There was the end of his front-page feature story, with byline.

The story was shaping up nicely in his mind: the young pioneer, as of old, altruistically braving the unknown ; ;

Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.

Now we can argue that the irresistible fate of Oedipus Rex was nothing more than the irresistible unconscious longings of Oedipus projected outward, but this externalization of unconscious conflict makes all the difference between a story and a clinical case history.

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.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

He was simply writing a story that wanted to be told, and in the writing a childhood fantasy of his own emerged.

Into the texture of this tapestry of history and human drama Henrietta, as every artist delights to do, wove strands of her own intuitive insights into human nature and -- especially in the remarkable story of the attraction and conflict between two so disparate and fervent characters as this pair -- into the relations of men and women: `` In their relations, she was the giver and he the receiver, nay the demander.

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 ; ;

`` Mr. Miller was in the shop '', the Herald Tribune story related, `` but was reluctant to have anybody's picture taken inside, because his business was too ' confidential ' for pictures.

The Hetman had a strong liking for a story, any story which was to be had by means of much sleuthing or by roundabout methods.

He laughed at a story that he planned to bolt the party if he was not nominated.

Trevelyan was at least in part attracted to the period by an almost unconscious desire to take up the story where Macaulay's History Of England had broken off.

Sherman was responsible for the story when he said in his memoirs that this was the only time he could recall seeing Thomas ride so fast.

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.

Local industry's investment in Rhode Island was the big story in 1960's industrial development effort.

Usually, this was done when attention was diverted by someone else's long, boring story.

But what was the story??

The woman in the house where the niece was staying backed up his story and said she left when he did to shop for her dinner.

It was the story of the rhinoceros fight all over again.

( This fable-like story was collected into an educational comic book called Mammy Yokum and the Great Dogpatch Mystery !, and distributed by the Anti-Defamation League of B ' nai B ' rith later that year.

Asimov also explored the idea of the cyborg in relation to robots in his short story " Segregationist ", collected in The Complete Robot.

Smith's works consist of: a single novel, originally published in two volumes in edited form as The Planet Buyer, also known as The Boy Who Bought Old Earth ( 1964 ) and The Underpeople ( 1968 ), and later restored to its original form as Norstrilia ( 1975 ); and 32 short stories ( collected in The Rediscovery of Man ( 1993 ), including two versions of the short story " War No. 81-Q ").

The short story has been considered both an apprenticeship form preceding more lengthy works, and a crafted form in its own right, collected together in books of similar length, price and distribution as novels.

After Shirley Jackson died, a crate of unpublished short stories was discovered in her barn and collected into a short story collection in her memory.

His first published story was " To the Man On Trail ", which has frequently been collected in anthologies.

One of his Future History stories, the short story originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post ( February 8, 1947 ), and it was collected in The Green Hills of Earth ( and subsequently in The Past Through Tomorrow ).

Trantor was first mentioned in a short story by Asimov, ' Black Friar of the Flame ', later collected as The Early Asimov, Volume 1.

The first four stories were collected, along with a new story taking place before the others, in a single volume published by Gnome Press in 1951 as Foundation.

Using data he collected from his own observations Gersonides ' refuted Ptolemy's model in what the notable physicist Yuval Ne ' eman has considered as " one of the most important insights in the history of science, generally missed in telling the story of the transition from epicyclic corrections to the geocentric model to Copernicus ' heliocentric model ".

Most of these pieces have been collected in King's five short story collections: Night Shift ( 1978 ), Skeleton Crew ( 1985 ), Nightmares & Dreamscapes ( 1993 ), Everything's Eventual ( 2002 ), and Just After Sunset ( 2008 ); and in King's four novella collections: Different Seasons ( 1982 ), Four Past Midnight ( 1990 ), Hearts in Atlantis ( 1999 ), and Full Dark, No Stars ( 2010 ).

He has also written a few works of science fiction, such as the novella Medusa ( 1973 ) and the short story " Slow " ( collected in Told by the Dead ), but has stated that his science fiction " tried to deal with Themes, too consciously, I feel ".

When the issues were released in a collected edition later that year, the story title for the first issue was applied to the series as a whole.

It is a compilation of images co-creator Frank Mouris had collected from magazines interwoven with two narrations, one giving a mostly linear autobiography and the other stating words having to do with the images, the story the first voice is relating, or neither.

This story is probably only a legend of the Italian folklore, but it is a clue of the carefulness of the preparation of the expedition: Majorian collected informations on the enemy and gathered a fleet of three hundred ships to support the army in the reconquest of Hispania and in the invasion of Africa.

In addition, David Foster Wallace references the Jolt Cola ad campaign in the short story " Mister Squishy ," originally published in McSweeney's and collected in Oblivion: Stories.

Three versions of this story, with minor variations, were collected by the scholiasts ; one of those versions made Antaeus, king of Irassa, a figure distinct from the Antaeus killed by Heracles, while another one suggested that they were one and the same.

The first story arc of the relaunched series, titled Superman and the Men of Steel for the collected edition, begins very early in Superman's career as he starts making a name for himself as a champion of the oppressed in Metropolis.

The story is largely told from the viewpoint of Fleda Vetch, a young woman in love with Owen but sympathetic to Mrs Gereth's anguish over losing the antiques she patiently collected.

Karl Otfried Müller collected and evaluated the various fragments of the story from classical authors.

Comics are often published as collected albums after a story or a convenient number of short stories is finished in the magazine.

Rudyard Kipling's short story " Quiquern " collected in The Second Jungle Book ( even though it is not a jungle story ) tells how two young Inuit hunters, desperate to find food for their starving tribe, believe they are being guided by Quiquern / Qiqirn, only to discover that the many-legged " spirit " is actually a pair of sled dogs whose collars had become entangled.

He is a feral child from India who originally appeared in Rudyard Kipling's short story " In the Rukh " ( collected in Many Inventions, 1893 ) and then went on to become the most prominent and memorable character in his fantasies The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book ( 1894 – 1895 ), which also featured stories about other characters.

With the arrival of the printing press a process begins in which folk yarns and legends are collected within a frame story and then mass published.