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.

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.

* William S. Burroughs, novelist, short story writer, essayist and spoken word performer

Some consider this more of a short story collection ; Milne didn't like it and considered The Day's Play as his first book.

* AM, short for Allied Mastercomputer, a fictional supercomputer in the short story " I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream "

Derleth also changed Alhazred's final fate, as described in his short story " The Keeper of the Key ", first published in May 1951.

For example, in the first editions of the collection The Mysterious Mr Quin ( 1930 ), in the short story " The Soul of the Croupier ," she described " Hebraic men with hook-noses wearing rather flamboyant jewellery "; in later editions the passage was edited to describe " sallow men " wearing same.

* 1936 Love from a Stranger ( dramatised by Frank Vosper from the short story Philomel Cottage )

* 1939 Tea for Three ( dramatised by Margery Vosper from the short story Accident )

In the short story The Chocolate Box ( 1923 ) Poirot provides Captain Arthur Hastings with an account of what he considers to be his only failure.

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

Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Sketch magazine in 1926, " The Tuesday Night Club ", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems ( 1932 ).

Niece Mabel, widow of the mysteriously dead Geoffrey Denham, stars in the 1927 short story " The Thumb Mark of Saint Peter ".

* " The Tuesday Night Club " ( short story ) featured Miss Marple for the first time ever.

* The Thirteen Problems ( short story collection featuring Miss Marple, also published as The Tuesday Club Murders ) ( 1932 )

Miss Marple also appears in Greenshaw's Folly, a short story traditionally included as part of the Poirot collection The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding ( 1960 ).

Category: English short story writers

The book includes some material from the short story The Salesman's Tale, and some unpublished material cut from Prince of Chaos, notably Coral's pregnancy by Merlin.

* Moriarty by Modem, a short story by Jack Nimersheim, describes an alternate history where Babbage's Analytical Engine was indeed completed and had been deemed highly classified by the British government.

* Absalom is the name of a short science fiction story by Henry Kuttner about the conflict between a father and son over the son's education.

One ansible-like device which predates Le Guin's is the Dirac communicator in James Blish's 1954 short story " Beep ".

* The short story " There Are More Things " by Jorge Luis Borges from The Book of Sand refers to an amphisbaena and concerns a similar, though mostly undescribed, monster.

* Paul Auster's collection of short stories entitled True Tales of American Life contains a story (' Mathematical Aphrodisiac ' by Alex Galt ) in which amicable numbers play an important role.

The pattern ( also known as the Phalaecian ) is as follows ( using "-" for a long syllable, " u " for a short and " x " for an " anceps " or variable syllable ):

The programmers ' text editor Emacs ( short for " editing macros ") follows this idea to a conclusion.

As the 17th century British commentator Matthew Henry notes, " Mary added no more, as Martha did ; but it appears, by what follows, that what she fell short in words she made up in tears ; she said less than Martha, but wept more.

However, the nuclear force acts only over relatively short ranges ( a few nucleon diameters ), since it follows an exponentially decaying Yukawa potential which makes it insignificant at longer distances.

A popular use of a tracking shot was in The Avengers when the camera follows each member of the team for a short while during the final battle in New York.

Alexander Beatson, who published a volume on the Fourth Mysore War entitled View of the Origin and Conduct of the War with Tippoo Sultaun, described Tipu Sultan as follows: " His stature was about five feet eight inches ; he had a short neck, square shoulders, and was rather corpulent: his limbs were small, particularly his feet and hands ; he had large full eyes, small arched eyebrows, and an aquiline nose ; his complexion was fair, and the general expression of his countenance, not void of dignity ".

South of the town, the road passes through a short tunnel beneath Gibraltar Hill ; to the north east of the town, it follows the line of the Wye valley.

* structural defects, like short bowel syndrome ( surgically removed bowel ) and radiation fibrosis, such as usually follows cancer treatment and other drugs, including agents used in chemotherapy ; and

The very loose storyline follows Buster Fiddess leading the four YTT boys, and Addie Black leading the four YTT girls in two separate caravans on a short " Caravan Holiday ".

Suetonius Tranquilius gives a short but highly favourable account on Titus's reign in The Lives of Twelve Caesars, emphasizing his military achievements and his generosity as Emperor, in short describing him as follows:

The priest introduces it with a short phrase and follows it up with a prayer called the embolism and the people respond with the doxology.

A short source code example for a complete GRAPHIC WINDOW application follows:

Leaders can be complex: a plastic slide-in wedge anchors a short fully opaque plastic tape to the take-up hub ; one or more tinted semi-opaque plastic segments follow ; the clear leader ( a tintless semi-opaque plastic segment ) follows, which wraps almost all the way around the supply reel, before splicing to the magnetic tape itself.

It is a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle for the written material that follows.

The short portion of US 1 in New Hampshire follows the historic Lafayette Road, staying close to I-95, before leaving the city of Portsmouth on the former Memorial Bridge over the Piscataqua River, which has been demolished and being replaced, leaving a temporary gap in US 1, with two other nearby bridges carrying U. S. Route 1 Bypass and Interstate 95.

The city council follows a short list of instructions for the safety of the participants and the festival:

Its route follows essentially the earlier route of US 51 in southernmost Illinois ( US 51 has been diverted to I-57 where I-57 has always been close to old US 51 between Future City and Dongola ) before taking a northeastward diagonal to Illinois 37, which remains intact as a town-to-town through route, past its interchange with Interstate 24 ( the northwestern terminus of Interstate 24 ) near Pulleys Mill and a short duplex with Interstate 64 near Mount Vernon north to Effingham, where it has a short concurrence with Interstate 70.

Fabla Salvaje ( 1924 ) Literally ' Wild Language ', is a short novel which follows the insanity of a character who lives in the Andes.

and then follows the river downstream for a short

Black Flag maintains a loose editorial line of class-struggle anarchism and follows a right-to-reply policy in which disagreeing parties are allowed to make short counterpoints within contentious items.

A list of some canonical authors of the period, whose works have survived in whole or in part ( typically in part, some only short fragments ) is as follows:

Route 114, which follows the path of the old " Salem Turnpike ," passes through the center of town, and is crossed there by Route 62, which merges with Route 114 for a short, 0. 2 mile stretch there.