British literature Scots. The poet Michael Longley (born 1939) has experimented with Ulster Scots for the translation of Classical verse, as in his 1995 collection "The Ghost Orchid". Among significant writers in this genre in the early twentieth-century were Erskine Childers' "The Riddle of the Sands" (1903), who wrote spy novels, Emma Orczy (Baroness Orczy) author of "The Scarlet Pimpernel", an historical romance which recounted the adventures of a member of the English gentry in the French Revolutionary period. The title character established the notion of a "hero with a secret identity" into popular culture. John Buchan wrote adventure novels like "Prester
In His Image in a phone book and pays him an unannounced visit. Walter turns out to be his physical double. Walter explains that Alan is an android he developed using funds from a calculator he invented, some of the world's greatest scientists, and his own self-professed genius. He created Alan's memory by using his own memories of Couerville, which he left 20 years before, and filling in the blanks with a fictional aunt Mildred and a job at a fictional university. Alan was designed to be a perfect version of himself, to be outgoing, bold, and charming, while Walter is shy, self-pitying,