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Ruined City Ruined City, is a 1938 novel by Nevil Shute, published by Cassell in the UK and in the US under the title Kindling by William Morrow.
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Nevil Shute Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 189912 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels, which included "On the Beach" and "A Town Like Alice".
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline Louis-Ferdinand Céline (] ) was the pen name of Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (] ; 27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), a French novelist, pamphleteer and physician. He developed a new style of writing that modernized French literature. His most famous work is the 1932 novel, "Journey to the End of the Night".
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Mentz Schulerud Mentz Schulerud (19 October 1915 – 18 May 2003) was a Norwegian author, radio personality and theatre director. He was known for his encyclopaedic knowledge of the city of Oslo.
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Arcades Project The Passagenwerk or Arcades Project was an unfinished project of German literary critic Walter Benjamin, written between 1927 and 1940. An enormous collection of writings on the city life of Paris in the 19th century, it was especially concerned with Paris' iron-and-glass covered "arcades" (known in French as the "passages couverts de Paris").
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E. L. Doctorow Edgar Lawrence "E. L." Doctorow (January 6, 1931 – July 21, 2015) was an American novelist, editor, and professor, best known internationally for his works of historical fiction. He has been described as one of the most important American novelists of the 20th century.
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Harry A. Franck Harry Alverson Franck, better known as Harry A. Franck (29 June 1881 – 18 April 1962) was an American travel writer during the first half of the 20th century.
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Dashiell Hammett Samuel Dashiell Hammett ( ; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, screenwriter, and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade ("The Maltese Falcon"), Nick and Nora Charles ("The Thin Man"), and the Continental Op ("Red Harvest" and "The Dain Curse").
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Charles Portis Charles McColl Portis (born December 28, 1933) is an American author best known for his novels "Norwood" (1966) and the classic Western "True Grit" (1968), both adapted as films. The latter also inspired a film sequel and a made-for-TV movie sequel. A newer film adaptation of "True Grit" was released in 2010.
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Jim Thompson (writer) James Myers Thompson (September 27, 1906 – April 7, 1977) was an American author and screenwriter, known for his hardboiled crime fiction.
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John M. Faucette John M. Faucette (September 15, 1943–2003) was an African-American science-fiction author. He published five novels (four of them in the 1960s) and one short story. At the time of his death he had seven unpublished novels in various states of completion. Two of his novels; "Crown of Infinity" and "Age of Ruin", were published in the popular Ace Doubles series.
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Kenneth Hyde John Kenneth Hyde (14 August 1930 – 10 December 1986) was an English historian, known for his research on the city in medieval Italy, and on medieval descriptions of cities. He held the chair in medieval history of the University of Manchester (1979–86).
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John Sladek John Thomas Sladek (December 15, 1937 – March 10, 2000) was an American science fiction author, known for his satirical and surreal novels.
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Daniel P. Mannix Daniel Pratt Mannix IV (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1911 – Malvern, Pennsylvania, January 29, 1997) was an American author, journalist, photographer, sideshow performer, stage magician, animal trainer, and filmmaker. His best-known works are the 1958 book "Those About to Die", which remained in continuous print for three decades, and the 1967 novel "The Fox and the Hound" which in 1981 was adapted into an animated film by Walt Disney Productions.
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Edward Abbey Edward Paul Abbey (January 29, 1927 – March 14, 1989) was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of public land policies, and anarchist political views. His best-known works include the novel "The Monkey Wrench Gang", which has been cited as an inspiration by environmental groups, and the non-fiction work "Desert Solitaire".
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William Michael Rossetti William Michael Rossetti (25 September 1829 – 5 February 1919) was an English writer and critic.
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Lost City Lost City is a 2004 novel by Clive Cussler. It was printed by Penguin publishers ISBN  .
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Jim Bishop James Alonzo Bishop (November 21, 1907 – July 26, 1987) was an American journalist and author who wrote the bestselling book "The Day Lincoln was Shot".
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Max Brod Max Brod (Hebrew: מקס ברוד; May 27, 1884 – December 20, 1968) was a German-speaking Jewish Czech, later Israeli, author, composer, and journalist. Although he was a prolific writer in his own right, he is most famous as the friend and biographer of Franz Kafka. As Kafka's literary executor, Brod refused to follow the writer's instructions to burn his life's work, and had them published instead. Kafka would probably not be famous without Brod's help.
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Evelyn Waugh Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh ( ; 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies and travel books. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer of books. His most famous works include the early satires "Decline and Fall" (1928) and "A Handful of Dust" (1934), the novel "Brideshead Revisited" (1945) and the Second World War trilogy "Sword of Honour" (1952–61). Waugh is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.
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Charles Belfoure Charles Belfoure (born 19 February 1954) is an American writer, architect and historian.
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Lee Shippey Henry Lee Shippey (February 26, 1884 – December 30, 1969), who wrote under the name Lee Shippey, was an American author and journalist whose romance with a French woman during World War I caused a sensation in the United States as a "famous war triangle." Shippey later wrote a popular column in the "Los Angeles Times" for 22 years.