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Há 1 dia · —Ernest Hemingway in Death in the Afternoon Because he began as a writer of short stories, Baker believes Hemingway learned to "get the most from the least, how to prune language, how to multiply intensities and how to tell nothing but the truth in a way that allowed for telling more than the truth." Hemingway called his style the iceberg theory: the facts float above water; the supporting ...
Há 1 dia · By contrast, many of London's short stories are notable for their empathetic portrayal of Mexican ("The Mexican"), Asian ("The Chinago"), and Hawaiian ("Koolau the Leper") characters. London's war correspondence from the Russo-Japanese War , as well as his unfinished novel Cherry , show he admired much about Japanese customs and capabilities. [100]
Há 8 horas · www .geoffreygirard .com. Geoffrey Girard is an author of nonfiction, thrillers, historicals, and speculative fiction. In 2013, Simon & Schuster simultaneously published Girard's techno-thriller novel Cain's Blood and an accompanying companion novel for teens; Project Cain. [3] Both books are based on Girard's novella CAIN XP11, which ran as ...
Há 8 horas · The Sleeper Awakes is an 1899 dystopian science fiction novel by English writer H. G. Wells, about a man who sleeps for 203 years, waking up in a completely transformed late 21st to early 22nd century London in which he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realised, and the future revealed to him ...
Há 8 horas · The Lady of the Barge. Bill's Paper Chase. " The Monkey's Paw " is a horror short story by English author W. W. Jacobs. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in 1902, and was reprinted in his third collection of short stories, The Lady of the Barge, later that year. [1] In the story, three wishes are granted to the owner of The Monkey's Paw ...
Há 8 horas · Aladdin: Master of the Lamp (1992), edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg, is an anthology containing 43 original short stories inspired by the tale. "The Nobility of Faith" by Jonathan Clements , in the anthology Doctor Who Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas (2007), is a retelling of the Aladdin story in the style of the Arabian Nights, but featuring the Doctor in the role of the ...
Há 8 horas · The Dogs of War – 1980 film by John Irvin in which a mercenary plans to kill a fictional African dictator in the course of a coup d'état. The Kidnapping of the President – 1980 film by George Mendeluk in which the U.S. President is kidnapped by a South American terrorist and sealed in an armoured car wired to explode.
