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.

Vinge's former wife, Joan D. Vinge, has also written stories in the Zones of Thought universe, based on his notes.

Anaïs Nin (; born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977 ) was a French-Cuban author, based at first in France and later in the United States, who published her journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death, her erotic literature, and short stories.

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.

From the Ancient Greeks and Romans to Napoleon's France and Elizabethan England, much of history is filled with stories of entertainment based on games of chance.

The films Johnny Mnemonic and New Rose Hotel, both based upon short stories by William Gibson, flopped commercially and critically.

Chaosium is the publisher of Call of Cthulhu, based on the stories of H. P.

Eliade and his student, Charles H. Long, developed a classification based on some common motifs that reappear in stories the world over.

Herewith, then, is a sort of credo, based partly on the practice of all the great writers of detective stories, and partly on the promptings of the honest author's inner conscience.

Some of the gadgets ( dōgu ) are based on real Japanese household devices with fanciful twists, but most are completely science fiction ( although some may be based on folklore or religious stories ).

Unlike the anime and manga ( some based on the stories in select volumes ), they are more action-adventure oriented and have more of a shōnen demographic, taking the familiar characters of Doraemon and placing them in a variety of exotic and perilous settings.

Most notably, the 1978 comedy film National Lampoon's Animal House was co-written by Chris Miller ' 63, and is based loosely on a series of stories he wrote about his fraternity days at Dartmouth.

In 2006, a comedy film, The Darwin Awards, was written and directed by Finn Taylor, that was based on the website and many of the Darwin Awards stories.

Ten stories in his next book, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog ( 1940 ), were based less on lavish fantasy than The Map of Love and more on real life romances featuring himself in Wales.

After making some stories for the Dutch publisher Oberon, the publishers of an American Disney children's magazine called DuckTales ( based on of the animated series of the same name ) offered him employment.

The first book in the series, The Dying Earth, was ranked number 16 of 33 " All Time Best Fantasy Novels " by Locus in 1987, based on a poll of subscribers, although it was marketed as a collection and the ISFDB calls it a " loosely connected series of stories ".

Runyon's fictional world is also known to the general public through the musical Guys and Dolls based on two of his stories, " The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown " and " Blood Pressure ".

According to one version of the legend, Chūai's son was born three years after the death of Chūai, which lends further support to the notion that the stories surrounding him are based on myth rather than actual events.

Many successful Hollywood films have been based on British people, stories or events, including Titanic, The Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean and the ' English Cycle ' of Disney animated films.

The war films were often based on true stories and made in a similar low-key style to their wartime predecessors.

Many Hollywood films with a British dimension ( based on British people, stories or events ) have had enormous worldwide commercial success.

Includes two novels by George Griffith, articles and stories by several authors, and game worlds based on flight ( and a war on the supernatural ), automata and calculating engines, space travel, and time travel.

; Forgotten Futures XI: Planets of Peril: A 1930s pulp SF setting based on the stories of Stanley Weinbaum, sent to registered users on November 20, 2010, on line from December 20, 2010.

; In Preparation-Forgotten Futures XII: Empire of Earth: Announced with the release of FF XI, FF XII will be a setting based on Victorian stories of interplanetary and interstellar travel and warfare, primarily " The Struggle For Empire " by Robert W. Cole

During the 1920s writers such as Clare Winger Harris and Gertrude Barrows Bennett published science fiction stories written from female perspectives and occasionally dealt with gender and sexuality based topics.