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“... into the Selznick studio recommending starlets for the role; one of them suggested someone almost unknown in America, the British actress Vivien Leigh. The fact that nearly every player in Hollywood, as well as a substantial proportion of the book’s readers, imagined themselves as Scarlett O’Hara meant the choice was never going to be easy. Scarlett was ...”

“... a tourist guide to terra incognita for readers to whom the Britain of George V is as remote and unknown as that of George II. It should be read with intellectual pleasure and profit for its perceptiveness and its discoveries of much that was unexplored in some parts of British intellectual life, but not as an introduction to interwar Britain for the ...”

“... original of The Zenith has been downloaded more than 25 million times.) She evoked lives unknown to historians but only too real for the mass of the population. Novel without a Name (1991), an account of the last phase of the war against the US, is rightly regarded as a masterpiece in Vietnam. In it Duong, dispensing with official notions of ...”

“... but also puzzling (‘lampoons’?), and elsewhere in the novel there are many encounters with the unknown or incomprehensible. This is fiction that fully takes the pressure of the multiplicity of Europe and its languages. And for that reason Between is locked into the layered cultures of its origin, making it almost impossible to translate. What would one ...”

“... weeping, towards the abused and abusive yet resilient rural poor, and towards places hitherto unknown to poetry, but also towards Aboriginal culture. His New Oxford Book of Australian Verse, published in 1986, was the first general anthology to include Aboriginal poems translated into English. He presented them not as anthropological specimens but as ...”

“... with the Christian dynasty of Alfred the Great, stubbornly, often successfully, and to some unknown extent out of heathen conviction. It’s likely that there was a lot more apostasy in the Danelaw, even among those of English birth, than Christian chroniclers were prepared to admit. As late as 1000, Archbishop Wulfstan half concedes that for an English ...”

“... the Moon programme therefore seems baffling to me. In frontier literature, conquering a bit of the unknown always heralds a massive alteration in the conditions of living. The wagons travelled west and a new period was born. Not so with the Moon: there our exploration served only itself, leaving the Moon much as we found it, empty and desolate and far away. It ...”

“... the fugue would remain unchanged – symmetric under this global transformation – if, equally unknown to you, helpful elves living inside the piano hooked up an elaborate contraption of pulleys and gears so that when the hammers began to fall, the elves’ wheelworks redirected them to the originally intended strings. By adding in new types of force and ...”

“... plagued the country bothered to learn much French, or bring it home with them, remains unknown. Butterfield notes that Shakespeare’s Pistol and his French prisoner continue a long tradition of mutual incomprehension. If Henry V had not died young, France might indeed have become the subsidiary realm of an English king, as the long continuing ...”

“... is the norm, but where public sacrifice (unlike in the days of the freedom struggle) is almost unknown – these were unusual acts. I seriously considered joining them, though I’d never associated the Sahitya Akademi award I’d got for my fourth novel, A New World, with the state. It was a book that had been excoriated by Delhi’s reviewers for lacking ...”

“... In between​ the metaphysics, the memoiring and a previously unknown addiction to vanilla ice cream, there’s been some doctoring, testing, diagnosing and everyday hovering and waiting. Plus standing by for the new grandchild, whom I don’t suppose I’ll know for very long, scoops of the vanilla ice cream, and statistics that will no more keep me alive than the eggs, cream and vanilla pods ...”

“... accounts by more than thirty ancient Greek and Latin authors tell how the petrified remains of unknown creatures were revealed by erosion, storms, floods, earthquakes and human digging. Great excitement surrounded the discoveries, as people journeyed to view the bones and measured the skull capacities of beasts never seen alive. Speculating on what they ...”

“... seem most relaxed or stiff – who is present, who is absent? He observes the white socks of an unknown man in a snapshot taken in Vienna in the 1930s, and we learn that this attire reveals the man’s probable Nazi affiliation. He combs the archives for pictures from inside the Nuremberg courtroom, looking for clues about who was present during certain ...”

“... his or her own story, and every moderately intelligent and reflective person knows that much is unknown. It is appealing, then, to read Clinton at his moments of confusion and uncertainty, and to find some redeeming value in those evasions and circumlocutions that his enemies sought to present as both absolute moral sins and treasonable crimes of state. The ...”

“... every sort of tax dodge, secret bank account and offshore money haven to cover his tracks but, unknown to Parliament, he was acting as a ‘financial director’ for the sheikh of Dubai when he was an opposition spokesman on foreign affairs – at a time, moreover, when large sums of money were being offered by Gulf rulers to keep a British military ...”