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Me and the Colonel Me and the Colonel is a 1958 film based on the play "Jacobowsky und der Oberst" by Franz Werfel. It was directed by Peter Glenville and stars Danny Kaye, Curt Jürgens and Nicole Maurey.
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Franz Werfel Franz Viktor Werfel (10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" (1933, English tr. 1934, 2012), a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian Genocide of 1915, and "The Song of Bernadette" (1941), a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint Bernadette Soubirous, which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name.
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Sartoris Sartoris is a novel, first published in 1929, by the American author William Faulkner. It portrays the decay of the Mississippi aristocracy following the social upheaval of the American Civil War. The 1929 edition is an abridged version of Faulkner's original work. The full text was published in 1973 as "Flags in the Dust". Faulkner's great-grandfather William Clark Falkner, himself a colonel in the American Civil War, served as the model for Colonel John Sartoris. Faulkner also fashioned other characters in the book on
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Maurice Thompson James Maurice Thompson (September 9, 1844 – February 15, 1901) was an American novelist, poet, essayist and naturalist.
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Thomas Hinde (novelist) Sir Thomas Willes Chitty, 3rd Baronet (2 March 1926 – 7 March 2014), better known by his pen name Thomas Hinde, was a British novelist.
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Trilby (play) Trilby is a stage play based on the 1895 novel "Trilby" by George du Maurier. The novel was adapted into a long-running play starring Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Svengali and Dorothea Baird in the title role at the Haymarket Theatre in London in October 1895. The role of Svengali was originally created by American actor Wilton Lackaye in an earlier version of the play performed at the Boston Museum in March 1895.
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Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( ; Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков , ] , also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; (April 22nd, 1899 — July 2nd, 1977) was a Russian-American novelist and entomologist. His first nine novels were in Russian, but he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose.
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John Galsworthy John Galsworthy {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ; 14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include "The Forsyte Saga" (1906–1921) and its sequels, "A Modern Comedy" and "End of the Chapter". He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.
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The Immoralist (play) The Immoralist is a play adapted from the novel by André Gide by Augustus and Ruth Goetz. The original production starred James Dean, Louis Jourdan and Geraldine Page.
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Donald Windham Donald Windham (July 2, 1920 – May 31, 2010) was an American novelist and memoirist. He is perhaps best known for his close friendships with Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Windham moved with his then-boyfriend Fred Melton, an artist, to New York City in 1939. In 1942 Windham collaborated with Williams on the play, "You Touched Me"!, which is based on a D. H. Lawrence short story with the same title. Windham received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1960.
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Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne ( ; ] ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.
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No One Writes to the Colonel (film) No One Writes to the Colonel (Spanish: "El coronel no tiene quien le escriba" ) is a 1999 Spanish-language film directed by Arturo Ripstein. It was an international co-production between France, Spain and Mexico. It is based on the eponymous novella by Colombian author and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez.
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Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat "Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat" is a short story by Roald Dahl that first appeared in the 1959 issue of "Nugget". The story is Dahl's variation on a popular anecdote dating back at least to 1939: a married woman receives a glamorous mink coat from a man with whom she had an affair. She hopes to sneak the coat into her home without arousing her husband's suspicions, but soon discovers that her husband has plans of his own.
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The Grass Harp (play) The Grass Harp is a play written by Truman Capote based on his novel of the same name. Producer Saint Subber staged it on Broadway in 1952. It was Capote's first play.
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Walter Raymond Walter Raymond (13 March 1852 – 2 April 1931) was an English novelist. He wrote many novels between 1890 and 1928, primarily based in Somerset, and also wrote under the pseudonym Tom Cobbleigh. Some of his titles include "Gentleman Upcott's Daughter" (1892), "Love and Quiet Life" (1894), "Fortune's Darling" (1901), and "Verity Thurston" (1926). He died in Southampton on 2 April 1931 at the age of 79. Raymond's work is long out of print and currently gets little attention, although some novels are now available for free online.
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The Two Sergeants (play) The Two Sergeants (French:Les Deux Sergents) is an 1823 play by the French writer Théodore Baudouin d'Aubigny. It is a melodrama set during the Napoleonic Wars. Numerous versions were made of it including an 1831 British play "Comrades and Friends" by Isaac Pocock and an Italian novel.
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Murder at the Vicarage (play) Murder at the Vicarage is a 1949 play by Moie Charles and Barbara Toy based on the 1930 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie. Christie's official biography suggests that the play was written by Christie with changes then made by Charles and Toy, presumably enough for them to claim the credit. Whatever the truth of the authorship, Christie was enthusiastic about the play and attended its rehearsals and first night
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Robert Briffault Robert Stephen Briffault {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (] , 1874 – 11 December 1948) was a French surgeon who found fame as a social anthropologist and later in life as a novelist.
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The Little Colonel (1935 film) The Little Colonel is a 1935 American comedy drama film directed by David Butler. The screenplay by William M. Conselman was adapted from the children's novel of the same name by Annie Fellows Johnston, originally published in 1895. It focuses on the reconciliation of an estranged father and daughter in the years following the American Civil War. The film stars Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable, John Lodge, Bill Robinson, and Hattie McDaniel.
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The King's General The King's General is a novel, published in 1946, by English author and playwright Daphne du Maurier.
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Mary Webb Mary Gladys Webb (25 March 1881 – 8 October 1927) was an English romantic novelist and poet of the early 20th century, whose work is set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside and among Shropshire characters and people whom she knew. Her novels have been successfully dramatized, most notably the film "Gone to Earth" in 1950 by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. They inspired the famous parody "Cold Comfort Farm".
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky ( ; Russian: Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский ; ] ; 11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of realistic philosophical and religious themes.