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.

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 on Hanni, a precocious fourteen-year-old schoolgirl who starts a relationship with Franz, a nineteen-year-old worker in a chicken processing plant.

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.

An ivory tablet in the infant's cask recounts the story of his sinful origins and is preserved for the child by the monks of a monastery in the fishing village.

* In one version of the story of the birth of Achilles, Thetis anoints the infant with ambrosia and passes the child through the fire to make him immortal but Peleus, appalled, stops her, leaving only his heel unimmortalised ( Argonautica 4. 869-879 ).

Bishop Asser tells the story of how as a child Alfred won a prize of a volume of poetry in English, offered by his mother to the first of her children able to memorise it.

A story is preserved that once when he was a child, his father took him to the Kaaba, and asked him to pray before the idols.

Police heard rumors that the young lovers had planned to have a child and sacrifice the infant ; based on this story, they had Echols institutionalized for psychiatric evaluation.

It also dealt with the theme of empiricism through the story of a feral child on a desert island, but departed from its predecessor by depicting the development of the protagonist's mind through contact with society rather than in isolation from society.

In 1931, after Woman in the Moon, Lang directed what many film scholars consider to be his masterpiece: M, a disturbing story of a child murderer ( Peter Lorre in his first starring role ) who is hunted down and brought to rough justice by Berlin's criminal underworld.

In this custom the child performs some sort of trick, i. e. sings a song or tells a ghost story, to earn their treats.

He begins the story young, if not an actual child.

Geoffrey retells this story in Historia Regum Britanniæ with some embellishments, and gives the fatherless child the name of the prophetic bard, Merlin.

Among the last things he made while he was still in Italy, at the end of the Eighties and at beginning of the Nineties, there are the so called Paperolimpiadi ( a long story about the 1988 Seoul Olympic games ) and some strip stories, the same kind of stories that he loved when he was a child.

In the final story arc of the season a human terrorist group, called Terra Prime, are bent on removing all non-humans from human planets and genetically engineer a child from DNA samples of Commander Tucker and Commander T ' Pol.

The 35 minute epic tells the story of Link's evolution from child to hero.

The film tells the story of Cole Sear ( Haley Joel Osment ), a troubled, isolated boy who is able to see and talk to the dead, and an equally troubled child psychologist ( Bruce Willis ) who tries to help him.

In it Boccaccio states that he heard it from an old woman who claimed it was a true story and heard it as a child.

In addition, a burger bar McWonald's was used as a story setting and displayed a large W in the style of an inverted Golden Arches M. This establishment had spotty-faced teenage staff vomiting and smoking ; a child customer informs his mother that he does not want to finish his burger as it " tastes of pigeon and has cigarette butts in it ".

* In " Hills Like White Elephants ", a short story by Ernest Hemingway, an unborn child is viewed as a white elephant.

In the second century BC, the Greek geographer Pausanias relates the story of Lycaon, who was transformed into a wolf because he had ritually murdered a child.

Translated in to English ( from Latin ) in 1686 and 1708, it tells the story of Hayy, a wild child, raised by a gazelle, without human contact, on a deserted island in the Indian Ocean.

This time, she says she is crazy and confesses her life's story to Robert and Sir Michael, claiming that George abandoned her originally and she had no choice but to abandon her old life and child in order to find another, wealthier husband.

The tale of the child Krishna stealing butter remains a popular children's story in India today.

The Seder itself is based on the Biblical verse commanding Jews to retell the story of the Exodus from Egypt: " You shall tell your child on that day, saying, ' It is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.

The remainder of the story focuses on Horus, the product of Isis and Osiris ' union, who is first a vulnerable child protected by his mother and then becomes Set's rival for the throne.

* The 1958 Japanese movie Muhomatsu no issho ( Rickshaw Man ) by Hiroshi Inagaki tells the story of a Matsugoro, a rickshaw man who becomes a surrogate father to the child of a recently widowed woman.