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.

The stories of the book are arranged in chronological order, starting in January 1999, with the blasting off of the first rocket.

Here, crews of artists and artisans, sculptors, painters, and many others all spend months producing elaborate constructions of paper and wax, wood and styrofoam tableaux towering up to five stories, composed of fanciful figures in outrageous poses arranged in gravity-defying architecture, each produced at the direction of the many individual neighbourhood Casals faller who vie with each other to attract the best artists, and then to create the most outrageous monument to their target.

The stories are loosely and irregularly arranged, each book being divided into sections, and each section bearing as its title the topic, most commonly some virtue or vice, or some merit or demerit, which the stories in the section are intended to illustrate.

He is best known as the compiler of a book of hagiography, the Dialogus miraculorum, which is a collection of 746 miracle stories arranged in 12 " distinctions.

Riduan Isamuddin, the leader of JI who is better known as Hambali, had arranged their travels to Pakistan, using false documents and cover stories that they were accepted by a religious school for religious studies.

The stories are arranged by years, by themes, by witness accounts and by the correspondents reporting the stories.

It was composed of 28 high-rise buildings with 16 stories each, with a total of 4, 415 units, mostly arranged in U-shaped clusters of three, stretching for two miles ( three kilometers ).

The Marseille building, developed with Corbusier's designers Shadrach Woods and George Candilis, comprises 337 apartments arranged over twelve stories, all suspended on large piloti.

The goal of this article is to present a complete bibliography of the books and short stories written or edited by Isaac Asimov, arranged alphabetically.

According to the preface of The Early English Text Society the Cursor Mundi is a collection of poignant and vivid versions of stories arranged “ in an orderly, encyclopedic yet fundamentally digressive manner ”.

According to James Moske, an archivist with the New York Public Library who arranged and cataloged the library's Clarence Day Papers, a survey of Day ’ s early short stories and magazine columns reveals " he was fascinated by the changing roles of men and women in American society as Victorian conceptions of marriage, family, and domestic order unraveled in the first decades of the twentieth century.

The contents of the book are exactly two previous collections of Heinlein's short stories: Waldo & Magic, Inc. ( 1950 ) and The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag ( 1959 ), here arranged chronologically in order of publication:

The stories in Copper's edition are also arranged by their internal chronology, rather than by the date of their release.

The stories are arranged:

The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke, ( ISBN 0-575-07065-X ), first published in 2001, is a collection of almost all science fiction stories written by Arthur C. Clarke: it includes 114 in all arranged in order of publication, " Travel by Wire!

King Strut and Other Stories ( Silvertone, 1990 ) is a collection of short stories set to simply arranged, professionally produced music played in many cases by noted session musicians.

In 1929, through bookstore owner Sylvia Beach, they contacted James Joyce and arranged to print three of his stories that had already appeared in translation.

There are no vocals ; instead, the predominant samples are arranged so that they take the role of vocals, sometimes telling short stories similar to radio play snippets.

Besides the daily transmissions, news flashes are arranged for important, breaking stories such as natural disasters or major political events.