Literary Afterlife
The Posthumous Continuations of 325 Authors' Fictional Characters
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
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- Utgivningsdatum2010-01-05
- Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
- Vikt540 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor420
- FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
- ISBN9780786441792
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Bernard A. Drew, an associate editor of The Lakeville Journal and its associated weekly newspapers in Northwest Connecticut, has written 50 books. He lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
- Table of ContentsIntroduction Action and Adventure Edgar Rice Burroughs Michael Crichton C.S. Forester H. Rider Haggard Gary Jennings W.E. Johns William W. Johnstone Jim Kjelgaard Alistair MacLean Patrick O’Brien Baroness Emmuska Orczy Sax Rohmer Barry Sadler Sapper Russell Thorndike Edgar Wallace Johann David Wyss Dornford Yates Classics (18th Century and Earlier) Anonymous (Beowulf) Miguel Cervantes Geoffrey Chaucer John Cleland Daniel Defoe Henry Fielding Homer Alain-René Lesage Matthew Lewis Christopher Marlowe Murasaki Shikibu Samuel Richardson William Shakespeare Jonathan Swift Cao Xueqin Classics (19th Century) Edwin A. Abbott Louisa May Alcott Edward Bulwer-Lytton Anton Chekhov James Fenimore Cooper Charles Dickens Fyodor Dostoyevsky Alexandre Dumas George Du Maurier George Eliot Thomas Hardy Nathaniel Hawthorne E.T.A. Hoffman Thomas Hughes Victor Hugo Henrik Ibsen Henry James Charles Kingsley Rudyard Kipling D.H. Lawrence Gaston Leroux Charles Maturin Herman Melville Edgar Allan Poe George Sand Sir Walter Scott George Bernard Shaw Mary Shelley Robert Louis Stevenson Harriet Beecher Stowe August Strindberg William Makepeace Thackeray Leo Tolstoy Anthony Trollope Ivan Turgenev Mark Twain Lew Wallace Edith Wharton Oscar Wilde Classics (20th Century) James Agee James Robert Baker Samuel Beckett Henry Bellamann Max Brand Albert Camus Raymond Carver William Frend De Morgan Daphne Du Maurier Ralph Ellison William Faulkner F. Scott Fitzgerald Alex Haley Ernest Hemingway James Hilton Franz Kafka Bernard Katz Jack Kerouac Jack London Malcolm Lowry Thomas Mann Horace McCoy Amanda McKittrick Grace Metalious Margaret Mitchell Vladimir Nabokov John O’Brien Kyle Onstott Boris Pasternak Richard Powell Mario Puzo Harold Robbins J.D. Salinger Michael Shaara Robert Neilson Stephens Jacqueline Susann Angela Thirkell Walter C. Utt Helen Van Slyke David Foster Wallace Robert Penn Warren Evelyn Waugh Thomas Wolfe Crime and Mystery Cleve F. Adams Margery Allingham William Ard H.C. Bailey Earl Derr Biggers John G. Brandon Heron Carvic William J. Caunitz Raymond Chandler Leslie Charteris G.K. Chesterton Agatha Christie Wilkie Collins Arthur Conan Doyle Cyril Connolly John Creasey Elizabeth Daly August Derleth R. Austin Freeman Emile Gaboriau Erle Stanley Gardner Bruce Graeme Patrick Hamilton Dashiell Hammett Thomas W. Hanshew Chester Himes Edward D. Hoch E.W. Hornung Delfried Kaufmann Ross MacDonald Stuart Palmer Ellery Queen Craig Rice Virginia Rich Elliott Roosevelt Rebecca Rothenberg Lawrence Sanders John A. Saxon Dorothy L. Sayers Georges Simenon Charles Merrill Smith Mickey Spillane Richard Stark Rex Stout Murray Thomas Arthur W. Upfield S.S. Van Dine Cornell Woolrich Espionage Edward S. Aarons Desmond Bagley John Buchan Erskine Childers Ian Fleming Robert Ludlum Eugène Vidocq Fantasy and Horror V.C. Andrews Robert Lynn Asprin Algernon Blackwood Marion Zimmer Bradley Avram Davidson David Gemmell Robert E. Howard Robert Jordan Robert Kornwise Richard Laymon Fritz Lieber H.P. Lovecraft Michael McDowell A. Merritt Andre Norton Mervyn Peake John William Polidori M.P. Shiel L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt Bram Stoker J.R.R. Tolkien Manly Wade Wellman Cherry Wilder Austin Tappan Wright Humor E.F. Benson Hugh Foulis George Grossmith Joel Chandler Harris Thorne Smith P.G. Wodehouse Juveniles (19th Century) William Adams Horatio Alger, Jr. Helen Bannerman Lewis Carroll Oliver Optic Anna Sewell Johanna Spyri Juveniles (20th Century) Robert Arthur, Jr. Wilbert Awdry Enid Bagnold J.M. Barrie L. Frank Baum Ludwig Bemelmans John Bellairs Enid Blyton Margaret Wise Brown Frances Hodgson Burnett Julie Campbell Matt Christopher James Oliver Curwood Jean de Brunhoff Dr. Seuss Walter Farley Rachel Field Louise Fitzhugh Don Freeman Kenneth Grahame Hardie Gramatky Johnny Gruelle Hergé Anthony R.M. Hodges Caroline Emilia Jacobs Ezra Jack Keats Eric Knight Rae Lambert Hugh Lofting Betty MacDonald Ellen MacGregor A.A. Milne Lucy Maud Montgomery Jack O’Brien Robert C. O’Brien Scott O’Dell Peggy Parish Eleanor H. Porter Beatrix Potter H.A. and Margaret Rey Dorothy Richards Frank Richards J.K. Rowling H.L. Sayler Richard Scarry Dodie Smith Margaret Sutton Albert Payson Terhune Barbara Euphan Todd Edith Van Dyne Charles Spain Verral Gertrude Chandler Warner Kate Douglas Wiggin Laura Ingalls Wilder Poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge Emily Dickinson William Henry Drummond Robert Frost Joyce Kilmer Archibald Lampman Clement Clarke Moore Banjo Paterson Sylvia Plath Ernest Lawrence Thayer Henry David Thoreau Walt Whitman William Wordsworth Pulps Lars Anderson Bertha M. Clay Maxwell Grant Kenneth Robeson Grant Stockbridge Romances Jane Austen Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Georgette Heyer Grace Livingston Hill Science Fiction Douglas Adams Isaac Asimov Alfred Bester Pierre Boulle Arthur C. Clarke Jo Clayton Brian Daley Philip K. Dick Robert Heinlein Frank Herbert Craig Hinton L. Ron Hubbard C.M. Kornbluth Walter M. Miller Philip Nowlan George Orwell H. Beam Piper Alex Raymond Eric Frank Russell E.E. “Doc” Smith A.E. van Vogt Jules Verne Kurt Vonnegut Stanley G. Weinbaum H.G. Wells John Wyndham Roger Zelazny Westerns Burt Arthur B.M. Bower Max Brand Ralph Compton Hal Dunning Brian Wynne Garfield Zane Grey Marshall Grover William W. Johnstone Karl May Johnston McCulley Jon Messman Clarence E. Mulford Charles Portis Norman MacLeod Raine Les Savage, Jr. Oliver Strange Fran Striker Jonas Ward Owen Wister Bibliography Index
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