Dun

_donnez_ signifies _give me_, implying a demand of something due; but the true original of this expression owes its birth to one _Joe Dun_, a famous bailiff of the town of Lincoln, so extremely active, and so dexterous at the management of his rough business, that it became a proverb, when a man refused to pay his debts, 'Why don't you _Dun_ him?' that is, why don't you send Dun to arrest him?

Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850 Various

I was totally intrigued by the whole idea and I guess I even got carried away a bit – I imagined a dark, wicked place, a lost and morbid city instead of just, well, a garbage one, which (despite everything) never gets really scary or dark - Un Lun Dun is a YA novel and my imagined city could not exist in it by default.

Archive 2009-02-01 2009

I was totally intrigued by the whole idea and I guess I even got carried away a bit – I imagined a dark, wicked place, a lost and morbid city instead of just, well, a garbage one, which (despite everything) never gets really scary or dark - Un Lun Dun is a YA novel and my imagined city could not exist in it by default.

China Miéville - Un Lun Dun (Book Review) 2009

(And never mind that while Un Lun Dun is indeed very different, it is a Miéville after all, InterWorld doesn't sound very far from well established ground and from other YA books in SF).

Raise Your Hand if You're a NYT SF/F Book Reviewer Who Hates Young Adult Fiction! 2008

Un Lun Dun is set, for the most part, in an alternate London, a place where all the "moil" of the real London goes, the moil being everything that's broken, discarded, or obsolete.

Archive 2007-06-17 Bill Crider 2007

But Un Lun Dun is a YA, shorter, and I have an advanced copy.

Top 10 Books I'd Be Reading Now If I Weren't Reading Other Books Lou Anders 2006

But Un Lun Dun is a YA, shorter, and I have an advanced copy.

Archive 2006-11-01 Lou Anders 2006

Un Lun Dun is a considerable step for China Mieville to take, in my opinion, the sheer readability and packed-to-the-gunnels imagination and originality should make this is a bestseller - it's a better young adult novel than Phillip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy, easily surpasses Harry Potter and is comparable to Neil Gaiman at his best.

Top 10 Books I'd Be Reading Now If I Weren't Reading Other Books Lou Anders 2006

From that conscientious editorial summary we learn that The Dun is intended by its author to be – "a lesson against the common folly of believing that a debtor is able by a few cant phrases to alter the nature of right and wrong."

Maria Edgeworth 1905

Shareholders of the old Dun & Bradstreet received new stock certificates with the Moody’s name on it, representing ownership in Moody’s, and they also received another new stock certificate with the name Dun & Bradstreet on it, representing ownership in the new Dun & Bradstreet.

Warren Buffett and the Art of Stock Arbitrage Mary Buffett 2010