his blood type, poisons herself to kill the man she hates and then die. She had, however, been replaying her actual memories of her last days prior to the freeze, to the scientists, and she was not aware that just as she was put under anesthesia for the freeze process, her mind was recording events around her that she was not conscious of, and at the last minute, her lover had confronted the scientist Coban, killed him, and taken his place. The man she had just poisoned with her dying blood was in fact her lover, for she had not seen the body for the whole of the book, and no one could have known the body was his. She dies before the scientists could tell her her tragic mistake, at the same moment her lover dies. All recordings and engravings of the advanced knowledge are either destroyed or now completely uninterpretable, and mankind loses this knowledge again.
The novel ends with Dr Simon going back to France, heartbroken, ignoring the cries of war and the world youth\'s demonstrations.


# The Ice People (Barjavel novel)
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\"They\'re here! They\'re us! They repopulated the world, and they\'re just as dumb as before, and ready to blow up the house again. Isn\'t it great? It\'s man.\"
This novel was first published in 1968 by .
It was translated into English by C. L. Markham and a number of companies published *The Ice People* in the early 1970s. The English edition bears a dedication to Andre Cayatte, with whom Barjavel had worked on film, and who he credits as both the begetter of and the inspiration for the story.
Also translated into Afrikaans by Rina Scheiflinger (1971) as \"Nag van die tyd\" (*the Night of time*).
The novel appears to have been inspired by one of the last groundbreaking works of Henry Rider Haggard, *When the World Shook* (1919). There are several similarities between the stories: a couple that is found in suspended animation with both, female and male, being survivors of ancient lost civilizations that possessed great technological advancements superior to the current stage of our world Both novels fit within the literary genre of Lost World stories.
Erle Cox\'s 1925 novel *Out of the Silence* has also been cited as a possible influence on Barjavel. Cox\'s story also deals with the discovery of a sphere preserving the knowledge of a vanished, prehistoric civilization with advanced technology, one man and one woman being preserved in suspended animation; the woman alone is awakened, but dies at the end of the story; the knowledge of the ancient civilization is lost.
The novel portrays momentous youth/student protests in both the antediluvian and modern storylines. Barjavel was writing in the context of political unrest, especially among the youth of France, that led to mass protests that year similar to those depicted in the novel, see Protests of 1968 and May 1968 in France.
The novel also draws on myths such as the Sleeping Beauty, and the love that lasts beyond death, as in the legend of Tristan and Iseult.
- Gondwana, the real world analog of a fictional continent, Gondawa, in the previous tectonic arrangement of the world
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# Une rose au paradis
First edition(publ. Presses de la Cité)
***Une rose au paradis*** is a science-fiction novel written by René Barjavel, and first published in 1981.
Buried far beneath what used to be Paris, the last members of the human race live in an automated shelter. They are Mr. and Mrs. Jonas, their twin teenage children Jim and Jil, and Mr. Gé, who is directly responsible for setting the bombs that entirely destroyed the surface of the planet and at the same time for saving the Jonas family, whom he hopes will repopulate the world once it is safe to go out. But innocent games lead the twins to unwittingly start the repopulation right then and there, putting in jeopardy the delicate air exchanges balance of the shelter. There are now too many people in the shelter, and Mrs. Jonas\' family instincts activate - she pushes Mr Gé into \'the hole\', where everything from food remains to clothes are processed and recycled.
Doing so, she accelerates the events so that soon there is only one choice left - die in the shelter, or try to reach the surface and hope the lethal radiations of the bombs have faded.
Another exploration of the themes of global destruction / salvation of a few number of people in a buried shelter as seen in *La Nuit des temps* and *Le diable l\'emporte*. Also, return of Mr. Gé, who was the same kind of all-powerful, ultra-rich visionary in *Le diable l\'emporte*.
First published in 1981 by Les Presses de la Cité.


# Manchild in the Promised Land
***Manchild in the Promised Land*** is a 1965 autobiographical novel written by Claude Brown. It chronicles the author\'s coming-of-age story amidst poverty and violence in Harlem during the 1940s and 1950s. Published at the height of the civil rights movement, the book reached far beyond the traditional literary world, drawing new attention to the lives of those living in urban environments. It has sold more than 4 million copies and has been translated into 14 languages.
The *New York Times* praised the book, saying that it is \"written in brutal and unvarnished honesty in the plain talk of the people, in language that is fierce, uproarious, obscene and tender, but always sensible and direct. And to its enormous credit, this youthful autobiography gives us its devastating portrait of life without one cry of self-pity, outrage or malice, with no caustic sermons or searing rhetoric.\" A less favorable review in *Commentary* said, \"In the early, swiftly-moving vignettes of life in Harlem, Brown is attracted by energy, resourcefulness, pride, style, toughness, the lore and the traits of the hipsters who make it to the top in Harlem. This is largely what he talks about. The boy he shows us is proud of the amount of trouble he can get into, and is well aware that most adults have sadly withdrawn from life. He is not so concerned with hardship, then, as with the resources of youthful pride and vitality in the face of it.\"
The book has appeared on banned book lists for offensive language and violence but is celebrated by critics for its realism.
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# The Rosy Crucifixion
***The Rosy Crucifixion***, a trilogy consisting of *Sexus*, *Plexus*, and *Nexus*, is a fictionalized account documenting the six-year period of Henry Miller\'s life in Brooklyn as he falls for his second wife June and struggles to become a writer, leading up to his initial departure for Paris in 1928. The title comes from a sentence near the end of Miller\'s *Tropic of Capricorn*: \"All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten.\"
***Sexus*** (1949), the first volume, describes the break-up of Miller\'s first marriage to Maude as he meets, falls in love with and marries his second wife, the captivating and mysterious dancer Mona (June). All the while, he feels guilty for leaving Maude, and becomes more attracted to her following their divorce. At the beginning of *Sexus*, Miller is 33 years old. June is at first called Mara, but at the beginning of chapter 8, and for the remainder of the trilogy, her name is changed to Mona. Miller states that this is under the influence of his friend Dr. Kronski, and that the name change accompanied \"other, more significant changes.\" She is one who has changed many details of her life: \"her name, her birthplace, her mother, her upbringing, her friends, her tastes, even her desires.\"
The *New York Times* stated, \"Miller uses licentious sex scenes to set the stage for his philosophical discussions of self, love, marriage and happiness.\"


# The Rosy Crucifixion
Miller said that, in a burst of inspiration one night in 1927, he stayed up all night plotting out *Tropic of Capricorn* (1939) and *The Rosy Crucifixion* in forty or fifty typewritten pages. He began writing *Sexus* in New York in 1942, then set it aside until picking it back up in 1947 while living in Big Sur. It was first put out in Paris as two volumes by Obelisk Press in 1949. It created a big stir, and was banned the following year, with the publisher fined and given a prison sentence.
***Plexus**\'\' (1953), the second volume, continues with the story of Miller\'s marriage to Mona, and covers Miller\'s attempts to become a writer after leaving his job at the Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company. It was first published in English in 1953 by Olympia Press as a two-volume set.
In***Nexus**\'\' (1959), the final installment, Miller finds himself an outsider in his own marriage, as Mona\'s relationship with Anastasia (Jean Kronski) grows, with the pair finally abandoning Miller to travel to Paris. After Mona\'s return on her own, the trilogy ends with Miller and his wife departing for Paris.
Miller had in mind to write a second volume of *Nexus*, and made several attempts to complete it. It would have covered his time in France with Mona, their return to New York, and his return to Paris on his own, concluding with him writing the opening lines of *Tropic of Cancer* at 18 Villa Seurat. He made several attempts to write the book before ultimately abandoning the undertaking. A rough draft of the abandoned novel, ***Paris 1928 (Nexus II)***, an account of his 1928 trip to Paris with Mona, was first published in English in 2012.
The three books in the trilogy were initially banned in the United States, published only in France and Japan. Their American publication followed the U.S. Supreme Court\'s 1964 decision that the also-banned *Tropic of Cancer* was a work of literature and therefore should not be banned.


# The Rosy Crucifixion
Miller was concerned about the publication of *Sexus* in the US. He felt that it was possible that his ex-wife Beatrice, the model for Maude, would bring a lawsuit for her portrayal in the novel. Despite Miller\'s reservations, all three volumes of *The Rosy Crucifixion* were published by Grove Press in the US in the summer of 1965. They soon were holding the top spots on the *Publishers Weekly* best-seller list along with two more of Miller\'s books, the recently unbanned *The World of Sex* and *Quiet Days in Clichy*.
Miller\'s close friend, author Lawrence Durrell, was severely disappointed in *Sexus*. In a letter dated September 5, 1949, he wrote that Miller was lost \"in this shower of lavatory filth which no longer seems tonic and bracing, but just excrementitious and sad.\"
\"I am trying to reproduce in words a block of my life which to me has the utmost significance -- every bit of it,\" Miller responded. \"Since 1927 I have carried inside me the material of this book. Do you suppose it\'s possible that I could have a miscarriage after such a period of gestation? \... But Larry, I can never go back on what I\'ve written. If it was not good, it was true; if it was not artistic, it was sincere; if it was in bad taste, it was on the side of life.\"
- *Le Monde* 100 Books of the Century


# Cider with Rosie
***Cider with Rosie*** is a 1959 book by Laurie Lee (published in the US as ***Edge of Day: Boyhood in the West of England***, 1960). It is the first book of a trilogy that continues with *As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning* (1969) and *A Moment of War* (1991). It has sold over six million copies worldwide.
The novel is an account of Lee\'s childhood in the village of Slad, Gloucestershire, England, in the period soon after the First World War. It chronicles the traditional village life which disappeared with the advent of new developments, such as the coming of the motor car, and relates the experiences of childhood seen from many years later. The identity of Rosie was revealed years later to be Lee\'s distant cousin Rosalind Buckland.
Rather than follow strict chronological order, Lee divided the book into thematic chapters, as follows:
- *First Light* describes Laurie arriving with his mother and the rest of the family at a cottage in the Cotswolds village of Slad, Gloucestershire. The children gorge themselves on berries and bread as their harassed mother tries to get the cottage and the furniture into some kind of order. The house relies on a small wood-fire for the cooking and a hand pump in the scullery for its water. They are visited by a man in uniform who is sleeping out in the surrounding woods -- he visits them in the mornings for food and to dry out his damp clothes. He is finally taken off by men in uniform as a deserter. The chapter ends with the villagers riotously celebrating the end of the Great War.
- *First Names* describes Laurie still sleeping in his mother\'s bed until he is forced out of it by his younger brother, Tony, and made to sleep with the two elder boys. As he grows older, he starts to recognise the villagers as individuals: Cabbage-Stump Charlie, the local bruiser; Albert the Devil, a deaf mute beggar; and Percy-from-Painswick, a clown and ragged dandy who likes to seduce the girls with his soft tongue. Owing to its location, the cottage is in the path of the floods that flow into the valley, and Laurie and his family have to go outside to clear the storm drain every time there is a heavy downpour, though even this sometimes fails to stop the sludge despoiling their kitchen.
- *Village School*


# Cider with Rosie
: The female teacher is called Crabby B, owing to her predilection for suddenly hitting out at the boys for no apparent reason. However, she meets her match in Spadge Hopkins, a burly local farmer\'s boy, who leaves the classroom one day after placing her on top of one of the cupboards. She is replaced by Miss Wardley from Birmingham, who \"wore sharp glass jewellery\" and imposes discipline that is \"looser but stronger\".
- *The Kitchen* This chapter describes the Lees\' domestic life. At the beginning Lee makes a reference to his father, who had abandoned them, saying that he and his brothers never knew any male authority. After working in the Army Pay Corps their father entered the Civil Service and settled in London for good. As Lee says,
: Lee describes each member of the family and their daily routine, his sisters going off to work in shops or at looms in Stroud, and the younger boys trying to avoid their mother\'s chores. In the evenings the whole family sits around the big kitchen table, the girls gossiping and sewing as the boys do their homework and the eldest son, Harold, who is working as a lathe handler, mends his bicycle.


# Cider with Rosie
- *Grannies in the Wainscot* describes the two old women who were the Lees\' neighbours, Granny Trill and Granny Wallon, who were permanently at war with each other. Granny Wallon, or \'Er-Down-Under, spends her days gathering the fruits of the surrounding countryside and turning them into wines that, over the course of a year, slowly ferment in their bottles. Granny Trill, or \'Er-Up-Atop, spends her days combing her hair and reading her almanacs. As a young girl she had lived with her father, a woodsman, and she still seeks comfort in the forest. The two old women arrange everything so that they never meet, shopping on different days, using different paths down the bank to their homes, and continuously rapping on their floors and ceilings. One day Granny Trill is taken ill and quickly fades away. She is soon followed by Granny Wallon, who loses her will to live.
- *Public Death, Private Murder* describes the murder of a villager made good who returns from New Zealand to visit his family, boasts about his wealth and flaunts it in the local pub. The police try to find his attackers but are met by a wall of silence, and the case is never closed.
- *Mother* is Lee\'s tribute to his mother, Annie (née Light). Having been forced to leave school early because of her mother\'s death, and the need to look after her brothers and father, she then went into domestic service, working as a maid in various large houses. Having left to work for her father in his pub, The Plough, she then answered an advertisement, \"Widower (four children) Seeks Housekeeper\" and met the man who became Lee\'s father. After four happy years together, and three more children, he abandoned them. Lee describes his mother as having a love for everything and an extraordinary ability with plants, being able to grow anything anywhere. As he says,
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# Cider with Rosie
- *Winter and Summer* describes the two seasons affecting the village and its inhabitants. During one particularly cold winter the village boys go foraging with old cocoa-tins stuffed with burning rags to keep their mittenless hands warm. The week before Christmas the church choir goes carol-singing, which involves a five-mile tramp through deep snow. Calls at the homes of the squire, the doctor, the merchants, the farmers and the mayor soon fill their wooden box with coins as they light their way home with candles in jamjars. In contrast, the long hot summer days are spent outdoors in the fields, followed by games of \"Whistle-or-\'Oller-Or-We-shall-not-foller\" at night.
- *Sick Boy* is an account of the various illnesses Lee suffered as a young boy, some of which brought him to the brink of death. He also writes about the death of his four-year-old sister Frances, who died unexpectedly when Lee was an infant.
- *The Uncles* is a vivid description of his mother\'s brothers, his uncles Charlie, Ray, Sid and Tom. All of them fought as cavalrymen in the Great War and then settled back on the land, though Ray emigrated to Canada to work on the transcontinental railway, the Canadian Pacific, before returning home.
- *Outings and Festivals* is devoted to the annual village jaunts and events. Peace Day in 1919 is a colourful affair, the procession ending up at the squire\'s house, where he and his elderly mother make speeches. The family also makes a four-mile hike to Sheepscombe to visit their grandfather and Uncle Charlie and his family. There is also a village outing on charabancs to Weston-super-Mare where the women sunbathe on the beach, the men disappear down the side-streets into pubs and the children amuse themselves in the arcade on the pier, playing the penny machines. There is also the Parochial Church Tea and Annual Entertainment, to which Laurie and his brother Jack gain free admittance for helping with the arrangements. They finally get to gorge themselves on the food laid out on the trestle-tables in the schoolhouse and Laurie plays his fiddle accompanied by Eileen on the piano to raucous applause.
- *First Bite at the Apple* describes the growth of the boys into young adolescents and the first pangs of love. Lee states that \"quiet incest flourished where the roads were bad\", and states that the village neither approved nor disapproved, but neither did it complain to authority. Lee is seduced by Rosie Burdock underneath a haywagon after drinking cider from a flagon:


# Cider with Rosie
: There is also a plan among half a dozen of the boys to rape Lizzy Berkeley, a fat 16-year-old who writes religious messages on trees in the wood, on the way back from church. They wait for her one Sunday morning in Brith Wood, but when Bill and Boney accost her she slaps them twice and they lose courage, allowing her to run away down the hill. Lee says that Rosie eventually married a soldier, while Jo, his young first love, grew fat with a Painswick baker and lusty Bet, another of his sweethearts, went to breed in Australia.
- *Last Days* describes the gradual breaking up of the village community with the appearance of motor cars and bicycles. The death of the squire coincides with the death of the church\'s influence over its younger parishioners, while the old people just drop away:
: Lee\'s own family breaks up as the girls are courted by young men arriving on motorcycles. This marks the end of Lee\'s rural idyll and his emergence into the wider world.
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: This is also the time when Laurie Lee experiences the first stirrings of poetry welling up inside him.
*Cider with Rosie* was dramatised for television by the BBC on 25 December 1971, with *Country Life* later commenting that Hugh Whitemore\'s script was \"rendered into a beguiling, sunny fantasy under Claude Whatham\'s softly focused direction.\" Music was by Wilfred Josephs, and Rosemary Leach was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for her roles as Lee\'s mother and as Helen in *The Mosedale Horseshoe*. Also in the 1970s, the book was turned into a stage play by James Roose-Evans. It was performed in the West End and later at the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, and at the Phoenix Arts Theatre, Leicester, with Greta Scacchi.
In 1998, not long after the death of Laurie Lee, Carlton Television made the film *Cider with Rosie* for the ITV network, with a screenplay by John Mortimer and with archive recordings of Laurie Lee\'s voice used as narration. The film starred Juliet Stevenson and was first broadcast on 27 December 1998.


# Cider with Rosie
The book was also adapted for BBC Radio 4 in 2010. There was a second BBC Television production for BBC One, directed by Philippa Lowthorpe, with Samantha Morton as Annie Lee, Timothy Spall as the voice of Laurie Lee, and Annette Crosbie in the cast, which aired on 27 September 2015.
- *Cider with Rosie*, Laurie Lee, Penguin Books, 1959,
- *Cider with Rosie*, Laurie Lee, The Hogarth Press, 1959
- *Cider with Rosie*, Laurie Lee, David R. Godine, Publisher, 2008,
A racehorse was registered with the name *Cider with Rosie* in 1968 and won some races in the 1970s, including the Cesarewitch of 1972.


# Clochemerle
***Clochemerle***, published in the United States as *The Scandals of Clochemerle*, is a French satirical novel by Gabriel Chevallier (1895--1969) first published in 1934. It centres on personal rivalries and local politics in the fictional village of Clochemerle, inspired by Vaux-en-Beaujolais, in Beaujolais in 1923 and satirises the conflict between Catholics and republicans in the Third Republic. The story concerns a dispute over the construction of a *vespasienne* (public urinals) near the village church. In its satirical portraits of individual inhabitants, it is an example of observational humour.
The book received considerable public acclaim and was awarded the Prix Courteline in 1934. The cartoonist Albert Dubout was subsequently commissioned to create an illustrated version. Chevallier subsequently wrote two sequels to the work after the Second World War entitled *Clochemerle Babylone* (1951) and *Clochemerle-les-Bains* (1963). The term *Clochemerle* has entered French as a term to describe \"petty, parochial squabbling\". The term *clochemerlesque* has similar usage.
*Clochemerle* has been widely translated into other languages and has inspired numerous dramatisations. Raymond Souplex composed an operetta based on the work in 1944 and a film was produced in 1948. There have been several television series based on the work, notably a 1972 BBC dramatisation.
- *The Little World of Don Camillo and Peppone* (1948)
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# A Boy's Own Story
***A Boy\'s Own Story*** is a 1982 semi-autobiographical novel by Edmund White.
*A Boy's Own Story* is the first of a trilogy of novels, describing a boy\'s coming of age and documenting a young man\'s experience of homosexuality in the 1950s in Cincinnati, Chicago and Michigan. The trilogy continued with *The Beautiful Room Is Empty* (1988) and *The Farewell Symphony* (1997), which brought the setting up to the 1990s. Although all three share a number of themes and are frequently considered at least partly autobiographical, they do not tell a linear story in the manner of some trilogies, and can be read independently of one another.
The story starts when the narrator, aged 15, experiences the physical side of young love with his twelve-year-old friend Kevin O\'Brien. Although he is the younger boy, Kevin takes the lead in the sexual activity. Kevin\'s remoteness keeps the relationship one-sided; he forgets all about it once each session is over, whereas the narrator gets more and more worried about his deep feelings. As the book progresses, he starts to have cravings for anal penetration. The encounters between the two adolescents become infrequent and are pushed to the background as the narrator\'s soul-searching about his homosexuality continues.
Catherine Stimpson, a reviewer, suggests that *A Boy\'s Own Story* combines elements of J.D. Salinger\'s *The Catcher in the Rye* and Oscar Wilde\'s *De Profundis*.
Paul Flynn and Matthew Todd call the novel \"a touchstone in gay culture just as Christopher Isherwood's *Goodbye to Berlin* was in the 30s, Larry Kramer's *Faggots* in the 70s\".


# Makai Tensho
`is a 1967 historical fantasy novel by Futaro Yamada.`
It is a tale in which Mori Sōiken resurrects other dead historical figures to overthrow the Shogunate, while Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi rises to fight him and his warriors of the dead.
The tale starts in the Tokugawa shogunate when Yui Shōsetsu meets the old Mori Sōiken, who, in the story, had survived to the Shimabara rebellion and learned the dark arts of ninpou in order to get his revenge. Knowing they both wish for the dethroning of the shōgun, Soiken forms an alliance with Shosetsu and reveals a spell devised by him, the Makai Tensho, which can rise dead people as his puppets. They soon gather an undead army of legendary warriors and sorcerers, among them Amakusa Shirō Tokisada, Miyamoto Musashi, and Araki Mataemon, and plan to use their supernatural skills to destroy the shogunate. However, the crown of their army, Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi, breaks free from their control and becomes determined by his own reasons to stop their rebellion before it starts.
The roster of the dead varies depending on adaptation, but usually contains Amakusa, Musashi, Yagyu Munenori, and Hōzōin Inshun. Soiken himself is often left out in adaptations, which tend to have instead Amakusa as the villain mastermind of the story.
- Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi
- Mori Sōiken
- Amakusa Shirō Tokisada
- Araki Mataemon
- Tamiya Bōtarō
- Hōzōin Inshun
- Hosokawa Gracia
- Yagyū Jounsai Toshiyoshi
- Yagyu Munenori
- Miyamoto Musashi
- Yui Shōsetsu
- Tokugawa Yorinobu
- Tokugawa Iemitsu

### Film
- starring Sonny Chiba, directed by Kinji Fukasaku.
- directed by Kazumasa Shirai.
  - directed by Kazumasa Shirai.
- directed by Hideyuki Hirayama.

### Manga
- by Ken Ishikawa.
- by Shinzō Tomi.
- by Shōko Toba.
- by Naoko Kugo.
- by Masaki Segawa.

### Anime
- directed by Yasunori Urata.


# Makai Tensho
### Others
- , a stage play directed by Kinji Fukasaku.
- , a PS2 video game developed by Tamsoft and published by D3 Publisher.
- , a stage play directed by G2.
- , a stage play by the Herohero Q theatrical company.
- , a stage play produced to commemorate the 65th anniversary of Nippon Television.
- featured an adaptation of the story, crossed with Dante\'s *Inferno*, as part of a storyline set in Shimōsa.


# The Diary of a Drug Fiend
***The Diary of a Drug Fiend***, published in 1922, was occult writer and mystic Aleister Crowley\'s first published novel, and is also reportedly the earliest known reference to the Abbey of Thelema in Sicily.
The story is widely thought to be based upon Crowley\'s own drug experiences, despite being written as a fiction. This seems almost conclusively confirmed by Crowley\'s statement in the novel\'s preface: \"This is a true story. It has been rewritten only so far as was necessary to conceal personalities.\" Crowley\'s own recreational drug use and also his personal struggle with drug addiction, particularly heroin, is well documented. Crowley made a study of drugs and their effects upon the body and mind, experimenting widely on himself. Many of his conclusions are present within this novel. *Diary of a Drug Fiend* encapsulates much of Crowley\'s core philosophy concerning Thelema and his conception of True Will.
The story follows Sir Peter Pendragon a noble, aristocratic World War I veteran pilot who has come into a large inheritance following the death of his paternal uncle. Prior to the war Pendragon had been a medical student, and now finds himself dealing with depression and lacking direction. During a night out he encounters Louise Laleham, a devotee of occultist Basil King Lamus. Pendragon and Laleham quickly fall in love with each other and cocaine. The couple marry soon after meeting then leave for Europe for their honeymoon. While in Europe, they begin using heroin and engage in a drug binge stretching from France to Italy. While in Italy, their luggage and valuables are stolen by a school acquaintance of Pendragon\'s named Elgin Feccles, whom they had hired as a guide. Soon afterwards they return to England.


# The Diary of a Drug Fiend
Back in England, the protagonists find themselves desperate after their drug supply diminishes due to laws that had been passed during their honeymoon. They move from the Pendragons\' country estate to a room in a slum house on Greek Street. Their decline in health and financial problems leads to the couple making several unsuccessful attempts to quit heroin. The particulars of their desperate addiction and cravings are documented in realistic detail. During one of their attempts, they move back to their country estate. While there, the couple begins experimenting with magick. Louise is successfully able to communicate with her Holy Guardian Angel Keletiel. Peter\'s own experiments with magick and quitting heroin do not go as well, and in a moment of frustration he shoots himself in the chest. Louise nurses him back to health, but they soon fall back into a lifestyle of addiction.
The couple then moves back to London and engages in another drug binge. Fearing no way out of addiction, they go to a restaurant and plan on killing themselves by drinking Prussic acid. The pair, however, are saved from destruction by Basil King Lamus, who agrees to help them with their addiction. Under Lamus\' guidance the couple experiences some successes with their battle against addiction. One day, the Pendragons meet with two of their friends, Jabez Platt and Gretel Webster. The former had been behind the laws making cocaine illegal in Great Britain and now wants to buy a cocaine production factory in Switzerland. The latter had been the couple\'s supplier since their honeymoon.


# The Diary of a Drug Fiend
Peter\'s initial interest in financing the purchase of the cocaine factory upsets Louise so much that she threatens him with divorce and to leave him for Lamus. Lamus agrees to take Louise away from Peter as he had promised her during her fit of rage and to help her with her addiction, but only on the condition that Peter comes with them. The now unhappy couple and Lamus leave England for an Abbey of Thelema located near the fictional location of Telephylus. Lamus then frees Peter and Louise from their addictions through the use of Magical techniques, aimed at mastering True Will and releasing the individual from sloth, self-destructive impulses and craving. Through self-reflection, Peter discovers that he had turned to drugs and had been generally unhappy because he had not wanted to be a medical doctor; instead, he had wanted to be an aircraft engineer. Louise\'s True Will is discovered to be helping Peter reach his own True Will by loving him and caring for him.

### Book I: Paradiso
The first book is narrated by Peter Pendragon.
- Chapter I: A Knight Out
- Chapter II: Over the Top!
- Chapter III: Phaeton
- Chapter IV: Au Pays de Cocaine
- Chapter V: A Heroin Heroine
- Chapter VI: The Glitter on the Snow
- Chapter VII: The Wings of the Oof-Bird
- Chapter VIII: Vedere Napoli e poi-Pro Patria-Mori
- Chapter IX: The Gatto Fritto
- Chapter X: The Bubble Bursts

### Book II: Inferno
The second book is narrated by Louise Laleham.
- Chapter I: Short Commons
- Chapter II: Indian Summer
- Chapter III: The Grinding of the Brakes
- Chapter IV: Below the Brutes
- Chapter V: Towards Madness
- Chapter VI: Cold Turkey
- Chapter VII: The Final Plunge

### Book III: Purgatorio
The third book is narrated once more by Peter Pendragon.


# The Diary of a Drug Fiend
### Book III: Purgatorio
- Chapter I: King Lamus Intervenes
- Chapter II: First Aid
- Chapter III: The Voice of Virtue
- Chapter IV: Out of Harms Way
- Chapter V: At Telephylus
- Chapter VI: The True Will
- Chapter VII: Lover under Will
- Sir Peter Pendragon, K.B.E
- Louise \"Lou\" Laleham
- Basil King Lamus (Based on Aleister Crowley)
- Gretel Webster
- Jabez Platt
- Elgin Feccles
- Haidee Lamoureux (Based on Jane Cheron)
- Mabel Black
- Dr. Andrew McCall
- Maisie Jacobs
- Lala
- Hermes
- Dionysus
- Sister Athena
- Sister Cypris (Based on Ninette Shumway)
- 1922, First edition published in the U.K., hardback
- 1970, USA, University Books, Inc. (Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 75-130401), hardback
- 1971, USA, Red Wheel/Weiser Books (), July 1971, hardback
- 1971, USA, Red Wheel/Weiser Books (), July 1971, paperback
- 1981 USA, Samuel Weiser, Inc. (0-87728-035-5), 6th printing, paperback
- 1989, USA, Buccaneer Books (), June 1989, hardback
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- Libri of Aleister Crowley
- Works of Aleister Crowley


# Step by Wicked Step
***Step By Wicked Step*** is a children\'s novel by Anne Fine, first published in 1995. In the novel five unrelated children talk about their difficulties with their parents\' being separated and with their stepfamilies. The title makes reference to the fictional tradition of the wicked stepmother.
Five children on a school trip stay overnight in Old Harwick Hall, a reputedly haunted house. They find the dusty diary of a boy called Richard Clayton Harwick and read that after Richard ran away to sea to escape his stepfather, he returned to an empty house. His mother had died of grief while his sister had also died in childbirth. This sparks a discussion of Richard\'s actions between the children. The discussion leads to each of them divulging their own family problems.
Claudia reveals that her parents had divorced after several fights. The \'scarlet woman\', a pleasant woman named Stella, tries but fails to win Claudia\'s approval. However, after a dinner party with her father\'s friends who also ignore Stella, Claudia realises her mistake and attempts to get them into attention by wearing beautiful green pyjamas bought by Stella in front of the guests, shocking them into politeness.
Colin reveals that his \'Dad\' (who was his mother\'s partner but not his biological father) was left behind by his mother after they had absconded one day. While his mother was frustrated with Jack (Dad)\'s unemployed state, Colin, who loved him very much, attempted to keep in contact with Jack. Failing to do so, he plans to find him in the future.
Pixie recounts her parents\' separation and her father\'s second marriage. She dislikes both her stepsisters. In a quarrel with her stepmother Lucy, Pixie unburdened herself of her grievances. Lucy aired her frustrations as well, and they made up.
Ralph entertains the children with a comical description of his extended step-family, spanning two previous stepmothers and their children, one stepfather and one future stepmother, whom he is infatuated with.
Robbo\'s story is about his stepfather, The Beard, and his sister Callie, who cannot get along. This had caused much trouble for the family especially after the birth of stepbrother Dumpa. Callie finally moved in with her father instead.


# Step by Wicked Step
Before going to bed, the other children secretly place a broken wooden cow made by Richard Harwick into Colin\'s bag, as a reminder to him to make the best of what he faces.


# Edinburgh (novel)
***Edinburgh*** is a debut novel by author Alexander Chee. It is a coming-of-age story about a young boy who experiences, and eventually triumphs over, the damage inflicted by a child molester.
In the novel, Aphias \"Fee\" Zhe, a twelve-year-old Korean American boy growing up in Maine, is selected for membership in a boys\' choir along with Peter, who becomes his best friend and first love. Fee and other boys are molested by the choir director Big Eric Gorendt. Fee is afraid to tell, and doesn\'t want anyone else to tell, for reasons that are deeper than pure embarrassment or fear. When one boy comes out with the secret, all the boys are revealed as victims as well. This novel explores the horrific mental and emotional damage these boys go through and how they cope with this trauma.
**Edinburgh** won the Michener/Copernicus Prize in fiction, the Asian American Writers Workshop Literary Award, the Lambda Editor\'s Choice Prize, and was named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly. The *Washington Post* wrote, \"A coming-of-age novel in the grand Romantic tradition, where passions run high, Cupid stalks Psyche, and love shares the dance floor with death\...A lovely, nuanced, never predictable portrait of a creative soul in the throes of becoming.\"
Alexander Chee was a recipient of a 2003 Whiting Writers\' Award.


# The Doctor's Wife (Ariyoshi novel)
***The Doctor\'s Wife***, known in Japanese as , is a noted novel by Sawako Ariyoshi written in 1966.
The partly historical novel is based on the life of noted male physician Hanaoka Seishū. Though much is based on fact, many events were added for dramatic purposes. The novel follows the protagonist, here named Kae, from youth until death. From a young age, she is fascinated with Otsugi, the wife of Hanaoka Naomichi - Otsugi is said to be the most beautiful woman in the Kishu Province. Otsugi requests that Kae be married off to her son Seishū, and Kae\'s family eventually agrees. From there Kae learns that Otsugi is not the angelic beauty she outwardly displays and they both compete for the affections of Seishū, who is experimenting on animals to develop an anesthetic for surgery. After Otsugi dies, Kae begins to let go of her direct hatred for Otsugi and begins to live her life. She has a conversation with Koriku in which Koriku states that Kae has won the contest for Umpei\'s love.


# The Peacekeepers
***The Peacekeepers*** is a 1988 *Star Trek: The Next Generation* novel by Gene DeWeese. It is set at an undetermined point during the series\' first season.
The novel takes place in the 24th century of the Star Trek science fiction universe, based on the then new television\'s shows\' characters.
While investigating an alien derelict, Geordi La Forge and Data are sent to a solar system several light-years away by a transporter with interstellar range, to a similar derelict orbiting an Earth-like planet. Once there, they are mistaken for \"the Builders\", those who the planet\'s native populace, a culture similar to late-20th-century Earth, believe are the creators of the derelict, which they call the \"Repository of the Gifts\". One of the natives, Shar-Lon, discovered the Repository some years before and used its \"Gifts\" (advanced technology) to end planetary wars that were leading to a possible nuclear holocaust. However, Shar-Lon\'s use of the Gifts since that time has led to a worldwide perception of himself and his supporters, the Peacekeepers, as a suppressive force that has limited the social and technological advancement of their people. Assuming the role of \"Builders\" in order to assess their situation, La Forge and Data are drawn into the social politics of the Peacekeepers and their world, and must extract themselves from the situation and find a way back to the *Enterprise* without further harming the natives\' culture and violating the Prime Directive.
*Star Trek: The Next Generation* was a television show inspired by science fiction show *Star Trek* that aired in the late 1960s; the new show with new characters became the highest rated show in syndication at that time, and won a Peabody award, after it debuted in the fall of 1987.
- List of Star Trek: The Next Generation novels


# Diplomatic Immunity (novel)
***Diplomatic Immunity*** is a 2002 science fiction novel by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold, part of the Vorkosigan Saga. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2003.
Miles and Ekaterin Vorkosigan are enjoying a delayed honeymoon off-world while their first two children are approaching birth in their uterine replicators back on Barrayar. On their way home, Miles receives Emperor Gregor Vorbarra\'s command to go to Graf Station in Quaddiespace to untangle a diplomatic incident in his capacity as the nearest Imperial Auditor. There, he is unexpectedly reunited with the Betan hermaphrodite Bel Thorne, a trusted former Dendarii Mercenaries subordinate and his good friend.
Quaddies are the result of genetic manipulation centuries before (as described in Bujold\'s novel *Falling Free*). Intended to be used as laborers in zero-G, they have extra arms instead of legs. However, the invention of artificial gravity rendered them useless to the corporation that created them. They stole a spaceship to avoid being liquidated and colonized a remote star system. At Graf Station, the Quaddies occupy a zero-G section, while visitors use a section with artificial gravity. Quaddies tend to be suspicious of other humans based on their history of callous exploitation.
A convoy of Komarran merchant ships are being prevented from leaving the station due to trouble caused by Barrayaran personnel from their military escort. Furthermore, a Barrayaran security officer is missing, possibly murdered or deserted.


# Diplomatic Immunity (novel)
While investigating, Miles uncovers a plot by a high-ranking, renegade, sexless Cetagandan to steal a cargo of extreme importance to the Cetagandans and hide its tracks, if necessary, by framing Barrayar. By the time Miles figures out what is going on, he and Bel have become infected by a highly lethal bioweapon. Miles nearly dies and barely averts an interstellar war between Cetaganda and Barrayar.
Jeff Zaleski, in his *Publishers Weekly* review, praised Bujold\'s worldbuilding and \"witty, character-centered plot\".\" *Booklist* was mixed in their review saying \"though Miles remains clever and debonair throughout, too many early series references needlessly obfuscate a breezy, conventional, albeit deep-space, whodunit.\" Paul Brink, in his review for *School Library Journal* called it a \"quick read (with) an abundance of plot twists\", noting that Bujold \"gets the technical details right, but keeps explanations to a minimum\".