`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

`` Speaking of nonism: the other day, in a story about a sit-down demonstration, the Paris Herald Tribune wrote, ' The non-violence became noisier.

I wrote a few years ago that one of the cardinal rules of writing is that the reader should be able to get some idea of what the story is about.

There is a humorous but revealing story about a rancher who owned a large slice of Texas and who wanted to have on it everything that was necessary for a completely pleasant community.

`` There are things about me that I can't tell you now, Mary Jane '', I said, `` but if you'll go out to dinner with me when I get out of Hanover, I'd like to tell you the whole story.

`` That story of hers about an unsigned note directing her to be there tonight sounds completely phony.

If you're really serious about working on that story, I'd better take you home ''.

Right now, however, he was still too worried about Jerry Burton, and the gun that had no bullets, and the story Burton had told him, to care too much about Tony Calenda.

You want from me the story, but a story is about ' why ' and then, perhaps, about how.

I visited the bank in March and wrote a story about the situation.

I make this observation about the lady, Miss Judy Garland, because she brought up the subject herself in telling a story about a British female reporter who flattered her terribly in London recently and then wrote in the paper the next day:

`` I heard a story once about a rookie who got excited when the captain stepped outside and he couldn't get an encephalographic reading on him.

The traditional story about his departure reports that he was disappointed with the direction the academy took after control passed to Plato's nephew Speusippus upon his death, although it is possible that he feared anti-Macedonian sentiments and left before Plato had died.

* 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.

The most significant of these is the story about Ambrosius, Vortigern, and the two dragons beneath Dinas Emrys, " Fortress of Ambrosius " in Chapters 40 – 42.

As the story would later be told by the Anglo-Saxon monk and historian Bede, Gregory was struck by the unusual appearance of the slaves and asked about their background.

In the introduction, Socrates muses about the perfect society, described in Plato's Republic ( c. 380 BC ), and wonders if he and his guests might recollect a story which exemplifies such a society.

The passage in question has been represented in the modern literature either as claiming that Crantor actually visited Egypt, had conversations with priests, and saw hieroglyphs confirming the story or as claiming that he learned about them from other visitors to Egypt.

Research conducted by the National Museum of American History notes that the story of Betsy Ross making the first American flag for General George Washington entered into American consciousness about the time of the 1876 centennial celebrations.

Xu was also a playwright, authoring the following four plays: The Heroine Mulan Goes to War in Her Father's Place ( 雌木蘭 Ci Mulan ): describes Hua Mulan, A Female Degree Holder ( 女狀元 Nüzhuangyuan ): The Adventures of the Intelligent Huang Chongjia ( 黃崇嘏 ), The History of the Mad Drum ( 狂鼓史 Kuanggu Shi ): crimes of Cao Cao, and A Zen Master's Dream of the Land of Green Jade ( 翠鄉夢 Cuixiang Meng ): a Buddhist story.

In one retelling of the story of Chang ' e and the Elixir of Immortality, Chang ' e's decision to consume the elixir is not caused by selfishness or spite ; instead, it is caused by fear of Houyi's apprentice, Feng Meng, who attempts to steal the elixir from Chang ' e.

The story tells that, after subduing Meng Huo, Zhuge Liang led the army back to Shu, but met a swift-flowing river which defied all attempts to cross it.

* The story of Meng Jiangnu, the woman who sought her husband at the Great Wall.

The absurdity of Meng Huo being captured and released seven times led many to doubt the story, and even of Meng Huo's existence.

Pei does not specifically comment on Meng Huo's historicity, but points out elsewhere that Xi writes history not found in earlier records, hence the Yunnan historian Fang Guoyu ( 方国瑜 ) uses Pei's doubts on Xi's unreliability to challenge the story of Meng Huo's seven captures ( though Fang does not go as far as to doubt Meng Huo's existence ).

Modern researcher Huang Chengzhong ( 黄承宗 ) of the Liangshan Yi Slave Society Museum ( 凉山彝族奴隶社会博物馆 ) believes Meng to be a real historical figure, though he is certain that the " seven times freed " story is fiction.

Tan Liangxiao ( 谭良啸 ), director of the Museum of Temple of the Marquis of Wu in Chengdu, also stated the " seven times freed " story to be " strange and unbelievable ", but like Fang and Huang, he believes Meng Huo did exist in history.

Ah Meng then proceeds to tell 4 different stories based on each photograph, each telling a story from different generations.

Huo's life story has been adapted into a number of films and television series.

Eldest of the seven, Benjamin Franklin, a New Englander transplanted to Philadelphia, wrote the most dazzling success story in our history.

The book of Job tells the story of an extremely righteous man named Job, who was very prosperous and had seven sons and three daughters.

1 " introduced a story, further parts of the " Metropolis " story were unseen on that album or subsequent releases for seven years.

" How they create their music is described on their website :" each album is written and recorded over the course of a musically immersive seven days, and tells a unique story.

The names of the days of the week are modeled on the seven days mentioned in the Creation story.

The third season follows a single story arc, beginning in the second season finale " The Expanse ", in which a mysterious probe cuts a wide, deep trench from central Florida to Venezuela, killing seven million people.

His brother, Mycroft, seven years his senior, is a government official who appears in three stories and is mentioned in one other story.

It follows the story of a village of farmers that hire seven masterless samurai ( ronin ) to combat bandits who will return after the harvest to steal their crops.

Robert B. Parker's 2001 novel Potshot borrows heavily from the end of the movie for the final confrontation between Spenser's group of seven outlaws and the Dell, the antagonists of the story, going so far as to acknowledge it in dialog between characters and having one of them say the line, " We deal in lead, friend.

Within the " Sinbad the Sailor " story itself, the protagonist Sinbad the Sailor narrates the stories of his seven voyages to Sinbad the Porter.

Seven viziers attempt to save his life by narrating seven stories to prove the unreliability of women, and the courtesan responds back by narrating a story to prove the unreliability of viziers.

The Ramayana consists of 24, 000 verses in seven books () and 500 cantos (), and tells the story of Rama ( an avatar of the Hindu preserver-God Vishnu ), whose wife Sita is abducted by the king of Sri Lanka, Ravana.

Montgomery County's first courthouse was ordered on June 28, 1823, to be made " of good hewed logs ... to be twenty-six feet long ; two stories high, lower story nine feet from floor to joist ; upper to be seven feet to roof ".

The outstanding achievement of his Venetian years was a series of seven canvases, traditionally ascribed to the Genesis story of Jacob, and now located at Windsor Castle.

Allegedly, it passed in turn from one of the seven sages to another, beginning with Thales, until one of them ( either Thales or Solon, depending on the story ) finally dedicated it to Apollo who was held to be wisest of all.

The actual Exodus event would have preceded the writing and redaction of the Biblical story by anywhere from seven hundred to one thousand years.

There were also a series of seven gamebooks based in the Car Wars universe, where a player could make choices for the protagonist to affect the outcome of the story.

A story of love, obsession, and survival set during the turmoil of World War II, it developed into a successful series of seven books.

The Book of Joshua, chapter seven, relates the story from which the valley's name comes.

In 2008 sister congresswomen Loretta Sanchez and Linda Sanchez published the joint memoir Dream in Color: How the Sanchez Sisters Are Making History in Congress. Publishers Weekly reviewed the book and wrote: " Linda and Loretta Sanchez present their compelling story — noteworthy not only for their history-making achievements ( including first sisters or women of any relation to serve together in Congress, first woman and person of color to represent a district in Orange County, first Latina on the House Judiciary Committee and first Head Start child to be elected to Congress ) but also for its “ American Dream ” aspect — their parents immigrated from Mexico and despite lacking a formal education managed to send their seven children to college.

It tells the story of seven friends who spend a weekend together in New Hampshire.

The 1954 movie Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a classic film musical about seven lumberjack brothers who, in the spirit of the Roman story of the The Rape of the Sabine Women, decide to kidnap brides for themselves from the neighboring town.

Within the story itself, the protagonist Sinbad the Sailor narrates the stories of his seven voyages to Sinbad the Porter.

The story has also been filmed at least seven times, including three for general release through cinemas and four television productions.