The story opens on the eve of his fifty-third birthday, as he prepares for the two weeks of festivities that are to follow.

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's the old story, war or no war, and more than one viewer may recall Hollywood's `` Titanic '', several seasons back, when the paramount concern was for the marital discord of a society dilettante.

* The story of Absalom is referred to several places in folk singer Adam Arcuragi's song " Always Almost Crying.

" The account noted a story of an Aboriginal woman being killed by a bunyip and the " most direct evidence of all " – that of a man named Mumbowran " who showed several deep wounds on his breast made by the claws of the animal ".

Boudica's story is the subject of several novels, including books by Rosemary Sutcliff, Roxanne Gregory, Pauline Gedge, Manda Scott, Alan Gold, Diana L. Paxson, David Wishart, George Shipway, Simon Scarrow and J. F. Broxholme ( a pseudonym of Duncan Kyle ).

She has also appeared in several comic book series, including the Sláine, which featured two runs, titled " Demon Killer " and " Queen of Witches " giving a free interpretation of Boudica's story.

However, traditional films have frequently had much of the same sort of the issues to deal with ; film shoots may last several months and as scenes are frequently shot out of story sequence, footage shot weeks apart may be edited together as part of the same day's action in the completed film.

In his short story " Crabs on the Island " ( 1958 ) Anatoli Dneprov speculated on the idea that since the replication process is never 100 % accurate, leading to slight differences in the descendants, over several generations of replication the machines would be subjected to evolution similar to that of living organisms.

* The Feast of Love ( 2000 ) ( Pantheon Books ), a reimagined Midsummer Night's Dream, a story told through the eyes of several different people.

The story ends on a cliffhanger with several questions left unanswered regarding the merging of the Honored Matres and Bene Gesserit, the fates of those on the escaped no-ship ( including the role of Scytale, the development of Idaho and Teg, and the role of the Jews ), the identity of the god-like characters in the book's final chapter and the ultimate mystery of what chased the Honored Matres back into the Old Empire.

Passages like one in Leviticus prohibiting " lying with mankind as with womankind " and like the story of Sodom and Gomorrah have been popularly interpreted as condemning homosexuality, as have several Pauline passages.

When asked which of his stories was a favorite in several interviews Barks cited the ten-pager in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 146 ( Nov. 1952 ) in which Donald tells the story of the chain of unfortunate events that took place when he owned a chicken farm in a town which subsequently was renamed Omelet.

The story of Hanukkah, along with its laws and customs, is entirely missing from the Mishna apart from several passing references ( Bikkurim 1: 6, Rosh HaShanah 1: 3, Taanit 2: 10, Megillah 3: 4 and 3: 6, Moed Katan 3: 9, and Bava Kama 6: 6 ).

The Moonstone contains a number of ideas that have established in the genre several classic features of the 20th century detective story:

When payment was not forthcoming for the first story he sold to Gernsback, Wollheim formed a group with several other authors, and successfully sued for payment.

In 1989, Jackie Chan adapted the story yet again for the Hong Kong action film Miracles, adding several of his trademark stunt sequences.

In several variations of the story, the dead Rodrigo and his knights win a thundering charge against Valencia's besiegers, resulting in a war-is-lost-but-battle-is-won catharsis for generations of Christian Spaniards to follow.

After several years of directing primarily lower-key live-action films, Hideaki Anno formed his own production studio and revisited his still-popular Evangelion franchise with the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy, a new series of films providing an alternate retelling of the original story.

Captain Beatty, Montag's fire chief, personally visits him and tells him the story of how books lost their value and where the firemen fit in: Over the course of several decades ( with the starting point being after the American Civil War ), populations grew and people embraced new media, sports, and a quickening pace of life.

Freyja is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources ; in the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, both written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century ; in several Sagas of Icelanders ; in the short story Sörla þáttr ; in the poetry of skalds ; and into the modern age in Scandinavian folklore, as well as the name for Friday in many Germanic languages.

Placing a story in a Gothic building served several purposes.

Sams related the story to Gates, who had already agreed to provide a BASIC interpreter and several other programs for the PC.

Accounts vary on who first came up with the idea of the film, but Hawks and Saunders developed the story together and tried to sell it to several studios before First National agreed to produce the film.

The story is related in several digressions in the Iliad ( 7. 451-453, 20. 145-148, 21. 442-457 ) and is found in Apollodorus ' Bibliotheke ( 2. 5. 9 ).

The story of the Wounded King's mystical fasting is not unique ; several saints were said to have lived without food besides communion, for instance Saint Catherine of Genoa.

Geoffrey of Monmouth greatly expanded the story in his influential 12th-century pseudohistory Historia Regum Britanniae, which was adapted into several other languages.