Revival (novel)

Revival is a novel by Stephen King, published on November 11, 2014 by Scribner. This was King's second novel published during 2014, and his fourth since 2013.

Background information

The novel was first mentioned by King on June 20, 2013, while doing a video chat with fans as part of promoting the upcoming Under the Dome TV series. During the chat King stated that he was halfway through writing his next novel, Revival. The novel was officially announced on February 12, 2014. An excerpt was included at the end of the paperback edition of King's Doctor Sleep, published on June 10, 2014 (ISBN 978-1451698855). In an interview with Rolling Stone, King stated that Revival was inspired by Arthur Machen's "The Great God Pan" and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and, like several of King's preceding novels, the idea for this novel has been around with him ever since he was a kid.

Plot

When Charles Jacobs, a new minister, comes to town, little Jamie Morton is excited. Almost everyone in the tiny Maine hamlet comes to love Jacobs, his beautiful wife, or both of them. Things change all too suddenly when Mrs. Jacobs and her baby die in a gruesome auto accident. Half-crazed, the reverend denounces God and religion during a sermon, is banished from the town, and thereafter pursues successive careers as a sideshow huckster, and then a faith healer, fueled by his lifelong experiments with electricity. Jamie meanwhile, grows up to be a musician, and develops a drug problem, which ends after he is "saved' by Jacobs, who uses an unorthodox electrical treatment to heal Jamie and cure him of his addiction.

Moon of Israel (novel)

Moon of Israel is a novel by Rider Haggard, first published in 1918 by John Murray. The novel narrates the events of the Biblical Exodus from Egypt told from the perspective of a scribe named Ana.

Haggard dedicated his novel to Sir Gaston Maspero, a distinguished Egyptologist and director of Cairo Museum.

Adaptation

His novel was the basis of a script by Ladislaus Vajda, for film-director Michael Curtiz in his 1924 Austrian epic known as Die Sklavenkönigin, or "Queen of the Slaves".

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1940 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1940.

Events

1632 (novel)

1632 is the initial novel in the best-sellingalternate history 1632 book series written by historian, writer and editor Eric Flint. The flagship novel kicked off a collaborative writing effort that has involved hundreds of contributors and dozens of authors. The premise involves a small American town of three thousand, sent back to May 1631, in an alternate Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.

Plot summary

The fictional town of Grantville, West Virginia (modeled on the real West Virginia town of Mannington) and its power plant are displaced in space-time, through a side effect of a mysterious alien civilization.

A hemispherical section of land about three miles in radius measured from the town center is transported back in time and space from April 2000 to May 1631, from North America to central Germany. The town is thrust into the middle of the Thirty Years' War, in the German province of Thuringia in the Thuringer Wald, near the fictional German free city of Badenburg. This Assiti Shards effect occurs during a wedding reception, accounting for the presence of several people not native to the town, including a doctor and his daughter, a paramedic. Real Thuringian municipalities located close to Grantville are posited as Weimar, Jena, Saalfeld and the more remote Erfurt, Arnstadt, and Eisenach well to the south of Halle and Leipzig.

Revival

Revival may refer to:

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Music

Albums

Revival (Live at the Gillioz)

Live at the Gillioz is a limited edition 2 DVD set concert film release by the Country rock band The Ozark Mountain Daredevils. The concert was taped on May 10, 11 & 12 2007 at the historic Gillioz Theatre in Springfield, Missouri. Relive the best of three unforgettable evenings of music with five of the originals, together again after 26 years. Featuring over two hours of classic Daredevils music including new songs never before released. This live DVD was sold only through their official website.

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Revival (Gillian Welch album)

Revival is the first album by Gillian Welch, released in 1996.

The plant described in the song, "Acony Bell" appears to be Shortia galacifolia, also known as the Oconee bells. Welch later began her own record label under the name Acony.

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