* Serious reflections during the life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe: with his Vision of the angelick world ( 1720 )

Two sequels followed, Defoe's The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe ( 1719 ) and his Serious reflections during the life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe: with his Vision of the angelick world ( 1720 ).

Includes three novels, 23 short stories and some autobiographical articles by Nesbit, also rules for magic, life as a Victorian / Edwardian child, adventures, etc.

Among his written works there are Siete años enterrado vivo en una de las mazmorras de Gomezuela: Horripilante relato de un resucitado ( 1932 ) and Mis prisiones, mis destierros y mi vida ( 1929 ) which talk about his many adventures while living his life as an adventurer, activist and vagabond, as well as his thought and the many times he was imprisoned in different countries.

Explicit details about Sherlock Holmes's life outside of the adventures recorded by Dr. Watson are few and far between in Conan Doyle's original stories ; nevertheless, incidental details about his early life and extended families portray a loose biographical picture of the detective.

* August – Robert Knox escapes prison in Ceylon, and details his adventures across Kandy and life in the kingdoms of the Tamil country Vanni in his book An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon.

Buffy is the protagonist of the story, and the series depicts her life and adventures as she grows up.

Gráinne's life has inspired musicians, novelists and playwrights to create works based on her adventures.

There follows a series of trials and adventures where the boy learns to adjust to his rough new life, and with the help of his friend, the captain's son, Dan Troop, he makes fine progress.

Ramon Muntaner () ( c. 1270 – 1336 ) was a Catalan soldier and writer who wrote the Crònica, a chronicle of his life, including his adventures as a commander in the Catalan Company.

At two hours and twenty minutes, Annie Hall herself was less prominent, and it dwelt " on issues just touched in passing in the version we know ", featuring the " surrealistic and abstract adventures of a neurotic Jewish comedian who was reliving his highly flawed life and in the process satirizing much of our culture ,... a visual monologue, a more sophisticated and visual version of Take the Money and Run ".

In any case, she is engaged by the vitality of his character, his revisiting the events of his life and his unorthodoxy and adventures in modern Glasgow.

Two endings were written for the play, the original as seen in December 1920 ( and the ending that won Gale the Pulitzer Prize from Drama ; the first woman ever to do so ) has Lulu starting a life on her own and undertaking adventures of her own as we hear in her final lines, " Good-by.

* Theseus being on the list is inconsistent with accounts of his life usually including him encountering Medea at an early stage of his adventures, yet many years after the Argonauts completed their adventure ( Medea, by that time, was not only abandoned by Jason, but also bore a child from Aegeus ).

Farmer took the real life case-studies and melded these with adventures of his characters in the series.

The first five novels are narrated by Corwin and describe Corwin's adventures and life as he remeets his family after an absence of centuries.

Both appear in The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, which details the young life and adventures of the hero Fionn mac Cumhaill.

The shows would often contrast suburban life with the adventures of a show business family on the road.

Travelling across the U. S. A. with Green Lantern Hal Jordan and Green Arrow Oliver Queen, Appa experiences many adventures and learns some valuable lessons about life.

The series largely concerns the colourful and surrealistic adventures of Tim and Daisy as they navigate through life, decide on what they want to do with their lives, come to terms with affairs of the heart, and try to figure out new and largely unproductive ways of killing time.

Lancelot's life and adventures have been featured in several medieval romances, often with conflicting back-stories and chains of events.

* 1812-Peter Williamson, The life and curious adventures of Peter Williamson

Little Orphan Annie displays literary kinship with the picaresque novel in its seemingly endless string of episodic and unrelated adventures in the life of a character who wanders vagabondlike through a corrupt world.

Near the end of Alexander's life, Alexander began to suspect plots against himself, and threatened Aristotle in letters.

Though he was destined to be a strongly counter-reforming emperor, Alexander had little prospect of succeeding to the throne during the first two decades of his life, as he had an elder brother, Nicolas, who seemed of robust constitution.

In 1889 Alexander's father, King Milan, unexpectedly abdicated and withdrew to private life, proclaiming Alexander king of Serbia under a regency until he should attain his majority at eighteen years of age.

This novel is the first of a series of novels primarily about the life and times of Robert the Bruce however it covers Alexander III and the circumstances surrounding his death in some detail.

Herodian says " in their opinion Alexander showed no honourable intention to pursue the war and preferred a life of ease, when he should have marched out to punish the Germans for their previous insolence ".

Selkirk, el verdadero Robinson Crusoe, a stop motion film by Tournier Animation based on Alexander Selkirk's life was premiered simultaneously in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay on 2 February 2012.

A factorial randomized trial of 579 UK patients with chronic or recurrent low back pain, reported in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, found that patients who received Alexander Technique lessons reported afterwards having less back pain and significant improvement in their quality of life.

Daniel Kehlmann's 2005 novel Die Vermessung der Welt, translated into English as Measuring the World ( 2006 ), explores Gauss's life and work through a lens of historical fiction, contrasting them with those of the German explorer Alexander von Humboldt.

Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life, becoming a driving force for the Second Industrial Revolution.

When Alexander died in 1124, the crown passed to Margaret's fourth son David I, who had spent most of his life as an English baron.

Towards the end of his life, Brahms offered substantial encouragement to Ernő Dohnányi and to Alexander von Zemlinsky.

Alexander was also the principal executive producer of the series based very loosely on the life of the popular sports-media personality Tony Kornheiser.

Most of her life, she was known as Maria Feodorovna (), the name which she took when she converted to Orthodoxy immediately before her 1866 marriage to the future Emperor Alexander III.

* Some Times in America: and a life in a year at the New Yorker by Alexander Chancellor ( 1999 )

Supposedly it comes from an episode in the life of Alexander the Great.

Alexander dreamed of an east / west union, but when his short life ended, his vast empire was plunged into civil war as his generals each carved out their own separate kingdoms.

This time, it had the full support of the king and the English hierarchy, and a grateful pope issued the bull of canonization on 7 February 1161, the result of a conjunction of the interests of Westminster Abbey, King Henry II and Pope Alexander III He was called ' Confessor ' as the name for someone who was believed to have lived a saintly life but was not a martyr or churchman.

** Vertinsky, Alexander: Cabaret singer ( 1889 – 1957 )— became known as the " Russian Pierrot " after debuting around 1916 with " Pierrot's doleful ditties "— songs that chronicled tragic incidents in the life of Pierrot.

The Primer is intended to intellectually steer its reader toward a more interesting life, as defined by " Equity Lord " Alexander Chung-Sik Finkle-McGraw, and grow up to be an effective member of society.

The story was perhaps influenced by the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on the Pacific island called " Más a Tierra " ( in 1966 its name was changed to Robinson Crusoe Island ), Chile.

His association with director Alexander Korda began in 1933 with The Private Life of Henry VIII ( loosely based on the life of King Henry VIII ), for which Laughton won an Academy Award.

Alexander then retired into private life.

The death saddened the later years of his life ; Alexander lamented that he had lost half of himself with the death of his brother.

Josephus records three short-lived marriages in Berenice's life, the first which took place sometime between 41 and 43, to Marcus Julius Alexander, brother of Tiberius Julius Alexander and son of Alexander the Alabarch of Alexandria.