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Northern Lights (titled The Golden Compass in North America and some other countries) is a young-adult fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, published in 1995 by Scholastic UK.Set in a parallel universe, it follows the journey of Lyra Belacqua to the Arctic in search of her missing friend, Roger Parslow, and her imprisoned uncle, Lord Asriel, who has been conducting experiments with a mysterious ...
The Little Prince (French: Le Petit Prince, pronounced [lə p (ə)ti pʁɛ̃s]) is a novella written and illustrated by French writer, and military pilot, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It was first published in English and French in the United States by Reynal & Hitchcock in April 1943 and was published posthumously in France following liberation ...
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Grete Leitgeb, Josef Leitgeb
- 1943
Sue Grafton. Sue Taylor Grafton (April 24, 1940 – December 28, 2017) was an American author of detective novels. She is best known as the author of the "alphabet series" ("A" Is for Alibi, etc.) featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California.
978-0-8112-1569-5. OCLC. 58600742. Amerika, (German working title Der Verschollene, "The Missing") also known as The Man Who Disappeared (Amerika), [1] Amerika: The Missing Person [2] and Lost in America, [3] is the incomplete first novel by author Franz Kafka (1883–1924), written between 1911 and 1914 [4] and published posthumously in 1927.
- Franz Kafka, Michael Hofmann
- 1927
Aug 1, 2021 · "Tunnel 29" -- the story of an extraordinary escape from East to West Berlin -- is a testament to the resiliency of the human spirit. Hope springs eternal, and no Authoritarian regime, no matter how horrific, how cruel, or how oppressive it is, can override the quest for freedom, and the universal right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of ...
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—Frank Norris, quoted from his essay "The True Reward of the Novelist", in a title card at the beginning of Greed. In 1908, John McTeague works in a gold mine in Placer County, California. A traveling dentist calling himself Dr. "Painless" Potter visits the town, and McTeague's mother begs Potter to take her son on as an apprentice. Potter agrees and McTeague eventually becomes a dentist ...
