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	The Falcon on the Baltic by E.F. Knight chapter 15 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		CHAPTER XV ON August the 11th the glass had not yet commenced to rise, and the sky looked as wild as ever, but there was a lull in the storm; the north-wester had subsided for a time into a moderate breeze with stiff squalls only now and then.
		This done, the Falcon was hauled up on to dry land, and with a rough sloping wooden roof built over her deck, to prevent the snow from accumulating, she will remain there for the winter.
		So the old Falcon lies buried under the northern snow for the winter, but I hope to return to her next summer, and resume my exploration of the Baltic, of which I have as yet had only enough experience to whet my appetite for much more.
	www.humboldt1.com /ar/literary/falcon15.htm (1596 words)

	January2006Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Falcon’s Bend is one small town that instills a certain quietness about it, yet really paints some wild sheering excitement.
		Investigator Pete Shasta is the main character who is always employed on the case as he questions which to work on more his cases or his marriage.
		Most of the characters are quite dysfunctional in their own way and the plot is thick as Ms.
	www.lighthouseliteraryreviews.com /January2006Reviews.html (6610 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The fat man reveals the value of the Maltese falcon, and the treasure hunt is on.
		This greedy and ruthless trio of characters bent on finding the statuette meet their match in Sam Spade.
		The plot, characters, and dialogue in The Maltese Falcon are perfectly controlled by Hammett, incorporating a vigor and style that became the paradigm for hard-boiled crime fiction.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/maltese_falcon.asp (636 words)

	Protection of Fictional Characters
		Generally in those cases where the fictional character was found to be protected, the character that was copied was "distinctively delineated" (or fully developed) in the original work and that the character's delineation was misappropriated in the copier's work.
		A literary character can be said to have a distinctive personality, and thus to be protectable, when it has been delineated to the point at which its behavior is relatively predictable so that when placed in a new plot situation, it will react in ways that are at once distinctive and unsurprising." (6)
		This attitude may be due less to the courts' unwillingness to utilize trademark law to protect a fictional character than to the likelihood of such a case arising since it is highly unusual for a character that had never previously been depicted graphically to be used in a commercial fashion.
	www.publaw.com /fiction.html (2463 words)

	Publishers Marketing Association - Newsletter
		Fictional characters have the same basic characteristics as graphic characters in that they portray the uniqueness of a particular character; the character has a name, physical appearance, and attitude or character traits.
		The primary difference between the fictional and the graphic character is that the physical appearance and characterization of the fictional character resides in the imagination of the reader and is continually being developed in the reader's mind by the author's description of the character as the story unfolds.
		In reality, none of the verbally described characteristics of the fictional character are as dominant as the visually depicted characteristics of a graphic character and therefore the copyright law distinction between an unprotectable idea and protectable creative expression may prevent copyright law from protecting the fictional character.
	www.pma-online.org /scripts/shownews.cfm?id=314 (2347 words)

	Glossary of Literary Terms - D to E
		As a specific literary genre, a "dialogue" is a composition in which characters debate an issue or idea.
		Empathy is often used to describe the response of a reader to a literary character.
		Literary expatriates include English poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats in Italy, Polish novelist Joseph Conrad in England, American writers Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway in France, and Trinidadian author Neil Bissondath in Canada.
	www.fcps.edu /PimmitAltHS/SOL_EOC/English/glossary/glossary_de.htm (3745 words)

	LiteraryCritic.com -- McCaffery's 100
		Miller’s blend of autobiography and fiction, his refusal to indulge in interpretations or in creating full portraits of his characters, his receptivity and openness to experience generally--not to mention his unabashed, exuberant exploration of sexuality--all helped open up the form and content of novelistic experimentation for postmodernist writers in the second half of this century.
		The Maltese Falcon is the best known of Hammett’s work, partly due to the great film version, but it was Red Harvest which almost single-handedly shaped the premises of hard-boiled fiction that would be endlessly reworked by authors throughout the rest of the century.
		This novel perfectly embodies Elkin’s greatest literary accomplishment: the creation of wonderfully rich and excessive language which serves to unmask the beauty and wonder that is normally locked within the vulgar, disheartening, and ordinary aspects of contemporary life.
	www.literarycritic.com /mccaffery.html (3202 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: The Maltese Falcon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Maltese Falcon opens with “Miss Wonderly” asking for Spade's help in her quest for a restoration of family harmony, claiming that she is searching for a sister whose loss would kill “Mama and Papa”.
		The falcon, though it is covered in fl enamel to disguise its worth, is said to be encrusted with priceless jewels.
		The obese, all-devouring Caspar Gutman, whose history of the Falcon is a tale of the universal pursuit of riches, is the father-figure of a grotesque family group (the effeminate Levantine, Joel Cairo; Gutman's young “gunsel”, the thuggish Wilmer).
	www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=251 (531 words)

	The Falcon (literary character) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.columbia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The film was intended to establish a character who would replace RKO's popular series of B movies featuring Leslie Charteris' The Saint, which starred George Sanders.
		The role of the brother and new Falcon was taken by Sanders' actual brother, Tom Conway.
		Though "Falcon" was originally the character's surname, in the film he was renamed "Gay Lawrence", so that "The Falcon" became a nickname, comparable to "The Saint".
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/The_Falcon_(literary_character) (237 words)

	Gale Group - Free Resources - Lit Central - Glossary
		descriptionof the character by the narrator; (2) the direct presentation of the speech, thoughts, or actions of the character; and (3) the responses of other characters to the character.
		A soliloquy, in which a character reveals to the audience his or her private thoughts, is an example of a dramatic convention.
		characters and events in such narratives may be based in real life but their ultimate form and configuration is a creation of the author.
	vccslitonline.cc.va.us /drama/glossary.htm (12419 words)

	Literary Criticism
		Literary criticism is a description, analysis, evaluation, or interpretation of a particular literary work or an author's writings as a whole.
		Literary criticism is usually expressed in the form of a critical essay.
		This almanac of literary information provides brief descriptions of notable literary events and many authors and/or works are clickable, leading to a biography of the author and/or to electronic texts of their works.
	42explore.com /litcrit.htm (2118 words)

	The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett
		The actual writing in The Maltese Falcon shows the author’s determination to move out of the pulp world into that of the genuine novelist.
		Slang is used less liberally, and attention is paid to the need for continuity and to the development of character.
		In the lectures on the mystery story that he gave years later in New York, Hammett stressed, as one student remembered, “that tempo is the vital thing in fiction, that you’ve got to keep things moving, and that character can be drawn within the action.” It was such drawing...
	www.enotes.com /maltese-falcon/70669 (198 words)

	The Wheel of Time \| Characters \| M
		A king and character in the story Mara and the Three Foolish Kings.
		Literary character known as a healer and Mother of the Wondrous Ind.
		One of the heroes bound to the Horn of Valere.
	www.sevenspokes.com /characters/m.html (1542 words)

	International Institute for Dream Research - Home (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.columbia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Historians and critics who are interested in the way a literary work is shaped by circumstances such as class, gender, race, and political orientation investigate the social, political, economic, and religious organization of the forces of the era in which the author lived.
		Film Noir is the popular representation of Hemingway's literary style and, to some extent, his definition of the ideal American male, a man of few words and decisive, but ineffectual action.
		This is the genre most likely to encounter drug-besotted characters wandering through its plots in dream-like states, barely in control of themselves, let alone their environment.
	www.dreamresearch.ca.cob-web.org:8888 (1352 words)

	February 2002 Letter of Acceptances and Returns
		As stated by Garnet, "The word condor was adopted into English from Spanish, where it is found in the 16th century (the Andes were explored during the 1530s)." As the condor was a New World animal known in the 16th C, this name follows the pattern of heraldic titles based on charges.
		First, as it is allegorical, rather than being the name of a regular human character, it is not registerable as a name from period literature.
		Names of Significant Geographical Locations from Literary Sources—Locations in period or modern literary works of all genres may be protected on a case by case basis.
	www.sca.org /heraldry/loar/2002/02/02-02lar.html (18294 words)

	Literary Birthdays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		American essayist and literary stylist of his time, White was "known for his crisp, graceful, relaxed style.
		Singer has said that, "a good writer is basically a story-teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind." His stories reflect this philosophy and tell tales of his characters' Jewish faith full of passion, asceticism and religious devotion.
		This Bronte site includes links to biographical and literary information that may be used for further research.
	www.glc.k12.ga.us /newsarch/07_04/Current/celeb/litbday.htm (2053 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.columbia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One of the many characters invented by 1950s TV comic Ernie Kovacs was a "gay-acting" poet named Percy Dovetonsils.
		It is sometimes used as a singular noun, as in "he is a gay", such as in its use (partly to comic effect) by the Little Britain comedy character Daffyd Thomas (a gay man who believes himself "the only gay in the village" despite abundant evidence to the contrary).
		It has been claimed that "gay" was derived as an acronym for "Good As You", but this is a backronym (based on a false etymology).
	www.goupstate.com.cob-web.org:8888 /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=gay (2402 words)

	USATODAY.com - Hammett's 'Maltese Falcon' remains a gem at 75 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In one of those classic twists, Valentine's Day marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of The Maltese Falcon by the less-than-soft-hearted Dashiell Hammett, a writer "so hard-boiled, you could roll him on the White House lawn," as Dorothy Parker wrote.
		Hammett's most famous character is Sam Spade, the hard-edge private eye who talks — and acts — in a spare, unemotional way.
		The Maltese Falcon was first published serially in five parts in Black Mask magazine from September 1929 to January 1930; Knopf published it as a book in 1930.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2005-02-09-maltese-falcon_x.htm (465 words)

	Thrilling Days of Yesteryear : Thrilling Days of Yesteryear
		Author Michael Arlen introduced his literary sleuthing creation The Falcon in a 1940 short story entitled Gay Falcon—and I’m sure I don’t have to explain that the story’s title refers to his name and not his sexual preference.
		The character’s name was rechristened as Gay Lawrence, though you probably could have gotten away with calling him Simon Templar; the star of the Falcon series was George Sanders, who played the character in the same identical fashion as Leslie Charteris’ creation, The Saint.
		Sanders, as Gay Lawrence, snuffs it in the last reel and the role of the Falcon is taken over by his brother, Tom Lawrence—played by Sanders’ real-life brother, Tom Conway.
	blogs.salon.com /0003139/2004/05/16.html (947 words)

	Falcon (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.columbia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Falcon (literary character), a detective created by Michael Arlen in 1940; later featured in a series of motion pictures
		Falcon, a locomotive character, later renamed Sir Handel, in The Railway Series by Rev. W.
		Falcon (sport), a humorous term for being hit on the head by the ball
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Falcon_(disambiguation) (466 words)

	Annotated Chaucer Bibliographies, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2001
		Woods claims that since these two characters are thus mildly mocked, the wife and her endeavors consequently come to be the main focus of this tale.
		Benson feels that Chaucer could create complex, convincing characters, as he did in Troilus and Criseyde, "but the frame of Canterbury Tales suggests that the poet did not concern himself overmuch with the psychological depth or consistency of his pilgrim narrators, though we must not forget that the work is unfinished" (97).
		This character, she suggests, was confused with Judas during the Middle Ages, thus Chaucer would have considered them one and the same.
	faculty.goucher.edu /eng330/chaucerbib.htm (19197 words)

	The Wheel of Time \| Characters \| A
		A character in the song "Midean's Ford." Leader of the Saferi who attacked Manetheren.
		Character in the story A Thousand Tales of Anla.
		Known as the Wise Counselor, possibly to Queen Elsbet.
	www.sevenspokes.com /characters/a.html (1604 words)

	Military.com Content
		Weighing in at less than one ounce and towering over no one at 4 inches tall, he is just a world traveler, and now he has made history with the men and women of Operation Northern Watch.
		"Flat Stanley," as children throughout the world know him, is a fictional literary character from the book of the same name.
		Master Sgt. Dee Spidel, deployed from Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D., received a Flat Stanley and a request from her niece Marian Marr, who attends Crowders Creek School in Clover, S.C. The child's request was for her aunt take Flat Stanley with her to Turkey so he could experience Operation Northern Watch first hand.
	www.military.com /Content/MoreContent/1,12044,NU_stanley_afpn,00.html (469 words)

	The Maltese Falcon Study Guide by Dashiell Hammett: Critical Overview
		When The Maltese Falcon was first published, Dashiell Hammett was little known outside of the small, specific world of crime fiction.
		This is the book that changed that and brought his name to the attention of reviewers of literary works.
		Hammett has something quite as definite to say, quite as decided an impetus to give the course of newness in the development of the American tongue, as any man now writing.
	www.bookrags.com /studyguide-maltesefalcon/crit.html (202 words)

	FALCON - OneLook Dictionary Search (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.columbia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Falcon, falcon : UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
		FALCON, Falcon : Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms [home, info]
		Falcon, falcon : LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
	www.onelook.com.cob-web.org:8888 /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofindf.cgi?word=FALCON (353 words)

	Booked.tv \| Booked Club Discussion Questions \| The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Though it was written more than 75 years ago, The Maltese Falcon is still quite possibly the best-known crime mystery novel in the world.
		The Times Literary Supplement says The Maltese Falcon is "the best detective story ever and an exceedingly well written novel." Do you agree or disagree?
		What did you think of Hammett's depiction of the female characters in the novel; Spade's client, the knockout Brigid O'Shaughnessy, his girl Friday Effie Perine and his partner's wife Iva Archer?
	www.booked.tv /html/club/print/bookClubQuestions/malteseFalcon.htm (224 words)

	OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts
		The Pulitzer Prize for the best novel published in America in 1930 went to a book by Margaret Ayer Barnes titled "Years of Grace." But it was quite a different 1930 novel that would enter American cultural folklore and remain in print into the 21st century.
		Thanks in part to the equally classic 1941 John Huston film starring Humphrey Bogart, the tale of the Falcon and the character of Spade have become embedded in popular myth.
		Hammett's prose was compared favorably to Hemingway's, and it was reported in the press, circa 1930, that Dashiell Hammett was a contender for the Nobel Prize.
	www.opinionjournal.com /la/?id=110006272 (1069 words)

	Wendy Lawton Collectible Dolls
		Be sure not to miss "The Falconer" from the Royalty Collection, and all the dolls in the "Children's Literary Series" for 1999.
		Her trained Peregrine falcon sits atop her glove wearing a hood and jesses.
		The Falcon and all his accessories are completely handcrafted in the Lawton workshops.
	www.dollery.com /html/artists/lawton/lawton-mm.htm (1161 words)

	Falcon Editions - The Literary Web Site of Jonathan Steffen
		It’s powerful; but I’m the one with the power, I’m the monster, I’m the one that’s going to be killed, sometime, down along the line, by this audience, as I can feel it, hear it, assessing how to stop me, in the end, devouring the maiden.
		But I remember thinking, theatre will be the death of me. Unless I can do a quick change and say, after all, I’m not that character you just saw up on stage, that was a mask, I’ve just taken it off and had a shower and your daughters – no harm done, eh?
		The views expressed by contributors to the Featured Writer section are those of the contributors and should not be construed as expressing the views of Falcon Editions Ltd
	www.falconeditions.com /featWriter/fwTalks.html (9498 words)

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