Clueless (novels)

The Clueless series is a series of young adult novels, mainly written by H. B. Gilmour and Randi Reisfeld. The series is published by Simon & Schuster. The series was generated after the release of the 1995 movie starring Alicia Silverstone.

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Novel

A novel is a long narrative, normally in prose, which describes fictional characters and events, usually in the form of a sequential story.

The genre has also been described as possessing "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years". This view sees the novel's origins in Classical Greece and Rome, medieval, early modern romance, and the tradition of the novella. The latter, an Italian word used to describe short stories, supplied the present generic English term in the 18th century. Ian Watt, however, in The Rise of the Novel (1957) suggests that the novel first came into being in the early 18th century,

Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, is frequently cited as the first significant European novelist of the modern era; the first part of Don Quixote was published in 1605.

The romance is a closely related long prose narrative. Walter Scott defined it as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents", whereas in the novel "the events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of society". However, many romances, including the historical romances of Scott,Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, are also frequently called novels, and Scott describes romance as a "kindred term". Romance, as defined here, should not be confused with the genre fiction love romance or romance novel. Other European languages do not distinguish between romance and novel: "a novel is le roman, der Roman, il romanzo."

Novel (Roman law)

In Roman law, a Novel (Lat. novella) is a new decree or edict, in other words a new law. The term was used from the fourth century AD onwards and was specifically used for laws issued after the publishing of the Codex Theodosianus in 438 and then for the Justiniac Novels, or Novellae Constitutiones. The term was used on and off in later Roman history until falling out of use during the late Byzantine period.

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Further reading

Ninety-nine Novels

Anthony Burgess's book Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 — A Personal Choice (Allison & Busby, 1984, ISBN 0-85031-585-9) covers a 44-year span between 1939 and 1983. Burgess was a prolific reader, in his early career reviewing more than 350 novels in just over two years for the Yorkshire Post. In the course of his career he wrote over thirty novels.

The list represents his personal choices.

In an interview with Don Swaim Burgess reveals that the book was originally commissioned by a Nigerian publishing company, and written in two weeks.

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Clueless

Clueless may refer to:

Clueless (film)

Clueless is a 1995 American coming-of-age comedy film. It is loosely based on Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma. It stars Alicia Silverstone (in the lead role), Stacey Dash, Paul Rudd, and Brittany Murphy. The film is set in Beverly Hills and was written and directed by Amy Heckerling and produced by Scott Rudin. It was released in the United States on July 21, 1995.

The film grossed $56 million in the United States and has developed a cult following.

The film spun off a television sitcom and a series of books.

Plot

Cherilyn "Cher" Horowitz is a good-natured but superficial girl who is attractive, popular, and extremely wealthy. A few months shy of her sixteenth birthday, she has risen to the top of the high school social scene. She lives in a Beverly Hills mansion with her father Mel, a ferocious $500-an-hour litigator; her mother died from a freak accident during a routine liposuction procedure when Cher was a baby. Cher's best friend is Dionne Davenport, who is also rich, pretty, and hip, and understands what it's like to be envied. Though Dionne has a long-term relationship with popular student Murray, Cher claims that it is a pointless endeavor.

Clueless (game show)

Clueless (Polish: Gra w ciemno, lit. "playing in the dark") was a Polish game show hosted by Krzysztof Ibisz that ran from 2005 to 2007 on Polsat.

Gameplay

Envelopes

At the beginning of the game, the player picked several envelopes from 50. At first, it was 10, then changed to 8, and lastly, 5. Each envelope had a check with the smallest being -100%, which, if you took, would make you end with 0, and the highest 100,000 zl. These were the scattered amounts found in the 50 envelopes.

Questions

After picking the envelopes, the player was asked a question, in which after asked, he/she would pick an envelope to play for. Then, he/she would be shown 4 answers, one which was right. If the player answered correctly, the envelope would be his/hers. If not, he/she would have to ruin the envelope by shredding it in the "paper shredder", or in Polish, "niszczarka".

Bidding

After the questions, if the player won at least one envelope, the bidding would begin. The host would offer an amount for one or more envelopes. The player could disagree and post a higher amount, but the host had to approve in order for the player to receive that amount. If the player disagreed with the host and the host would not put a higher amount, then the player would take the envelope. Also, he could trade it for the envelopes that the host already bought from him/her. If the player got a -100%, he would lose the game and end with 0. If he/she got -50%, then the player would walk out with half of what he has.