The title may have been inspired by George Peele's play The Old Wives ' Tale of 1590, in which a storyteller tells " a merry winter's tale " of a missing daughter.

The Snowman is the tale of a boy who builds a snowman one winter's day.

... I have the concurrent testimony of several persons, who have been upon the Prairies in winter, that, like rabbits and squirrels, they issue from their holes every soft day ; and therefore lay up no doubt a hoard of ' hay ' ( as there is rarely anything else to be found in the vicinity of their towns ) for winter's use.

If on a winter's night a traveler () is a 1979 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino.

The narrative is about a reader trying to read a book called If on a winter's night a traveller.

The title If on a winter's night a traveller is a good indicator of this novel which is reminiscent of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy.

" There is no law nor lawyer's feesAll men are free from fury, For ev ' ry one do's what he please, Without a judge or jury: The summer-time is warm they say, The winter's ne ' er the colder, They have no landlords ' rent to payEach man is a free-holder.

The opening lines of the film are Edward's " Once more we sit in England's royal throne ,/ Repurchased with the blood of enemies ./ Come hither Bess, and let me kiss my boy ./ Young Ned, for thee, thine uncles and myself / Have in our armours watched the winter's night ,/ Went all afoot in summer's scalding heat ,/ That thou mightst repossess the crown in peace / And of our labours thou shalt reap the gain " ( this is a truncated version of ll.

After all these years, Nibsy Ryan's Saloon is still a popular place to lift a pint after work or on a cold winter's evening.

Examples such as If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino, " a novel about a person reading a novel " is an exercise in metafiction.

* A real pre-existing piece of fiction X, being used within a new piece of fiction Y, to lend an air of authenticity to fiction Y, e. g. A Nightmare on Elm Street is discussed extensively in Wes Craven's New Nightmare, while actors from the former star as " themselves " or Scream 3 and Scream 4, where characters discuss and know of films that are about the previous films ' events ; likewise are The 1001 Nights put to use within If on a winter's night a traveler.

The beauty whereof is parched with the summer's blaze and chipped with the winter's blast: which is of so short continuance, that it fadeth before one perceive it flourish ".

The day having been cloudy with occasional showers, these islands at all times dreary enough, looked particularly so on our first view of them, the shores of sound, steep, with bare hills intersected with ravines rising from them, these hills without a tree and the clouds hanging low, gave them exactly the appearance of the Cheviots or a Scotch moor on a winter's day and considering we were in the May of these latitudes, the first impression of the climate was not favourable, the weather however, was not called, the thermometer was 63 degrees which is Howick mid-summer temperature.

The bark of the red cinnamon or false winter's bark, Cinnamodendron corticosum, is used as a substitute for winter's bark ( Drimys winteri, a member of Winteraceae ) in Chile and Argentina, where it is called canelo, a name that is also applied to cinnamon.

The story is the account of an unnamed man being held in prison, recounting his life as a college dropout who had met and fallen in love with a beautiful girl named Nona while aimlessly hitchhiking on a snowy winter's night in Maine.

Blezzard adds that Goss is chiefly remembered for his two most famous hymn tunes: " Praise my soul the King of Heaven " ( 1869 ) and " See, amid the winter's snow " ( 1871 ).

He remembered waking one winter's morning when he was about three or four years old, and noticing something different about the light in his bedroom ; there was light where there was usually shadow, and vice versa.

In a 1985 interview with Gregory Lucente, Calvino stated If on a winter's night a traveller was " clearly " influenced by the writings of Vladimir Nabokov.

It began on a winter's night in the beginning of the year 455 of the First Age, with the eruptions of the volcanic peaks of Thangorodrim sending out rivers of flame, poisonous fumes and clouds of smoke and ash.

He finished the season with a. 290 average and 12 home runs, and became one of baseball's more coveted players in the winter's free agent market.

Lucier notes a synchronistic event, his reading of If on a winter's night a traveler by Calvino: " What I would like most in the world ... is to make clocks run backward ... No, with thought, by concentrating until I force time to move back .... polydyptic theatre, in which about sixty little mirrors lining the inside of a large box transform a bough into a forest, a lead soldier into an army, a booklet into a library.

In 1923 he took 170 wickets for 20. 53 each and 153 for less than 17 each in 1924, but spoilt his chances of going on that winter's Ashes tour with a poor performance for the Players at the Oval on a pitch that should have suited him.

Refreshed after a winter's rest Barrington was in fine form in 1967, starting with 26, 62, 63, 95, 41, 60, 82, 14, 84, 27 not out and 32 in the wettest May since 1773 when batsmen were struggling.

His excellent form led some commentators to say that the England selectors should consider him for that winter's Ashes tour: Mike Selvey called him " the best technician of his generation with a good record in trying circumstances in Australia " and said that he should be considered as a possible replacement for Marcus Trescothick.

In May 1795, with much of the winter's damage repaired, the French commander Admiral Villaret de Joyeuse sent a squadron of three ships of the line and several frigates under Contre-Admrial Jean Gaspard Vence to Bordeaux with orders to escort a convoy of merchant ships carrying wine and brandy to Brest.

Their faith was the not abolition but rather the fulfillment of their old rituals because with Jesus, the rituals meant to hold back winter's darkness were vindicated.

In an interview with Gregory Lucente, Calvino stated that he began writing Mr. Palomar in 1975, making it a predecessor to earlier published works such as If on a winter's night a traveler.

Though the summer was mostly exceedingly wet and it was often impossible for fast bowlers to obtain a foothold, Fielder bowled so well that with Richardson and Lockwood on their last legs, he was surprisingly chosen for that winter's Ashes tour.

After the winter's lull in fighting and Ted's battalions ' involvement in the Christmas Truce of 1914, the campaigning season had started once again and he found himself in the line around Hill 60, south-east of Ypres.

* In fiction: Cimmeria in the novel If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino

* Cimmeria ( Calvino ), a fictional country in If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino

This long and proud military connection came to an ignominious end in the mid-1970s, shortly after some local licensed wildfowlers were shot by the young military guard one winter's night, mistaken for an attacking IRA force, as the locals discharged their shotguns at some passing ducks.

However, emboldened by the previous winter's success, Stalin was convinced that local offensives in the area would only wear down German forces, consequently weakening German efforts to successfully mount another operation to take Moscow.

In 1891, an even wetter summer, he was almost as effective, named a Cricketer of the Year by Wisden, but was thought unlikely to do so well in Australia and, consequently, not considered for that winter's WG Grace-led tour.

In the winter of 1854 – 55, 1742 whales were caught, but a normal winter's catch would only be half of this number or even less.

Wherever this consultation of consuls took place, Scipio advised " that their legions would be all the better for a winter's drilling, and that the notoriously fickle Celts would not remain loyal to the Carthaginians ... he advised Sempronius to let matters remain as they were.

For the workers at Kinlochleven the journey to the pub often proved to be more difficult than they realised and on the return trip, after a few drinks on a cold winter's night, the devil often ” claimed his own “.

Because it was clear that their bowling would be ineffective on rock-hard Australian pitches ( and their bodies would not withstand the hard work under such conditions ), Hallam and Wass were never considered for the winter's Ashes tour.

A scholar loves a widow lady, who, being enamoured of another, causes him to spend a winter's night awaiting her in the snow.

" It was a dark winter's night and how to reach the house over such bad roads was a question not easily solved.

) These chapters concern the reader's adventures in reading Italo Calvino's novel, If on a winter's night a traveller.

As Calvino concludes the alleged, fictional encyclopedia entry concerning Cimmeria: " In successive territorial divisions between her powerful neighbors the young nation was soon erased from the map ; the autochthonous population was dispersed ; Cimmerian language and culture had no development " ( If on a winter's night a traveller, pp. 44 – 45 ).

The Chicago developers envisioned selling homesites to wealthy northerners who would come to escape winter's cold blasts, then peacefully retire here.

Third, African troops tended to become ill during the European winter's extreme weather.

One winter's night, two French nuns, Sister Margaret and Sister Scholastica, come to the small New England town of Bethlehem ( most likely modeled after Bethlehem, Connecticut – given the Abbey of Regina Laudis in that real town and the proximity to New York City ), where they meet Amelia Potts, a painter of religious pictures.

The doorway usually faced south to keep out the winter's north winds.