Thanks to Lyn in Tasmania, Australia for this:
| Title: | Cumulated fiction index |
| Publisher: | London : Association of Assistant Librarians, 1960-
[Newcastle-under-Lyme] : CDG Publishing, 2000- |
| Description: | v. ; 24 cm. |
| Numbering: | 1945/1960- |
| Format: | Serial |
| Notes: | Each issue has individual compilers. 1945-1960 compiled by G.B. Cotton and Alan Glencross; 1960-1969 compiled by Raymond Ferguson Smith and Antony John Gordon; 1975-1984 compiled by Marilyn E. Hicken; 1980-1989 compiled by Marilyn E. Hicken.
Cumulation of annual Fiction index. |
| Contents: | [v.1] 1945-1960 -- [v.2] 1960-1969 -- [v.3] 1970-1974 -- [v.4] 1975-1979 -- [v.5] 1980-1984 -- [v.6] 1980-1989 -- [v.7] 1990-1994 -- [v.8] 1995-1999 |
| Subjects: | Fiction - Indexes
English fiction - 20th century - Indexes
English fiction - 20th century - Bibliography |
| Alternate title: | Fiction index 1975-1979 |
| Other authors: | Glencross, Alan
Cotton, G. B. (Gerald Brooks)
Hicken, Mandy, 1936- |
Less useful but you never know:
| Title: | Novel openers: first sentences of 11,000 fictional works, topically arranged with subject, keyword, author, and title indexing / by Bruce L. Weaver |
| Author: | Weaver, Bruce L |
| Publisher: | Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c1995 |
| Description: | ix, 986 p. ; 27 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0786400501 |
| Subjects: | Fiction - Indexes
Openings (Rhetoric) - Indexes
Quotations, English |
| Permalink: | Permalink to this item |
Other authors ….. ?
George Eliot. Mill on the floss
Thomas Hardy’s novels
The death of Martin Guerre
Laurence Sterne. Tristram Shandy
Henry Fielding. Tom Jones
Tolstoy looks at farming practices of his time in many of his novels.
Chaucer - the Millers tale etc.
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I took these from Global Books in Print, not all fiction, but they may be of interest if you are into this subject.
| From Castle Rackrent to Castle Dracula: Anglo-Irish Agrarian Fiction in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Author: | Paul Cliffe |
| Publication Date: | December 2009 |
| Publisher: | University of Buckingham Press, The |
| Country of Publication: | United Kingdom |
| Market: | United Kingdom |
| ISBN: | 0-9560716-7-8 |
| ISBN13: | 978-0-9560716-7-5 |
| Item Status: | Active Record (Available for Order) |
| Binding Format: | Trade Cloth |
| Pages: | 250 |
| Also Available Through: | Gardners Books Limited |
| Current Language: | English |
| Bowker Subjects: | ENGLISH LITERATURE |
| LC Class #: | PR468 |
| Dewey #: | 823.8099415 |
| Synopsis/Annotation: | It is impossible to study literature in Ireland in the 19th century without also considering history, social issues, politics and religion. In particular absentee landlords appointed agents and/or middlemen - most of whom were corrupt - who persecuted tenants and squeezed every last penny from them (often entirely legally). |
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| Title: | Tomato Rhapsody: A Fable of Love, Lust and Forbidden Fruit |
| Author: | Adam Schell |
| Publication Date: | June 2009 |
| Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Delacorte Press |
| Country of Publication: | United States |
| Market: | Canada |
| ISBN: | 0-385-34333-7 |
| ISBN13: | 978-0-385-34333-6 |
| EAN: | 9780385343336 |
| Item Status: | Active Record (Readily Available) |
| Binding Format: | Trade Cloth |
| Pages: | 352 |
| Price: | $28.95 (CND Retail) Random House of Canada, Limited (Distributor) |
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| Current Language: | English |
| Audience: | General Adult |
| Bowker Subjects: | FICTION_ROMANCE_GENERAL
ITALY_FICTION
TOMATOES |
| General Subjects (BISAC): | TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science
FICTION / Romance / General |
| General Subjects (BIC): | AGRONOMY & CROP PRODUCTION
ROMANCE |
| LCCN: | 2008-051835 |
| LC Class #: | PS3619.C347T66 2009 |
| Dewey #: | 813/.6 |
| Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): | 15.875 x 23.495 x 3.048 cm.
.522 kg. |
| Synopsis/Annotation: | [A] delectable debut.... Schell displays the finesse of a master chef as he spices up the story with a delicious array of humorous subplots.Booklist If only every debut novel arrived with such spirit. USA Today
The almost-true tale of how the tomato came to 16th century Italy and the forbidden love between Davido, a Jewish tomato farmer, and Mari, a beautiful Catholic girl. But it's not only Davido and Mari who have secrets of the heart. Everyone around them yearns for something--from Davido's grandfather, who tenderly cultivates the tomato plant he stole on his voyages with Columbus, to Mari's villainous stepfather, whose eye is trained on his stepdaughter's virginity and his neighbor's land. Caught in the midst of these passions and machinations is a village full of eccentrics who speak in rhyme, celebrate the Feast of the Drunken Saint, and live a life untouched by the passage of time. The schemes and dreams of these men and women are about to change as what is forbidden becomes too delicious to resist. Tradition, religion, and good taste collide in a story about the courage to pursue love and tomato sauce at all costs.
A village in Tuscany is the setting for this joyous debuta novel that defies all our expectations as it puts a fresh, clever, captivating spin on the age-old tale of forbidden love. Rich in literary delights, filled with spectacular wordplay, and rife with the bawdy humor of Shakespeares comedies,Tomato Rhapsodyis the almost-true tale of how the tomato came to Italyat once a brilliantly inventive fable of love, lust, and longing, and a dazzling feast for the imagination. This is a story born from lovea forbidden lovebetween Davido, anEbreotomato farmer, and Mari, a beautiful Catholic girl.But its not only Davido and Mari who have secrets of the heart. Everyone around them yearns for somethingfrom Davidos grandfather, who tenderly cultivates the tomato plant he stole on his voyages with Columbus, to Maris villainous stepfather, whose eye is trained on his stepdaughters virginity and his neighbors land. Caught in the midst of these passions and machinations is a village full of eccentrics who speak in rhyme, celebrate the Feast of the Drunken Saint, and live a life untouched by the passage of time. The schemes and dreams of these men and women are about to change as what is forbidden becomes too delicious to resist. Tradition, religion, and good taste collide unforgettably in a story about the courage to pursue love and tomato sauce at all costs.
[A] delectable debut.... Schell displays the finesse of a master chef as he spices up the story with a delicious array of humorous subplots.Booklist |
| Title: | Spring's Edge: A Ranch Wife's Chronicles | | Author: | Laurie Wagner Buyer | | | Laurie Wagner Buyer | | Publication Date: | July 2008 | | Publisher: | University of New Mexico Press | | Country of Publication: | United States | | Market: | Australia | | ISBN: | 0-8263-4391-0 | | ISBN13: | 978-0-8263-4391-8 | | EAN: | 9780826343918 | | Item Status: | Active Record (Readily Available) | | Binding Format: | Trade Paper | | Edition: | illustrated | | Pages: | 272 | | Price: | $41.95 (AUD Retail) Inbooks (Distributor) | | Also Available Through: | Alibris  ; Brodart Company; Powells.com | | Current Language: | English | | Audience: | General Adult | | Bowker Subjects: | COLORADO_SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS
POETS_BIOGRAPHY
RANCH LIFE
RANCHERS
UNITED STATES_INTELLECTUAL LIFE
AUTHORS, AMERICAN | | General Subjects (BISAC): | HISTORY / United States / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General | | General Subjects (BIC): | LITERATURE: HISTORY & CRITICISM_USA
BIOGRAPHY: LITERARY
HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS_USA
SOCIOLOGY: CUSTOMS & TRADITIONS
RURAL COMMUNITIES
AGRICULTURE & FARMING | | LCCN: | 2007-040976 | | LC Class #: | PS3552.U8944Z474 | | Dewey #: | 811/.54 B | | Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): | 15.24 x 23.114 x 1.524 cm.
.38 kg. | | Synopsis/Annotation: | "Spring's Edge" reflects life during one season on the modern-day Colorado cattle ranch Laurie Buyer once called home. Her diary recounts the day-to-day toil and the challenge of trying to find time to write while continuing to help with outdoor chores, cooking, cleaning, balancing the books, and working for a neighboring ranch.Chronicling a time of deep personal change, Buyer struggles with her role as a ranch wife, faces the diminishing vitality of an agricultural way of life, and nurses her father through a terminal illness. Buyer tries to bridge the gap between the rural world she cherishes and the inevitable encroachment of urban sprawl. Meanwhile, her writing of landscape and weather, livestock and wildlife, loneliness and intimacy capture the innate rhythms of relationships, the resilience of love, and the astonishing beauty of life on the land. | | Jacket Description. | "Spring's Edge reflects life during one season on the modern-day Colorado cattle ranch Laurie Buyer once called home. Her diary recounts the day-to-day toil and the challenge of trying to find time to write while continuing to help with outdoor chores, cooking, cleaning, balancing the books, and working for a neighboring ranch."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Title: | Memoirs of a Breton Peasant, 1834-1905 | | Author: | Jean-Marie Deguignet | | | Linda Asher | | Publication Date: | February 2008 | | Publisher: | Seven Stories Press | | Country of Publication: | United States | | Market: | United Kingdom | | ISBN: | 1-58322-616-8 | | ISBN13: | 978-1-58322-616-2 | | EAN: | 9781583226162 | | Item Status: | Active Record (Readily Available) | | Binding Format: | Trade Cloth | | Edition: | illustrated | | Pages: | 488 | | Price: | £17.99 (GBP Retail) Turnaround Publisher Services Limited (Distributor) | | Also Available Through: | Brodart Company; Gardners Books Limited; NACSCORP, Incorporated; Raincoast Book Distribution | | Current Language: | English | | Original Language: | French | | Audience: | General Adult | | Bowker Subjects: | PEASANTRY_FRANCE
POOR_FRANCE
SOLDIERS
FRANCE_RURAL CONDITIONS | | General Subjects (BISAC): | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military | | General Subjects (BIC): | POVERTY & UNEMPLOYMENT
BIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY
MILITARY HISTORY
RURAL COMMUNITIES | | LCCN: | 2003-020061 | | LC Class #: | HD1536.F8D39713 2004 | | Dewey #: | 305.5/633/092 B | | Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): | 16.104 x 23.368 x 3.454 cm.
.75 kg. | | Synopsis/Annotation: | Memoirs of A Breton Peasant combines the discovery of a fascinating document of nineteenth-century history with an extraordinary life story. As lively as an adventure novel, the account bristles with the curiosity of an alert, opinionated autodidact from the very lowest level of peasant society, as Jean-Marie Deguignet moves through the world of his time. Most records from nineteenth-century Brittany are the chronicles of and by the middle and upper classes-the formally educated, the advantaged. Deguignet is unique not only as a reading and writing peasant, but in his skepticism regarding the Church; his interest in science, astronomy, and languages; and in his keen-often caustic-observations of the world and people around him. Born in 1834 near Quimper, in Brittany, to landless farmers, the young Deguignet was sent out several times a week to beg for the family's food. After some adolescent years as a cowherd and a domestic speaking only Breton, he left the province as a soldier, avid for knowledge of the vast world. He taught himself Latin, then French, then Italian and Spanish; he read history and philosophy and politics and literature. He was sent to fight in the Crimean war, to attend at Napoleon III's coronation ceremonies, to support Italy's liberation struggle, and to defend the hapless French puppet emperor Maximilian in Mexico. He returned home to live as a tobacco farmer, falling back into dire poverty. Throughout the tale, Deguignet's freethinking, almost anarchic views put him ahead of his time and often (sadly, for him) out of step with his fellows. Deguignet's voluminous notebooks, written from 1897 to 1904, have sold over two hundred sixty-five thousand copies to date in France. Linda Asher (Translator), former fiction editor at The New Yorker, has previously translated into English Restif de la Bretonne, Victor Hugo, George Simenon, and Milan Kundera. The last book she translated for Seven Stories, Martin Winckler's The Case of Dr. Sachs, won the French-American translation prize in 2001. | | Author Info. | Bernez Rouz, a member of the Arkae Association of Historical Research, has devoted his life to tracking down the complete set of the notebooks of Jean-Marie Deguignet, only a fraction of which had been on record for more than a century |
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Jason Webster in his Sacred Sierra: a year on a Spanish mountain has lengthy quotes as chapter headings from the following work by Ibn al-Awam Kitab al-Falaha, The Book of Agriculture (written in the 12th century). Most of it could have been written yesterday … really fascinating.
| Title: | A Traveller in Thirteenth-Century Arabia: Ibn al-Mujawir's Tarikh Al-mustabsir | | Contributor: | G. Rex Smith (Editor) | | Publication Date: | November 2007 | | Publisher: | Ashgate Publishing, Limited | | Country of Publication: | United Kingdom | | Market: | Australia | | ISBN: | 0-904180-91-3 | | ISBN13: | 978-0-904180-91-6 | | Item Status: | Active Record (Readily Available) | | Binding Format: | Trade Cloth | | Edition: | illustrated | | Pages: | 370 | | Price: | $121.00 (AUD Retail) Rainbow Book Agencies (Distributor) | | Also Available Through: | Alibris ; Baker & Taylor Books; DA Information Services Pty. Limited | | Current Language: | English | | Original Language: | Arabic | | Audience: | General Adult | | Bowker Subjects: | MECCA (SAUDI ARABIA)
SAUDI ARABIA_DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL
YEMEN | | General Subjects (BISAC): | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies
HISTORY / Middle East / General
TRAVEL / Middle East / General | | General Subjects (BIC): | ISLAMIC STUDIES
TRAVEL & HOLIDAY_MIDDLE EAST
MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY | | LCCN: | 2007-017576 | | LC Class #: | DS206.I2613 2007 | | Dewey #: | 915.304/2 | | Synopsis/Annotation: | This is the first English translation of the Tarikh al-Mustabsir, written in the early quarter of the thirteenth century by Ibn al-Mujawir. The text is a fascinating account of the western and southern areas of the Arabian Peninsula by a man from the east of the Islamic world, probably from Khurasan in Iran.Ibn al-Mujawir was a man who in all probability followed the age-old Islamic practice of making the pilgrimage to Mecca and thereafter travelling in the area to further his business interests. His route began in Mecca and essentially ran south through the Red Sea coastal plain, Tihamah, down into the Yemen and along the southern coast of the peninsula. He paused long in Aden, where he observed closely the activities of the port to report at some length on its administration, its taxes, its markets, its currency, its weights and measures, and the like. His route then continued along the southern coast of Arabia into the Gulf, and he presumably returned home to the east via Iraq. The author is a wonderful observer of people: their buildings, their dress, their customs, their agriculture, their food and their history.This book is a unique source for the social and economic history of thirteenth-century south Arabia, written with a humour and wit otherwise unknown in the writings of medieval Islam. The text is of major linguistic importance too, written as it is in a far from classical Arabic. This translation is fully annotated with an introduction, glossary, appendices and full indices, and contains maps and illustrations. | | | |
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