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* In the collection of short stories and essays by Lafcadio Hearn, In Ghostly Japan, the author is told the popular story of a girl that swims to her lover guided by a lantern, and he comments on the similarities with the western story: "—" So ," I said to myself, " in the Far East, it is poor Hero that does the swimming.
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A collection of short stories for children Gallery of Children, and other stories that became part of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, were first published in 1925.
Some consider this more of a short story collection ; Milne didn't like it and considered The Day's Play as his first book.
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.
* 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 ).
This collection of short Latin verse texts and accompanying woodcuts created an entire European genre, the emblem book, which attained enormous popularity in continental Europe and Great Britain.
" And did those feet in ancient time " is a short poem by William Blake from the preface to his epic Milton a Poem, one of a collection of writings known as the Prophetic Books.
* 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.
Alice Munro has a unique place in Booker Prize history ; The Beggar Maid is the only short story collection to have been shortlisted, doing so in 1980.
Open toll collection is used on some bridges and tunnels and short stretches of tolled highway, where drivers immediately pay the toll upon arriving.
This collection of short studies explained the inevitability of bureaucratic expansion, arguing that ' work expands to fill the time available for its completion '.
* Tales of Angria ( written 1838 – 1839-a collection of childhood and young adult writings including five short novels )
Carmilla was first published in the magazine The Dark Blue in 1872, and then in the author's collection of short stories, In a Glass Darkly the same year.
* 1963, You Will Never Be The Same ( collection of short sf stories )
Chinese classic texts, or Chinese canonical texts, () today often refer to the pre-Qin Chinese texts, especially the Neo-Confucian titles of Four Books and Five Classics ( 四書五經 ), a selection of short books and chapters from the voluminous collection called the Thirteen Classics.
* Dartmoor Prison is mentioned in The Thirteen Problems, a short story collection written by Agatha Christie, and first published in 1932.
Dubliners is a collection of short stories by Joyce about incidents and typical characters of the city during the early 20th century.
In 1939 The Map of Love appeared as a collection of 16 poems and seven of the 20 short stories published by Thomas in magazines since 1934.
While at Ace, he and co-editor Terry Carr began an annual anthology series, The World's Best Science Fiction, the first collection of what they considered the best of the prior year's short stories, from magazines, hardcovers, paperback collections and other anthologies.
* His collection of short stories, " Worlds Enough & Time ", takes its name from the first line of the poem To His Coy Mistress by British poet Andrew Marvell: ' Had we but world enough, and time ,'.
* Prayers to Broken Stones ( 1990, short story collection )
* Summer Sketches ( 1992, short story collection )
* Lovedeath ( 1993, short story collection )
* Worlds Enough & Time ( 2002, short story collection )
They vary from short story collection to fix-up ( novel created from older short stories ) perhaps all the way to novel.
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Rather than from a first-hand study of Jewish people, his delineation of Shylock stems from a collection of Italian stories, Il Pecorone, published in 1558, although written almost two centuries earlier.
The Big Four, helped by Archie's brother Cambell, was a stop-gap collection of Sketch magazine stories, for money when her husband left.
Four stories in the Three Blind Mice collection ( 1950 ) feature Miss Marple: Strange Jest, Tape-Measure Murder, The Case of the Caretaker, and The Case of the Perfect Maid.
Martin Buber's early collection of stories of the Baal Shem Tov's life includes several that refer to people reincarnating in successive lives.
This is one of the ways that many tribes kept their cultures alive ; it was not just a collection of stories, but of their beliefs, their ways, and their lives.
Kitab al-Aghani ( Book of Songs ), a collection of poems and songs with the stories of the composers and singers in many volumes from the oldest epoch of Arabic literature down to the 9th cent.
The basic source for Judges was a collection of loosely connected stories about tribal heroes who saved the people in battle.
As " Circe's Palace ", Nathaniel Hawthorne retold the Homeric account as the third section in his collection of stories from Greek mythology, Tanglewood Tales ( 1853 ).
The Gnome Press edition ( 1950 – 1957 ) was the first hardcover collection of Howard's Conan stories, including all the original Howard material known to exist at the time, some left unpublished in his lifetime.
* The story " Carmilla " was included in Pam Keesey's collection of lesbian vampire stories, Daughters of Darkness ( 1993 ).
* The stories which comprise the collection Quest of the Three Worlds:
On the Nature of Animals, (" On the Characteristics of Animals " is an alternative title ; usually cited, though, by its Latin title ), is a curious collection, in 17 books, of brief stories of natural history, sometimes selected with an eye to conveying allegorical moral lessons, sometimes because they are just so astonishing:
* The Canterbury Tales, a 14th century collection of stories by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century.
Some well known stories include the Yuan Dynasty story Circle of Chalk ( Chinese: 灰闌記 ), the Ming Dynasty story collection Bao Gong An ( Chinese: 包公案 ) and the 18th century Di Gong An ( Chinese: 狄公案 ) story collection.
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This somewhat cynical comment may be found in `` Blue Skies, Brown Studies '', a collection of travel essays by William Sansom, who would never consider staying home for long.
The remainder of the book is a collection of essays on the game, statistics for the new characters and an update of the older ones in light of their appearance in the second series, and ( perhaps most usefully for GMs ) plot summaries of each of the ten books.
( A collection of 64 essays with many pieces from the Annales — the long introduction is excellent, and contains many good references ).
* Philip Gardner ed., A. E. Housman: The Critical Heritage, a collection of reviews and essays on Housman ’ s poetry ( London: Routledge 1992 )
The Many-Sided Franklin ( 1899 ) online edition – collection of scholarly essays
A collection of Preston and Bishop's original essays exploring the argument from the context of philosophy and cognitive science was published in 2002.
In 1977, Burroughs and Gysin published The Third Mind, a collection of cut-up writings and essays on the form.
The following year Marker published Coréennes, a collection of photographs and essays on the conditions of Korea.
In the United Kingdom the term often retains its positive sense as a reference to natural selection, and for example Richard Dawkins wrote in his collection of essays A Devil's Chaplain, published in 2003, that as a scientist he is a Darwinist.
* collection of essays
* Metamagical Themas ( ISBN 0-465-04566-9 ) ( collection of Scientific American columns and other essays, all with postscripts )
In the succeeding dynasty, emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty personally composed 40, 000 poems as part of a 4. 7 million page library in 4 divisions, including thousands of essays, called the Siku Quanshu which is probably the largest collection of books in the world.
A collection of these essays, entitled Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography, was published by Penguin Press on September 1, 2011.
He also wrote an extended essay attacking the ideologists on both sides of the cold war, Double Exposure ( 1985 ) and edited a collection of essays opposing Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, Star Wars ( 1985 ).
The collection includes essays such as " Balance-Sheet Program for Desiring Machines ," cosigned by Deleuze ( with whom he coauthored Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus ), and " Everybody Wants To Be a Fascist.
In 1996 another collection of Guattari's essays, lectures, and interviews, Soft Subversions, was published, which traces the development of his thought and activity throughout the 1980s (" the winter years ").
He returned to Wallington, and in the autumn of 1939 he wrote material for his first collection of essays, Inside the Whale.
In the preface to Generation X Goes Global: Mapping a Youth Culture in Motion, a collection of global essays, Professor Christine Henseler summarizes it as " a generation whose worldview is based on change, on the need to combat corruption, dictatorships, abuse, AIDS, a generation in search of human dignity and individual freedom, the need for stability, love, tolerance, and human rights for all.
In 1938, he published a collection of essays on the future organisation of knowledge and education, World Brain, including the essay, " The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia ".
* A collection of speeches and essays by Joseph Goebbels
The dictionary, as far as it was worked on by Grimm himself, has been described as a collection of disconnected antiquarian essays of high value.
A strong collection of essays by Popper, Campbell, Munz, Flew, et al., on Popper's epistemology and critical rationalism.
In 1997, Gareth Alun Owens published a collection of essays entitled Kritika Daidalika, which support the view that Linear A might represent an archaic relative of Luwian.
How a cult of Mary Magdalene first arose in Provence has been summed up by Victor Saxer in the collection of essays in La Magdaleine, VIIIe – XIIIe siècle and by Katherine Ludwig Jansen, drawing on popular devotions, sermon literature and iconology.
It is published in the book entitled Dreamweaver ’ s Dilemma, which is a collection of short stories and essays by Bujold that had been previously unpublished and that she gathered together in this volume prior to her appearance at a NESFA convention.
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