Showing posts with label Literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Literature. Show all posts

Saturday, 9 April 2011

Roald Dahl - Books and Works


Children's stories
The Gremlins (1943)
James and the Giant Peach (1961)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)
The Magic Finger (1966)
Fantastic Mr Fox (1970)
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972)
Danny, the Champion of the World (1975)
The Enormous Crocodile (1978)
The Twits (1980)
George's Marvellous Medicine (1981)
The BFG (1982)
The Witches (1983)
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me (1985)
Matilda (1988)
Esio Trot (1989)
The Vicar of Nibbleswicke (1990)
The Minpins (1991)

Childrens Poetry
Revolting Rhymes (1982)
Dirty Beasts (1984)
Rhyme Stew (1989)

Adult fiction
Novels

Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen (1948)
My Uncle Oswald (1979)

Short story collections
Over To You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying (1946)
Someone Like You (1953)
Lamb to the Slaughter (1953)
Kiss Kiss (1960)
Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl (1969)
Switch Bitch (1974)
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More (1977)
The Best of Roald Dahl (1978)
Tales of the Unexpected (1979)
More Tales of the Unexpected (1980)
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories (1983)
The Roald Dahl Omnibus (Dorset Press, 1986)
Two Fables (1986).("Princess and the Poacher" and "Princess Mammalia")
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl (1989)
The Collected Short Stories of Dahl (1991)
The Roald Dahl Treasury (1997)
The Great Automatic Grammatizator (1997). (Known in the USA as The Umbrella Man and Other Stories).
Skin And Other Stories (2000)
Roald Dahl: Collected Stories (2006)

Non-fiction
The Mildenhall Treasure (1946, 1977, 1999)
Boy – Tales of Childhood (1984)
Going Solo (1986) Measles, a Dangerous Illness (1986
Memories with Food at Gipsy House (1991)
Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety (1991)
My Year (1993)
Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes by Felicity Dahl, et al. (1994)
Roald Dahl's Even More Revolting Recipes by Felicity Dahl, et al. (2001)

Plays
The Honeys (1955)

Film scripts
The Gremlins (1943)
36 Hours (1965)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
The Night Digger (1971)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Friday, 4 March 2011

Clive Cussler Bibliography


Dirk Pitt adventure novels

The Mediterranean Caper (1973) Released in the United Kingdom as "MAYDAY!"
Iceberg (1975)
Raise the Titanic! (1976)
Vixen 03 (1978)
Night Probe! (1981)
Pacific Vortex! (1983) NB: was the first written, before The Mediterranean Caper.
Deep Six (1984)
Cyclops (1986)
Treasure (1988)
Dragon (1990)
Sahara (1992)
Inca Gold (1994)
Shock Wave (1996)
Flood Tide (1997)
Atlantis Found (1999)
Valhalla Rising (2001)*
Trojan Odyssey (2003)*
Black Wind (2004)*
Treasure of Khan (2006)*
Arctic Drift (2008)*
Crescent Dawn (2010)*
(* Novels featuring Pitt's children, Dirk and Summer)

NUMA Files - co-authored with Paul Kemprecos

Serpent (1999)
Blue Gold (2000)
Fire Ice (2002)
White Death (2003)
Lost City (2004)
Polar Shift (2005)
The Navigator (2007)
Medusa (2009)
Devil's Gate (2011)

The Oregon Files - co-authored with Craig Dirgo on first two, Jack DuBrul on the rest

Golden Buddha (2003)
Sacred Stone (2004)
Dark Watch (2005)
Skeleton Coast (2006)
Plague Ship (2008)
Corsair (2009)
The Silent Sea (2010)
The Jungle (2011)

Isaac Bell Tales - co-authored with Justin Scott
The Chase (2007)
The Wrecker (2009)
The Spy (2010)
The Race (2011)
The Thief (2012)

Fargo Adventures - co-authored with Grant Blackwood
Spartan Gold (2009)
Lost Empire (2010)
The Kingdom (June, 2011)

Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed (1998)

Non-Fiction
The Sea Hunters: True Adventures With Famous Shipwrecks (1996)
Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed (1998)
The Sea Hunters II: Diving the World's Seas for Famous Shipwrecks (2002)

Wednesday, 2 March 2011

The Stories of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Sherlock Holmes Novels

1887 A Study in Scarlet
1890 The Sign of Four
1902 The Hound of the Baskervilles
1914 The Valley of Fear

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Contains 12 stories published 1891–1892 with original illustrations by Sidney Paget.

"A Study in Scarlet
"A Scandal in Bohemia"
"The Red-Headed League"
"A Case of Identity"
"The Boscombe Valley Mystery"
"The Five Orange Pips"
"The Man with the Twisted Lip"
"The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle"
"The Adventure of the Speckled Band"
"The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb"
"The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor"
"The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet"
"The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Contains 12 stories published 1892–1893 with original illustrations by Sidney Paget.

"The Adventure of Silver Blaze"
"The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" (this story is included as part of His Last Bow in American editions of the canon)
"The Adventure of the Yellow Face"
"The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk"
"The Adventure of the Gloria Scott" (Holmes's first case, described to Watson)
"The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual" (another early case, told by Holmes to Watson)
"The Adventure of the Reigate Squire"
"The Adventure of the Crooked Man"
"The Adventure of the Resident Patient"
"The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter" (Mycroft appears for the first time)
"The Adventure of the Naval Treaty"
"The Adventure of the Final Problem" (Watson reports the death of Holmes)

The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Contains 13 stories published 1903–1904 with original illustrations by Sidney Paget.

"The Adventure of the Empty House" (the return of Holmes)
"The Adventure of the Norwood Builder"
"The Adventure of the Dancing Men"
"The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist"
"The Adventure of the Priory School"
"The Adventure of Black Peter"
"The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton"
"The Adventure of the Six Napoleons"
"The Adventure of the Three Students"
"The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez"
"The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter"
"The Adventure of the Abbey Grange"
"The Adventure of the Second Stain"

His Last Bow
Contains 9 stories published 1908–1913, 1917.

"The Singular Experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles"
"The Tiger of San Pedro"
(the above make up a two-part story usually listed in anthologies as "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge", but originally published simply as "A Reminiscence of Mr Sherlock Holmes")
"The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" (this story is in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes in British editions of the canon)
"The Adventure of the Red Circle"
"The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" (Mycroft appears)
"The Adventure of the Dying Detective"
"The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax"
"The Adventure of the Devil's Foot"
"His Last Bow" (told in third-person)

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Contains 12 stories published 1921–1927.

"The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone" (told in third-person)
"The Problem of Thor Bridge"
"The Adventure of the Creeping Man"
"The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire"
"The Adventure of the Three Garridebs"
"The Adventure of the Illustrious Client"
"The Adventure of the Three Gables"
"The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier" (narrated by Holmes)
"The Adventure of the Lion's Mane" (narrated by Holmes)
"The Adventure of the Retired Colourman"
"The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger"
"The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place"

The Works of William Shakespeare


The Plays

1589 Comedy of Errors
1590 Henry VI (Part II), Henry VI (Part III)
1591 Henry VI, Part I
1592 Richard III
1593 Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus
1594 Romeo and Juliet, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labour's Lost
1595 Richard II, Midsummer Night's Dream
1596 King John, Merchant of Venice
1597 Henry IV (Part I), Henry IV (Part II)
1598 Henry V, Much Ado about Nothing
1599 Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Julius Caesar
1600 Hamlet, Merry Wives of Windsor
1601 Troilus and Cressida
1602 All's Well That Ends Well
1604 Othello, Measure for Measure
1605 King Lear, Macbeth
1606 Antony and Cleopatra
1607 Coriolanus, Timon of Athens
1608 Pericles
1609 Cymbeline
1610 Winter's Tale
1611 Tempest
1612 Henry VIII

The Poems

1593 Venus and Adonis
1594 Rape of Lucrece
1598 Passionate Pilgrim
1601 Phoenix and the Turtle
1609 Lover's Complaint

http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/

Monday, 28 June 2010

Ten of the greatest literary crime novels

Ten of the greatest literary crime novels

By IAN RANKIN, Journalist, author and television presenter

1. THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS AND CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER
James Hogg, 1824.

2. BLEAK HOUSE
Charles Dickens, 1853.

3. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1866.

4. STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886.

5. BRIGHTON ROCK
Graham Greene, 1938.

6. THE BIG SLEEP
Chandler, 1939.

7. ROSEANNA
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, 1965.

8. THE DRIVER'S SEAT
Muriel Spark, 1970.

9. THE NAME OF THE ROSE
Umberto Eco, 1980.

10. LIVE FLESH
Ruth Rendell, 1986.

Read more: http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1260343/IAN-RANKIN-Ten-greatest-literary-crime-novels.html#ixzz0s8b6K7y6