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.

* " The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles " ( 1854 ) ( novella, possibly incorporating a short rewrite of the lost Isle of the Cross )

Live performances of " Box Elder " has also been included on the compilation reissues Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe and Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition, with the version on the latter beginning with a short jam session.

Lyadov never finished the opera, but sections of the work found realization in the short tone poems Kikimora and The Enchanted Lake.

For example, Five Hundred Acre Wood lies a short distance to the north-east, while the " Enchanted Place " is a small wooded area 200 metres to the north.

Ingram caught a short pass and broke five Buffalo tackles to get the first down and keep the drive alive.

Taking advantage of their second chance, Buffalo marched down the field with runs by Thomas and short completions by Kelly.

The Flyers fell short of an Atlantic Division title, finishing second by tie-breaker to New Jersey, drawing the fifth seed in the Eastern Conference and a first round match-up with fourth-seeded Buffalo.

A short drive from the Allegheny National Forest and Kinzua Bridge State Park, Smethport is about two hours from Erie and Buffalo and five hours from Philadelphia and New York City.

The 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments — the famed " Buffalo Soldiers " so called by the indigenous peoples for the similarity to the short curly haired buffalo that roamed the plains — have been stationed at Fort Riley several times during their history.

Wynn had been caricatured in 1933 in the Merrie Melodies cartoon short Shuffle Off to Buffalo, and as a pot of jam in the 1934 Betty Boop short Betty in Blunderland.

After a short ceremony at Lock One, in Port Dalhousie, the schooner Anne & Jane ( also called " Annie & Jane " in some texts ) made the first transit, upbound to Buffalo, N. Y., with Merritt as a passenger on her deck.

Fanny Howe ( born October 15, 1940 in Buffalo, New York ) is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.

After New Jersey, he had short stints with the Boston Bruins ( 1999 – 2000 ), Colorado Avalanche ( 2000 ), and Buffalo Sabres ( 2000 – 01 ), before settling with the Tampa Bay Lightning ( 2001 – 02 to 2005 – 06 ).

But his season was cut short due to a broken foot suffered in the fourteenth game against the Giants ' eventual Super Bowl XXV opponent, the Buffalo Bills.

Clooney entered print media in 1989 with a column in The Cincinnati Post, then in 1994, after a short stint as a news anchor for NBC affiliate WGRZ-TV in Buffalo, New York, resurfaced nationally in television as a host and researcher for the cable channel American Movie Classics, where he introduced and presented backgrounds of classic movies, along with Bob Dorian.

He and Nevill Josiah Aylmer Coghill ) were pursued by Zulu warriors and after experiencing great difficulty in crossing the swollen Buffalo River, during which time the Colour was unfortunately carried downstream, the two men were overtaken by the enemy and following a short but gallant struggle both were killed.

The United States Army's Commissary General, Callender Irvine, hastily ordered 2, 000 uniforms to be made and despatched to Buffalo for Scott's other units, but because there was insufficient blue cloth, short jackets ( roundabouts ) of grey cloth were used instead.

The Buffalo and Rochester Railroad, like many others of its day, was a short line that lasted a short time.

Considering this as one of the links in the great chain of Western Railroads, from Boston to Buffalo and the " far West ," the estimates are made on a scale of corresponding character and magnitude to accommodate the business of this great and increasing thoroughfare ; and nothing short of a double track will, in my opinion, be adequate for any great period.

" Bob Pohl of The Buffalo News said, " pulls a number of short passages out of context and attempts to parse them for sense.

Aaron had a short stint with the class AAA Buffalo Bisons, but a severe groin injury caused him to be reassigned to the Bats for 2008.

A short distance thereafter is Buffalo Bayou Park which is bordered on the north by Memorial Drive and the south by Allen Parkway.

In 1873 a connection was built downtown ( partly using a short piece of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway ), forming a complete loop, known as the Buffalo Belt Line.

A later location in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, was open only a short time.

:* A short clip from the film " Buffalo ' 66 " can be heard at the end of " Pants on Fire.

In his short span at the helm he booked multi-week engagements of several major broadway national tours including Annie and Les Miserables, helping to reestablish Buffalo as an important stop on the Broadway tour circuit.