The story concerns a corrupt mayoress, an idealistic nurse, a man who may be a doctor, and various officials, patients and townspeople, all fighting to save a bankrupt town.

* 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.

The story concerns an English woman who lives at Fox Tor farm, and an American captured during the American Revolutionary War and held at the prison at Princetown on Dartmoor.

In addition, the story partly concerns the discovery of Aristotle's book on Comedy, which is in fact a lost book.

The story concerns a reunion in a crumbling Broadway theatre, scheduled for demolition, of the past performers of the " Weismann's Follies ," a musical revue ( based on the Ziegfeld Follies ), that played in that theatre between the World Wars.

The story concerns two rival " aesthetic " poets, who attract the attention of the young ladies of the village, who had been engaged to the members of a cavalry regiment.

A possibly apocryphal or exaggerated story concerns how the library's collection grew so large.

Michael Palin's personal journal entries from the period when various edits of Brian were being test-screened consistently reference the Pythons ' and filmmakers ' concerns that the Otto scenes were slowing the story down and thus were top of the list to be chopped from the final cut of the film.

* A two-part story in the Vertigo series Northlanders, for instance, concerns the destruction on the monastery.

However, if one considers the story historically accurate, happening in Jesus ' life apart from the similar incidents recorded in the other gospels, the question of the authenticity of the parable receives a different answer ... John Nolland, following Wilckens ' ideas, writes: ' There can hardly be a prior form of the episode not containing the present parable, since this would leave the Pharisee's concerns of v 39 with no adequate response '.

After the successful Russian Revolution ( 1917 ), the quality of spy fiction declined, because the Bolshevik enemy had won the Russian Civil War ( 1917 – 23 ); thus, the inter-war spy story usually concerns combating the Red Menace, which was then perceived as another " clash of civilizations ".

although concerns were voiced over the low difficulty of the puzzles and the effectiveness of the story.

The commonly believed archetype of the shaggy dog story is a story that concerns a shaggy dog.

The story primarily concerns the difficult relationship between two women, Helen Francine Peters ( known simply as Francine ) and Katina Marie (" Katchoo ") Choovanski, and their friend David Qin.

Based on the short story " Spurs " by Clarence Aaron " Tod " Robbins, the screenwriter of The Unholy Three, the film concerns a love triangle between a wealthy dwarf, a gold-digging aerialist, and a strongman ; a murder plot ; and the vengeance dealt out by the dwarf and his fellow circus freaks.

The story concerns a household in Allendale, California, after the nuclear war has wiped out the population.

The story concerns the emotionally fragile Lucy Ashton ( Lucia ) who is caught in a feud between her own family and that of the Ravenswoods.

" Keene writes that The Tale of Genji continues to captivate, because, in the story, her characters and their concerns are universal.

The main frame story concerns a Persian king and his new bride.

The story concerns Frederic, who, having completed his 21st year, is released from his apprenticeship to a band of tender-hearted pirates.

The story concerns a band of immortal fairies who find themselves at odds with the House of Peers.

* The 1917 story " Savonarola " Brown by Max Beerbohm concerns an aspiring playwright, author of an unfinished, unintentionally absurd retelling of the life of Savonarola.

The story concerns Andrew Jackson Libby ( here nicknamed Pinky, for his red hair, but later nicknamed Slipstick ), a boy from Earth with extraordinary mathematical ability but meager education.

In the 20th century, one of the most influential plays, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's ( 1928 ) The Threepenny Opera was a reworking of The Beggar's Opera, setting a similar story with the same characters, and containing much of the same satirical bite, but only using one tune from the original.

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

The Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Gallery, a permanent installation set within the restored former Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital building that now forms part of the new UNISON Centre, uses a variety of media to set the story of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, her hospital, and women ’ s struggle to achieve equality in the field of medicine within the wider framework of 19th and 20th century social history.

For much of the 20th century most scholars agreed that the five books of the Pentateuch — Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy — came from four sources, the Yahwist, the Elohist, the Deuteronomist and the Priestly source, each telling the same basic story, and joined together by various editors.

This story was often repeated over the next century, but scholarly research in the late 20th century suggested that John Hanson was of English heritage and not related to these Swedish American Hansons.

He had enormous influence on the 20th century's most important ghost story writer, M. R. James, and although his work fell out of favour in the early part of the 20th century, towards the end of the century interest in his work increased and remains comparatively strong.

The cover and a three-page picture spread, as well as a story inside entitled The Devil in Marge Simpson, is a celebration of the 20th anniversary of The Simpsons, but is also part of a plan to appeal to younger readers.

On June 26, 2006, Roosevelt, again, made the cover of TIME magazine with the lead story, " The Making of America — Theodore Roosevelt — The 20th Century Express ": " At home and abroad, Theodore Roosevelt was the locomotive President, the man who drew his flourishing nation into the future.

This was ostensibly because a chronological survey of the story of modern art along the lines of the Museum of Modern Art in New York would expose the large gaps in the collections, the result of the Tate's conservative acquisitions policy for the first half of the 20th century.

That portion of the tale is so memorable that it was still being told as a true story in the cities and countryside of Europe in the early 20th century

The name of the village, " Calla Bryn Sturgis ", is a nod to John Sturges and Brynner, and the similarity in plot leads Roland's allies from 20th century New York to realize that they are taking part in a similar story.

According to Lönnroth ( 1998 ) in the 19th century and early 20th century, Swedish historians saw their writing in terms of literature and story telling, rather than analysis and interpretation.

Pertwee later reprised the role in the 20th anniversary story The Five Doctors, in two radio adventures and on stage in The Ultimate Adventure.

The story of Niagara Falls in the 20th century is largely that of efforts to harness the energy of the falls for hydroelectric power, and to control the development on both sides that threaten the area's natural beauty.

The story is one of the earliest in Heinlein's Future History chronology, taking place in the late 20th century.

Later in the 20th century Shackleton was " rediscovered ", and rapidly became a cult figure, a role model for leadership as one who, in extreme circumstances, kept his team together in a survival story described by polar historian Stephanie Barczewski as " incredible ".

The point of the staging was apparently that the story of Hamlet is a universal one that was equally credible in the 20th century as in the 17th.

* The Gem, an early 20th century British story paper

Little Women ’ s popular audience was responsive to ideas of social change as they were shown “ within the familiar construct of domesticity .” Even though Alcott was supposed to just write a story for girls, her main heroine, Jo March, became a favorite of many different women, including educated women writers through the 20th century.

He first appeared in House of Secrets # 92 ( July 1971 ) in a stand-alone horror story set in the early 20th century.

It is now seen as the seminal alien invasion story and Wells is credited with establishing several extraterrestrial themes which were later greatly expanded by science fiction writers in the 20th Century, including first contact and war between planets and their differing species.

Best New Horror, a short story from the book 20th Century Ghosts, has the main character reading a horror tale called Button Boy.

* A story about industrial relations in the United Kingdom in the early 20th century — a novel about shocking working conditions, trade unionists, strikers and scabs — need not be more acceptable subject-matter per se than a well-crafted and fast-paced thriller about modern life.