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"Iron John" (also "Iron Hans"; German: Der Eisenhans) [1] is a German fairy tale found in the collections of the Brothers Grimm, tale number 136, about an iron-skinned wild man and a prince. The original German title is Eisenhans , a compound of Eisen "iron" and Hans (like English John , a common short form of the personal name Johannes ).
The Corsair (1814) is a long tale in verse written by Lord Byron (see 1814 in poetry) and published by John Murray in London. It was extremely popular, selling ten thousand copies on its first day of sale, and was influential throughout the following century, inspiring operas, music and ballet. [ 1 ]
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1 April 1647 – 26 July 1680 ) [4] was an English poet and courtier of King Charles II's Restoration court, who reacted against the "spiritual authoritarianism" of the Puritan era. [3]
The Pursuit of the House-Boat is an 1897 novel by John Kendrick Bangs, and the second one to feature his Associated Shades take on the afterlife.. The original full title was The Pursuit of the House-Boat: Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, Under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq. [1] and it has also been titled In Pursuit of the House-Boat and ...
John Esten Cooke (November 3, 1830 – September 27, 1886) was an American novelist, writer and poet. He was the brother of poet Philip Pendleton Cooke . During the American Civil War , Cooke was a staff officer for Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart in the Confederate States Army cavalry and, after Stuart's death, for Brig. Gen. William N. Pendleton .
It is an exegesis of Iron John, a parable belonging to the Grimms' Fairy Tales (1812) by German folklorists Brothers Grimm about a boy maturing into adulthood with help of the wild man. Published in 1990 by Addison-Wesley , the book is Bly's best-known work, [ 1 ] having spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list and went on to ...
A Seventh Man is a book, in the form of photography and text by John Berger and Jean Mohr, on migrant workers in Europe. It was first published in 1975. It was first published in 1975. External links
John Gerard Braine (13 April 1922 – 28 October 1986) [1] was an English novelist. Braine is usually listed among the angry young men , a loosely defined group of English writers who emerged on the literary scene in the 1950s.