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* 1957-Doris Lessing's short story Flight, from her collection ' The Habit of Loving ' includes several references to the frangipani tree-" Her hair fell down her back in a wave of sunlight, and her long bare legs repeated the angles of the frangipani stems ; bare, shining-brown stems among patterns of pale blossoms.
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The story goes that the first time Mendelssohn met Lessing, they played chess ; therefore, in Lessing's play Nathan the Wise Nathan and Saladin first meet during a game of chess.
In 1950 Lessing's first novel, The Grass Is Singing was published, a story of racial conflict based on her experiences in Rhodesia.
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This is related to Lessing's turn from French classicism to Aristotelian mimesis, discussed above.
The book represented a major shift of focus in Lessing's writing, from realism to science fiction, and this disappointed many of her readers.
The online magazine, Journey to the Sea found Lessing's inclusion of stories from the Hebrew Bible " entertaining and intriguing ", and said she challenges the logical thinker's rejection of these sacred texts, suggesting that it is " imaginatively possible " that they could be true.
To date, the fictional representations of Heraclius are all derived from the negative portrayal in the Old French Continuation of William of Tyre: see Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Nathan der Weise, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka's Król trędowaty ( The Leper King ), Manuel Mujica Láinez's El unicornio ( The Wandering Unicorn ), and Graham Shelby's Knights of Dark Renown.
* Geschichte des geistigen Lebens in Deutschland von Leibniz bis auf Lessings Tod ( History of Germany's intellectual life from Leibniz until Lessing's death ; 1861 – 1863 )
Lessing's book " supposedly charts Lessing ’ s journey from Jewish self-hater to Zionist.
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He found Lessing's bleak vision of Earth's history in which she suggests that humans " could not [...] help making the messes they have, that their blunders were all ordained by a small tic in the cosmos ", a little " unsatisfying ", but added that even if you do not subscribe to her theories, the book can still be enjoyable, " even furiously engaging on every page ".
Vidal attributed this to Lessing's " surrender " to the Sufis and the SOWF ( Substance-Of-We-Feeling ), and not her inability to create good characters.
Thelma J. Shinn wrote in her book, Worlds Within Women: Myth and Mythmaking in Fantastic Literature by Women that Lessing's history of humanity in Shikasta is " pessimistic " but " convincing ".
The Focus Theatre itself was founded by O ' Connell and her husband, Luke Kelly of The Dubliners in 1967, and opened on 29 September with a production of Doris Lessing's Play With a Tiger.
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Wolfenbüttel is home of several departments of the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences and the Lessing-Akademie, an organisation for the study of Lessing's works.
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Other postmodern examples of poioumena include Samuel Beckett's trilogy ( Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable ); Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook ; John Fowles's Mantissa ; William Golding's Paper Men ; and Gilbert Sorrentino's Mulligan Stew.
The 5th ed., revised and enlarged, appeared under the title Geschichte der deutschen Litteratur seit Lessings Tod ( History of German literature since Lessing's death ; 1865-67 ).
Its performance was forbidden by the church during Lessing's lifetime ; it was first performed in 1783 in Berlin.
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He argued against the belief in revelation and the holding on to a literal interpretation of the Bible by the predominant orthodox doctrine through a problem later to be called Lessing's Ditch.
The marble Laocoön provided the central image for Lessing's Laocoön, 1766, an aesthetic polemic directed against Winckelmann and the comte de Caylus.
The group is parodied in Doris Lessing's The Good Terrorist ( 1985 ), in which a group of naive, young, communist squatters splits over whether or not to join the IRA.
In contrast, Doris Lessing's The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five ( 1980 ) suggests that men's and women's values are inherent to the sexes and cannot be changed, making a compromise between them essential.
In contrast, Doris Lessing's The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five ( 1980 ) suggests that men's and women's values are inherent to the sexes and cannot be changed, making a compromise between them essential.
This is the moral of Lessing's Nathan the Wise ( Nathan der Weise ), the hero of which is undoubtedly Mendelssohn, and in which the parable of the three rings is the epitome of the pragmatic position.
Usually, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's play Miss Sara Sampson, which was first produced in 1755, is said to be the earliest Bürgerliches Trauerspiel in Germany.
His first role was that of the 2nd Mamaluke in Lessing's Nathan the Wise.
Reiske died in Leipzig on 14 August 1774, and his manuscript remains passed, through Lessing's mediation, to the Danish historian P. F.
He had seven children, only three of whom survived him-the distinguished physician Johann Albrecht Heinrich Reimarus, and two daughters, one of them being Elise Reimarus, Lessing's friend and correspondent.
Lessing's lead, Strauss indicates that medieval political philosophers, no less than their ancient counterparts, carefully adapted their wording to the dominant moral views of their time, lest their writings be condemned as heretical or unjust, not by " the many " ( who did not read ), but by those " few " whom the many regarded as the most righteous guardians of morality.
Lessing's work of course comprises an attack against the nobility and its powers.
Wilhelm Dilthey later wrote that the protagonists in the Colloquium anticipate those of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Nathan der Weise.
The tragic nobility of this statue is one of the themes in Gotthold Lessing's essay on literature and aesthetics, Laokoön, one of the early classics of art criticism.
The most influential contribution to the debate in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's essay Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry, which examines the differences between visual and literary art by comparing the sculpture with Virgil's verse.
The Sirians confine their activities largely to genetic experiments on the southern continents during Rohanda's prehistory ( described in Lessing's third book in the Canopus series, The Sirian Experiments ), while the Shammat of Puttiora remain dormant, waiting for opportunities to strike.
Shikasta was intended to be a " single self-contained book ", but as Lessing's fictional universe developed, she found she had ideas for more than just one book, and ended up writing a series of five.
Shikasta, and the Canopus in Argos series as a whole, fall into the category of soft science fiction (" space fiction " in Lessing's own words ) due to their focus on characterization and social and cultural issues, and the de-emphasis of science and technology.
Gore Vidal placed Lessing's " science fiction " " somewhere between John Milton and L. Ron Hubbard ".
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Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.
Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.
* William S. Burroughs, novelist, short story writer, essayist and spoken word performer
Some consider this more of a short story collection ; Milne didn't like it and considered The Day's Play as his first book.
* AM, short for Allied Mastercomputer, a fictional supercomputer in the short story " I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream "
Derleth also changed Alhazred's final fate, as described in his short story " The Keeper of the Key ", first published in May 1951.
For example, in the first editions of the collection The Mysterious Mr Quin ( 1930 ), in the short story " The Soul of the Croupier ," she described " Hebraic men with hook-noses wearing rather flamboyant jewellery "; in later editions the passage was edited to describe " sallow men " wearing same.
* 1936 Love from a Stranger ( dramatised by Frank Vosper from the short story Philomel Cottage )
* 1939 Tea for Three ( dramatised by Margery Vosper from the short story Accident )
In the short story The Chocolate Box ( 1923 ) Poirot provides Captain Arthur Hastings with an account of what he considers to be his only failure.
As a result, Suchet will have filmed adaptations of every Poirot novel, and all but one Poirot short story.
Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Sketch magazine in 1926, " The Tuesday Night Club ", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems ( 1932 ).
Niece Mabel, widow of the mysteriously dead Geoffrey Denham, stars in the 1927 short story " The Thumb Mark of Saint Peter ".
* " The Tuesday Night Club " ( short story ) featured Miss Marple for the first time ever.
* The Thirteen Problems ( short story collection featuring Miss Marple, also published as The Tuesday Club Murders ) ( 1932 )
Miss Marple also appears in Greenshaw's Folly, a short story traditionally included as part of the Poirot collection The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding ( 1960 ).
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The book includes some material from the short story The Salesman's Tale, and some unpublished material cut from Prince of Chaos, notably Coral's pregnancy by Merlin.
* Moriarty by Modem, a short story by Jack Nimersheim, describes an alternate history where Babbage's Analytical Engine was indeed completed and had been deemed highly classified by the British government.
This short story follows Holmes as his program is rebooted on modern computers and he is forced to compete against his nemesis yet again in the modern counterparts of Babbage's Analytical Engine.
* Absalom is the name of a short science fiction story by Henry Kuttner about the conflict between a father and son over the son's education.
One ansible-like device which predates Le Guin's is the Dirac communicator in James Blish's 1954 short story " Beep ".
* The short story " There Are More Things " by Jorge Luis Borges from The Book of Sand refers to an amphisbaena and concerns a similar, though mostly undescribed, monster.
* Paul Auster's collection of short stories entitled True Tales of American Life contains a story (' Mathematical Aphrodisiac ' by Alex Galt ) in which amicable numbers play an important role.
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