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Book of Dragons is an 18-minute [33] short film which was released by DreamWorks Home Entertainment on DVD and Blu-ray on November 15, 2011 along with Gift of the Night Fury. Written and directed by Steve Hickner and co-written by Bart Coughlin and Joshua Pruett, Book of Dragons stars the voices of Jay Baruchel , Craig Ferguson , America ...
A year after becoming chieftain, [a] Hiccup, his Night Fury Toothless, and their fellow dragon-riders continue to rescue captured dragons to bring them to Berk; however, the island is becoming overpopulated with dragons. In response, Hiccup desires to find the "Hidden World", a safe haven for dragons once spoken of by his late father, Stoick.
Shere Khan (/ ˈ ʃ ɪər ˈ k ɑː n /) is a fictional Bengal tiger in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book and its adaptations. He is often portrayed as the main antagonist, itself an exaggeration of his role in the original stories, in which he only appears a third of the time. [1] Shere Khan is named after Afghan Emperor Sher Shah Suri. [2]
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie [2] CH FRSL (/ s ʌ l ˈ m ɑː n ˈ r ʊ ʃ d i / sul-MAHN RUUSH-dee; [3] born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British and American novelist. [4] His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent.
He was born with telepathic powers, as well as an enormous and constantly dripping nose with an extremely sensitive sense of smell. The novel is divided into three books. The first book begins with the story of the Sinai family, particularly with events leading up to the fall of British Colonial India and the partition. Saleem is born precisely ...
The daylight side is called Gup, a Hindi and Urdu word (meaning "gossip," "nonsense," or "fib" in English) and the night-darkened side is called Chup (meaning "quiet"). Inhabitants of Gup value speech and are called "Guppees," meaning "talkative people," while inhabitants of Chup are stated to have historically valued silence and are called ...
With many of Tagore's stories, there has been more than one translation by more than one translator. For instance, The Supreme Night, One Night and A Single Night are all translations of the same story. Note that not all translations are of the same quality. [6] [7] [8] Tagore wrote approximately 2,232 songs. [9]
The Shining was also heavily influenced by Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House, [10] Edgar Allan Poe's short stories "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839) and "The Masque of the Red Death" (1842), [8] and Robert Marasco's 1973 novel Burnt Offerings. [6] The story has often been compared to Guy de Maupassant's story "The ...