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Harry briefly expresses a wish to stay and work on his rocket but is easily persuaded to go with the rest of the colonists and come back when the weather is cooler. [ 2 ] Five years later, the United States , having won the war and rebuilt New York , sends a small military dispatch to recover the colonists sent to Mars, only to find their ...
The book is presented as a manuscript written by its protagonist, a middle-aged man named Harry Haller, who leaves it to a chance acquaintance, his landlady's nephew. The acquaintance adds a short preface and has the manuscript published. The title of this "real" book-within-the-book is Harry Haller's Records (For Madmen Only).
Harry George Armstrong (February 17, 1899 – February 5, 1983) was a major general in the United States Air Force, a physician, and an airman. He is widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of aviation medicine. The Armstrong limit, the altitude above which water boils at the temperature of the human body, is named after him.
April 16 – Carol Bly, American teacher, author of short stories, essays and nonfiction (died 2007) May 3 – Juan Gelman, Argentine poet (died 2014) [38] May 13 – José Jiménez Lozano, Spanish novelist (died 2020) [39] May 14 – María Irene Fornés, Cuban-American playwright (died 2018) [40] May 15 – Grace Ogot, Kenyan author (died ...
The Glass Key is a novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett.First published as a serial in Black Mask magazine in 1930, it then was collected in 1931 (in London; the American edition followed 3 months later).
Harry's uncles and aunts occasionally detach themselves from the action and chant a commentary on the plot, in the manner of a Greek chorus; Harry is pursued by the Eumenides – the avenging Furies who pursue Orestes in the Oresteia; they are seen not only by Harry but by his servant and the most perceptive member of his family, Agatha [13]
The Crowthers of Bankdam is a 1940 historical novel by the British writer Thomas Armstrong. His debut novel, it is a family saga following the fortunes of the Crowther family of Yorkshire mill owners across several generations from 1854. A popular success, it was followed by three sequels collectively known as the Crowther Chronicles. [1]
Armstrong was twice married. With his first wife, he was the father of one son and two daughters: [6] Thaddeus Gloster Armstrong (1887–1963), who married artist Claire Kathleen Hanway, the younger sister of his stepmother, in 1921. [15] [16] Genevieve Armstrong, who married Watson. [17] Constance Armstrong, who died unmarried. [18]