Which novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson gave rise to the name of one of the main competitors of Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips?
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Arthur Treacher's Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips is a fast food seafood restaurant chain. At the peak of its popularity in the late 1970s, it had about 800 stores. s of 2016 , following the closure of the sole Virginia and Pennsylvania locations, there are only eight remaining: three in New York; four in Ohio; and one in New Jersey (at the Bridgewater Commons). Most locations have been co-branded with Nathan's Famous. In the Rochester, New York area, there are seven Arthur Treacher's locations, all co-branded with Salvatore's Old Fashioned Pizzeria. The menu offers fried seafood or chicken, accompanied by chips. Its main competitors are Long John Silver's and Captain D's. In 2015, a co-branded Nathan's Famous and Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips opened in the food court of the Harrah's Cherokee Valley River Casino in Murphy, NC.
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Long John Silver's Long John Silver's LLC is an American fast-food restaurant chain that specializes in seafood. The brand's name is derived from the novel "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson, in which the pirate "Long John" Silver is one of the main characters. Formerly a division of Yum! Brands, Inc., the company was divested to a group of franchisees in September 2011.
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The Honourable Schoolboy The Honourable Schoolboy (1977) is a spy novel by John le Carré. George Smiley must reconstruct an intelligence service in order to run a successful offensive espionage operation to save the service from being dismantled by the government. In 1977, the book won the Gold Dagger award for the best crime novel of the year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. "The Honourable Schoolboy" is the second novel in the omnibus titled either "Smiley Versus Karla" or "The Quest for Karla".
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Castle Richmond Castle Richmond is the third of five novels set in Ireland by Anthony Trollope. "Castle Richmond" was written between 4 August 1859 and 31 March 1860, and was published in three volumes on 10 May 1860. It was his tenth novel. Trollope signed the contract for the novel on 2 August 1859. He received £600, £200 more than the payment for his previous novel, "The Bertrams," reflecting his growing popular success.
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Great Reading Adventure The Great Reading Adventure was introduced in 2003 as part of Bristol's bid to be European Capital of Culture 2008. It was inspired by an equivalent scheme in Chicago, where they were reading Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird". In its first year in excess of 15,000 people read Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson as part of the scheme. When the 2004 scheme launched, Bristol was the only city in Britain to have such a project, but plans were underway for London to introduce one.
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A Pocketful of Rye A Pocketful of Rye is a 1969 novel by A. J. Cronin about a young Scottish doctor, Carroll, and his life in Switzerland. It is a sequel to "A Song of Sixpence".
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The Amateur Emigrant The Amateur Emigrant (in full: The Amateur Emigrant from the Clyde to Sandy Hook) is Robert Louis Stevenson's travel memoir of his journey from Scotland to California in 1879-1880. It is not a complete account, covering the first third, by ship from Europe to New York City. The middle leg of the trip is documented in "Across the Plains" (1892) with the final part covered in "The Silverado Squatters" (1883). "The Amateur Emigrant" was written in 1879-80 and was not published in full until 1895, one year after his death.
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It's Not Luck It's Not Luck (1994) is a business novel and a sequel to "The Goal". The plot continues to follow the advancement of the main character, Alex Rogo, through the corporate ranks of large manufacturer, UniCo.
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Tales and Fantasies Tales and Fantasies is a short story collection by Robert Louis Stevenson. The book was published posthumously in 1905. It contains three stories, which were not published as a part of a collection during Stevenson′s lifetime:
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The Will of an Eccentric The Will of an Eccentric (French: "Le Testament d'un excentrique" , 1900) is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne based on the Game of the Goose.
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Egg and chips Egg and chips is a popular working-class dish in the United Kingdom, consisting simply of chips served with fried eggs. Food writer Mary Cadogan says that "Egg and chips for me is a marriage made in heaven. Whenever I feel the need of a bit of comfort eating this is the dish I usually turn to." Heston Blumenthal, owner of the Michelin star award-winning Fat Duck restaurant in Berkshire, wrote in "The Guardian" that "You can't get much more British a dish than fried egg and chips."
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The Merry Men (short story) "The Merry Men" is a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson first published in 1882 in "Cornhill Magazine" 45-6 (June–July 1882). The story was later published in Stevenson's collection "The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables" (1887). It is set on the fictional island Eilean Aros, based on the Isle of Erraid. The title derives from the local name given to a group of waves in the story, not from the Merry Men of Robin Hood tales.
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Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are "Treasure Island", "Kidnapped", "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde," and "A Child's Garden of Verses".
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Tom Brown (character) Tom Brown is a fictional character created by author Thomas Hughes in his work "Tom Brown's School Days" (1857) which is set at a real English public school — Rugby School for Boys — in the 1830s when Hughes himself had been a pupil there. Tom Brown is based on the author's brother, George Hughes, and George Arthur is based on Arthur Penrhyn Stanley.
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A Study in Scarlet A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become two of the most famous characters in popular fiction. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, an amateur detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."
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Cypulchre Cypulchre is a 2014 science fiction novel by Canadian writer Joseph MacKinnon. The novel tells the story of the defamed and exiled inventor of the Outland Corporation's noosphere VR technology. When he learns that the same technology that led to his downfall now threatens his family as well as the thousands synchronized to it, he joins forces with a team of hacktivists with whom he sets out to undo his criminal legacy.
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The Macdermots of Ballycloran The Macdermots of Ballycloran is a novel by Anthony Trollope. It was Trollope's first published novel, which he began in September 1843 and completed by June 1845. However, it was not published until 1847. The novel was "an abysmal failure with the reading public."
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The Napoleon of Notting Hill The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a novel written by G. K. Chesterton in 1904, set in a nearly unchanged London in 1984.
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Supermale (novel) The Supermale (French: Le Surmâle, roman moderne ) is a 1902 novel by the French writer Alfred Jarry. Its irreverent and darkly humorous storyline involves elements of science fiction. It features a race between a train and a team of cyclists fuelled by "perpetual-motion food", and the exploits of a "supermale" capable of prodigious feats of endurance and sexual athleticism. It was Jarry's last novel.
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The Sword and the Circle The Sword and the Circle, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is a children's novel written by Rosemary Sutcliff and was first published in 1981. The story is a retelling of the story of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. According to her own statements in the introduction, "The Sword and the Circle" follows the myths and folktales of King Arthur, crediting inspiration primarily from Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur"; other sources include Geoffrey of Monmouth's "Historia Regum Britanniae", English ballads, and Irish folktales. She contrasts this telling of the King Arthur story with her previous novels, "The Lantern Bearers" and "Sword at Sunset", which were more an attempt to connect with a concrete historical figure behind the folktales.
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The Island Queen (novel) The Island Queen: or Dethroned by Fire and Water: a tale of the Southern Hemisphere (1885) is a novel written by Scottish author R.M. Ballantyne. The novel first appeared in Volume VI of Young England, an annual magazine published in London from 1880 to 1937. It was then published in paperback by J. Nisbet & Co. This novel was Ballantyne's 79th publication, written in the latter half of his career.
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George Mackenzie Brown George Mackenzie Brown (1869 – 14 July 1946) was a Canadian-born Scottish publisher who also followed a political career. As a publisher, he produced Arthur Conan Doyle's books; as a politician, he beat him to win election to the House of Commons.