Yes, fight fans. I am done with history. It is literature's turn.
Hm. A lot of determiner 'a' beginnings here. I will sort them out in time. Otherwise, we will have the definite article 'the' trying to throw its weight around.
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1. Alaskan oilfields. Thriller.
'All About Eve' is a 1950 film based on a 1946 short story by Mary Orr. She did not get a screen credit. Which is annoying for people like me who like to enjoy the original first. "Hey, Mister Spielberg! Quint doesn't get et by the shark! He drowns! The poor, little, rich kid oceanographer and marriage wrecker gets chewed! The shark doesn't get blown up by an oxygen tank in its mouth hit by a .30 aught 6 (7.62x63mm) round! It drowns!
Atlas Shrugged
All About Eve
Athabasca
The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
2. A member of the family Leporidae Is chased and then has to endure home invasion.
The Amityville Horror
The Angels Weep
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Assegai
3. Stream-of-conciousness. Addie Bundren. A wagonload of trouble on a trek to Jefferson, Mississippi with a corpse.
Absalom, Absalom!
August 1914
As I Lay Dying
Anne of Green Gables
4. Patrick Bateman.
I found 'American Tabloid' utter garbage but I had to read it for a university assignment. I threw 'American Psycho' in the fire about halfway through it.
American Tabloid
American Psycho
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Amerika
5. An extramarital affair and travelling.
The African Queen
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Anna Karenina
Around the World in Eighty Days
6. A balloon in fog... I mean... a Fogg in balloon.
There is NO balloon in Jules Verne's book... but take a point.
As You Like It
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Around the World in Eighty Days
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
7. Leon Uris book. Published 1963.
'Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin' is another one of those books where the hyperbole promises much but leaves you feeling "What the hell" and has you hurrying down to the newsagent's before he closes to throw the book at his head. Leon Uris was one of the bestsellers in the 'sixties and 'seventies along with Harold Robbins. Between the two of them and their publishers they destroyed a lot of Amazon rainforest and created an Everest of dung.
And Quiet Flows the Don
Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin
All Quiet on the Western Front
Above Us the Waves
8. French resistance during World War One.
A Farewell to Arms
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Alice Network
The Awakening
9. "Four legs good, two legs better!"
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Antigone
Animal Farm
The Age of Innocence
10. A German soldier returns home from Russia on leave during World War Two and is a little aghast at what he finds.
A Time to Kill
A Time Enough for Love
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
A Wrinkle in Time
11. Personal invitations to an isolated island off the Devon coast. Ulick Norman Owen. Una Nancy Owen. Murders.