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The Lonely Crowd is a 1950 sociological analysis by David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, and Reuel Denney. Together with White Collar: The American Middle Classes (1951), it is considered a landmark study of American character .
The Lonely House is a 1920 mystery detective novel by the British author Marie Belloc Lowndes. [1] It features the French police detective Hercules Popeau, a near exact contemporary creation as Agatha Christie 's Belgian private detective Hercule Poirot .
The Lonely Londoners is a 1956 novel by Trinidadian author Samuel Selvon. Its publication was one of the first to focus on poor, working-class black people following the enactment of the British Nationality Act 1948 alongside George Lamming 's ( 1954 ) novel The Emigrants .
The book is largely a study of modern conformity, which postulates the existence of the "inner-directed" and "other-directed" personalities. Riesman argued that the character of post- World War II American society impels individuals to "other-directedness," the preeminent example being modern suburbia , where individuals seek their neighbors ...
Lonely Road is a novel by British author Nevil Shute. It was first published in 1932 by William Heinemann and in the US by William Morrow . In 1936 it was adapted as a film, Lonely Road , released in the US as Scotland Yard Commands , starring Clive Brook and Victoria Hopper .
The Lonely Polygamist is the third novel written by Brady Udall. It was published in 2010 by W. W. Norton & Company . According to Udall, after writing a nonfiction piece in 1998 for Esquire called "Big Love," about modern day polygamy, "there was no question my next novel would be about contemporary polygamy."
The Lonely Guy is a 1984 American romantic comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Steve Martin. The screenplay is credited to Ed. Weinberger and Stan Daniels (of Taxi ) as well as Neil Simon (for "adaptation"), and is based on the 1978 book The Lonely Guy's Book of Life by Bruce Jay Friedman .
"The Lonely" was the first regular episode to enter production following the success of the pilot episode, "Where Is Everybody?" in selling the series. It was the first of several episodes (including "I Shot an Arrow into the Air", "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" and "The Rip Van Winkle Caper") to be filmed on location in Death Valley.