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He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works ( 55 novels in total, plus four " lost " novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings ), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen.
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The Virgilian commentator Servius wrote that the Teuti, or Pelops, the king of the Pisaeans, founded the town thirteen centuries before the start of the common era.
Over the next thirteen years, Cimarosa wrote a number of operas for the various theatres of Italy, living temporarily in Rome, in Naples, or wherever else his vocation as conductor of his works happened to take him.
Jeremy Bentham wrote a series of thirteen " Letters " addressed to Adam Smith, published in 1787 as Defence of Usury.
Baum wrote thirteen sequels to the novel.
She later wrote " These naïve poems by a frivolous girl for some reason were reprinted thirteen times [...] And they came out in several translations.
In addition, he wrote thirty-three screenplays and collaborated with other screenwriters on thirteen more.
Patience ( 1881 ) was the first opera to appear at the Savoy Theatre, and thus, in a strict sense, the first true " Savoy Opera ", although the term " Savoy Opera " has, for over a century, included the complete set of thirteen operas that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote for Richard D ' Oyly Carte:
Kricfalusi's team wrote story outlines for thirteen episodes in a week and pitched them to Price.
He wrote more than 150 scores for Italian and international productions from the 1930s until his death in 1979 — an average of three scores each year over a 46 year period, and in his most productive period from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s he wrote as many as ten scores every year, and sometimes more, with a remarkable thirteen film scores to his credit in 1954.
Though engaged in many ways in the development of his society and in the organization of its institutions, during the thirteen years of his stay in Berlin he wrote a text for schools on the religious and moral doctrines of the Mishnah ( Berlin, 1854 ), a criticism of Stahl ( Ueber Stahl's Christliche Toleranz, ib.
He also says that Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones, the writers of The Fantasticks, wrote a musical of Wilder's Our Town and it took them thirteen years to write, only to have the rights pulled as well by the nephew.
" We had been working for at least fourteen or fifteen hours a day for thirteen days straight and we still hadn't recorded one note of music ," he wrote in his autobiography.
From 1905 to 1923, he was a professor of literature at the University of Chicago, during which time he wrote thirteen novels.
Lederer, a child prodigy, who had entered college at thirteen, got to know Mankiewicz ..." Herman eventually “ saw Hearst as ‘ a finagling, calculating, Machiavellian figure .’ But also, with Charlie Lederer, ... wrote and had printed parodies of Hearst newspapers ...”
Because few states participated, the Annapolis Convention did not deem “ it advisable to proceed on the business of their mission .” Leaders including Virginians Edmund Randolph and James Madison wrote a unanimous report suggesting that a convention of delegates from all thirteen states meet at Philadelphia in May 1787.
* Opera: Arriaga wrote an opera, Los esclavos felices (" The Happy Slaves "), in 1820 when he was thirteen.
In November Harry wrote his mother that Polia was " very beautiful and terribly serious about art she ran away from home when she was thirteen to paint.
He wrote thirteen and a half of the 27 volumes of the Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum ( 1874 – 1898 ).
At the age of thirteen, Cabrera wrote a weekly anonymous column that appeared in her father's journal.
McKee wrote and animated ( with Ian Lawless ) thirteen Mr Benn episodes for the BBC in the early 1970s.
Pilgrimage shows Pinto as sharply critical of Portuguese colonialism in the Far East The vivid tales of his wanderings over twenty years – he wrote, for example, that he was " thirteen times made captive and seventeen times sold " – were so unusual that they were mostly not believed.
Garção wrote two bright comedies, Quita some stillborn tragedies, and Manuel de Figueredo compiled plays in prose and verse on national subjects, which fill thirteen volumes, but he could not create characters.
In 1968, the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky wrote Gorbunov and Gorchakov, a forty-page long poem in thirteen cantos consisting of lengthy conversations between two patients in a Soviet psychiatric prison as well as between each of them separately and the interrogating psychiatrists.
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The work as it stands is not the entire book that Malraux wrote at that time -- it is only the first section of a three-part novel called La Lutte avec l'Ange ; ;
The historic roots of Algerian literature goes back to the Numidian era, when Apuleius wrote The Golden Ass, the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety.
He wrote a mainstream novel that was set in Communist China, The Violent Man ( 1962 ); he said that to research this book he had read 100 books about China.
During these visits Shelley wrote the poem " Mont Blanc ", Byron wrote " The Prisoner of Chillon " and the dramatic poem Manfred, and Mary Shelley, who found the scenery overwhelming, conceived the idea for the novel Frankenstein in her villa on the shores of Lake Geneva in the midst of a thunderstorm.
Christie wrote a concluding novel to her Marple series, Sleeping Murder, in 1940.
In the 13th century, Ibn al-Nafis wrote his own novel Fadil ibn Natiq, known as Theologus Autodidactus in the West, as a critical response to Hayy ibn Yaqdhan.
In 1904, he also wrote a novel, Born Again, clearly inspired by the popular Utopian fantasy Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, an early harbinger of the metaphysical turn his career would take with the theory of Lawsonomy.
J. G. Ballard wrote a dystopian take on a self-contained building that is much like an arcology in his 1975 novel High Rise.
In 1983 political satirist / novelist Richard Condon (" The Manchurian Candidate ") wrote " A Trembling Upon Rome ," a novel of historical fiction about the life of Baldassare Cossa.
He wrote the first important symphonic work in Chilean tradition, " La Muerte de Alcino ", a symphonic poem inspired by the novel of Pedro Prado.
Cartoonist Mell Lazarus, creator of Miss Peach and Momma, wrote a comic novel in 1963 titled The Boss Is Crazy, Too which was partly inspired by his apprenticeship days working with Capp and his brother Elliot at Toby.
She also wrote the updated introduction to Sagan's book The Cosmic Connection, the epilogue of Billions and Billions, and her own novel, A Famous Broken Heart.
" Sean Connery is in the title role of a reclusive old man who 50 years earlier wrote a single novel that garnered the Pulitzer Prize.
Alan Garner wrote a children's fantasy novel called The Weirdstone of Brisingamen about an enchanted teardrop bracelet.
Nicholas Christopher wrote a literary novel called " The Bestiary " ( Dial, 2007 ) that describes a lonely young man's efforts to track down the world's most complete bestiary.
Thomas Carlyle translated Goethe ’ s novel into English, and after its publication in 1824, many British authors wrote novels inspired by it.
* Robert Graves, author of I, Claudius, also wrote Count Belisarius, a historical novel about Belisarius.
Sagan wrote the novel Contact, the basis for a 1997 film of the same name.
* Jennings Michael Burch-Spent his childhood going through multiple foster homes and wrote the 1984 best selling novel They Cage the Animals at Night which is a memoir of that period of his life.
He wrote his first published novel, Eclipse ( 1935 ), about a town and its people, in the social realist style, drawing on his years in Grand Junction.
In 1941, Trumbo wrote a novel The Remarkable Andrew, in which, in one scene, the ghost of Andrew Jackson appears in order to caution the United States not to get involved in the war.
Also in 1722, Defoe wrote Moll Flanders, another first-person picaresque novel of the fall and eventual redemption of a lone woman in 17th century England.
Afterwards, Lieberman wrote a poem about the experience and shared it with Norman Gimbel, who had long been searching for a way to use a phrase he had copied from a novel badly translated from Spanish to English, " killing me softly with his blues ".
Poe's work also influenced science fiction, notably Jules Verne, who wrote a sequel to Poe's novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket called An Antarctic Mystery, also known as The Sphinx of the Ice Fields.
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