Into the texture of this tapestry of history and human drama Henrietta, as every artist delights to do, wove strands of her own intuitive insights into human nature and -- especially in the remarkable story of the attraction and conflict between two so disparate and fervent characters as this pair -- into the relations of men and women: `` In their relations, she was the giver and he the receiver, nay the demander.

The reader meets a few old friends like Blimp and the TUC horse, and becomes better acquainted with new members of the cast of characters like the bomb itself, and civilization in her classic robe watching the nuclear arms race, her hair standing straight out.

After Milne's death in 1956, his widow sold her rights to the Pooh characters to the Walt Disney Company, which has made many Pooh cartoon movies, a Disney Channel television show, as well as Pooh-related merchandise.

Christie occasionally inserted stereotyped descriptions of characters into her work, particularly before the end of the Second World War ( when such attitudes were more commonly expressed publicly ), and particularly in regard to Italians, Jews, and non-Europeans.

To contrast with the more stereotyped descriptions, Christie often characterised the " foreigners " in such a way as to make the reader understand and sympathise with them ; this is particularly true of her Jewish characters, who are seldom actually criminals.

Christie ’ s life within the archaeological world not only shaped her settings and characters for her books but also in the issues she highlights.

The characters in this book in particular are also based on archaeologists Christie knew from her personal experiences on excavations sites.

In the 1986 TV play, Murder by the Book, Christie herself ( Dame Peggy Ashcroft ) murdered one of her fictional-turned-real characters, Poirot.

She has authored over fifty-six novels and she has a great dislike of people taking and modifying her story characters.

She is one of a few characters who played a major part in the original cause of the Trojan War itself: not only did she offer Helen of Troy to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed with desire to have her — which is Aphrodite's realm.

Her daughter, born from her head as she was from Zeus's, demigod Annabeth Chase is one of the principal characters.

Moreover, the ansibles Le Guin uses in her stories apparently have a very limited bandwidth which only allows for at most a few hundred characters of text to be communicated in any transaction of a dialog session.

* angry exchanges of letters between characters such as Florence McGurgle and her dissatisfied boarders.

The immense popularity of Potter ’ s books was based on the lively quality of her illustrations, the non-didactic nature of her stories, the depiction of the rural countryside, and the imaginative qualities she lent to her animal characters.

One of the viewpoint characters of Ian Watson's novel Oracle is an eyewitness to her defeat.

The game was given a large amount of advance publicity in the comics, with story lines often revolving how the characters each acquired his / her vehicle.

Coronation Street's stalwart cast slotted back into the programme alongside the newcomers, examining new relationships between characters of different ages and backgrounds: Eddie Yeats became the Ogdens ' lodger, Gail Potter and Suzie Birchall moved in with Elsie, Mike Baldwin ( Johnny Briggs ) arrived in 1976 as the tough factory boss, and Annie Walker reigned at the Rovers with her trio of staff Bet Lynch, Betty Turpin and Fred Gee.

As in film noir, characters are morally ambiguous – none more so than Faye Valentine who will betray her allies in the pursuit of a big bounty.

Barrymore's role in the costume drama Ever After ( 1998 ) offered a modern take on the classic fairy tale of Cinderella and served as a reminder, according to Roger Ebert, of how well Drew Barrymore " can hold the screen and involve us in her characters ".

When working together as a group, these player characters ( PCs ) are often described as a ' party ' of adventurers, with each member often having his or her own areas of specialty that contributes to the success of the whole.

Milne is most famous for his two Pooh books about a boy named Christopher Robin after his son, Christopher Robin Milne, and various characters inspired by his son's stuffed animals, most notably the bear named Winnie-the-Pooh.

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 ).

The remainder of the book is a collection of essays on the game, statistics for the new characters and an update of the older ones in light of their appearance in the second series, and ( perhaps most usefully for GMs ) plot summaries of each of the ten books.

However, in general, the books only feature mental battles when there is some reason for mind-to-mind contact ( for example, Trump contact ) and magic or Trump is involved in all three of the above conflicts, so it is not clear whether Zelazny intended his characters to have such a power ; the combination of Brand's " living trump " powers and his high Psyche ( as presented in the roleplaying game ) would have guaranteed him victory over Corwin.

The characters and lands created by the children had newspapers, magazines and chronicles which were written in extremely tiny books, with writing so small it was difficult to read without a magnifying glass.

They have the only embossers with staking unit and with Staple and fold Unit which produces books at a speed of 650 braille characters per second and a finished book.

However, when names are concerned ( e. g. in phone books or in author catalogues in libraries ), umlauts are often treated as combinations of the vowel with a suffixed e ; Austrian phone books now treat characters with umlauts as separate letters ( immediately following the underlying vowel ).

Geisel published 46 children's books, which were often characterized by imaginative characters, rhyme, and frequent use of anapestic meter.

Other recurring characters in the books include:

She is noted for numerous series of books based on recurring characters and designed for different age groups.

For example, many horror movies and books include characters who fear the antagonist of the plot.

It was released in 1975 and is based on characters from a series of books by Norwegian cartoonist and author Kjell Aukrust.

Because children learn hiragana before katakana, in books for very young children, there are hiragana furigana next to the katakana characters.

The books ' characters may clarify or provide different perspectives on past events throughout the books so that the readers ' belief of what is true may not necessarily be true.

* Avenging Host, a group of characters in Marvel Comics Earth X series of comic books

Based on a series of books by Norwegian cartoonist and author Kjell Aukrust, it featured a group of eccentric characters all living in the small village of Pinchcliffe.

) Kosinski famously liked to pretend he was someone he wasn't ( as do many of the characters in his books ), he occasionally published under a pseudonym, and, apparently, he plagiarized and forged left and right.

Many of Christie ’ s detective characters show some archaeological traits through their careful attention to clues and artifacts alike.

Miss Marple, another of Christie ’ s most famous characters, shares these characteristics of careful deduction though the attention paid to the small clues.

In the later novels Christie often uses the word mountebank when Poirot is being assessed by other characters, showing that he has successfully passed himself off as a charlatan or fraud.

* The Tekken game series have two playable characters who use Capoeira fighting style, Christie Monteiro and Eddy Gordo.

" He finished by saying, " Mrs. Christie provides a little gallery of thumb-nail sketches of plausible characters ; she gives us all the clues and even tells us where to look for them ; we ought to find the murderer by reason, but are not likely to succeed except by guesswork.

The book introduces the characters of Tommy and Tuppence who feature in three other Christie books and one collection of short stories written throughout her writing career.

Tommy and Tuppence are two fictional detectives, recurring characters in the work of Agatha Christie.

Unlike many other recurring detective characters, including the better known Christie detectives, Tommy and Tuppence aged in time with the real world, being in their early twenties in The Secret Adversary and in their seventies in Postern of Fate.

In their early appearances, they are portrayed as typical upper middle class " bright young things " of the 1920s, and the stories and settings have a more pronounced period-specific flavour than the stories featuring the better known Christie characters.

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In it, Christie brings back the characters from an earlier novel, The Secret of Chimneys: Lady Eileen ( Bundle ) Brent, Lord Caterham, Bill Eversleigh, George Lomax, Tredwell and Superintendent Battle.

As a result, even characters who would normally try to kill each other ( such as Ayane and Kasumi, or Christie and Helena ) can become fast friends through a brief exchange of gifts.

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He is well known for his fictional murder mystery Dorothy and Agatha, incorporating the well-known mystery novelists Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie as title characters, where Sayers must solve a crime when a man is murdered in her dining room.

The company also owns the rights to the Agatha Christie Estate ( including the Miss Marple and Poirot characters ), Raymond Chandler, and Georges Simenon.

It is a direct parody of Agatha Christie ’ s " closed " settings in which no one can enter or leave, so the characters know that the murderer must be one of them.

Birdboot is a notorious womaniser, quite an alteration to Christie ’ s sleuths, who would not become involved with other characters.

Foreshadowing This is done most deliberately by Stoppard to further send up the predictable nature of Christie ’ s stories by allowing certain characters to predict exactly what is going to happen.

The cast is a set of British stock characters typically found in the works of Agatha Christie.