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.

Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.

* William S. Burroughs, novelist, short story writer, essayist and spoken word performer

Some consider this more of a short story collection ; Milne didn't like it and considered The Day's Play as his first book.

* AM, short for Allied Mastercomputer, a fictional supercomputer in the short story " I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream "

Derleth also changed Alhazred's final fate, as described in his short story " The Keeper of the Key ", first published in May 1951.

For example, in the first editions of the collection The Mysterious Mr Quin ( 1930 ), in the short story " The Soul of the Croupier ," she described " Hebraic men with hook-noses wearing rather flamboyant jewellery "; in later editions the passage was edited to describe " sallow men " wearing same.

* 1936 Love from a Stranger ( dramatised by Frank Vosper from the short story Philomel Cottage )

* 1939 Tea for Three ( dramatised by Margery Vosper from the short story Accident )

In the short story The Chocolate Box ( 1923 ) Poirot provides Captain Arthur Hastings with an account of what he considers to be his only failure.

As a result, Suchet will have filmed adaptations of every Poirot novel, and all but one Poirot short story.

Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Sketch magazine in 1926, " The Tuesday Night Club ", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems ( 1932 ).

Niece Mabel, widow of the mysteriously dead Geoffrey Denham, stars in the 1927 short story " The Thumb Mark of Saint Peter ".

* " The Tuesday Night Club " ( short story ) featured Miss Marple for the first time ever.

* The Thirteen Problems ( short story collection featuring Miss Marple, also published as The Tuesday Club Murders ) ( 1932 )

Miss Marple also appears in Greenshaw's Folly, a short story traditionally included as part of the Poirot collection The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding ( 1960 ).

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The book includes some material from the short story The Salesman's Tale, and some unpublished material cut from Prince of Chaos, notably Coral's pregnancy by Merlin.

* Moriarty by Modem, a short story by Jack Nimersheim, describes an alternate history where Babbage's Analytical Engine was indeed completed and had been deemed highly classified by the British government.

This short story follows Holmes as his program is rebooted on modern computers and he is forced to compete against his nemesis yet again in the modern counterparts of Babbage's Analytical Engine.

* 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.

One ansible-like device which predates Le Guin's is the Dirac communicator in James Blish's 1954 short story " Beep ".

* The short story " There Are More Things " by Jorge Luis Borges from The Book of Sand refers to an amphisbaena and concerns a similar, though mostly undescribed, monster.

* Paul Auster's collection of short stories entitled True Tales of American Life contains a story (' Mathematical Aphrodisiac ' by Alex Galt ) in which amicable numbers play an important role.

She is voiced by Julie Kavner and first appeared on television in The Tracey Ullman Show short " Good Night " on April 19, 1987.

Marge debuted with the rest of the Simpson family on April 19, 1987, in The Tracey Ullman Show short " Good Night ".

Good Housekeeping magazine became the sponsor for the 1954-55 season, and a short third season in the autumn of 1955 finished the run.

The ransom paid was, however, a little short of that demanded by the English, and John the Good was not returned to the French.

He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta and first appeared on television, along with the rest of his family, in The Tracey Ullman Show short " Good Night " on April 19, 1987.

Homer made his debut with the rest of the Simpson family on April 19, 1987, in The Tracey Ullman Show short " Good Night ".

Voiced by Yeardley Smith, Lisa first appeared on television in The Tracey Ullman Show short " Good Night " on April 19, 1987.

Lisa made her debut with the rest of the Simpson family on April 19, 1987 in The Tracey Ullman Show short " Good Night ".

Most of the storylines take place in modern times, but many short stories are set in the past, taking advantage of the immortal nature of many of the characters, and deal with historical individuals and events such as in the short story " Men of Good Fortune.

She also published two books of short stories: A Good Man Is Hard to Find ( 1955 ) and Everything That Rises Must Converge ( published posthumously in 1965 ).

He also appears in the novel Dark Victory ( William Shatner, 1999 ), and the short story " The Greater Good " ( Margaret Wander Bonanno ) in the anthology Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Shards and Shadows ( 2009 ).

It is based on the 1953 short story It's a Good Life by Jerome Bixby and is considered by many, such asTime Magazine and TV Guide, to be one of the best episodes of the series.

He has written pieces on lifting body development ( The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed ), the United States Merchant Marine ( Looking for a Ship ), farmers ' markets ( Giving Good Weight ), freight transportation ( Uncommon Carriers ), the shifting flow of the Mississippi River ( The Control of Nature ), geology ( in several books ), as well as a short book entirely on the subject of oranges.

In the 1980s, again with Benmussa, York played in For No Good Reason, an adaptation of George Moore's short story, with Susan Hampshire.

* The Big Good Wolf from Timothy Groen's cult short animated film series ( 16mm, very rare ) The Little Pigs and the Big Good Wolf is another example.

" The chorus of the Tom Waits song " Barbershop " contains the lines " Good morning, Mister snip snip snip / With your hair cut just as short as mine.

Later that year, he played Anton Chekhov in Neil Simon's adaptation of several Chekhov short stories, The Good Doctor, which was a hit.

In August 1807 the Stirlings crossed the South Atlantic for a stay of five months at the Cape of Good Hope and at the end of February 1808 the Diadem returned to England via a short period in Rio de Janeiro.

But his short story " It's a Good Life " ( 1953 ), adapted as a teleplay for The Twilight Zone by Rod Serling, is arguably his most generally known work to reach the small screen.

* " It's a Good Life " ( 1961 ) ( short story )

Stefan also experimented with photograms and the two of them made five short experimental films Apteka Pharmacy ( 1930 ), Europa ( 1931 – 1932 ), Drobiazg Melodyjny Moment ( 1933 ), Zwarcie Circuit ( 1935 ) and Przygoda Czlowieka Poczciwego Adventures of a Good Citizen ( 1937 ).

The name " Lord Emsworth " first appears in Wodehouse's works as a passing mention in a short called " The Matrimonial Sweepstakes ", a version of " The Good Angel " printed in Cosmopolitan in the U. S. in February 1910.

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