14-481: This Above All (1941) is a novel by English writer Eric Knight . It was adapted into an Academy Award -winning movie in 1942. The title of the novel is derived from a quote by Polonius in William Shakespeare 's Hamlet (Act 1, scene 3): "This above all: to thine own self be true,/ And it must follow, as the night the day,/ Thou canst not then be false to any man." Spending leave together on
28-409: A villager from Yorkshire whose stock in trade was an endless parade of outrageous tarradiddles and tall tales. Sam's adventures are chronicled in the ten stories of this vintage volume, originally published as Sam Small Flies Again . That's right, Sam can literally fly, which puts him into all sorts of mischief. "An immensely funny book." – The New York Times . Source: In 1943, at which time he
42-473: Is located on Quakertown Road, also known as Pennsylvania Route 212 , at coordinates 40°31′16″N 75°17′34″W / 40.52111°N 75.29278°W / 40.52111; -75.29278 , approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Richlandtown . Coopersburg is located 5 miles (8.0 km) to the west. Its elevation is listed as 472 feet (144 m). Pleasant Valley is located between three nearby summits, Cressman Hill 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to
56-467: Is mainly known for his 1940 novel Lassie Come-Home , which introduced the fictional collie Lassie . He took American citizenship in 1942 shortly before his death. Born in Menston , West Riding of Yorkshire , Knight was the youngest of three sons born to Marion Hilda (née Creasser) and Frederic Harrison Knight, both Quakers . His father was a rich diamond merchant who, when Eric was two years old,
70-493: The Academy Award for Best Art Direction , Black-and-White. This article about a World War II novel first published in the 1940s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See guidelines for writing about novels . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . Eric Knight Eric Mowbray Knight (10 April 1897 – 15 January 1943) was an English novelist and screenwriter, who
84-667: The Battle of Brandywine . The village was built upon two farms, one owned by Jacob Smith and the other John J. Ott. the name was changed to Pleasant Valley when the post office was established on September 15, 1828, by Lewis Ott, first postmaster. Pleasant Valley was entered into the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey on 2 August 1979 as identification number 1184062. Pleasant Valley
98-504: The Pennsylvania Army National Guard . He did stints as an art student, newspaper reporter and Hollywood screenwriter. He married twice, first on 28 July 1917, to Dorothy Caroline Noyes Hall, with whom he had three daughters and later divorced, and secondly to Jere Brylawski on 2 December 1932. Knight's first novel was Invitation to Life (Greenberg, 1934). The second was Song on Your Bugles (1936) about
112-568: The South Coast during the Battle of Britain and the beginning of the blitz , Clive and Prudence have an affair. Having survived Dunkirk , but having a crisis of conscience over what the war is being fought for and disgusted at the incompetence of the ruling elite, Clive decides not to return to the Army and to go absent without leave. The publishers of the book called it "The first great novel of
126-666: The area was inhabited by the Lenape people. Its first name was Schuckenhausen, the name of the first church in this location constructed as a log building. In 1872, it was replaced by a stone church known as the Union Church, later becoming a dwelling. The oldest building is the Pleasant Valley Inn, now out of business. General Lafayette stopped at the inn on the way to a hospital in Bethlehem after being wounded in
140-425: The war". Kirkus Review agreed with the byline but characterised it more as a love story than a war story. It said that the book was, "... a cross section of England, under fire; it gives one a deep conviction of something more to be won than the shell of the old England." The novel has been adapted to a movie of the same name in 1942 directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Tyrone Power and Joan Fontaine . It won
154-918: The working class in Northern England. As "Richard Hallas", he wrote the hardboiled genre novel You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up (1938). Knight's This Above All is considered one of the significant novels of the Second World War . He also helped co-author the film, Battle of Britain in the " Why We Fight " Series under the direction of Frank Capra . Knight and his second wife Jere Knight raised collies on their farm in Pleasant Valley , Bucks County , Pennsylvania . They resided at Springhouse Farm from 1939 to 1943. His novel Lassie Come-Home ( ISBN 0030441013 )
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#1732791560667168-688: Was a major in the United States Army – Special Services where he wrote two of Frank Capra 's Why We Fight series, Knight was killed in a C-54 air crash in Dutch Guiana (now Suriname ) in South America. Pleasant Valley, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Pleasant Valley is an unincorporated community in Springfield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania , United States. Prior to European settlement,
182-728: Was killed during the Boer War . His mother then moved to St. Petersburg , Imperial Russia , to work as a governess for the imperial family. The family later settled in the United States in 1912. Knight had a varied career, including service in the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry during World War I as a signaller, then served as a captain of field artillery in the U.S. Army Reserve until 1926. His two brothers were both killed in World War I serving with
196-486: Was published in 1940, expanded from a short story published in 1938 in The Saturday Evening Post . One of Knight's last books was Sam Small Flies Again , republished as The Flying Yorkshireman (Pocket Books 493, 1948; 273 pages). On the back of The Flying Yorkshireman , this blurb appeared: England's answer to America's James Thurber or Thorne Smith , Knight created the character Sam Small,
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