Niven, David 1910-1983Overview
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The Pink Panther
by Blake Edwards
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70 editions published between 1963 and 2009 in 7 languages and held by 2,269 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Inspector Clouseau pursues a jewel thief, who is romantically pursuing Clouseau's wife
The guns of Navarone
by J. Lee Thompson
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67 editions published between 1951 and 2013 in 6 languages and held by 1,991 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A specialized commando team is assembled to destroy the German Army's mighty guns of Navarone, because they control a strategic channel in the Aegean Sea
Around the world in 80 days
by Jules Verne
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34 editions published between 1956 and 2005 in 3 languages and held by 1,956 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Phlegmatic, punctual Englishman Phileas Fogg believes in progress, science, and intellectual deduction. When a member of the Reform Club challenges him on the impossibility of completing a round-the-world tour in eighty days, he wagers his entire fortune to prove that he can do it. He is accompanied by his valet Passepartout, and followed by Mr. Fix, a detective who believes he is a notorious bank robber
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
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54 editions published between 1939 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 1,787 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A tortured love affair ends between Heathcliff and Cathy when Cathy marries the wealthy Edgar. Heathcliff's savage retaliation upon the woman he loves explodes in a stunning climax
The bishop's wife
by Henry Koster
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30 editions published between 1947 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 1,671 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Cary Grant stars as an angel who materializes in answer to the prayers of a harried young bishop, David Niven. Niven's efforts to raise money for a new cathedral have endangered his marriage to beautiful Loretta Young. Grant enters the bishop's household hoping to end the problems plaguing the family, but instead the bishop's negelected wife becomes infatuated with him
Go slowly, come back quickly
by David Niven
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20 editions published between 1981 and 1986 in English and held by 1,424 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A love story chronicling the escapades of Stani Skolimowski--a young man who becomes a football star, RAF pilot, stunt man, photographer, and lover in wartime Britain
Casino Royale
by John Huston
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46 editions published between 1966 and 2012 in 5 languages and held by 965 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Sir James Bond is persuaded to rejoin Her Majesty's secret service and head an operation to smash SMERSH
Please don't eat the daisies
by Charles Walters
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17 editions published between 1949 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 923 WorldCat member libraries worldwide When one of New York's top drama critics pans a good friend's show and its leading lady's performance, war is declared by both. The reviewer, his wife, four bratty kids, and their English sheepdog move to the country, but it does not solve the reviewer's problems
Candleshoe
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16 editions published between 1981 and 2004 in English and held by 809 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Welcome to Candleshoe, a stately English manor where a swashbuckling pirate hid a fortune in Spanish doubloons centuries ago. And that's what young orphan Casey and a sly con man are determined to find
Dodsworth
by William Wyler
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9 editions published between 1985 and 2001 in English and held by 705 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A middle-aged American retires and he and his wife go to Europe where they find a new set of values and relationships
Trail of the Pink Panther
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21 editions published between 1982 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 639 WorldCat member libraries worldwide World famous detective, Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is missing and so is the Pink Panther diamond
Prisoner of Zenda
by John Cromwell
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4 editions published between 1990 and 2007 in English and held by 606 WorldCat member libraries worldwide To save the crown, an English gentleman masequerades as his cousin, the King
Death on the Nile
by Agatha Christie
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18 editions published between 1978 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 579 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Set amidst the Egyptian landscape, Hercule Poirot must unravel the web of treachery and guilt woven by the murderer of a beautiful young heiress
The charge of the light brigade
by Michael Curtiz
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20 editions published between 1936 and 2008 in English and Spanish and held by 556 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Flynn stars in this classic tale of a band of British Lancers who challenge an army of 25,000 Russians
Separate tables
by Terence Rattigan
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17 editions published between 1958 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 529 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Explores the separate and interwoven dreams of a number of eccentric and lonely people in a rather gloomy, small hotel in the seaside town of Bournemouth, England
Blake Edwards' The Pink Panther film collection
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3 editions published between 2004 and 2008 in English and held by 526 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "The bumbling, hilarious Inspector Clouseau is back on the case in this collectable giftset boasting five classic comedies, a bonus DVD and the incomparable comic genius of Peter Sellers!"
The Sea wolves the last charge of the Calcutta Light Horse
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14 editions published between 1980 and 2010 in English and Spanish and held by 502 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In March of 1943, a group of Boer War veterans is recruited by British intelligence to destroy a Nazi spy ship in the harbor of Goa, India
No deposit no return
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5 editions published between 1986 and 2004 in English and held by 444 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Two safecrackers assist a brother and sister in faking their own kidnapping. The brother and sister's grandfather is forced to pay for their return
55 days at Peking
by Samuel Bronston
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36 editions published between 1962 and 2008 in English and French and held by 319 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A small handful of European men, women, and children from eleven foreign delegations become trapped and beseiged during the Chinese Boxer Rebellion of 1900
The dawn patrol
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7 editions published between 1938 and 2007 in English and held by 317 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled crates"and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand can't make the officers at headquarters see reason more
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Actors Adoptees Adventure and adventurers Angels Balaklava, Battle of (Ukraine : 1854) Bishops Bishops' spouses Bond, James (Fictitious character) Brontë, Emily, California--Los Angeles California--Los Angeles--Hollywood Clouseau, Inspector (Fictitious character) Country life Diamonds Domestic relations Edwards, Blake, England England--Yorkshire Families Film adaptations France Great Britain Heathcliff (Fictitious character : Brontë) Intelligence service Jewel thieves Kerr, Jean Kings and rulers Lewis, Sinclair, Loneliness Lookalikes MacLean, Alistair, Manners and customs Man-woman relationships Military campaigns Motion picture actors and actresses Motion picture industry Murder--Investigation New York (State)--New York Niven, David, Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) Revenge Stepsisters Switzerland Swordsmen Theater critics Ukraine--Balaklava United States Voyages around the world World War (1914-1918) World War (1939-1945)
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Alternative Names
Niven, David
Niven, James David Graham, 1910-1983
Nivens, David, 1910-1983
Languages
English
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Spanish (27) French (24) German (21) Multiple languages (4) Italian (3) Polish (2) Czech (2) Covers
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