The story concerns a corrupt mayoress, an idealistic nurse, a man who may be a doctor, and various officials, patients and townspeople, all fighting to save a bankrupt town.

* The short story " There Are More Things " by Jorge Luis Borges from The Book of Sand refers to an amphisbaena and concerns a similar, though mostly undescribed, monster.

The story concerns an English woman who lives at Fox Tor farm, and an American captured during the American Revolutionary War and held at the prison at Princetown on Dartmoor.

In addition, the story partly concerns the discovery of Aristotle's book on Comedy, which is in fact a lost book.

The story concerns a reunion in a crumbling Broadway theatre, scheduled for demolition, of the past performers of the " Weismann's Follies ," a musical revue ( based on the Ziegfeld Follies ), that played in that theatre between the World Wars.

The story concerns two rival " aesthetic " poets, who attract the attention of the young ladies of the village, who had been engaged to the members of a cavalry regiment.

A possibly apocryphal or exaggerated story concerns how the library's collection grew so large.

Michael Palin's personal journal entries from the period when various edits of Brian were being test-screened consistently reference the Pythons ' and filmmakers ' concerns that the Otto scenes were slowing the story down and thus were top of the list to be chopped from the final cut of the film.

* A two-part story in the Vertigo series Northlanders, for instance, concerns the destruction on the monastery.

However, if one considers the story historically accurate, happening in Jesus ' life apart from the similar incidents recorded in the other gospels, the question of the authenticity of the parable receives a different answer ... John Nolland, following Wilckens ' ideas, writes: ' There can hardly be a prior form of the episode not containing the present parable, since this would leave the Pharisee's concerns of v 39 with no adequate response '.

After the successful Russian Revolution ( 1917 ), the quality of spy fiction declined, because the Bolshevik enemy had won the Russian Civil War ( 1917 – 23 ); thus, the inter-war spy story usually concerns combating the Red Menace, which was then perceived as another " clash of civilizations ".

although concerns were voiced over the low difficulty of the puzzles and the effectiveness of the story.

The commonly believed archetype of the shaggy dog story is a story that concerns a shaggy dog.

The story primarily concerns the difficult relationship between two women, Helen Francine Peters ( known simply as Francine ) and Katina Marie (" Katchoo ") Choovanski, and their friend David Qin.

Based on the short story " Spurs " by Clarence Aaron " Tod " Robbins, the screenwriter of The Unholy Three, the film concerns a love triangle between a wealthy dwarf, a gold-digging aerialist, and a strongman ; a murder plot ; and the vengeance dealt out by the dwarf and his fellow circus freaks.

The story concerns a household in Allendale, California, after the nuclear war has wiped out the population.

The story concerns the emotionally fragile Lucy Ashton ( Lucia ) who is caught in a feud between her own family and that of the Ravenswoods.

" Keene writes that The Tale of Genji continues to captivate, because, in the story, her characters and their concerns are universal.

The main frame story concerns a Persian king and his new bride.

The story concerns Frederic, who, having completed his 21st year, is released from his apprenticeship to a band of tender-hearted pirates.

The story concerns a band of immortal fairies who find themselves at odds with the House of Peers.

* The 1917 story " Savonarola " Brown by Max Beerbohm concerns an aspiring playwright, author of an unfinished, unintentionally absurd retelling of the life of Savonarola.

The story concerns Andrew Jackson Libby ( here nicknamed Pinky, for his red hair, but later nicknamed Slipstick ), a boy from Earth with extraordinary mathematical ability but meager education.

This story concerns a 20th century United States Navy cadet who rises in the ranks while avoiding any semblance of real work by applying himself wholeheartedly to the principle of " constructive laziness ".

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

The story is told that one of the Abencerrages, having fallen in love with a lady of the royal family, was caught in the act of climbing up to her window.

According to this view, the story of Jacob's visit to Laban to obtain a wife originated as a metaphor for this migration, with the property and family which were gained from Laban representing the gains of the Joseph tribes by the time they returned from Egypt ; according to textual scholars, the Jahwist version of the Laban narrative only mentions the Joseph tribes, and Rachel, and does not mention the other tribal matriarchs whatsoever.

" Both Ruth and Boaz demonstrate hesed to their family members throughout the story.

The story ends with Job restored to health, with a new family and twice as much livestock.

Diddley was an excellent story teller whose stories varied from time to time, however, Diddley contended to friends and family that he was not trying to double-cross Sullivan and attributed the " misunderstanding " to the fact that ; when he saw " Bo Diddley " on a cue card, he was under the impression he was to perform two songs, " Bo Diddley " and " Sixteen Tons ".

Later episodes shifted to the usual origin story, in which Kal-El landed on Earth as a baby and was raised by the Kent family.

* Borgia, by Milo Manara ( artist ) & Alejandro Jodorowsky ( writer ), a comic in the form of serialized graphic novel, depicting the story of the Borgia family.

Massachusetts-based Hardcore Punk band Defeater has released two full length albums and one EP telling the story of an alcoholic WWII veteran and the trials and tribulations of his family.

In the second piece, a character explains that he is writing his portion because another had observed to him that the events surrounding the disappearance of a certain moonstone might reflect poorly on the family, if misunderstood, and therefore he was collecting the true story.

It was " set in Argentina, with the reunion of two brothers, the story follows the rivalries born out of creative differences passed down through generations of an artistic Italian immigrant family.

This secret movement mirrors one of the plots of the story, specifically the secrets surrounding Manfred ’ s possession of the castle and how it came into his family.

Kedrenos also records the story, considered rather implausible, that Kallinikos ' descendants, a family called " Lampros " (" Brilliant "), kept the secret of the fire's manufacture, and continued doing so to his day.

The story opens in April 1861 at the " Tara " plantation, which is owned by a wealthy Irish immigrant family, the O ' Haras.

This story is reported by Dunn ( 1907: 16-17 ) as being told in 1901 by a man who heard this story from a Hoosier family member while traveling in southern Tennessee.

However, Dunn's research could find no one in southern Tennessee who had heard the story or any family of that name in any directory in the region.

As the fossil record for the Cryptobranchidae shows an Asian origin for the family, the story of how these salamanders made it to the eastern U. S. has been a point of scientific interest.

The story is about a family living on land that is a bit ashamed of their old uncle who still lives in the sea, refusing to come ashore like " civilized " people.

An example of this would be Franz Kafka's story The Metamorphosis, in which the salesman Gregor Samsa's plans for supporting his family and rising up in rank by hard work and determination are suddenly thrown topsy-turvy by his sudden and inexplicable transformation into a man-sized insect.

* Janus ( TV series ), A television series created by the Australian Broadcasting Commission with two story lines: the criminal family being prosecuted and the police / judicial process

The story details how Luthor was sent to live with a foster family following the sabotage of his parents ' car.

It would be too difficult for the old and sick woman to hear the terrible story of her son and his family.

Rust's return to Germany on 3 August 1988 was accompanied by huge media attention, but he did not talk to the assembled journalists ; his family had sold the exclusive rights to the story to the German magazine Stern for DM 100, 000.

According to a legend, 13-year-old Magritte was present when her body was retrieved from the water, but recent research has discredited this story, which may have originated with the family nurse.