The Adventure of the Red-Headed League, an early Sherlock Holmes short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, centers around a London pawnbroker and his somewhat shifty young clerk.

The story centers around a miner and his daughter and follows the lives and loves of the people in a mining camp in Gold Rush-era California.

Originally written in Hebrew as an epic poem, the story centers on Job, a perfectly just and righteous person.

The story centers mostly on a single Saturday night in Marty's life.

The story, which is told in the first person, centers on down-and-out actor Lawrence Smith ( stage name Lorenzo Smythe, a. k. a. " The Great Lorenzo ").

The story centers around Delos David Harriman, the lead character of " The Man Who Sold The Moon ".

The popular perception of the Western is a story that centers on the life of a semi-nomadic wanderer, usually a cowboy or a gunfighter.

The story centers on a Kargish child who is taken from her family and dedicated as the high priestess in the service of the " Nameless Ones " on the island of Atuan.

Based on a short story Rice wrote in 1968 or 1969 which she expanded into a novel four years later, Interview with the Vampire centers on vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac who tells the story of his life to a reporter.

The story centers on a friendship between Gilgamesh and Enkidu.

The story, which is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers on the suicides of five sisters.

The game's story centers around Guybrush Threepwood, a wannabe pirate who must lift a curse from his love Elaine Marley.

The story centers upon an intelligent and curious young man, Hugh Hoyland, who is early in adulthood selected as an apprentice of the Scientists, who ritualistically perform the technical tasks operating the Ship ( such as entering trash into its energy-converter for lighting and environmental control ) while ignorant of their true functions.

The book's story centers around Cúchulainn but takes place largely within the ranks of the Red Branch.

The game's story centers on Mario as he tries to reclaim the seven Star Spirits, who have been incarcerated in playing cards by Bowser and Kammy Koopa.

(), the Navajo creation story, describes the prehistoric emergence of the Navajos, and centers on the area known as the Dinétah, the traditional homeland of the Navajo people.

The story centers on a character named Frank, a nineteenth century cowboy, and his travels through the Midwest after returning home from fighting in the Civil War.

Luke's story centers on Mary, while Matthew's story centers on Joseph, and in both gospel accounts ( Luke 2: 1-7 and Matthew 2: 1 ) Jesus is conceived without a human father.

The story of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure centers around the misadventures of the Joestars, a powerful family with English roots.

The story of Pretty Woman centers on the down-on-her-luck Hollywood prostitute Vivian Ward who is hired by a wealthy businessman, Edward Lewis, to be his escort for several business and social functions, and their developing relationship over the course of Vivian's week-long stay with him.

It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

Even on the fictional level, however, the contradictions which give rise to the mystery story are not fully resolved.

In the American `` hardboiled '' detective story of the '20s and '30s, the spirit of the mad genius from Baker Street lives on.

He took the story of the pound of flesh and had to fasten it on someone.

The story ends in the child's illness and delirium brought on by the feverish compulsion to ride his horse to win for his mother.

But on one occasion when I encountered a similar fantasy in a little boy who was my patient I began to understand the uncanny effects of this story.

And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.

and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.

After almost everyone had gone he told me the simple story of how one of his neighbors had moved a fence a few feet over on his land.

The story opens on the eve of his fifty-third birthday, as he prepares for the two weeks of festivities that are to follow.

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.

But because it was a suspense gangster story of the Capone era, many of us felt that it might catch on for a run in Chicago, continue as a road company, and eventually become a movie.

If I could call in, they could check the story while we were on our way.

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

`` When you pile your `` guy '' on the bonfire tomorrow night, I wonder how much of the true story of Guy Fawkes you will remember??

As Origen interprets the end of history on the basis of its beginning, so Irenaeus portrays the story of Adam on the basis of the story of Christ.

All this near tragedy, which to us borders on comedy, enables us to tell the story over and over again, always warming ourselves with a glow of complacency.

Hendricks' story was designed for children and he had a small audience of small children right on stage with him.

If she'd kept on as she'd been going, the story I'd told Gladdy would probably have been true by now, anyhow

`` 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.

Aging but still precocious, French feline enfant terrible Francoisette Lagoon has succeeded in shocking jaded old Paris again, this time with a sexy ballet scenario called The Lascivious Interlude, the story of a nymphomaniac trip-hammer operator who falls hopelessly in love with a middle-aged steam shovel.

Another fine example of the middle phase of James's career in short narrative is " The Pupil " ( 1891 ), the story of a precocious young boy growing up in a mendacious and dishonorable family.

The story is taken up again in Aided Óenfhir Aífe, when the boy, Connla by name, comes to Ireland as Cú Chulainn had instructed, and his precocious prowess alarms the Ulaid.

Books One and Two constitute a realist Bildungsroman beginning in pre-War Glasgow, and tell the story of Duncan Thaw (" based on myself, he was tougher and more honest "), a difficult and precocious child born to impecunious and frustrated parents in the East End of Glasgow.

The film tells the story of a precocious young girl ( Barton ) from a gated community who befriends a male landscape worker ( Rockwell ), and examines the societal repercussions of their friendship.

Sterling, a precocious Providence high school student who had befriended Lovecraft the previous year, gave Lovecraft a draft of the story in January 1936.