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Donald Michael Thomas (25 January 1935 – 26 March 2023) was a British poet, translator, novelist, editor, biographer and playwright. His work has been translated into 30 languages. Working primarily as a poet throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Thomas's 1981 poetry collection Dreaming in Bronze received a Cholmondeley Award. He began writing novels, with The Flute-Player (his second novel, though the first to be published) appearing in 1979. Thomas's third novel The White Hotel won the 1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, the 1981 Cheltenham Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the same year's Booker Prize, whose judges were prevented from naming it joint-winner alongside Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children due to prize rules. Between 1983 and 1990, Thomas published his "Russian Nights Quintet" of novels, beginning with Ararat and concluding with Summit (inspired by a meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in Switzerland) and Lying Together (which predicted the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the return of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to Russia). He then published Flying in to Love (which concerns the assassination of John F. Kennedy) and five other novels. Bloodaxe Books published The Puberty Tree, the British edition of Thomas's "selected" poems, in 1992. This followed the Penguin Books 1983 publication of Selected Poems, released for U.S. readers following his well-received novel The White Hotel. A translator from Russian into English, Thomas worked particularly on Anna Akhmatova and Alexander Pushkin, as well as on Yevgeny Yevtushenko. He also wrote a biography of Solzhenitsyn, which was awarded an Orwell Prize in 1999. Early life and education Thomas was born to plasterer Harold Thomas and his wife Amy on 25 January 1935, in Carnkie, Redruth in Cornwall. He was a descendant of miners and carpenters. His father spent time living in California during the 1920s and was fond of the United States. Thomas attended Trewirgie Primary School between 1940 and 1945, then Redruth Grammar School from 1946 until 1949. In 1949, he and his family moved to the Australian city of Melbourne. Thomas spent the years between 1949 and 1951 at University High School there. In 1951, he returned to Carnkie and to Redruth Grammar School. His National Service was from 1953 until 1955, most of which he spent learning Russian. He retained a lifelong interest in Russian culture and literature. This culminated in a series of well-received translations of Russian poetry from the 1980s onwards, particularly from Anna Akhmatova and Alexander Pushkin, as well as from Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Thomas graduated with First Class Honours in English from New College, Oxford, having studied there between 1955 and 1958. Between 1959 and 1963 he was an English teacher at Teignmouth Grammar School. From 1963 he was an English lecturer at Hereford College of Education until he was made redundant upon its closure in 1978. Writing Thomas's first published work was a short story in The Isis Magazine in 1959. He published poetry and some prose in the British science fiction magazine New Worlds (from 1968). Much of what he published until he was 40 years of age was poetry. Two Voices, his first book, was published in 1968; it consisted of poetry. Its title poem relates to science fiction/fantasy. The title poem of Logan Stone (1971) refers to a balancing rock in Cornwall. Love and Other Deaths (1975) features elegiac poems relating to family. The Honeymoon Voyage (1978) was written around the time of his mother's death. His mother died in 1975. The Flute-Player, the second novel Thomas wrote, was also published in 1978. Inspired by Russian poetry (especially Anna Akhmatova), it was his first novel to be published and does not contain much dialogue; he had earlier written Birthstone. Birthstone was published in 1980; it is the only one of Thomas's novels to feature his native Cornwall and to deploy instances of Cornish speech. There is also sex, suspenders and psychoanalysis; the London Review of Books described it as "Fantasy as Freud envisaged it, powerful enough to counter reality, working like free association and allowing the unconscious to take over". Dreaming in Bronze, Thomas's 1981 poetry collection, secured for him a Cholmondeley Award. However, the work that made him famous was not poetry; it was his erotic and somewhat fantastical novel The White Hotel (1981), the story of a woman undergoing psychoanalysis, which proved very popular in continental Europe and the United States. It was shortlisted for the 1981 Booker Prize, coming a close second, according to one of the judges, to the winner, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. Thomas stated in an interview on BBC Radio Cornwall in 2015 that the Booker judges wanted to split the prize between himself and Rushdie, but that the Board informed them that the rules would not permit this, although the rules were indeed changed in this respect the following year. It has also elicited considerable controversy, as some of its passages are taken from Anatoly Kuznetsov's Babi Yar, a novel about the Holocaust. In general, however, Thomas's use of such "composite material" (material taken from other sources and imitations of other writers) is seen as more postmodern than plagiarist. Graham Greene selected The White Hotel for his "Books of the Year". William Golding also selected The White Hotel as his Book of the Year for 1981. Thomas wrote the book during a sabbatical at New College, Oxford in 1978–79. He wrote some of it in Hereford, where he was living and used two typewriters, one in each city. It was translated into 30 languages. Follow-up novel Ararat, published in 1983, was the first of a series concerning the Soviet Union, referred to as the Russian Nights Quintet; it was inspired by Thomas's reading of Pushkin and a review of an Armenian poetry anthology which The Times Literary Supplement asked him to write. It was followed by Swallow (1984), Sphinx (1986) Summit (1987) and Lying Together (1990). Summit was inspired by a meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in Switzerland, while Lying Together predicted the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the return of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to Russia. Thomas's 1992 novel Flying in to Love concerns the assassination of John F. Kennedy (the "Love" in the title refers to Dallas Love Field airport, where Kennedy had landed that morning), as well as the death of his own father in 1960. His 1993 novel Pictures at an Exhibition allowed Thomas to mix his interests in Freud, Nazism and the Holocaust. Its writing was set off by Thomas's attendance at a feminist exhibition, specifically its treatment of the Edvard Munch composition Madonna; writing in the Sunday Independent, critic and journalist Clare Boylan described Pictures at an Exhibition as "a compulsive page-turner". Thomas's 1994 novel Eating Pavlova is set in London in September 1940 and concerns Freud as he dies; The New .... Discover the M D Thomas popular books. Find the top 100 most popular M D Thomas books.
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John M. Thomas v. Gerald v. Leary
Supreme Court of New YorkWe are asked to review an order of Special Term which dismissed, because of legal insufficiency, an alleged cause of action claiming injuries resulting from breach of warranty.
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Life of Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.S.
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Last Wish
M.D. ThomasLast Wish (The Linh Davies Series Book 1)Who's trapped in her head now?Emergency physician Linh Davies is cursed with the ability to possess the soul of someone who dies when she's...
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The Butterfly Tattoo
M.D. ThomasA hitandrun leaves elevenyearold Lee Young in a coma, his spirit on the loose and searching for the adults involved in the accident...They all think they know what Lee's spirit is ...
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Vertigo 42
Martha GrimesThe inimitable Richard Jury returns in the latest in the bestselling mystery series: “Martha Grimes has written a whodunit with terrific characters and a grand plot mixed with her ...
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Ruslan and Ludmila
D M ThomasAlexander Pushkin’s epic magicrealist tale is brought vividly to life in this superb translation by D. M. Thomas. Drawing on the Russian folklore of Pushkin’s childhood, the poem r...
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The Bread and the Knife
Dawn Drzal"You'll wish the alphabet had more letters just so Dawn Drzal would keep on writing.”Laura Shapiro, author of What She Ate, Julia Child, Something from the Oven, and Perfection Sal...
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Fool Wish
M.D. ThomasFool Wish (The Linh Davies Series Book 2)Linh Davies has gone six months without a new possession.But she's so desperate to get rid of the voices still trapped in her head that she...
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If the Allies Had Fallen
Dennis E. Showalter, Harold C. Deutsch & William R. ForstchenWhat if Stalin had signed with the West in 1939? What if the Allies had been defeated on DDay? What if Hitler had won the war?From the Munich crisis and the dropping of the first a...
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Beat Glaucoma
Peter W. DeBry, M.D.You have been diagnosed with glaucoma. This degenerative disease of the optic nerve can lead to blindness. However, since glaucoma is usually treatable, blindness or vi...
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Top Inspiring Thoughts of Eric Thomas
M.D. Sharma<p><b>Top Inspiring Thoughts of Eric Thomas</b> by <b>M.D. Sharma</b>: In this compilation of motivational wisdom, M.D. Sharma brings together the mos...
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Thomas Macari v. Rose M. Macari
Supreme Court of New York[50 A.D.2d 818 Page 818] In an action in which the plaintiff husband was granted a judgment divorcing him from defendant and awarding him custody of the infant issue of the marria...
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Wycliffe and the Guilt-Edged Alibi
W.J. BurleyA family feud leads to murder and Superintendent Wycliffe is on the case...Caroline Bryce came from the top of the social register in the tranquil town of Treen. So it was quite a...
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Death Wish
M.D. ThomasDeath Wish (The Linh Davies Series Book 3)To finally be free of the voices in her head, Linh Davies faces her greatest challenge yet....After her latest possession Linh is trapped,...
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The Writings of Thomas Paine. Collected and edited by M. D. Conway, vol. III
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Thomas D. Robinson and Robert M. Robinson
Supreme Court of Idaho No. 10903This action in tort and warranty arises from complex facts which require comprehensive treatment. At times relevant to the case plaintiffsappellants were partners in a r...
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Wycliffe and the Dunes Mystery
W.J. BurleyA highprofile murder investigation for Wycliffe, in Cornwall's heartland.Cochran Wilder disappeared fifteen years ago while on a walking holiday in Cornwall. Recently released from...
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Cthulhu 2000
Jim Turner, Harlan Ellison, Thomas Ligotti, Poppy Z. Brite & F. Paul WilsonA host of horror and fantasy’s top authors captures the spirit of supreme supernatural storyteller H. P. Lovecraft with eighteen chilling contemporary tales that would have made th...
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The Writings of Thomas Paine. Collected and edited by M. D. Conway. Vol. II
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Thomas M. Turner v. State New York
Supreme Court of New YorkAppellants motion was properly denied and the order appealed from should, therefore, be affirmed. The late filing requirements of subdivision 5 of section 10 of the Court of Claims...
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Struck
M.D. ThomasDuring a summertime meteor shower, Persee Hodges suffers a freak strike to the eye that leaves her not only wounded, but surprisingly dangerous to those around her....Persee comes ...
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Matter William M. Kunstler v. Thomas B. Galligan
Supreme Court of New YorkOpinion OF THE COURT On August 18, 1990, Mr. Yusef Salaam was convicted, after a jury trial of the crimes of rape in the first degree (Penal Law ? 130.35 ), assault in the first de...
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Wycliffe and Death in a Salubrious Place
W.J. BurleyOn the beautiful, tranquil Scilly Isles, a brutal murder is uncovered...There was no doubt at all that the girl was dead. The front of her skull and her facial bones had been splin...
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Chicago Story
Marvin Thomas M.D.Saga describing the effects of a medical malpractice suit filed against one of the top cardiovascular surgeons in Chicago and his assistant trainee Resident, The ramifications of t...
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The Writings of Thomas Paine. Collected and edited by M. D. Conway. VOLUME I
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The Writings of Thomas Paine. Collected and edited by M. D. Conway, vol. IV
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