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.

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 yet the elements which capture his liberal and humanistic imagination are those which make the English story worth telling and worth remembering.

A novel called Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, based on Avicenna's story, was later written by Ibn Tufail ( Abubacer ) in the 12th century and translated into Latin and English as Philosophus Autodidactus in the 17th and 18th centuries respectively.

In his book The Physician ( 1988 ) Noah Gordon tells the story of a young English medical apprentice who disguises himself as a Jew to learn from Avicenna, the great master of his time.

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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.

It consisted of racy and often satirical spoken ( English ) dialogue, interspersed with songs that are deliberately kept very short to minimize disruptions to the flow of the story.

In his story " Gulf ", science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein used a constructed language, in which every Basic English word is replaced with a single phoneme, as an appropriate means of communication for a race of genius supermen.

It tells the fact-based story of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice.

In ancient Greek, muthos, from which the English word " myth " derives, meant " story, narrative.

T. S. Eliot called Collins's novel The Moonstone ( 1868 ) " the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels ... in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe ", and Dorothy L. Sayers called it " probably the very finest detective story ever written ".

When the comic switched to the Tamers series the storylines adhered to continuity more strictly ; sometimes it would expand on subject matter not covered by the original Japanese anime ( such as Mitsuo Yamaki's past ) or the English adaptations of the television shows and movies ( such as Ryo's story or the movies that remained undubbed until 2005 ).

Death of a Hero is the story of a young English artist named George Winterbourne who enlists in the army at the outbreak of World War I.

One such epic is the Old English story Beowulf.

** Waldere, Old English version of the story told in Waltharius ( below ), known only as a brief fragment

The story of Æthelred's notorious nickname, " Æthelred the Unready ", from Old English Æþelræd Unræd, goes a long way toward explaining how his reputation has declined through history.

Also, some British sources have accounted the flag story ( He had the Spanish flag hauled down and the English flag hoisted in its stead ; Rooke's men quickly raised the British flag ... and Rooke claimed the Rock in the name of Queen Anne ; or Sir George Rooke, the British admiral, on his own responsibility caused the British flag to be hoisted, and took possession in name of Queen Anne, whose government ratified the occupation ).

The English term Milky Way can be traced back to a story by Chaucer:

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Being that ' Heart of Darkeness ' is such a relatively short story, it has perhaps generated proportionately more pure text of discussion-in the manner of interpretations of meaning, analysis, commentary, reviews, essays, and even provisions of historical context-than any other work in English literature.

Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play and among the most powerful and influential tragedies in English literature, with a story capable of " seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others.

The term is derived from the wider senses of the word historia in Latin and Italian, and essentially means " story painting ", rather than the painting of scenes from history in its narrower sense in modern English, for which the term historical painting may be used, especially for 19th century art.

One of the most widespread is the international organization Theatresports, which was founded by Keith Johnstone, an English director who wrote what many consider to be the seminal work on the relationship between status, story telling and improvisational acting, Impro.

Ivanhoe is the story of one of the remaining Saxon noble families at a time when the English nobility was overwhelmingly Norman.

Castles mentioned within the story include Ashby de la Zouch Castle ( now a ruin in the care of English Heritage ), York ( though the mention of Clifford's Tower, likewise a still standing English Heritage property, is anachronistic, it not having been called that until later after various rebuilds ) and ' Coningsburgh ', which is based upon Conisbrough Castle, in the ancient town of Conisbrough near Doncaster ( the castle also being a popular English Heritage site ).