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...eat and, thus, attracts female flies eager to lay their eggs. Researchers from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Italy's Universi... ... Fleming, Ian Ian Lancaster Fleming (1908-1964), the author of the James Bond 007 novels, was the grandson of a Scottish banker and the son of a C... ..., translated to 11 languages and with total sales of 18 million copies. James Bond novels are now being authored by a new generation of writers. ... ...itle as one of his favorite books. Many movie plots were loosely based on Fleming's novels and have grossed, in total, more than $1 billion. The 007... ...n. He accumulated a library of anatomy books, porn magazines, horror and adventure novels, historical accounts of the Nazi medical experiments in A...

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... it for Jacob?” “No, in actual fact, it’s for Jakob, pronounced Yawkaup, a Swedish name. My mother is from Sweden. She met my father in England where ... ...enpick,” he said after tasting the wine, “rosti and rahmschnitzel – that’s Swedish for potatoes fried in butter and pork schnitzel in cream sauce. Als... ...et intimacy is beyond me!” Oh my! I suppose, if I am going to keep writing novels, I shall have to learn all this dreadful stuff. I am not ready to re... ... cluding histories, cook books, biographies, fiction, and all her mother’s novels, these neatly aligned by order of publication. A computer on a small... ...ther is an author? What does she write?” “You’d probably call them romance novels, although they don’t fit that mode exactly. They are love stories bu...

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...- in knowing when to let go. Return The Myth of the Earnings Yield In American novels, well into the 1950's, one finds protagonists using the f... ...of the 1997 Nobel Prize in the Economic Sciences The Pricing of Options The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 1997 Bank o...

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... Portfolio Management Theory and Technical Analysis Lecture Notes In American novels, well into the 1950's, one finds protagonists using the f... ...omics, 1997 Location Choice and Employment Decisions: A Comparison of German and Swedish Multinationals - SO Becker, K Ekholm, R Jäckle, MA Muend...

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... inspirational and mind-invigorating, that kills the miasmatic influence which novels exhale, and which gives nourishment to laudable ambition towards... ... sailor of the olden time was a curiosity. All remember him as depicted in the novels and romances of Dana and Marryatt and others; his bronzed visage... ...age, the Vega, was manned by two officers and seventeen men, volunteers of the Swedish navy. It was a staunch whaler of two hundred and ninety-nine to... ...d that progress was almost impossible. In this far off corner of the world the Swedish explorer came near meeting one of his countrymen, a whaler name...

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... shillings (compared to the usual guinea or more). The Railway Library of novels (1,300 volumes) costs 1 shilling apiece only eight decades later. T... ... have English, Latin, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Portuguese, Old Dutch, Bulgarian, Dutch/Flemish, G...

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...ch attest their fidelity to facts. In the former class stand the admirable novels of De Foe; and, on a lower range, within the same category, the inim... ...e sued. It appeared that this artless young rustic, who had never heard of novels and romances as a bare possibility amongst all the shameless de- vic... ...n general—to peasants even more than to gentlemen—in our English plays and novels, is a childish and fantastic babble, belonging to no form of real br... ...who have no personal access to their presence. In the fabulous pictures of novels (such novels as once abounded), and in newspaper reports of conversa... ...n. This innovation upon the old practice of war had been introduced by the Swedish armies, whose north- ern habits and training had fortunately prepar... ... in the imperial ser- vice, they had received cheerful assistance; and any Swedish corps, which rumor had presented as formidable by their numbers, th... ...rest Paulina, that you are with us, I would think the risk not *It was the Swedish General Kniphausen, a favorite of Gustavus, to whom this maxim is a... ... the library some of the officers had detected sufficient evidences of the Swedish alliances clandestinely maintained by the Landgrave; numbers of rar... ...he imperial leaders of distinction, and many of 271 Thomas de Quincey the Swedish. Maximilian and his brother officers took the liveliest pleasure in...

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...s a consummate artist, led first and foremost by his love for his art, his novels are undying historical pictures. It is not that there is anything al... ...g historical pictures. It is not that there is anything allegorical in his novels—alle- gory is at the furthest pole from his method: it is that when-... ... Trafalgar and Waterloo were being fought and won. But each of T urgenev’s novels in some subtle way suggests that the people he introduces are playin... ...critics and diplomatists must necessarily misrepresent. Each of Turgenev’s novels may be said to contain a light- bringing rejoinder to the old-fashio... ..., and still, unfortunately, lingering among us; but On the Eve, of all the novels, contains perhaps the most instructive political lesson England can ... ... a red net, her dress of faded blue satin was too tight for her, and thick Swedish gloves reached up to her sharp elbows. Indeed, how could she, the d...

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... service to command. It is a name you may have seen in Gallo Belgicus, the Swedish Intelligencer, or, if you read High Dutch, in the Fliegenden Mercoe... ..., sir,” said Lord Menteith, “that you should have continued so long in the Swedish service, than that you should have ultimately withdrawn from it.” “... ...em. I was often obliged to run my head against my old acquain- tances, the Swedish feathers, whilk your honour must con- ceive to be double-pointed st... ...d before the squad of pikes to prevent an onfall of the cavalry. The whilk Swedish feathers, although they look gay to the eye, resembling the shrubs ... ...word and pike until they beat off the 40 Sir Walter Scott blue and yellow Swedish brigades, esteemed as stout as any that fought under the immortal G... ...ss and tedious. I have the vanity to suppose, that the popularity of these Novels has shown my countrymen, and their peculiarities, in lights which we...

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... now to defend her faith by seeing imagination and enterprise in the young Swedish farmers, and in a traveling man working over his order-blanks. But ... ...d, shut, forbidding unit bookcases that were half filled with swashbuckler novels and un- read-looking sets of Dickens, Kipling, O. Henry, and Elbert ... ...ll spare woman with flaxen hair trotted from the house. She was twanging a Swedish patois—not in mono- tone, like English, but singing it, with a lyri... ...old Bell Wright is a lovely writer, and he teaches such good morals in his novels, and folks say he’s made prett’ near a million dollars out of ‘em.” ... ...ar to Gopher Prairie: Mosher editions of the poets, black and red Ger- man novels, a Charles Lamb in crushed levant. Guy did not sit down. He quartere... ...rs, presenting not only a lithographic young woman with cherry lips, and a Swedish advertisement of Axel Egge’s grocery, but also a thermometer and a ... ..., “that this is a moral country. We don’t allow any of these beastly frank novels.” “Yump. Vice Society and Postal Department won’t stand for them. Th... ...n against the sink, and talk to them. They were attracted to each other; a Swedish Othello and Desdemona, more useful and amiable than their pro- toty... ...d Paris. In the Minneapolis station the crowd of lumberjacks, farmers, and Swedish families with innumerous children and grandparents and paper parcel...

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...er, I was in- troduced to it. It is long since I frequented it, and if the novels that describe its present singularities are accurate much in it is n... ...e combined a masculine intelli- gence with a feminine perversity , and the novels she wrote were original and disconcerting. It was at her house one d... ... Waterford was a cynic. She looked upon life as an opportunity for writing novels and the public as her raw material. Now and then she invited members... ... place among the other affairs of the day , and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an impor- tance which is untrue to life. There are few men ... ...unters along the streets — Lascars off a P . and O., blond Northmen from a Swedish barque, Japa- nese from a man-of-war, English sailors, Span- iards,...

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...a horse; Thursday I was better, but still out of ability to do aught but read awful trash. This is the time one misses civilisation; I wished to send ... ...but when I remem- ber I had the Treasure of Franchard refused as unfit for a family magazine, I feel despair weigh upon my wrists. As I know you are a... ...d already) right at Lady Jersey’s shoulder. She started in fine style. —‘There,’ I said, ‘we have been giving you a chap- ter of Scott, but this goes ... ... adventure, rambling along; but that is perhaps the guard that ‘sets my genius best,’ as Alan might have said. I wish I could feel as easy about the o... ...weeks past, I have only struggled from p. 58 to p. 82: twenty-four pages, et encore sure to be rewritten, in twenty-one days. This is no prize-taker... ...roubles in Samoa. That is what we want; a man that knows and likes the natives, qui paye de sa personne, and is not afraid of hanging when necessary. ...

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...rself; but the tears did not fall; and she opened one of those innumerable novels which she used to pronounce good or bad, or pretty middling, or real... ...oked up suddenly. Her eyes were full of eagerness and interest. “You write novels?” she asked. For the moment he could not think what he was saying. H... ...want to write them.” She would not take her large grey eyes off his face. “Novels,” she repeated. “Why do you write novels? You ought to write music. ... ... Italian masterpieces hung on the walls, and views of Venetian bridges and Swedish waterfalls which members of the family had seen years ago. There we... ...The interest with which Rachel looked at him was heard in her voice. “What novels do you write?” she asked. “I want to write a novel about Silence,” h... ...or there was not room for them side by side. “What I want to do in writing novels is very much what you want to do when you play the piano, I expect,”...

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...ure of that, when they are forced to gather together in a company and hear novels read aloud! They only do it because they can’t help it, depend upon ... ...t. “Eglantine dressed it this very night.” “For Countess Baldenstiern, the Swedish Hambassador’s lady,” says Eglantine (his Hebrew partner was by no m... ...e fate of carpets, of flowers, of music, of men, and of the most admirable novels—even this story will not be alive for many centuries. Well, well, wh... ...as for the respect in which marriage is held in France, let all the French novels in M. Rolandi’s library be perused by those who wish to come to a de...

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...and order you to botanize and prescribe tranquillizing reading; Trollope’s novels, the Life of Gladstone, the works of Mr. A. C. Benson, memoirs and s... .... In the drawing-room he found only Sir James Mounce, the man who knew the novels of Sir Walter Scott by heart and had the minutest and most unsparing... ...ikeman, “aren’t you still rather in the position of a man who insists upon Swedish exercises and a strengthening di- etary on a raft?” “I think you ha...

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...read Lord Byron when I didn’t learn it to teach Exupere. I much prefer the novels of Ducray- Dumenil to all these English romances. I’m too good a Nor... ... world.” T ears shone in the eyes of the poor fellow, who was the son of a Swedish sailor, and whose mother was dead. “I have no one in the world but ... ...cely permissible in any woman, even a Julie d’Etanges. Good God! what harm novels do!” “W e should live them, my dear father, whether people wrote the... ...ys as there were under Louis XIV. and Louis XV., and so they publish fewer novels. Be- sides, if you have read those letters, you must know that I hav...

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...hore was a multitude of fishing smacks—English, Scotch, French, Dutch, and Swedish; steam launches from the Thames, yachts, electric boats; and beyond... ...e must make great safe places down deep, and get all the books we can; not novels and poetry swipes, but ideas, science books. That’s where men like y...

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...n sees his line, his in- tention. Yet though we are all of us writing long novels— White’s world was the literary world, and that is how it looked to ... ...d, it professes a hero but presents a heroine. And to begin with at least, novels were written for the reading of heroines. Miss Lydia Languish sets n... ...im that something of their easy-going free- dom was to be found in Russian novels. A photographic en- largement of somebody with a vegetarian expressi... ...of the happy lover. This at any rate was what White had always done in his novels hith- erto, and what he would certainly have done at this point had ... ...l let’s set about making it accessible and harmless and have done with it. Swedish exercises. That sort of thing. If it isn’t, if it can be reduced an...

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...hs. In this, however, he failed when his wit consisted in allusions to the novels of the day, of which Guy knew nothing. One morning he under- went a ... ...did not occur to her; she was eighteen, she had no experience, not even in novels, she did not know what she had done; and above all, she had so leant... ...n to plume himself on making his judgment conquer his inclination, setting novels at defiance. How magnanimously he would resolve to stifle a hopeless... ...g of all this, so I can’t venture to say a word.’ ‘She is very innocent of novels,’ said Charles, ‘and that is well. It would be an unlucky business t... ...ardened her. She always had a dread of tete-a-tetes and conversations over novels, and these were apt to be unavoidable when Eveleen was at Hollywell.... ...ted to hear, called out,— ‘Sir Guy himself! No one else could whistle that Swedish air so correctly!’ ‘My uncle!’ exclaimed Guy. ‘I did not know that ...

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...ith Madame Dionis, and supposed to be educated because 13 Balzac she read novels. Full of pretensions to wit and elegance, she was awaiting her uncle... ...clopaedias, and books were an attraction to a retired captain of the Royal-Swedish regiment, named Monsieur de Jordy, a Voltairean nobleman and an old...

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...‘Insanity’). In short, she was a walking calculation, Miss Edgeworth’s novels stepping from their covers, Or Mrs. Trimmer’s books on education... ...much youth and reading, But was in them their nature or their fate: No novels e’er had set their young hearts bleeding, For Haidee’s knowledge... ... of surrender By mowing Christians down on every side, As obstinate as Swedish Charles at Bender. His five brave boys no less the foe defied; ... ...ys strange; Stranger than fiction; if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men beho...

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...ks about working overtime, that wants to spend his evenings reading trashy novels or spooning and exchanging a lot of nonsense and foolishness with so... ...pants for the children of the poor while Mrs. Drew read aloud from earnest novels. Though Dr. Drew’s theology was Presbyterian, his church- building w... ..., they were trudging off to lectures by authors and Hindu philosophers and Swedish lieutenants. “Gosh,” Babbitt wailed to his wife, as they walked hom... ...ored with real wine); Orville Jones spent hours in picking out the kind of novels Mrs. Babbitt liked— nice love stories about New York millionaries an...

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... free to become samurai. Here, too, it will be manifest there is scope for novels and the drama of life. In practice, it seems that it is only men of ... ...- geration of implication, that no one laughs at talk about 197 H G Wells Swedish painting or American literature. And I will confess and point out t...

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... stakes—with locality to help, of course. Although I am away off here in a Swedish village * and those stakes did not stand till the snow came, I can ... ... third rates, of worn and commonplace and juiceless forms that makes their novels such a weariness and vexation to us, I think. We do not mind one or ...

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.... Impossible to say what she might not have done had she found him reading novels or an impious news- paper. T o her, novel ideas meant the overthrow ... ...oon, the fishermen were saying that they had seen a little vessel, Danish, Swedish, or Norwegian, in the offing.” This speech brought a flush to the c... ...u may go,”—a brief sentence, which served as a signal for the combat. “The novels you make, my dear, are more dangerous than those you write,” said th...

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...thy AUTHOR’S NOTE “NOSTROMO” is the most anxiously meditated of the longer novels which belong to the period following upon the publication of the “Ty... ...ir faces their impres- sion that the general must have had too much punch (Swedish punch, imported in bottles by Anzani) at 142 Nostromo the Amarilla...

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...“Thy Soul shall bear Witness” (Körkarlen) by the Swedish Nobel Laureate Selma Lagerlöf is a kind of spooky Novel. It was first published in 1912 and in English in 1922, the same year as the international release of the Silent Movie “The Phantom Carriage”, today considered a...

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...been the actual time. It must have been when I was taking my baths, and my Swedish exercises, being manicured. Leading the life I did, of the sedulous... ...as saying to myself, fiercely, hissing it between my teeth, as they say in novels—and really clenching them together: I was saying to myself: ‘Now, I’... ...t add that poor dear Edward was a great reader—he would pass hours lost in novels of a sentimental type—novels in which typewriter girls mar- ried Mar... ...re. Even when he was twenty-two he would pass hours reading one of Scott’s novels or the Chronicles of Froissart. Mrs Ashburnham considered that she w... ...well read as Lenora, at any rate in learned books. Leonora could not stand novels. But, even with all her differences, Mrs Basil did not appear to Leo... ...excess, his nights out, his, let us say, rutting seasons. She had read few novels, so that the idea of a pure and constant love succeeding the sound o...

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...mber what happened next. Anyone who wants to know how love begins may read novels and long stories; I will put it shortly and in the words of the same... ...he first year the books he sent for were principally of a light character; novels with a complicated love plot, sensational and fantastic stories, and... ...on by everyone as a German, though he was in reality on his father’ s side Swedish, on his mother’s side Russian, and attended the Orthodox church. He... ... mother’s side Russian, and attended the Orthodox church. He knew Russian, Swedish, and German. He had read a good deal in those languages, and nothin... ... grandmother, my father’s mother, an excellent old lady. She told me it in Swedish, and it does not sound so fine, so classical, in Russian.” But we b...

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...but for this no other form could be devised than that of the Richardsonian novels. Only by the minutest detail, by endless particularities which bear ... ...Hofrath Pfeil, author of the “Count von P .,” a continuation of Gellert’s “Swedish Countess;” Zachariä, a brother of the poet; and Krebel, editor of g... ...esigns, larger and smaller plates, which came more and more into vogue for novels and po- ems. He etched very neatly, so that his work came out of the...

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...nts called him, with kindly irony, notre cher philosophe. But when he read novels, told improper anecdotes, went to see funny vaudevilles in the Frenc... ...sher said she might. Having got permission, she removed the three-buttoned Swedish kid glove from her plump, white hand, and from an elegant purse bro... ...“That ostentatious German,” said the driver (who had been to town and read novels) as he sat sideways on the box, passing his hand from the top to the...

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...myantsev, the Chan- cellor; Stein, a former Prussian minister; Armfeldt, a Swedish general; Pfuel, the chief author of the plan of campaign; Paulucci,... ...tions for the Emperor personally. To this semicouncil had been invited the Swedish General Armfeldt, Adjutant General W olzogen, Wintzingerode (whom N... ...uted his arguments, others defended them. Young Count Toll objected to the Swedish general’s views more warmly than anyone else, and in the course of ... ...Y ou know , Count, such knights as you are only found in Madame de Souza’s novels.” “What knights? What do you mean?” demanded Pierre, blushing. “Oh, ... ...f, the let- ters he wrote from Tarutino to Madame de Stael, the reading of novels, the distribution of awards, his corre- spondence with Petersburg, a... ...ary things. He wrote letters to his daughters and to Madame de Stael, read novels, liked the society of pretty women, jested with generals, officers, ...

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...rman work man who pushed the carriage. Close by was standing a flaxen headed Swedish count, whom Kitty knew by name. Several invalids were lingering n... ...es; I’m used to it,” said Madame Stahl, and she introduced the prince to the Swedish count. 220 Anna Karenina “You are scarcely changed at all,” the ... ...ess and of that modern European luxury of which she had only read in English novels, but had never seen in Russia and in the country. Everything was n... ...ance when they had no visitors, and she did a great deal of reading, both of novels and of what serious literature was in fashion. She ordered all the...

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...ls every half hour through the night, as at sea. My watchmate was John, the Swedish sailor, and we stood from twelve to two, he walking the larboard ... ...racter; and kinder feelings exist. Godwin, though an infidel, in one of his novels, describing the relation in which a tutor stood to his pupil, sa...