What writer's novel was turned into a dark comedy with music by cellist Caroline Dale?
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Caroline Dale Caroline Dale (born 1965) is a widely recorded British cellist who has performed music for numerous films, including "Truly, Madly, Deeply", "Hilary and Jackie", "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", as well as the 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" and 2007's Academy Award winner "Atonement". She played on U2's latest album and currently plays Principal Cello for the English Chamber Orchestra and London Metropolitan Orchestra.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a 1998 American black comedy road film adapted from Hunter S. Thompson's novel of the same name. It was co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Johnny Depp as Raoul Duke and Benicio del Toro as Dr. Gonzo. The two embark on an initially assigned journey with journalistic purpose which turns out to be an exploration of the Las Vegas setting under the effect of psychoactive substances.
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English Music (novel) English Music is the sixth novel by Peter Ackroyd. Published in 1992, it is both a "bildungsroman" and, in the words of critic John Barrell, "partly a series of rhapsodies and meditations on the nature of English culture, written in the styles of various great authors." As with all Ackroyd's previous novels, it focuses on London, although on this occasion partly as a backdrop for English culture in general.
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Amanda Brown (novelist) Amanda Brown (October 6, 1970) is an American novelist who wrote the novel "Legally Blonde" which was the basis for the film and musical of the same name.
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Dark Eden (novel) Dark Eden is a social science fiction novel by British author Chris Beckett, first published in the United Kingdom in 2012. The novel explores the disintegration of a small group of a highly inbred people, descendants of two individuals whose spaceship crashed on a rogue planet they call Eden.
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Clara Louise Burnham Clara Louise Burnham (May 25, 1854 – June 20, 1927) was a 19th-century American novelist from Massachusetts. After the success of "No Gentlemen" (1881), other books followed, including "A Sane Lunatic" (1882), "Dearly Bought" (1884), "Next Door" (1886), "Young Maids and Old" (1888), "The Mistress of Beech Knoll" (1890), and "Miss Bagg's Secretary" (1892). The daughter of George Frederick Root, she wrote the text for several his most successful cantatas. The 1923 film, "A Chapter in Her Life" is based on Burnham's 1903 novel "Jewel: A Chapter in Her Life". She died at the family home in Maine in 1927.
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The Wingfeather Saga The Wingfeather Saga is a series of four fantasy novels plus a "Creaturepedia" written by singer/songwriter Andrew Peterson, consisting of "On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness", "North! Or Be Eaten", "The Monster in the Hollows", and "The Warden and the Wolf King". The series chronicles the adventures and transformations of a family called Igiby (grandfather Podo, mother Nia, and three children, Janner, Tink, and Leeli), as they discover secrets of their family history, flee the evil Fangs of Dang who are occupying the country of Skree where the Igibys were raised, seek their place in the world, and make a stand against the mysterious ruler behind the Fangs, Gnag the Nameless.
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Dale Brown Dale Brown (born November 2, 1956) is an American writer and aviator known for aviation techno-thriller novels. At least thirteen of his novels have been "New York Times" Best Sellers.
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Shine! Shine! is a musical based on characters and situations found in the works of Horatio Alger, particularly "Ragged Dick" and "Silas Snobden's Office Boy", respectively Alger's first best-seller and the one first printed in book form eighty years after it was first serialized in Argosy. Its plot and characters focus on Alger's pervasive theme: that in America one could begin with nothing, and with the right attitude, hard work, application, and a little bit of luck, dream a dream and chart a course on which to achieve it. Richard Seff wrote the book, Lee Goldsmith the lyrics and Roger Anderson the music. Anderson and Goldsmith had previously collaborated on the musical "Chaplin".
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The Rain Before It Falls The Rain Before It Falls is a lyrical novel written by British author Jonathan Coe. It describes the history of three generations of women directly or indirectly affected by events in post-war London and rural Shropshire. The novel contrasts with Coe's previous works in that it is almost apolitical, examining both the welcome and the undesirable legacies parents leave their children.
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The Black Crusade The Black Crusade is a 2004 horror novel by Richard Harland. It is a prequel to Harland's earlier novel "The Vicar of Morbing Vyle". It describes the journey of the hapless Basil Smorta, a multi lingual bank clerk, who is forced into the company of a group of "fundamental Darwinists" by their imprisonment of the object of his undying love, Australian singer, Volusia, in a mobile iron box. The group travel across Eastern Europe during 1894, and encounter ghosts, blood donating vampires and other comic horror curiosities.
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Laughter in the Dark (film) Laughter in the Dark (French: La Chambre obscure ) is a 1969 French-British drama film directed by Tony Richardson and starring Nicol Williamson and Anna Karina. It is based on the novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. Nicol Williamson was brought in as a very late replacement for Richard Burton, who had already shot several scenes. The director, Tony Richardson, found Burton's lack of punctuality intolerable.
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Spellbound (Dale novel) Spellbound is a 2008 fantasy/magic novel for children and the 3rd to have been written by British author Anna Dale, the author of "Whispering to Witches" and "Dawn Undercover".
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The Lady Chablis Brenda Dale Knox (March 11, 1957 – September 8, 2016), known professionally as The Lady Chablis, was an American actress, author, and drag performer. Through exposure in the novel "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" and its 1997 film adaptation she became one of the first drag performers to be accepted by a wider audience.
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Dark Princess Dark Princess, written by sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois in 1928, is one of his five historical novels. One of Du Bois's favorite works, the novel explores the beauty of people of color around the world. This was part of Du Bois' use of fiction to explore his times in a way not possible in non-fiction history. He expressed fully imagined lives of his characters, using them to explore the richness and beauty of black culture. The novel was not well received when published. It was criticized for its expression of eroticism as well as for what some critics thought was a failed attempt at social realism.
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Clara Vaughan Clara Vaughan is a sensation novel by R. D. Blackmore, who was later to achieve lasting fame for another Romantic novel, "Lorna Doone". It was written in 1853 and published anonymously in 1864. It was Blackmore's first novel. The novel was generally well received by the public, though some reviewers at the time believed it to have been written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and criticised its author for not knowing about the law.
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Elizabeth Caroline Grey Elizabeth Caroline Grey (1798–1869), aka Mrs. Colonel Grey or Mrs. Grey, was a prolific English author of over 30 romance novels, silver fork novels, Gothic novels, sensation fiction and Penny Dreadfuls, active between the 1820s and 1867. There is some controversy about the details of her life story, and if she actually authored any penny dreadfuls.
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Dracula: the Musical Dracula: the Musical is a Swedish musical based on the novel "Dracula" by Bram Stoker produced in 2010. It was originally a theatre production meant for ten performances but due to the massive popularity extra performances were added and the musical was turned into a film, given a limited release on DVD. The film was put together by editing several performances of the musical and a filming session for closeups. The musical was written by Lisa Linder and directed by . Music was composed by Christer Johansson and Jacob Mülrad.
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Blackbox (novel) Blackbox is the first novel by British writer Nick Walker.
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Charles Auchester Charles Auchester is a novel by Elizabeth Sara Sheppard, published in 1853. Its hero is an idealised portrait of the composer Felix Mendelssohn. The novel, which is notable for its positive portrayal of Jewish musicality, was praised by Benjamin Disraeli and was initially very popular, remaining in print for over seventy years.
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Everything, Everything (novel) Everything, Everything is the debut young adult novel by American author Nicola Yoon, first published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers in 2015. The novel centers around 18-year-old Madeline Whittier, who has severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), also known as "bubble baby disease". Due to her condition, Madeline is stuck inside her house in Los Angeles, where she lives with her mother and a physician who takes care of her.
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Dark Horse (Reed novel) Dark Horse is a 2008 novel by conservative activist Ralph Reed.