Naguib Mahfouz, the Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer, published in 1941 a story entitled " Awdat Sinuhi " translated by Raymond Stock in 2003 as " The Return of Sinuhe " in the collection of Mahfouz's short stories entitled Voices from the Other World.

The story appeared in an English translation by Raymond Stock in 2003 as " The Return of Sinuhe " in the collection of Mahfouz's short stories entitled Voices from the Other World.

The books ' Arabic titles are taken from actual streets in Cairo, the city of Mahfouz's childhood and youth.

Most of Mahfouz's early works were set in el-Gamaleyya.

The family lived in two popular districts of the town, in el-Gamaleyya, from where they moved in 1924 to el-Abbaseyya, then a new Cairo suburb ; both provided the backdrop for many of Mahfouz's writings.

Mahfouz's central work in the 1950s was the Cairo Trilogy, an immense monumental work of 1, 500 pages, which the author completed before the July Revolution.

* Finished in 1952, Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy ( Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street ), is first published.

* Naguib Mahfouz's The Cairo Trilogy

Most of Mahfouz's writings mainly dealt with politics, a fact he acknowledged: " In all my writings, you will find politics.

The major Egyptian influence on Mahfouz's thoughts of science and socialism in the 1930s was Salama Moussa, the Fabian intellectual.

The appearance of The Satanic Verses brought back up the controversy surrounding Mahfouz's novel Children of Gebelawi.

Mahfouz's prose is characterised by the blunt expression of his ideas.

The Children of Gebelawi ( 1959, also known as " Children of our Alley ") one of Mahfouz's best known works, has been banned in Egypt for alleged blasphemy over its allegorical portrayal of God and the monotheistic Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, until the ban was released in 2006.

In fact, Qutb was one of the first critics to recognize Mahfouz's talent in the mid-1940s.

* Naguib Mahfouz's influence on Arabic Literature: In the Shadow of the Master, Qantara. de

Naguib Mahfouz's 1967 novel Miramar focuses on the lives of the long-term residents of the eponymous pensione in Alexandria in the 1960s.

The absence of a maternity unit at Kasr El Aini hospital was great handicap to Naguib Mahfouz's work.

The Thief and the Dogs (; El-lis's wa el-kilab ) is one of the Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz's most celebrated works.

It helped, therefore, to confirm Mahfouz's stature as a pioneer in the field of literature.

Finally, the theatrical ( and perversely erotic ) notions of dressing up, cosmetics, disguise, and especially change of costume ( or singularity of costume, as with Cipolla ), are characteristically associated with the catastrophes of Mann's stories.

that is, he is suspect, guilty, punishable, as is anyone in Mann's stories who produces illusion, and this is true even though the constant elements of the artist-nature, technique, magic, guilt and suffering, are divided in this story between Jacoby and Lautner.

In a certain perfectly definite way, the method and the theme of his stories are one and the same.

There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.

The ingredients of Faulkner's novels and stories are by no means new with him, and most of the problems he takes up have had the attention of authors before him.

And they have done this on a very large scale, with a veritable flood of novels and stories which are either dystopias or narratives of adventure with dystopian elements.

The novels and stories like Pohl's Drunkard's Walk ( 1960 ), with the focus on adventure and with the dystopian elements only a dim background -- in this case an uneasy, overpopulated world in which the mass of people do uninteresting routine jobs while a carefully selected, university-trained elite runs everything -- are in all likelihood as numerous as dystopias.

Will it be short stories, fiction, nonfiction, biography, poetry, children's stories, or even a book if you are really ambitious??

In support of this, stories from the early literature are cited to show that Zen attacks the idea of supernatural power.

Mr. Sansom is English, bearded, formidably cultivated, the versatile author of numerous volumes of short stories, of novels and of pieces that are neither short stories nor travel articles but something midway between.

Adobe walls usually never rise above two stories because they are load bearing and have low structural strength.

Some of the oldest and most widespread stories in the world are stories of adventure such as Homer's The Odyssey.

His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!

Christie's stories are also known for their taut atmosphere and strong psychological suspense, developed from the deliberately slow pace of her prose.

Seven stories are inspired by a nursery rhyme: And Then There Were None by Ten Little Indians ; One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by One, Two, Buckle My Shoe ; Five Little Pigs by This Little Piggy ; Crooked House by There Was a Crooked Man ; A Pocket Full of Rye by Sing a Song of Sixpence ; Hickory Dickory Dock by Hickory Dickory Dock, and Three Blind Mice by Three Blind Mice.

In six stories, Christie allows the murderer to escape justice ( and in the case of the last three, implicitly almost approves of their crimes ); these are The Witness for the Prosecution, Five Little Pigs, The Man in the Brown Suit, Murder on the Orient Express, Curtain and The Unexpected Guest.

The adaptions are notable for changing the plots and characters of the original books ( e. g., incorporating lesbian affairs, changing killer identities, renaming or removing significant characters, and even using stories from other books in which Miss Marple did not originally feature ).

Rabbi Trugman explains that it is through oral tradition that the meanings of the Torah, its commandments and stories, are known and understood.

Alternate history or alternative history is a genre of fiction consisting of stories that are set in worlds in which history has diverged from the actual history of the world.

All surviving stories of Agrippina's death contradict themselves and each other, and are generally fantastical.

There are stories that it would take 10 men to carry his sword, and that Afonso would want to engage other monarchs in personal combat, but no one would dare accept his challenge.

Many of the stories have them travel to foreign countries, though others are set in and around their village.