`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

`` Speaking of nonism: the other day, in a story about a sit-down demonstration, the Paris Herald Tribune wrote, ' The non-violence became noisier.

I wrote a few years ago that one of the cardinal rules of writing is that the reader should be able to get some idea of what the story is about.

There is a humorous but revealing story about a rancher who owned a large slice of Texas and who wanted to have on it everything that was necessary for a completely pleasant community.

`` There are things about me that I can't tell you now, Mary Jane '', I said, `` but if you'll go out to dinner with me when I get out of Hanover, I'd like to tell you the whole story.

`` That story of hers about an unsigned note directing her to be there tonight sounds completely phony.

If you're really serious about working on that story, I'd better take you home ''.

Right now, however, he was still too worried about Jerry Burton, and the gun that had no bullets, and the story Burton had told him, to care too much about Tony Calenda.

You want from me the story, but a story is about ' why ' and then, perhaps, about how.

I visited the bank in March and wrote a story about the situation.

I make this observation about the lady, Miss Judy Garland, because she brought up the subject herself in telling a story about a British female reporter who flattered her terribly in London recently and then wrote in the paper the next day:

`` I heard a story once about a rookie who got excited when the captain stepped outside and he couldn't get an encephalographic reading on him.

The traditional story about his departure reports that he was disappointed with the direction the academy took after control passed to Plato's nephew Speusippus upon his death, although it is possible that he feared anti-Macedonian sentiments and left before Plato had died.

* 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.

The most significant of these is the story about Ambrosius, Vortigern, and the two dragons beneath Dinas Emrys, " Fortress of Ambrosius " in Chapters 40 – 42.

As the story would later be told by the Anglo-Saxon monk and historian Bede, Gregory was struck by the unusual appearance of the slaves and asked about their background.

In the introduction, Socrates muses about the perfect society, described in Plato's Republic ( c. 380 BC ), and wonders if he and his guests might recollect a story which exemplifies such a society.

The passage in question has been represented in the modern literature either as claiming that Crantor actually visited Egypt, had conversations with priests, and saw hieroglyphs confirming the story or as claiming that he learned about them from other visitors to Egypt.

Research conducted by the National Museum of American History notes that the story of Betsy Ross making the first American flag for General George Washington entered into American consciousness about the time of the 1876 centennial celebrations.

Pervo sees Luke ’ s work as a “ legitimizing narrative ” because it makes “ a case by telling a story ( or stories )” and serves to legitimate either “ Pauline Christianity ( possibly in rivalry to other interpretations ) or generally as the claim of the Jesus-movement to possess the Israelite heritage .” On the other hand, some scholars greatly disagree with the view of legitimation because they believe that it “ mirror-reads ” Luke ’ s work attempting to uncover the circumstances surrounding Luke ’ s work by over-arguing something that may not be that valid.

Son of the Sun was a success and Rosa ’ s very first professional comic story was nominated for a Harvey Award “ Best Story of the Year ”.

The album ’ s title song was inspired by Jack Kerouac ’ s book, The Lonesome Traveller in which Kerouac tells the story of America ’ s “ homeless brothers ,” or hobos.

No one claimed him, so a carnival took his body, mummified it, and toured all over the South with him, calling him the “ The Famous Mummy Man .” McLean ’ s song inspired radio station WGN in Chicago to tell the story and give the song airplay in order to raise money for a headstone for Anderson McCrew ’ s grave.

* In 2008, The Library of America selected Runyon ’ s story “ The Eternal Blonde ” for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Crime Writing.

Even in relatively new story collection translated as Russian 19th Century Gothic Tales ( from 1984 ), the editor used the name „ Фантастический мир русской романтической повести “ ( The Fantastic World of Russian Romanticism Short Story / Novella ).

“ named ” – sixth, “ biff ”-seventh person … and in this way the story continues, being created by the whole group together.

In “ The Women Men Don ’ t See ,” Sheldon gives a feminist story a unique spin by making the narrator, Don Fenton, a male.

Still others name mythical entities according to certain conventions without reference to a specific story: rimmu Yggr “ Odin of battle ” = “ warrior ” ( Arnórr jarlaskáld: Magnúsdrápa 5 ).

The “ standard ” Akkadian version included a long version of the flood story and was edited by Sin-liqe-unninni sometime between 1300 and 1000 BC.

They sing happy, sad, bouncing, hopping, pink, blue, black and white sheep etc .” That nursery rhyme story was circulated and later extended to suggest that like language bans applied to the terms “ black coffee ” and “ blackboard ”.

In his short story collection A Century of Great Suspense Stories, editor Jeffrey Deaver noted that King “ singlehandedly made popular fiction grow up.

When I was nine or ten years old, the assigned reading in the class was “ The Man without a Country ", a short story by Edward Everett Hale.

In 1974, when a shorter version of the story appeared, a suit was brought on behalf of Mayling, and Cowles testified ( perhaps to protect Wilkie ) that the affair was “ impossible .” Taylor speculates that Willkie, who had several drinks when he talked to Cowles, had exaggerated or misled his young friend who had imagined the rest.

The term is derived from the Trojan Horse story in Greek mythology because Trojan horses employ a form of “ social engineering ,” presenting themselves as harmless, useful gifts, in order to persuade victims to install them on their computers.

The background story of the original novel and the later series is the crash of former astronaut Steve Austin in a “ lifting body ” craft, shown in the opening credits of the show.

World history can thus be a “ creation story ” to tell how the world of human society developed.

:" Fifty years later, the popular Italian playwright Carlo Gozzi made her story into a drama of a “ tigerish woman ” of “ unrelenting pride .” In a combined effort by two of the greatest literary talents of the era, Friedrich von Schiller translated the play into German as Turandot, Prinzessin von China, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe directed it on the stage in Weimar in 1802.

Later in the novel, when Tarrou tells Rieux the story of his life, he adds a new dimension to the term ” plague .“ He views it not just as a specific disease or simply as the presence of an impersonal evil external to humans.

The name “ Goliath ” itself is non-Semitic and has been linked with the Lydian king Alyattes, which also fits the Philistine context of the biblical Goliath story.

Writer Christopher Hitchens, when asked for his favorite Bible story replied “ Casting the first stone ” is a lovely story, even though we ’ ve found out how much it wasn ’ t in the Bible to begin with.

Imam Fakhr al-Din al-Razi commenting on Surah 22: 52 in his Tafsir al-Kabir stated that the “ people of verification ” declared the story as an outright fabrication, citing supporting arguments from the Qur ’ an, Sunnah and reason.

* “ Cadaeic Cadenza ” is a short story by Mike Keith using the first 3835 digits of pi to determine the length of words.

This is especially true during adolescence .” Little Women became “ the paradigmatic text for young women of the era and one in which family literary culture is prominently featured .” Adult elements of women ’ s fiction were in Little Women, such as “ a change of heart necessary ” for the female protagonist to evolve in the story.

Sicherman said that the unsatisfying ending worked to “ keep the story alive ” almost in hopes that if the reader read it enough times the story would conclude differently.

Dime novel, though it has a specific meaning, has also become a catch-all term for several different ( but related ) forms of late 19th-century and early 20th-century U. S. popular fiction, including “ true ” dime novels, story papers, five-and ten-cent weekly libraries, " thick book " reprints, and sometimes even early pulp magazines.

In 2008 sister congresswomen Loretta Sanchez and Linda Sanchez published the joint memoir Dream in Color: How the Sanchez Sisters Are Making History in Congress. Publishers Weekly reviewed the book and wrote: " Linda and Loretta Sanchez present their compelling story — noteworthy not only for their history-making achievements ( including first sisters or women of any relation to serve together in Congress, first woman and person of color to represent a district in Orange County, first Latina on the House Judiciary Committee and first Head Start child to be elected to Congress ) but also for its “ American Dream ” aspect — their parents immigrated from Mexico and despite lacking a formal education managed to send their seven children to college.

It tells the story of the wealthy New York wife Erica Benton ( Jill Clayburgh ) whose “ perfect ” life is shattered when her stockbroker husband Martin ( Michael Murphy ) leaves her for a younger woman.

A second story suggests that he changed the name of the settlement, originally referred to as “ Marquette ” on old French maps, to the Ojibwe word “ Minonk ,” meaning “ a good place .” Minonk is the only city in the world with that name.

It is not exactly certain how the town came to be called Ellsinore, but the most widely accepted story is that Mr. Brooks, the chief engineer of the Houck Railroad, named the town after Elsinore Castle in Denmark, the setting of Shakespeare ’ s “ Hamlet .” The post office however added an extra “ l ” making the spelling “ Ellsinore .”