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  • Discworld is a comic fantasy book series written by the English author Terry Pratchett, set on the Discworld, a flat planet balanced on the backs of four...
    81 KB (7,533 words) - 14:50, 26 April 2024
  • Victor Gollancz Ltd (/ɡəˈlænts/) was a major British book publishing house of the twentieth century and continues to publish science fiction and fantasy...
    10 KB (1,010 words) - 15:06, 29 February 2024
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    The term "folio" (from Latin folium 'leaf') has three interconnected but distinct meanings in the world of books and printing: first, it is a term for...
    9 KB (1,323 words) - 09:35, 20 November 2023
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    Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was an American writer and artist. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm...
    40 KB (5,400 words) - 10:58, 8 April 2024
  • Shantaram is a 2003 novel by Gregory David Roberts, in which a convicted Australian bank robber and heroin addict escapes from Pentridge Prison and flees...
    23 KB (2,514 words) - 22:49, 22 January 2024
  • John Edmund Gardner (20 November 1926 – 3 August 2007) was an English spy and thriller novelist, best known for his James Bond continuation novels, but...
    22 KB (2,366 words) - 16:51, 11 April 2024
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    James Christopher Frey (born September 12, 1969) is an American writer and businessman. His first two books, A Million Little Pieces (2003) and My Friend...
    24 KB (2,589 words) - 07:50, 21 April 2024
  • Brienne of Tarth is a fictional character in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels and its television adaptation, Game...
    30 KB (3,748 words) - 21:59, 8 March 2024
  • The Legacy of the Force is a series of nine science fiction novels, published from 2006 to 2008, set in the Star Wars expanded universe. The series takes...
    15 KB (2,125 words) - 12:46, 7 March 2024
  • Missandei, also known as Missandei of Naath, is a fictional character in the American television series Game of Thrones and the fantasy novel series A...
    19 KB (1,873 words) - 12:53, 29 March 2024
  • Excession is a 1996 science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks. It is the fifth in the Culture series, a series of ten science fiction novels...
    14 KB (1,677 words) - 20:34, 22 August 2023
  • Fate of the Jedi is a series of nine science-fiction novels set in the Star Wars universe. The series is written in three cycles by the authors Aaron Allston...
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  • The Glass Bead Game (German: Das Glasperlenspiel, pronounced [das ˈɡlaːspɛʁlənˌʃpiːl] ) is the last full-length novel by the German author Hermann Hesse...
    19 KB (2,456 words) - 20:57, 20 April 2024
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    Le Grand Meaulnes (French: [lə ɡʁɑ̃ moln]) is the only novel by French author Alain-Fournier, who was killed in the first month of World War I. The novel...
    11 KB (1,286 words) - 20:12, 30 January 2024
  • "The Trial for Murder" is a short story written by Charles Dickens in 1865. It was originally published under the title "To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt"...
    8 KB (1,138 words) - 20:42, 14 August 2023
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    The Blithedale Romance is a novel by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne published in 1852. It is the third major "romance", as he called the form. Its...
    24 KB (3,589 words) - 07:59, 2 February 2024
  • The Bridge is a novel by Scottish author Iain Banks. It was published in 1986. The book switches between three protagonists, John Orr, Alex, and the Barbarian...
    10 KB (1,317 words) - 12:21, 8 January 2024
  • Espedair Street is a novel by Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1987. The book tells the (fictional) story of the rise to fame of Dan Weir ('Weird')...
    5 KB (659 words) - 11:56, 13 August 2022
  • Some Came Running is a novel by James Jones, published in 1958. It was Jones's second published novel, following his award-winning debut From Here to Eternity...
    9 KB (1,237 words) - 16:04, 18 December 2023
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    Kawade Shobō Shinsha., Ltd. (株式会社河出書房新社, Kabushiki Kaisha Kawade Shobō Shinsha), formerly Kawade Shobō (河出書房), is a publisher founded in 1886 in Japan...
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