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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 ).
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 ...
Robert Elwood Bly (December 23, 1926 – November 21, 2021) was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement.His best-known prose book is Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), [1] which spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, [2] and is a key text of the mythopoetic men’s movement.
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This tale is known throughout Europe, in such variants as Iron John, Georgic and Merlin, and Guerrino and the Savage Man. [4] A more widespread variant, found in Europe, Asia, and Africa, opens with the prince for some reason being the servant of an evil being, where he gains the same gifts, and the tale proceeds as in this variant; one such tale is The Magician's Horse.
Onyx Storm is the third book in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean series, which is planned to include five books. [4] The first book, Fourth Wing, chronicles the protagonist Violet's first year at the fictional Basgiath War College, where she becomes a dragon rider.
Granville Hicks, reviewing Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano, was reminded of The Iron Heel: "we are taken into the future and shown an America ruled by a tiny oligarchy, and here too there is a revolt that fails." [7] Chapter 7 of The Iron Heel is an almost verbatim copy of an ironic essay by Frank Harris (see Jack London § Plagiarism accusations).
How Much Is Your Iron? is an allegorical play, which each character representing a European nation in the build-up to World War Two.Some characters are clearly named after the country they represent (Herr Austrian, Frau Czech), while protagonist Svenson represents Sweden, and the gangster personifies Nazi Germany through a representation of Adolf Hitler.