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The top story contains more than thirty alcoves separated from each other by spandrels of blue and yellow tile.
The story ends in the child's illness and delirium brought on by the feverish compulsion to ride his horse to win for his mother.
We are also struck by the fact that this story of a boy's love for his mother does not offend, while the incestuous love of the man, Paul Morel, sometimes repels.
And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.
I am sure that none of the effects of this story were consciously employed by Lawrence to describe an oedipal fantasy in childhood.
An ivory tablet in the infant's cask recounts the story of his sinful origins and is preserved for the child by the monks of a monastery in the fishing village.
The Hetman had a strong liking for a story, any story which was to be had by means of much sleuthing or by roundabout methods.
The complexities of Venetian politics eluded him, but the story of the revolution itself is told in restrained measures, with no superfluous passages and only an occasional overemphasis of the part played by its leading figure.
Trevelyan was at least in part attracted to the period by an almost unconscious desire to take up the story where Macaulay's History Of England had broken off.
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.
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.
Usually, this was done when attention was diverted by someone else's long, boring story.
You then descended one story, glommed a television set from the music room -- the only constructive feature of your visit, by the way -- and, returning to the ground floor, entered the master bedroom.
aside from her specifically regional accent, she reveals by the use of the triad, `` irritable, tense, depressed '', a certain pedantic itemization that indicates she has some familiarity with literary or scientific language ( i.e., she must have had at least a high-school education ), and she is telling a story she has mentally rehearsed some time before.
If she'd kept on as she'd been going, the story I'd told Gladdy would probably have been true by now, anyhow
A similar story is mentioned by Plutarch.
However, this story may reflect a cultural influence which had the reverse direction: Hittite cuneiform texts mention a Minor Asian god called Appaliunas or Apalunas in connection with the city of Wilusa attested in Hittite inscriptions, which is now generally regarded as being identical with the Greek Ilion by most scholars.
As said by the officer in the story, " In this age of Realien advancement, who knows what goes on in the mind of those responsible for these mechanical dolls.
Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.
Using what became one of van Vogt's recurring themes, it told the story of a 9-year-old superman living in a world in which his kind are slain by Homo sapiens.
Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films ( founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel ).

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A decade before the classic era, a story of Hammett's was the source for the gangster melodrama City Streets ( 1931 ), directed by Rouben Mamoulian and photographed by Lee Garmes, who worked regularly with Sternberg.
The title of the album came from a story that Lee had heard about a friend-of-a-friend who had broken up with his girlfriend.
* The 1979 film Norma Rae, directed by Martin Ritt, is based on the true story of Crystal Lee Jordan's successful attempt to unionize her textile factory.
Lastly, Lee threw a television set from the upper story window of the Sheraton Caravan Hotel.
Naturally this tendency is purely due to story conveniences ( or a somewhat haphazardly shifting patchwork pattern of authors ), and mainly that the fictional " continuity " has been maintained and expanded far beyond what Stan Lee and others originally planned or hoped for.
Some early Robin Hood stories appear to be unique, such as the story wherein Robin gives a knight, generally called Richard at the Lee, money to pay off his mortgage to an abbot, but this may merely indicate that no parallels have survived.
Charteris and Lee collaborated on two Saint novels in the 1970s, The Saint in Pursuit ( based on a story by Charteris for the Saint comic strip ) and The Saint and the People Importers.
It was based on the true story of Frank Lee Morris who, along with John and Clarence Anglin, escaped from the notorious Alcatraz prison in 1962.
Believers have continually looked at the story of Ann Lee as a cornerstone of the theological architecture that has distinguished their church from other American religious groups.
Shaker theology, its manifestation in material artifacts such as furniture and oval boxes, and the Ann Lee story draw the attention of outsiders either fascinated or repulsed by them.
The screenplay was written by Peg Fenwick based upon a story by Edna L. Lee and Harry Lee.
The film tells the story of a woman who finds herself in an insane asylum and cannot remember how she got there, and stars Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Beulah Bondi, and Lee Patrick.
Fate of Atlantis is based on the SCUMM story system by Ron Gilbert, Aric Wilmunder, Brad P. Taylor, and Vince Lee, thus employing similar gameplay to other point-and-click adventures developed by LucasArts in the 1980s and 1990s.
Elaine Lee loosely reworked the story into another four-part comic book series, released from April to July 1995.
* In a 2006 comic book story featuring Lee Falk's The Phantom, the 19th Phantom has to fight Professor Moriarty.
* The scene in which Mark Lee tells the story of being forced to drink urine is apparently based on a real incident involving Chow Yun-fat and director Ringo Lam, according to Bey Logan on the DVD commentary.
However the magazine printed the story on 20 February 1981, naming the agent as Lee Tracey.
It is based on the true story of Crystal Lee Sutton ( 1940 – 2009 ), which was told in the 1975 book Crystal Lee, a Woman of Inheritance by New York Times reporter Henry P. Leifermann.
The story is based on Crystal Lee Sutton's life as a textile worker in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, where the battle for the workers union took place against a J. P Stevens Textile mill.
West Newbury and its residents were the models for Popperville, the setting of Virginia Lee Burton's children's story Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel.
* Andrea Lee, New Yorker short story writer, lived in Lansdowne as a child and attended Lansdowne Friends School.
* " Midnight Kiss " ( Cornelius is a main character throughout the five part story ), written by Tony Lee and illustrated by Ryan Stegman

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