* Esther's Inheritance ( 1939, published in English in 2008 ), Hungarian title: Eszter hagyatéka.

While her husband is remembered in various geographic names, there was, until 2002, no such feature in Sydney named in Esther's memory.

Immediately after, Ahasuerus and Haman attend Esther's second banquet, at which she reveals that she is Jewish and that Haman is planning to exterminate her people, including her.

For example, Coogan discusses an apparent inaccuracy regarding the age of Esther's cousin ( or, according to others, uncle ) Mordecai.

In both cases, the text used is not only taken from a Greek addition, the readings also are the prayer of Mordecai, and nothing of Esther's own words is ever used.

Seeing Haman on Esther's couch begging, the king became further enraged and had him hung on the gallows built for Mordecai.

* " A Reluctant Queen " by Joan Wolf is a fictionalized re-telling of Esther's story.

This was part of the basis for Esther's relationship with Ahasuerus.

Although on the surface level Esther's life seems to be in perfect order-she has got a good job, she is happily married, her children are well-behaved, they all are quite wealthy, they do not suffer from any illnesses-Esther is constantly suffering in some way or other.

All three married in Lancaster County, but Christian's life ended in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania and Esther's in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.

The location was probably in Newton's home, who became Mary Esther's first postmaster.

On February 13, 1992, he was charged with aggravated battery for allegedly ramming his then-wife Esther's BMW with his Porsche.

* A group of songs on the 1969 album Volume Two by Soft Machine is titled " Esther's Nose Job ," referring to Chapter 4: " In which Esther gets a nose job.

Later that evening, Ahasuerus and Haman attend Esther's second banquet, at which she reveals that she is Jewish and that Haman is planning to exterminate her people, which includes her.

She has a benefactress in Philomena Guinea, a formerly successful fiction writer ( based on Olive Higgins Prouty ), who will, later during Esther's hospitalization, pay for some of her treatments.

Esther's mental state worsens.

He is a " very well paid professor of mathematics " and invites Esther to have coffee, which leads to her having sex with him, which leads to Esther's having to go to the hospital to get help to stop bleeding.

* Philomena Guinea, a wealthy elderly lady, is the person who donated the money for Esther's college scholarship.

The novel is written using a series of flashbacks that show up parts of Esther's past.

The flashbacks primarily deal with Esther's relationship with Buddy Willard.

The men in Esther's life are all oppressive, whether it is in a physical manner or an emotional one.

A good portion of this part of the novel closely resembles the experiences chronicled by Mary Jane Ward in her autobiographical novel The Snake Pit ; Plath later stated that she'd seen reviews of The Snake Pit and believed the public wanted to see " mental health stuff ," so she deliberately based details of Esther's hospitalization on the procedures and methods outlined in Ward's book.

Fred and Esther's relationship as in-laws goes on to become a major part of the plot.

Esther's disdain for Fred goes back to when he and Elizabeth were dating ; she disapproved of Fred marrying her sister.

On the other side are Esther's daughters, who claim that Brod passed the papers to their mother as a pure inheritance which should be theirs.

* Triple Echo ( 3 record compilation, 1967 – 1976 ) ( Harvest, 1977 )-Notable for containing both the rare big-band arrangement of Esther's Nose Job and the completely reworked " here at the BBC " version of the Moon in June lyrics.

Father Christmas appears in many English-language works of fiction, including Robin Jones Gunn's Father Christmas Series ( 2007 ), Catherine Spencer's A Christmas to Remember ( 2007 ), Debbie Macomber's There's Something About Christmas ( 2005 ), Richard Paul Evans's The Gift ( 2007 ), C. S.

" The Pit and the Pendulum " is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843.

" The Pit and the Pendulum " was included in The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843, published by Carey & Hart.

She released a Christmas album called For Christmas with Love ( recorded in Hollywood, California ) and later signed with A & M Records, releasing more albums including, A Gift of Song and Climb Ev ' ry Mountain.

* By Jon Stewart in " Can I Interest You in Hannukah " off of Stephen Colbert's " A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!

" The Gift of the Magi " is a short story written by O. Henry ( a pen name for William Sydney Porter ), about a young married couple and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money.

It has also been adapted to films, The Sacrifice ( 1909 ), Love's Surprises Are Futile ( 1916 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 1917 ), Dary magów ( Poland, 1972 ), part of O. Henry's Full House ( 1952 ), The Gift of Love ( 1978 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 1958 ), Christmas Eve on Sesame Street ( 1978 ), Mickey's Once Upon A Christmas gift ( 1999 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 2004 ) and the short film for the Irish band The Script in 2010 called For the First Time.

The Squirrel Nut Zippers song " Gift of the Magi " from their 1998 album Christmas Caravan is a duet sung from the point of view of both Jim and Della.

* " The Gift of the Magi " about a young couple who are short of money but desperately want to buy each other Christmas gifts.

On 26 November 1864 he gave Alice the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground, with illustrations by Dodgson himself, dedicating it as " A Christmas Gift to a Dear Child in Memory of a Summer's Day ".

It's a Wonderful Life is an American Christmas drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, that was based on the short story " The Greatest Gift ", written by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1939, and privately published by the author in 1945.

These include The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (" Return of the Nanobots "); SpongeBob SquarePants ; The Drew Carey Show (" Y2K You're OK "); Family Guy ( at the end of the season 2 episode " Wasted Talent "); Futurama ( during an episode of " The Scary Door " Twilight Zone-style TV show that airs in the year 3000 on " A Head in the Polls "); Stephen Colbert's A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!

Scenes from the movie were used in both A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!

* Daniel Huffman, gained fame in 1996 after donating a kidney to his grandmother and who was the subject of the 1999 television movie Gift of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story.

* The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story ( 1983 )

* Virginia Aronson, Gift of the Unicorn: The Story of Lue Gim Gong, Florida's Citrus Wizard.

* Val Andrews-A Gift from Gods: the Story of Chung Ling Soo ( 1981 )

* Polly Holliday — The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story

* Angela Lansbury — The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story