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	DVD review of And Then There Were None (VCI) - DVD Town
		This sort of thing happened close to 50 years before "The Firm" with "And Then There Were None." The film not only departs from the source novel in the way that it concludes, but it also amps up the blooming relationship between the two most attractive characters in the novel.
		In 1993, audiences were flummoxed by the fact that the filmmakers of "The Firm" had changed the ending of John Grisham’s novel.
		This film is a good lesson on how an ensemble cast is supposed to act: without vanity and with respect towards one another’s contributions to a film’s final impact.
	www.dvdtown.com /review/And_Then_There_Were_None__VCI_/8141/308 (1696 words)

	Novel in French
		Novels celebrating the cult of the soil were no longer written in Québec, except for the excellent LE SURVENANT (1945; tr The Outlander, 1950) by Germaine GUÈVREMONT, a kind of poetic revival of the genre.
		International acclaim greeted Gabrielle ROY's great novel of urban life, Bonheur d'occasion (1945; tr The Tin Flute, 1947) in which the moving story of Florentine and her poverty-stricken family was deftly set against the backdrop of Montréal's Saint-Henri district in early 1940 and a world at war.
		In this way the historical novel and the novel of the land are reinterpreted in the light of a new form of awareness: the awareness of being dominated.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=A1ARTA0005839 (1696 words)

	Blood on the Tongue : A Crime Novel: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
		In the winter of 1945, a Royal Air Force bomber crashed on the same Irontongue Hill where Marie Tennent's body was found, killing everyone except pilot Danny McTeague, who disappeared with a large sum of money.
		Then there's persistent Canadian Alison Morrissey, seeking answers about her grandfather, who vanished after the RAF bomber he was piloting crashed in the Peak District in 1945.
		Stephen Booth's third novel is every bit as good as the previous two.
	php-web-hosting.us /stuff-0743236181.html (1696 words)

	DVD Review - And Then There Were None
		There have been a number of film versions of this murder mystery story, but to this date the 1945 film by Rene Clair of the same title stands out as the one that hit the novel’s original’s nerve the most, sensibly incorporating Agatha Christie’s dark sense of humor.
		VCI Home Video has now released this first film version of the novel on DVD, giving the movie some well-deserved new exposure among film aficionados.
		The black and white film is presented in its original fullframe aspect ratio and although showing signs of aging it looks unexpectedly good.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/and_then_there_were_none.shtml (1197 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - And Then There Were None -- René Clair - DVD
		Based on the classic novel by mystery author Agatha Christie that was later adapted as the Broadway hit Ten Little Indians, And Then There Were None begins with ten characters, each with a skeleton in his or her closet, on a remote island off the English coast.
		The film's ending differs from that of the novel, and later remakes in 1966, 1975, and 1989 (all using the title Ten Little Indians), alternated between Christie's original finale and this film's climax.
		Depending on one's taste, the film's pacing is either excruciatingly slow or suspenseful, but the storyline has become a cinematic staple in everything from horror (Theatre Of Blood) to satire (Murder By Death).
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=56775069490&userid=3MOCYTL98O&frm=0&itm=2&sourceid=41417493 (377 words)

	Alibris: Buy Used Books, Used Textbooks, Rare Books, Out-of-Print & New Books
		This new novel will have the mystery lovers in your life investigating a terrifying murder during the Summer of Love.
		Soon to be a major motion picture, this captivating novel is buzzing back onto reading lists.
		Make a beeline to a new or used copy today!
	www.alibris.com (146 words)

	1945 Gingrich Forstchen Review
		As we stand in 1945, Franklin Roosevelt didn't run for a fourth term, and the president is, not Harry Truman, not Wendell Willkie, not Tom Dewey, but someone named Andrew Harrison.
		Baen has been running full-page ads for 1945 by Newt Gringrich and William R. Forstchen, saying, "You've heard the noise, now read the book." Well, I've read the book, and I'm going to save you the trouble.
		My copy of 1945 is filled with little yellow Post-It stickies flagging historical oopsies, manifest stupidities, out-of-character actions, and silly dialog.
	www.sff.net /people/doylemacdonald/r_1945.htm (2442 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Spellbound [1945]: DVD
		I am sure that when this film was released in 1945, it appeared dazzling and intriguing to its audience, dealing with presumably a novel subject to the cinematic medium at the time ; psychoanalysis and the interpretation of dreams.
		This 1945 effort was later disparaged by Hitchcock himself, and by numerous critics.
		The plot is fairly straightforward and the pace of the film ponderous as Ingrid Bergman's Constance tries to unravel the mystery behind Gregory Peck's Dr. Edwards,a man who is not what he appears.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004YN60 (1273 words)

	Dyson sphere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although Dyson is credited with being the first to formalize and popularize the concept of the Dyson sphere, Dyson himself got the idea in 1945 from a science fiction novel titled Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon.
		A star contained within a Dyson sphere would not be directly visible to the outside universe, but the Dyson sphere itself would radiate an equivalent amount of energy in the form of infrared light due to solar heating from within.
		A second type of Dyson sphere is a uniform solid shell around the star, sometimes called a "Dyson shell", often with a layer of atmosphere and soil on the inner surface to provide an astronomically large living space for organic life forms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dyson_sphere (1273 words)

	Dyson sphere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although Dyson is credited with being the first to formalize and popularize the concept of the Dyson sphere, Dyson himself got the idea in 1945 from a science fiction novel titled Star Maker by
		Jack Williamson - These are notable in that the sphere in these novels is inhabited on the outside, producing an unusual environment with both very low gravity and an atmosphere hundreds of miles deep.
		The novel Spinneret by Timothy Zahn (Dyson net).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dyson_sphere (1273 words)

	Nineteen Eighty-Four - Open Encyclopedia
		The bulk of the novel was written on the island of Jura, Scotland in the year 1948 (although Orwell had written small parts of it since 1945), and it was first published on June 8, 1949.
		London, the novel's setting, is the capital of the Oceanian province of Airstrip One, the renamed Britain and Ireland.
		The novel introduced the concepts of the ever-present, all-seeing Big Brother, the notorious Room 101, the thought police who use telescreens (televisions that contain a surveillance camera - found in almost every room of the apartments of the characters in the novel), and the fictional language Newspeak (pronounced 'new-speak').
	open-encyclopedia.com /Nineteen_Eighty-Four (2114 words)

	Scoop (novel) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The novel is partly based on Waugh's own experience working for the (additional info and facts about Daily Mail) Daily Mail, when he was sent to cover (Italian fascist dictator (1883-1945)) Mussolini's invasion of (Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; formerly called Abyssinia) Abyssinia.
		The novel is full of contrasted (yet seemingly identical) opposites: Lord Copper of the Daily Beast, Lord Zinc of the Daily Brute; the CumReds and the White Shirts, parodies of (A socialist who advocates communism) Communists and the (additional info and facts about Black Shirts) Black Shirts etc.
		[Categories: 1987 films, 1938 books, Modern Library 100 best novels, English novels]
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sc/scoop_(novel).htm (233 words)

	The Foundation Series - Kaedrin's Guide to Isaac Asimov
		Foundation's Edge: The fifth foundation novel moves ahead and begins to question the efficiency of the Foundation.
		Foundation and Empire: The second in the original trilogy, it is made up of 2 stories originally published in 1945.
		This is my possibly my favorite of the Foundation novels.
	kaedrin.com /fun/asimov/afound.html (405 words)

	Feminist SFF & Utopia: A Naomi Mitchison Bibliography
		Her first novel, The Conquered, was published in 1923 and was based on her wartime experiences.
		She never confined herself to one style, writing historical novels, science fiction, travel writing and a three volume autobiography.
		Among You Taking Notes: The Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison 1930-1945
	www.feministsf.org /femsf/authors/mitchison.html (405 words)

	CHARLES HUMBERD DIME NOVEL COLLECTION
		In 1945, Bragin's "Dime Novel Club" issued facsimile reprints of early dime novels as they appeared in serial publications.
		Dr. Charles Humberd of Bernard, Missouri, was a collector of dime novels active in the 1930s and 1940s.
		Acknowledging Charles Bragin as a source for some of the material, the sixteen-page booklet is subtitled "Blood and Thunders or Dime Novels of the 80's and 90's." Charles Bragin's stamp and address on the inside cover suggests that he distributed the booklet to his regular customers.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/humberd.htm (555 words)

	The Van Dine School
		That novel dealt with murder in a private museum of Egyptology, a museum located in a private mansion, and whose suspects were mainly specialists in Egyptian art.
		King's novels are full of abstract imagery, used to describe mental processes or emotions, and this imagery is full of references to fluids, too: tears, lakes, rain, protoplasm, jelly, and words like "floating" or "drenching".
		Unlike buildings, guns, bullets and shooting are associated not with the police in the novel, but with the older male authority figures of the circus: the animal trainer, the millionaire backer, and the circus owner.
	hometown.aol.com /MG4273/abbott.htm (19354 words)

	1984 - George Orwell
		George Orwell is most famous for his books Animal Farm (published in 1945) and 1984 (published in 1949).
		Far from being a caricature, it insightfully and skillfully characterizes the tendencies and motivations of unlimited government power, and the horrifying, hopeless result of such government: humanity denied its freedom to think, to be rational, and to dissent...its freedom to be human.
		You have just taken a step closer to respecting the importance of human freedom and dignity, and the dangers in allowing governments to usurp your freedom to dissent or be different.
	www.mondopolitico.com /library/1984/1984.htm (299 words)

	ON TARGET - Holmes, John
		A novel of a Canadian heavy bomber squadron based in Yorkshire, part of the RCAF's Six Bomber Group of R.A.F., Bomber Command, set in March, 1945.
		How the Canadian airmen survive or die, how they spend their few precious, off-duty hours, is really the subject matter of this novel.
	www.doreenstephensbooks.com /si/009701.html (299 words)

	Bombshell
		Wieland's novel suggests that the legacy of The Bomb detonated on July 16, 1945, is this mad professor's string of bombings, fifty years later.
		The novel is as much about telling, and about learning to be told, as it is about serial bombing and a hatred of technological civilization.
		The transactions of art are as much a subject of this novel as are the rituals and dangers of girlhood.
	www.tamu.edu /upress/books/2001/weiland.htm (299 words)

	Wheels Within Wheels
		This is a novel in which spring arrives when ''dog doings unfreeze, then wane,'' and a newborn has ''that squashed face, as if she'd hit a wall at high speed.'' Things tend to let Iris down twice, and the reader is spared neither disappointment.
		She leaves behind a science-fiction novel, ''The Blind Assassin,'' which becomes a great posthumous success.
		Eighteen-year-old Iris is presented to this cardboard villain like a fee and readied for the wedding by Richard's brittle, ambitious sister, Winifred, the novel's most appealingly awful creation, a sort of Miss Murdstone with plucked eyebrows.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/00/09/03/reviews/000903.03mallont.html (1127 words)

	Shirley Jackson - The Lottery
		One of her earliest times in Vermont later became material for her first book about the family, "Life Among the Savages." Between 1945 and 1947, Jackson was occupied with her first novel, "The Road Through the Wall." But it was in 1948 that her greatest success was achieved.
		Moreover, whether the protagonist is individual or collective, the novel adumbrates and begins exploration of one of Jackson's primary concerns throughout her career: the dark incomprehensible spot or stain upon the human soul and our continuing blindness and, hence, vulnerability to it.
		By focusing upon a whole neighborhood, rather than upon a single violated protagonist as in her other novels, the novel creates an effective metaphor or microcosm for the tensions inherent in the culture in the postwar period.
	www.tornadohills.com /shirley/bio.html (3825 words)

	BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Evelyn Waugh
		Waugh completed his "Roman Catholic" novel, Brideshead Revisited, during the war, which was published in 1945.
		A marked departure from his previous satirical style, this novel was a deeply serious examination of the workings of faith and providence in the lives of members of an ancient Catholic family.
		Following the success of his first novel, Waugh moved to London and became famous as a sardonic chronicler of the frivolous upper-class society of the inter-war years, notably in the novels Vile Bodies (1930) and A Handful of Dust (1934) and the short-story collection Mr Loveday's Little Outing and Other Sad Stories (1936).
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/waughe2.shtml (457 words)

	Gabrielle Roy: Enchantment and Sorrow
		Gabrielle Roy (1909-83) was so convinced that a novel set in the working class world of Saint-Henri was crying out to be written that she feared someone else would get there before her.
		Though Bonheur d'occasion (later translated as The Tin Flute) would not be published until 1945, Roy began immediately to bring the district to life in a series of articles for one of her freelance markets, the Bulletin des agriculteurs, a farm publication.
		She subsequently settled in Quebec City and wrote some sixteen books: novels, short stories, children's books, a collection of essays, and an exquisite autobiography, Enchantment and Sorrow.
	www.vehiculepress.com /montreal/writers/roy.html (1327 words)

	Phenomenology
		In the novel Nausea (1936) Jean-Paul Sartre described a bizarre course of experience in which the protagonist, writing in the first person, describes how ordinary objects lose their meaning until he encounters pure being at the foot of a chestnut tree, and in that moment recovers his sense of his own freedom.
		A novel in the first person, featuring descriptions of how things are experienced, thereby illustrating Sartre's conception of phenomenology (and existentialism) with no technical idioms and no explicit theoretical discussion.
		Sartre's phenomenology in Being and Nothingness became the philosophical foundation for his popular philosophy of existentialism, sketched in his famous lecture "Existentialism is a Humanism" (1945).
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/phenomenology (9015 words)

	Snow Crash
		He completed his novel around 1945, the time at which the final battles of World War II were being fought.
		n Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson presents a futuristic novel in which the reader is vigilantly navigated through the world of cyberspace as presented through a science fictional lens.
		Stephenson is the author of other cyberpunk novels.
	filebox.vt.edu /r/rcorson/SnowCrash.html (932 words)

	Advisory Council - Who We Are The Planetary Society
		Well known for his science fiction novels and short stories, Arthur C. Clarke also laid down the principles of the satellite communication with satellites in geostationary orbits in his technical paper "Extra-terrestrial Relays" in 1945.
		His classic novel, 2001: A Space Odyssey, was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's film version, based on a screenplay written by both Kubrick and Clarke.
		The second novel, slated for release in fall 2005, will be titled Fifty Degrees Below.
	www.planetary.org /about/advisory_council.html (1594 words)

	To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis, science fiction book
		Connie Willis (1945-) is a Colorado writer of short fiction and novels.
		Doomsday Book (1992) is a time travel novel in which a researcher from 2050 is accidentally sent back to 1348 and the Black Death.
		She has collaborated with Cynthia Felice on the novels Water Witch (1982), Light Raid (1989), and Promised Land (1997).
	members.aol.com /misuly/willis.htm (1256 words)

	Fantasy Centre - Second-Hand Hardback Books for Sale
		Novel of alternate history, with the A-Bomb not being used in 1945.
		Novel of the catastrophic destruction of a prehistoric civilisation.
		Contains two detective novels, The Eye of the Beholder and The Queen of the Night, and a vampire novel, The Ice Maiden.
	www.fantasycentre.demon.co.uk /booklists/used.html (1256 words)

	SWEDEN.SE - Modern Literature
		Guilt and anxiety were the themes of his symbolist and grotesque novels, such as Ormen (The Snake), 1945, De dömdas ö (Island of the Doomed), 1946, Bränt barn (A Burnt Child), 1948, and Bröllopsbesvär (Wedding Worries) 1949.
		The latter was a subversive novel that in the midst of the book burnings of the thirties depicted prostitution and venereal disease.
		Stina Aronson (1892–1956) received her literary and public breakthrough with the modernist novel Hitom himlen (This Side of Heaven), 1946, in which she portrayed the taciturn women in the hardscrabble farming areas of northern Sweden.
	www.sweden.se /templates/FactSheet____3231.asp (4473 words)

	MSN Encarta - Amy Tan
		Tan's second novel, The Kitchen God's Wife (1991), focuses on a single mother-daughter relationship and describes the mother's efforts to survive in China before and during World War II (1939-1945).
		The novel portrays the Chinese mothers' difficulties in sharing their wisdom and experiences with their American daughters.
		Tan, Amy, born in 1952, American author, whose novels depict the tensions between mothers and daughters as well as the relationship between Chinese American women and their immigrant parents.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579635/Amy_Tan.html (4473 words)

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