Set in an immense vaulted interior which Delacroix based on sketches of the Palais de Justice in Rouen and Westminster Hall, the drama plays out in chiaroscuro, organized around a brilliantly lit stretch of tablecloth.

" Critic Robert Towers described McEwan's England in The New York Review of Books as a " flat, rubble-strewn wasteland, populated by freaks and monsters, most of them articulate enough to tell their own stories with mesmerizing narrative power and an unfaltering instinct for the perfect, sickening detail "; Towers called the collection " possibly the most brilliantly perverse and sinister batch of short stories to come out of England since Angus Wilson's The Wrong Set.

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The myth described Osiris as having been killed by his brother Set, who wanted Osiris ' throne.

Set in the 19th century, it explores the events which follow the accidental capture of a group of English children by pirates: the children are revealed as considerably more amoral than the pirates ( it was in this novel that Hughes first described the cocktail Hangman's Blood ).

In the Amduat Set is described as having a key role in overcoming Apep.

Set in Venetian Slovenia, the novel, published under a pseudonym in the Yugoslav town of Ljubljana, described the efforts of a local Roman Catholic priest to preserve the use of Slovene language in church against the policies of the Italian Fascist regime.

Set 40 years after the events of The Wizard of Oz, its described as " Oz, seen through the eyes of Raymond Chandler ".

Game, Set, Watch editor Bill Sannwald described Diddy as a " colorful character.

He has been described as " probably the world's leading expert in the computer encoding of scripts " for his work to add a wide variety of scripts and characters to the Universal Character Set.

" " Ham is the Chaldean Zu, and both are cursed for the same allegorically described crime ," which parallels the mutilation of Uranos by Kronos and of Set by Horus.

# Pirate King Set a few years after the period related in the previous four books, where the events described actually took place within a single year.

Set on Jupiter's moon Io, it has been described as a space Western, and bears thematic resemblances to High Noon.

He funded his early writing career by producing term papers for college students, which gained him some notoriety when he described this experience in an essay for Drexel University's online magazine The Smart Set.

Set in 1870s London and principally concerning a 19-year-old prostitute called Sugar, it was described by some critics as postmodern while others echoed the assertion ( made in an early review ) that it was " the novel that Dickens might have written had he been allowed to speak freely ".

Tracks described as posse cuts by Rolling Stone include A Tribe Called Quest's " Scenario ", " Tha Shit " by The D. O. C., " Doin ' Our Own Dang " by Jungle Brothers, and " Set It Off " by Snoop Dogg.

Set in the near future, it has been described as dark science fiction, and involves hitmen that are sent their victims from the future.

Set in New York, Venice, and Paris, the film features singing by actors not usually known for their singing.

Set in America, the film version was moved to Venice and starred Stanley Baker as a Welsh writer obsessed with a cold-hearted femme fatale, Eve ( Jeanne Moreau ).

Along with the commercial growth has come the rise of video games also depicting graffiti, usually in a positive aspect – for example, the Jet Set Radio series ( 2000 – 2003 ) tells the story of a group of teens fighting the oppression of a totalitarian police force that attempts to limit the graffiti artists ' freedom of speech.

Following the original roots of modern graffiti as a political force came another game title, Marc Eckō's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure ( 2006 ), featuring a story line involving fighting against a corrupt city and its oppression of free speech, as in the Jet Set Radio series.

Set in Dublin, Ireland, the film tells the true-life story of the charismatic leader of a gang of thieves, Martin Cahill, at odds with both the police and the IRA.

Set in France and Louisiana in the early 18th century, the story follows the hero le Chevalier Des Grieux and his lover Manon Lescaut.

Set during the height of the American Civil War, the story focused on a Union drafter, Mike Kutcher from Georgia, whose job is to enroll men into the Union army.

The 2005 Doctor Who short story " Set in Stone " revolved around the Doctor, Ian Chesterton, and Barbara Wright stealing the stone.

Set in the mid 1980s, it uses a series of loosely connected short stories to tell the story of a group of characters tied together by decaying friendships, heroin addiction and stabs at escape from the oppressive boredom and brutality of their lives in the housing schemes.

Major elements of the story, such as the death and restoration of Osiris and the strife between Horus and Set, appear in the utterances of the Pyramid Texts.

This part of the story is often extended with episodes in which Set or his followers try to damage the corpse, and Isis and her allies must protect it.

If so, the episodes of mutilation and sexual abuse would form a single story, in which Set assaults Horus and loses semen to him, Horus retaliates and impregnates Set, and Set comes into possession of Horus ' Eye when it appears on Set's head.

The distinct segments of the story — Osiris ' death and restoration, Horus ' childhood, and Horus ' conflict with Set — may originally have been independent mythic episodes.

Another story, " The Tale of Truth and Falsehood ", adapts the conflict of Horus and Set into an allegory, in which the characters are direct personifications of truth and lies rather than deities associated with those concepts.

Set in the late 1960s and 1970s, the story describes the efforts of Episcopal Bishop Timothy Archer, who must cope with the theological and philosophical implications of the newly-discovered Gnostic Zadokite scroll fragments.

Set in a fantasy medieval setting, the series ' protagonists are dragons who are beset by evil humans, reversing a common story convention.

Set during a war between the ' Starmen ( inhabitants of the planet Lilistar ) and the Reegs, Now Wait for Last Year is the story of Eric Sweetscent, an organ-transplant doctor who gets wrapped up in Earth-Lilistar politics.

Released in 1988, this was Binoche's first English language role and was a worldwide success with critics and audiences alike Set against the Russian invasion of Prague in 1968, the film tells the story of the relationships a Czech surgeon, Tomas ( Daniel Day-Lewis ), has with his wife Tereza and his lover Sabina ( Lena Olin ).

Relatively few works of fiction have Tintagel as a setting: these include Anthony Trollope's short story Malachi's Cove and the Williamsons ' epistolary novel Set in Silver, 1909 ( by Charles and Alice Williamson ).

Later, a Batman and Joker Gift Set was released including both characters with new paint schemes to reflect earlier points in the story, as well as a 48-page prestige format reprint of The Dark Knight Returns # 1.

Set in Glendale, California, in the 1930s, the book is the story of middle-class housewife Mildred Pierce's attempts to maintain her family's social position during the Great Depression.

Set in long-ago Scandinavia, it makes frequent references to the peoples who are a part of the story, and efforts have been made to connect those peoples with peoples mentioned in ancient historical records.

Set in the same universe as the Eddings ' The Belgariad and The Malloreon, it is effectively one big flashback ( or a prequel ) to the other series, although the framework story is set after the events of The Malloreon.

These twins are contrasted in the book by allusions to sets of opposing twins and enemies in literature, mythology and history ; such as Set and Horus of the Osiris story ; the biblical pairs Jacob and Esau, Cain and Abel, and Saint Michael and the Devil – equating Shaun with " Mick " and Shem with " Nick " – as well as Romulus and Remus.

Set in the coastal town of Brighton, England, Dirty Weekend follows the story of Bella, a mild-mannered secretary who works from home in a basement flat.