Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.

As a result, Suchet will have filmed adaptations of every Poirot novel, and all but one Poirot short story.

By 14 he had already written a short adventure novel called The Black Diamonds which was lost for years until published in 2002.

As philosophers of Voltaire's day contended with the problem of evil, so too does Candide in this short novel, albeit more directly and humorously.

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 term " cyberspace " was first used by the cyberpunk science fiction author William Gibson, though the concept was described somewhat earlier, for example in the Vernor Vinge short story " True Names ," and even earlier in John M. Ford's novel, Web of Angels.

The most widespread subgenre of the detective novel became the whodunit ( or whodunnit, short for " who done it?

Pitman's short book about his desperate escape from a Caribbean penal colony for his part in the Monmouth Rebellion, his shipwrecking and subsequent desert island misadventures was published by J. Taylor of Paternoster Street, London, whose son William Taylor later published Defoe's novel.

They vary from short story collection to fix-up ( novel created from older short stories ) perhaps all the way to novel.

* Theodore Sturgeon's short novel, Some of Your Blood ( 1961 ), consists of letters and case-notes relating to the psychiatric treatment of a non-supernatural vampire.

Many works have been inspired by the novella, including novel sequels, short films, and a feature film called Flatland.

In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades.

Contemporary American writers in this tradition include Joyce Carol Oates, in such novels as Bellefleur and A Bloodsmoor Romance and short story collections such as Night-Side ( Skarda 1986b ) and Raymond Kennedy in his novel Lulu Incognito.

Awards are offered in the following genres: drama / screenplay, essay, the novel, short fiction, Nonfiction, and poetry.

* 1816 – Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.

Up the Walls of the World published in 1978 was her first full length novel, up until then she worked and built a reputation only in the field of short stories.

* Kappa, a short novel by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

In 1837 he completed a short novel, Scorpion and Felix, a drama, Oulanem, and some poems, none of which was published.

On October 4, 1973, he published his first work, a manga adaptation of Prosper Merimee's short novel Mateo Falcone, titled A Gun Report.

He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works ( 55 novels in total, plus four " lost " novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings ), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen.

The whimsical Svetz series consists of a collection of short stories, The Flight of the Horse, and a novel, Rainbow Mars, which involve a nominal time machine sent back to retrieve long-extinct animals, but which travels, in fact, into alternate realities and brings back mythical creatures such as a Roc and a Unicorn.

" The tin quotations from London are watched in La Paz with close interest as an index of the country's prosperity ; a third of the national revenue and more than half of the total customs in 1925 were derived from tin ; in short, that humble but indispensable metal is the hub around which Bolivia's economic life revolves.

Death dissolves this compact, but only to re-imprison the liberated soul after a short time: for the wheel of birth revolves inexorably.

Oz credits a 1959 translation of American writer Sherwood Anderson ’ s short story collection Winesburg, Ohio with his decision to “ write about what was around me .” In A Tale of Love and Darkness, his memoir of coming of age in the midst of Israel ’ s violent birth pangs, Oz credits Anderson ’ s “ modest book ” with his own realization that " the written world … always revolves around the hand that is writing, wherever it happens to be writing: where you are is the center of the universe.

Clive Barker's short story Sex, Death and Starshine revolves around a doomed production of Twelfth Night.

In Kim Newman's The Hound of the D ' Urbervilles, a collection of short stories featuring meetings between characters from the Sherlock Holmes stories and their literary contemporaries, one chapter revolves around a struggle for supremacy between Doctor Mabuse and Professor Moriarty.

The short film, which runs two minutes, revolves around two desk lamps: a larger lamp and a smaller lamp.

The short story revolves around two professors, of which one is the narrator, and their respective affairs with two students, the Vane sisters, for whom the story is titled.

Planets: The Exploration of Space, or Planets: TEOS for short, is a space drama that revolves around the interplanetary trading of goods.

The stories, often one-page short, mostly revolves around Valium ’ s usual themes, mainly sickness, addictions, abnormal sexuality and social decay in general.

The story behind this short film revolves around the Pichu brothers as they attempt to find a train back to the big city.

The film revolves around four short stories subjected on issues of women emancipation, based on a story from the Panchatantra which travels in its various versions to modern times.

The short, displayed in real time, revolves around a newly constructed Android named Kara ( played by Valorie Curry ) who presents a dilemma to her operator after discovering the ability to think.

* The short Guro / comedy manga story Head Prolapse Elegy by Shintaro Kago revolves around the travails of a Penanggalan who desires a normal love life with a man, but is constantly thwarted by her condition.

Summers pulled up short, and turned around.

He hung around New York, waiting to hear whether they would accept it for production and in that time came down to Asheville and also paid a short visit to Chapel Hill, where with almost childish delight he visited old friends and favorite campus spots.

single-shot Remington 514C ( around $20 ), which comes with a 21-inch barrel and a short -- 12-1/2-inch -- stock ; ;

As shown in Fig. 4, an external antenna is placed over or around the patient and excited 3000 times a second with short 400-kc. bursts.

In short, it was centered around learning how to develop a more sensitive empathy.

The one way to get around them -- short of knowing exactly what one wants and sticking to it -- is to frequent a single establishment until its wine waiter is persuaded that one is at least as interested in wine as in spending money.

He raced by within twenty feet of her, roped her around the neck, but a lioness' neck is short and thick and with a quick twist she slipped the noose off.

When he discovered that the original Desiree, Glynis Johns, was able to sing ( she had a " small, silvery voice ") but could not " sustain a phrase ", he devised the song " Send in the Clowns " for her in a way that would work around her vocal weakness, e. g., by ending lines with consonants that made for a short cut-off.

Born to a middle-class family in Missoula, Montana, Lynch spent his childhood traveling around the United States, before going on to study painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he first made the transition to producing short films.

The received Tao Te Ching is a short text of around 5, 000 Chinese characters in 81 brief chapters or sections ().

In many of her short stories, toys are shown to come alive when humans are not around.

K. is asked by the bank to show an Italian client around local places of cultural interest, but the Italian client, short of time, asks K. to take him only to the cathedral, setting a time to meet there.

According to this theory, short term memory ( STM ) can only retain information for a limited amount of time, around 15 to 30 seconds unless it is rehearsed.

Inland from X Corps would be XIII Corps with Indian 5th Infantry Division ( with only one infantry brigade, Indian 29th Infantry Brigade, and two artillery regiments ) around Sidi Hamza ( about inland, the newly arrived New Zealand 2nd Division ( short one brigade because of lack of transport ) at Minqar Qaim ( on the escarpment inland ) and 1st Armoured Division in the open desert to the south.

Iin 1967 Banks played a season for the Cleveland Stokers of the American United Soccer Association ; this was a short lived attempt to build a first division U. S. league by importing clubs from around the world to play as U. S. teams.

Some of the best-known civilizations of prehistoric Europe were Minoan and Mycenaean, which flourished during the Bronze Age until they collapsed in a short period of time around 1200 BC.

Under the rules of Hammurabi's successors, the Babylonian Empire was weakened by military pressure from the Hittites, who sacked Babylon around 1531 BC ( short ).

Serum level of it also underlies a correlation between short height and reduced hearing abilities particularly around 3 – 5 years of age, and at age 18 ( late puberty ).

2004 saw the eventual release of Coffee and Cigarettes, a collection of eleven short films of characters sitting around drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes that had been filmed by Jarmusch over the course of the previous two decades.

John grew up to be around 5 ft 5 in ( 1. 68 m ) tall, relatively short, with a " powerful, barrel-chested body " and dark red hair ; he looked to contemporaries like an inhabitant of Poitou.

* Wells Tower's short story, " Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned ," is centred around a Viking raid on Lindisfarne.

After a short return to performing in 1836, he quit his concert practice around 1840 and died in the French capital in 1853.

Some stations insert a short snippet of stand-up comedy (" 5 O ' Clock Funnies ") around 5 o ' clock when commuters leave work, or play specifically selected " car tunes " ideal for listening while driving.

The first rainy season begins around March and last to the end of July with a peak in June, this rainy season is followed by a short dry break in August known as the August break which is a short dry season lasting for two to three weeks in August. This break is broken by the Short rainy season starting around early September and lasting to Mid October with a peak period at the end of September. The ending of the short rainy season in October is followed by Long Dry Season. This period starts from late October and lasts till early March with peak dry conditions between early December and late February.