A reference to Erewhon and specifically " The Book of Machines " opens Miguel de Unamuno's short story, " Mecanópolis ," which tells of a man who visits a city ( called Mecanópolis ) which is inhabited solely by machines.

* Nathaniel Hawthorne's book The Scarlet Letter opens with an account of the author himself finding the letter and records which tell the story of Hester Prynne, which is narrated in the rest of the book.

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

The story opens on a chilly night at Elsinore, the Danish royal castle.

As the main part of the story opens, Block's youthful son, David, has just been killed by Maskew during an attack by the authorities on a smuggling boat.

The Odyssey opens in medias res, in the middle of the overall story, with prior events described through flashbacks or storytelling.

The story opens in late 2201.

The story opens with Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies, where the protagonists Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley have just completed their studies and are preparing to depart for Amelia's house in Russell Square.

The story of this volume ( which takes place some 500 years after Seldon ) ties up all the loose ends, but opens a brand new line of thought in the last dozen pages.

The film opens with the narration: " This is the story of a ship " and the images of shipbuilding in a British dockyard.

This story opens up in Greece, where an old man named Andros and his armed family play the modern role of " the priests of Orpheus " and guard a " little temple on a cliff ".

* Raymond Chandler's 1938 detective story " Red Wind " opens with a description of the Santa Anas and their effect on the populace.

The story opens with Branwen's brother Bendigeidfran ( Brân the Blessed ), King of Britain, sitting on a rock by the sea at Harlech and seeing the vessels of Matholwch King of Ireland approaching.

The story opens with Bran, King of Britain, sitting on a rock by the sea at Harlech and seeing the vessels of Matholwch approaching.

Nearly every episode opens, following the opening credits, with Hamner's voice-over ( ostensibly speaking as the present day John-Boy ), briefly reminiscing about the events about to be depicted and setting up the story.

As the story opens, it becomes clear that Lanser has no idea of how he got aboard or who he really is.

The story opens with Captain Haddock having a nightmare of being visited by Bianca Castafiore, who demands that he take his medicine ( actually a bottle of Loch Lomond whisky ).

" These towers were designed to house two-story apartments, where every inhabitant would enjoy “ the illusion of living on the second floor ,” accomplished by folding concrete floor planes ( like “ bamboo mats ,” claims the firm ), so that every third story opens into a private courtyard.

The story opens with the jury finding Grant guilty of murder.

The film's title sequence story ( based on the original story by Dan O ' Bannon and art by Thomas Warkentin ) opens with a space shuttle flying in orbit over Earth.

The story opens in a dreary, Dickensian orphanage where Annie is routinely abused by the cold, sarcastic matron.

* January 5-The Wiz, a new musical version of the classic Wizard of Oz story, opens at Broadway's Majestic Theater in New York City.

: With work a new era opens in the history of European story telling … this poem reinvents the genre we call narrative romance ; in some important respects it also initiates the vernacular novel.

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.

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.