Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

There were thousands of Republican speakers who focused first on the party platform, and second on Lincoln's life story, emphasizing his childhood poverty.

Tarrou tells Rieux the story of his life, and the two men go swimming together in the sea.

What interests him, he tells Rieux, is how to become a saint, even though he does not believe in God .</ br > Later in the novel, Tarrou tells Rieux, with whom he has become friends, the story of his life.

Later in the novel, when Tarrou tells Rieux the story of his life, he adds a new dimension to the term ” plague .“ He views it not just as a specific disease or simply as the presence of an impersonal evil external to humans.

The story of Ealdred being deposed comes from the Vita Edwardi, a life of Edward the Confessor, but the Vita Wulfstani, an account of the life of Ealdred's successor at Worcester, Wulfstan, says that Nicholas refused the pallium until a promise to find a replacement for Worcester was given by Ealdred.

His life has often been referred to as a true " rags to riches " story.

In the biography, Paul Allen wrote, regarding a suggestion in Cosmopolitan that his plays were becoming autobiographical: " If we take that to mean that his plays tell his own life story, he still hasn't started.

He declares at the start: " No matter what sort he is, everyone who has to his credit what are or really seem great achievements, if he cares for truth and goodness, ought to write the story of his own life in his own hand ; but no one should venture on such a splendid undertaking before he is over forty.

Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.

Vie privée ( 1962 ), directed by Louis Malle has more than an element of her life story in it.

The story can be compared to that of a 13th century Hittite king who was forced to take the throne after a lifetime of loyalty when his life was in danger: like David, he was assisted by his god, whose divine will decided the course of events.

Holly's life story inspired a Hollywood biographical film, The Buddy Holly Story ( 1978 ).

Following the success of The Buddy Holly Story in 1978, Haley expressed interest in having his life story committed to film, but this never came to fruition.

The story is based in part on Love's life, and involves the main character's search for her place in the world ; it was written by Stu Levy under the name D. J.

The story describes the creation of self-replicating weapons factories designed to destroy the Anabis, a galaxy-spanning malevolent life form bent on destruction of the human race.

It tells the story of a plain governess ( Jane ) who, after early life difficulties, falls in love with her employer, Mr Rochester.

Cyril intertwines the story with the messages Jesus told throughout his life before his execution relating to his final act.

Although his name and history were taken from his early life with his adoptive Earth parents, everything about Clark was staged for the benefit of his alternate identity: as a reporter for the Daily Planet, he receives late-breaking news before the general public, has a plausible reason to be present at crime scenes, and need not strictly account for his whereabouts as long as he makes his story deadlines.

* Superman is real, Clark Kent the mask: Pre-Crisis interpretations of Superman assumed that Clark Kent was the " mask " and Kal-El the person ( in the classic story Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow ?, when Superman's dual life is revealed, he completely abandons his Clark Kent persona ).

In his 2006 homily for Corpus Christi, Pope Benedict XVI noted the similarity between the Christian story of the resurrection and pagan myths of dead and resurrected gods: " In these myths, the soul of the human person, in a certain way, reached out toward that God made man, who, humiliated unto death on a cross, in this way opened the door of life to all of us.

Sorrow ( released in December 1968 ) by British group the Pretty Things is generally considered to be among the first creatively successful rock concept albums-in that each song is part of an overarching unified concept – the life story of the main character, Sebastian Sorrow.

The album tells the story of a man's life and misadventures in a Steampunk inspired universe.

An important early film to move beyond the concept of the scenic was In the Land of the Head Hunters ( 1914 ), which embraced primitivism and exoticism in a staged story presented as truthful re-enactments of the life of Native Americans.

Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

Scholars dispute whether and how much Plato's story or account was inspired by older traditions.

The poem was inspired by the apocryphal story that a young Jesus, accompanied by his uncle Joseph of Arimathea, a tin merchant, travelled to the area that is now England and visited Glastonbury during Jesus ' lost years.

Raphael Holinshed also included her story in his Chronicles ( 1577 ), based on Tacitus and Dio, and inspired Shakespeare's younger contemporaries Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher to write a play, Bonduca, in 1610.

If he felt out of ideas on what to do with the story, he would often take a break from the shoot that could last for days, while keeping the studio ready for when he felt inspired again.

* Briton Rites first album, For Mircalla was inspired by the short story.

Since King Valdemar II of Denmark was married to the Portuguese princess, Berengária of Portugal, it is not unthinkable that the origin of the story, if not the flag, was the Spanish tale or a similar tale, which again might have been inspired by an even older legend.

* A short story from 1993, " The Great Lover ", is inspired by the World War I War Poets.

The album ’ s title song was inspired by Jack Kerouac ’ s book, The Lonesome Traveller in which Kerouac tells the story of America ’ s “ homeless brothers ,” or hobos.

No one claimed him, so a carnival took his body, mummified it, and toured all over the South with him, calling him the “ The Famous Mummy Man .” McLean ’ s song inspired radio station WGN in Chicago to tell the story and give the song airplay in order to raise money for a headstone for Anderson McCrew ’ s grave.

The last story is probably the most famous, having inspired at least eight movie adaptations ( two of which are now considered to be lost ), one animated movie, two documentaries and a video game.

It has inspired writers from Goethe and Dickens to Joyce and Murdoch, and has been described as " the world's most filmed story after Cinderella ".

Pei's tunnel through a mountain leading to the Miho Museum was partly inspired by a story from fourth-century Chinese poet Tao Yuanming.

The film The Big Blue, directed by Luc Besson in 1988, was inspired by his life story ( and the life story of the Italian diver Enzo Maiorca ); Mayol was one of the screenwriters.

The Katzenjammer Kids was inspired by Max and Moritz, a children's story of the 1860s by German author Wilhelm Busch.

Their story was considered " the epitome of virtuous romantic friendship " and inspired poetry by Anna Seward and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

This incident appears to have inspired his locked room story, " The Suicide of Kiaros ", first published in the literary journal, The White Elephant.

Some of Baum's contacts with suffragists of his day seem to have inspired much of his second Oz story, The Marvelous Land of Oz.

The story inspired Rudolph Dirks to create The Katzenjammer Kids.

The Vision of America500 Birthday Extravaganza 2008-12 was inspired to explore humanity's spirit of ingenuity by celebrating a community story to open local windows to worldwide origins.

* 1820 – An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex ( a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts ) 2, 000 miles from the western coast of South America ( Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story ).

The alchemist's ( and Coelho's ) source was very probably Hesketh Pearson's The Life of Oscar Wilde ( 1946 ) in which this story is recorded ( Penguin edition, p. 217 ) as one of Wilde's inspired inventions.