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Gilbert found a subject in one of his own short stories, " The Elixir of Love ," which concerned the complications arising when a love potion is distributed to all the residents of a small village.
Theatre ( also theater ) – branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, mime, puppets, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed any one or more elements of the other performing arts.
A set of stories which share a backdrop but are not really concerned with the sequence of history in their universe are rarely considered future histories.
Nicholas Tucker described the early Harry Potter books as looking back to Victorian and Edwardian children's stories: Hogwarts was an old-style boarding school in which the teachers addressed pupils formally by their surnames and were most concerned with the reputations of the houses with which they were associated ; characters ' personalities were plainly shown by their appearances, starting with the Dursleys ; evil or malicious characters were to be crushed rather than reformed, including Filch's cat Mrs Norris ; and the hero, a mistreated orphan who found his true place in life, was charismatic and good at sports, but considerate and protective towards the weak.
Theater ( or theatre ) ( Greek " theatron ", θέατρον ) is the branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed any one or more elements of the other performing arts.
Paton's second and third novels, Too Late the Phalarope ( 1953 ) and Ah, but Your Land is Beautiful ( 1981 ), and his short stories, Tales From a Troubled Land ( 1961 ), all deal with the same racial themes that concerned the author in his first novel.
One genre is concerned with stories of prophetic miracles, called aʿlām al-nubuwa ( literally, proofs of prophethood — the first word is sometimes substituted for amārāt or dalāʾil ).
Critics were more concerned with the stereotypical treatment of certain social themes and the values the stories typically reflect, which more or less echo the ideals of a Catholic middle class.
While he is primarily known for helping to bring damaging allegations to light, he insists that today most of his work is concerned with concealment of stories.
These stories, written in the 1920s and 1930s, concerned gangsters, gamblers, and other characters of the New York underworld.
The action concerned more than 100 stories across the Daily Express, Daily Star and their Sunday equivalents, which accused the McCanns of involvement in their daughter's disappearance.
The heroine of the stories, Lorelei Lee, was a bold, ambitious flapper, who was much more concerned with collecting expensive baubles from her conquests than any marriage licenses, in addition to being a shrewd woman of loose morals and high self-esteem.
" Although not all Wells's stories were optimistic about the future, this implies Forster was concerned about human dependence on technology.
In April 2011, stories broke that current and ex-members of the cast were concerned by the number of gay plotlines introduced into the under Collinson and he admits that he uses his show to push gay rights.
" Cultural proximity " is a factor here -- stories concerned with people who speak the same language, look the same, and share the preoccupations as the audience receive more coverage than those concerned with people who speak different languages, look different and have different preoccupations.
Set primarily in the United States and particularly in Malibu, California, an excitingly exotic locale to romantic girls trapped in a sleepy Welsh town, the stories concerned young men and women who become involved in strange and often criminal behaviour.
Of Survivor Type, King says: " As far as short stories are concerned, I like the grisly ones the best.
It contains several songs concerned with true-life stories of deceased boxers, such as Mexican featherweight champion Salvador Sánchez, Filipino flyweight champion Pancho Villa, and also Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim, all three boxers died at the age of 23.
One of Groucho's stories about the film concerned the fake gorilla skin that an actor wore.
Theatre or theater ( from French " théâtre ", from Greek " theatron ", θέατρον ) is the branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, mime, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed any one or more elements of the other performing arts.
One of the stories he told concerned how, as a result of a WWII-era, government-administered aptitude test, he was assigned to design machine gun turrets for bombers.
These stories concerned the adventures of an enigmatic wizard and astrologer called the Innominato ( in English, " Nameless "), in 14th century Italy, who tried to use his powers to help people.
Press for Change, the transsexual campaign and information group, were particularly concerned with the direction of the storyline, but after the first two months a trans advisor connected to Press for Change was regularly consulted for eighteen months by scriptwriters and the actor, and trans groups appeared happier with the stories and scripts that resulted from this liaison.

stories and jungle
Although the creation of the superhero was the Golden Age's most significant contribution to pop culture, many genres appeared on the newsstands, including humor, Western, romance, and jungle stories.
The best-known of them are the three stories revolving around the adventures of an abandoned " man cub " Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle.
The 1996 David Drake novel Redliners draws on the March of the Ten Thousand for its inspiration, though the enemy of the novel is an adaptive jungle environment somewhat derivative of Harry Harrison's Deathworld stories.
As well, AC Comics publishes Sheena reprints, as well as reprints and some new stories of the jungle femmes that followed in her wake.
This included clearly science-fictional stories about near future high-tech jungle war ( such as " R & R " and " Salvador "), as well as stories that seemed more in line with magic realism.
He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, use the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of man and animal to survive.
Literature continued to be the peak of his life: in the journal Fray Mocho de Buenos Aires Quiroga published numerous stories, many set in the jungle and populated by characters so naturalistic that they seemed real.
Chronologically the stories begin some time after the first half of " Mowgli's Brothers " when the infant Mowgli is being taught jungle law and customs, and end after the events of " In the Rukh ", when Mowgli is married and raising a child but still keeping in touch with his animal friends.
Kline's jungle adventure stories, reminiscent of Burroughs's Tarzan tales, have also been cited as evidence of the conflict.
This has reduced in recent years due to stories of leopards residing on the jungle slopes.
The model of a planet covered in clouds of polymeric formaldehyde dust was never as popular as a swamp or jungle, but featured in several notable stories, like Poul Anderson's The Big Rain ( 1954 ), and Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth's novel The Space Merchants ( 1953 ).
* In some of the early Perry Rhodan stories ( 1961 – 1962 ), Venus is a jungle world inhabited by dinosaurs and other monstrous creatures and is the site of a huge, ancient alien fortress.
Opened on April 5, 2008, Jungala is a family attraction featuring up-close animal encounters, rope bridges to explore three stories of jungle life, and a water-play area for children.
More recent volumes have included other genres such as pre-Comics Code horror and jungle stories.

stories and creatures
Such sightings and stories may simply be a more modern manifestation of earlier stories of mythical black dogs and other such creatures in remote areas of Britain, such as those that inspired The Hound of the Baskervilles.
" The motifs and themes of loyalty, honor, giants, gift giving, wife-stealing, and magical creatures are prominent in both stories.
The whimsical Svetz series consists of a collection of short stories, The Flight of the Horse, and a novel, Rainbow Mars, which involve a nominal time machine sent back to retrieve long-extinct animals, but which travels, in fact, into alternate realities and brings back mythical creatures such as a Roc and a Unicorn.
The plots share the same basic structure progressing in the same sequence: the stories begin at Bag End, the home of Bilbo Baggins ; Gandalf sends the protagonist into a quest eastward ; Elrond offers a haven and advice ; the adventurers escape dangerous creatures underground ( Goblin Town / Moria ); they engage another group of elves ( The Elf King's realm / Lothlórien ); they traverse a desolate region ( Desolation of Smaug / the Dead Marshes ); they fight in a massive battle ; a descendant of kings is restored to his ancestral throne ( Bard / Aragorn ); and the questing party returns home to find it in a deteriorated condition ( having possessions auctioned off / the scouring of the Shire ).
Clangers is a popular British stop-motion animated children's television series of short stories about a family of mouse-like creatures who live on, and in, a small blue planet ( quite similar to, but not intended to be, the Moon ).
These sailors and earlier explorers of the area such as those sponsored by Necho II were in direct or indirect contact with trading centers in Egypt and elsewhere which would certainly facilitate the spread of the stories of these real werewolf-like creatures.
Waddell heard stories of bipedal, apelike creatures but wrote that " none, however, of the many Tibetans I have interrogated on this subject could ever give me an authentic case.
In 2004, Henry Gee, editor of the journal Nature, mentioned the Yeti as an example of a legend deserving further study, writing, " The discovery that Homo floresiensis survived until so very recently, in geological terms, makes it more likely that stories of other mythical, human-like creatures such as Yetis are founded on grains of truth ... Now, cryptozoology, the study of such fabulous creatures, can come in from the cold.
These terms are used to describe stories set in the putative real world ( often referred to as consensus reality ) in contemporary times, in which magic and magical creatures exist, either living in the interstices of our world or leaking over from alternate worlds.
The stories include many references to Japanese history and Japanese folklore, and sometimes include mythical creatures.
Crimson Dawn is known in the area for the great stories of mythical creatures and people that live on Casper Mountain.
" This gave rise to myths about small, subterranean creatures, and the stories spread across Europe " as extensively as the military migrations from the same places did ".
Such stories surrounding these creatures are usually romantic tragedies.
These stories often featured ghosts and folk creatures such as the kappa — a small creature with a frog ’ s body, a turtle ’ s shell and a bowl-shaped head that holds water.
I listened spellbound to their stories of birds, animals and aquatic creatures.
Apachean religious stories relate two culture heroes ( one of the Sun / fire :" Killer-Of-Enemies / Monster Slayer ", and one of Water / Moon / thunder: " Child-Of-The-Water / Born For Water ") that destroy a number of creatures which are harmful to humankind.
St Godric is perhaps best remembered for his kindness toward animals, and many stories recall his protection of the creatures who lived near his forest home.
The Swedish folklorist Gunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius collected in the mid 19th century stories of legendary creatures in Sweden.
As these stories were transmitted only by oral tradition, legend has lost its original substance, and Romanians have transformed strigoi into bloodthirsty creatures.
This power often manifests itself in his stories as the ability of powerful creatures such as Cthulhu to induce madness as a sort of overwhelming telepathy in the minds of those who approach him.
The province of Capiz is the subject or focus of many manananggal stories, as with the stories of other types of mythical creatures, such as ghosts, goblins, ghouls and aswangs.

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