The gates of horn and ivory are a literary image used to distinguish true dreams (corresponding to factual occurrences) from false. The phrase originated...
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The Gates of Ivory is a 1991 novel by novelist Margaret Drabble. The novel is the third in a series of novels, following The Radiant Way and A Natural...
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Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn is a fantasy novel by British author Robert Holdstock. It was originally published in the United States in 1997 (and in the...
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Margaret Drabble (category Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
ISBN 978-0140122282 The Gates of Ivory, Viking (1991) ISBN 978-0140166033 The Witch of Exmoor, Viking (1996) ISBN 978-0140261943 The Peppered Moth, Viking...
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Doris Egan (section Gate of Ivory trilogy)
Dark Angel, and House as well as many other television programs. The Gate of Ivory (February 1989, DAW Books, ISBN 978-0-88677-328-1) Two-Bit Heroes...
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Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital city...
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An ivory tower is a metaphorical place—or an atmosphere—where people are happily cut off from the rest of the world in favor of their own pursuits, usually...
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The Gates of Hell (French: La Porte de l'Enfer) is a monumental bronze sculptural group work by French artist Auguste Rodin that depicts a scene from the...
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Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn, was published in 1969, and is not a part of any series. His second and subsequent novels have all been a part of the J...
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature first published in 1932, edited by the retired diplomat Sir Paul Harvey (1869–1948), was the earliest of the...
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2006). "A Fishy Tale of a Feminist Icon". The Independent. Retrieved 9 March 2016. Gray, Paul (27 May 2007). "To See You Again". The New York Times. Retrieved...
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J. G. Farrell (category Accidental deaths in the Republic of Ireland)
novel on her flight from New York to London. In the 1991 novel The Gates of Ivory by Margaret Drabble, the writer Stephen Cox is modelled on Farrell. Farrell...
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The novel is part of three part series with the same characters, starting with The Radiant Way and succeeded by The Gates of Ivory. A Natural Curiosity...
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Braunstein. Distorted Sound scored the album 8 out of 10 and said: "Whether or not Dayseeker will quite reinvent the genre remains to be seen, but they...
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drowned in the depth of the sea" (Matthew 18:6). The parallel between Christ's words and the plot of the novel is established through the innocent though...
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The Radiant Way is a 1987 novel by British novelist Margaret Drabble. The novel provides social commentary and critique of 1980s Britain, by exploring...
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is the 1963 debut novel by Margaret Drabble published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. The title of the novel is taken from a quotation from the play The White...
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through the Dickensian satire of the Palmer family. The title describes the satirical protagonist, Frieda Palmer, who provides the source of much of the social...
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington...
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Jerusalem the Golden is a novel by Margaret Drabble published in 1967, and is a winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1967. Jerusalem the Golden...
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The Garrick Year is the second novel by British novelist Margaret Drabble, first published in 1964. It is a first-person account of Emma, a London wife...
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describe the two gates of the evanescent dreams; the truthful gate of polished horn and the deceitful gate of sawn ivory. For two are the gates of shadowy...
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The Ice Age is a 1977 novel by British novelist Margaret Drabble. The novel follows the experiences of former BBC producer Anthony Keating as he experiences...
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Quark/ (redirect from Quark (the anthology series))
Us Quickly Hasten to the Gate of Ivory", by Thomas M. Disch "Inalienable Rite", by Gregory Benford "Orion", by George Stanley "The View from This Window"...
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The Dark Flood Rises is the 19th novel of Margaret Drabble, and was first published in 2016. The title of the book is a quotation from a poem, The Ship...
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conference. At the beginning of the novel, the academic, Dr. Babs Halliwell, reads the memoir of a 19th-century Korean princess. Reception of the novel was...
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seven years, following The Sea Lady. In 2009, Drabble had pledged not to write fiction again, for fear of "repeating herself." The novel follows an anthropologist...
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The Middle Ground is a 1980 novel by British novelist Margaret Drabble. It is her ninth published novel. The novel explores the "crisis of British urban...
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The Seven Sisters is a 2002 novel by British novelist Margaret Drabble. The novel reflects on a mid-life crisis of an estranged Candida, when she moves...
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review for the novel in the New York Times describing the novel as well surpassing the quality of her earlier works. Oates writes that The Needle's Eye...
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