One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed to neither him nor the reader.

The best-known is Tom Stoppard's 1966 play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead which retells many of the events of the story from the point of view of the characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as well as giving them a backstory of their own.

The best-known is the Trojan Horse of the Trojan War, and a similar story tells how the Canaanite city of Joppa was conquered by the Egyptians in the 15th century BC.

Perhaps the best-known story of the Temple's destruction is that it was destroyed by the Qing government for supposed anti-Qing activities.

While fictional, it is generally faithful to the spirit and flavor of the best-known variations of the original story.

The 1980s began with the comic's best-known story arc, the Dark Phoenix Saga, which saw Phoenix manipulated by the illusionist Mastermind and becoming corrupted with an overwhelming lust for power and destruction as the evil Dark Phoenix.

The story in its arguably best-known form appeared in English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, first published in 1890 and crediting Halliwell as his source.

In perhaps the best-known example, the story of Lucifer, pride ( his desire to compete with God ) was what caused his fall from Heaven, and his resultant transformation into Satan.

In the best-known version of the story, the favorite companion of Cyparissus was a tamed stag, which he accidentally killed with his hunting javelin as it lay sleeping in the woods.

The story of Faust is also woven into Dr. Mikhail Bulgakov's best-known novel, The Master and Margarita with Margarita being modeled on Gretchen and the Master on Faust.

" Her story is part of the Ulster Cycle, the best-known stories of pre-Christian Ireland.

The story of Vortigern adopted its best-known form in the Historia Regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth.

" Silent Snow, Secret Snow " ( 1934 ) is Conrad Aiken's best-known short story, often included in anthologies of classic American horror and fantasy short fiction.

See The Satanic Verses for the best-known story regarding these three goddesses.

This conspicuous species has given rise to many legends across its range, of which the best-known is the story of babies being brought by storks.

Her best-known story, Mrs Keith's Crime ( 1885 ), was followed by several other volumes, such as Aunt Anne ( 1892 ).

The best-known traditional story holds that the festival commemorates the death of poet Qu Yuan ( c. 340 – 278 BCE ) of the ancient state of Chu during the Warring States Period of the Zhou Dynasty.

" She received her best-known role when she was asked to play a villainous warrior woman named Xena in the episode " The Warrior Princess ", which aired in March 1995 ( R. J. Stewart, one of Pacific Renaissance Pictures ' in-house writers, dramatised the teleplay from a story that Robert G. " Rob " Tapert commissioned John Schulian to write ).

Beginning in 1732, ballads were placed together with a story tying them together, forming a performance genre called the ballad opera, the best-known of which is The Beggar's Opera, first performed in 1752.

The best-known Western version of the story appears in Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend.

Perhaps his best-known story, " The Ruum " deals with a human who is chased by an indestructible alien machine designed to capture specimens and keep them in suspended animation.

A May 29, 1967 story in The Wall Street Journal made light of the deal, stating, " Two of the best-known railroads in the nation are merging and the Interstate Commerce Commission couldn't care less ".

There are also several versions of the circumstances of his death ; the best-known story is that he shot himself in the head with a silver bullet — fashioned from the strawberry-shaped knob of a sugar bowl given to him by his mother — which he first had blessed by his castle priest.

Perhaps the best-known portrait of an Anglican verger in fiction is in Somerset Maugham's short story, " The Verger.

The English twin sisters Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst, who were conjoined at the back ( pygopagus ), lived from 1100 to 1134 ( or 1500 to 1534 ) and were perhaps the best-known early historical example of conjoined twins.

One of the best-known involves the birth and nurturance of the infant Zeus, who had to be hidden from his devouring father Cronus.

In a variant version of the birth of Aengus, she is the wife of Elcmar who is seduced by the Dagda: as such she may be a double of Boann, who plays that role in the best-known version of the tale.

The best-known date for the birth of Cyrus the Great is either 600 – 599 BC or 576 – 575 BC.

Documentation listing musicians who performed with Ernie McKay and his Orchestra has not been made available, although the best-known name associated with McKay is that of young Dean Martin ( using his birth name, Dino Crocetti ) who sang with the band in the 1930s.

It is one of Gershwin's best-known compositions.

One of van Vogt's best-known novels of this period is Slan, which was originally serialised in Astounding Science Fiction ( September-December 1940 ).

The best-known and longest-running of these events is the rugby league rivalry between Great Britain and Australia ( see rugby league " Ashes ").

Although the Kebra Nagast is the best-known account of this belief, the belief predates the document.

The popular MP3 format is probably the best-known example, but the AAC format found on the iTunes Music Store is also common.

Adam of Bremen's best-known work is the Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ), which he began only after the death of the archbishop Adalbert.

" () or " A. B. C's " () is one of the best-known English language alphabet songs, and perhaps the one most frequently referred to as " the alphabet song ", especially in the United States.

The prehistory of arithmetic is limited to a small number of artifacts which may indicate conception of addition and subtraction, the best-known being the Ishango bone from central Africa, dating from somewhere between 20, 000 and 18, 000 BC although its interpretation is disputed.

Completed in 1824, the symphony is one of the best-known works of the Western classical repertoire.

Among the famous mathematicians and cryptanalysts working there, the most influential and the best-known in later years was Alan Turing who is widely credited with being " The Father of Computer Science ".

Bede's best-known work is the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, or An Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

In the words of Charles Plummer, one of the best-known editors of the Historia Ecclesiastica, Bede's Latin is " clear and limpid ... it is very seldom that we have to pause to think of the meaning of a sentence ... Alcuin rightly praises Bede for his unpretending style.

The work is probably based on the older Mesopotamian genre of the " city lament ", of which the Lament for Ur is among the oldest and best-known.

The best-known bee species is the European honey bee, which, as its name suggests, produces honey, as do a few other types of bee.

The best-known example in the recent past is the Kennedy assassination conspiracy literature, though similar material exists concerning the September 11 attacks, the crash of TWA Flight 800, and the spread of AIDS in the black community.

The CRTC regulates all Canadian broadcasting and telecommunications activities and enforces rules it creates to carry out the policies assigned to it ; the best-known of these is probably the Canadian content rules.

The best-known of these is the nucleolus, which is mainly involved in the assembly of ribosomes.

Meteor Crater is perhaps the best-known example of a small impact crater on the Earth.

* Many safety clutches are not friction clutches, but belong to the interference clutch family, of which the dog clutch ( see below ) is the best-known.

The 1000-kilometre Kinshasa-Kisangani route on the Congo River is the longest and best-known.