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The original suitcase contains an old suit made in Liège: it is not the dead man's size, and analysis shows that it was once covered in blood. At the mortuary Maigret meets Van Damme, a Belgian with an import-export business in Bremen, who seems to be interested in the dead man.
The authorship of the work was first questioned in depth in an essay published in 1907 by a classicist named Robert Bloch. [3] In the late 1990s, Judith Mossman, without weighing in explicitly on the authorship of the text, comments, however, that "many of the literary techniques employed are utterly typical of Lucian himself; if this work is by an imitator, (s)he was a very skillful one."
These three powers (the "fors") together represent the human talent and ability to choose the right moment and then to strike with energy. The concept is derived from Shakespeare's phrase "There is a tide in the affairs of men / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune". Ruskin believed that the letters were inspired by the Third Fors ...
"An Affair of Honour" unfolds in Nabokov's signature style, weaving a complex tapestry of irony and subversion around the traditional theme of duels prevalent in Russian literature. Originally titled "Podlets" ('The Cur' or 'The Scoundrel'), the story centers on Anton Petrovich, an expatriate Russian in 1920s Berlin, who, upon discovering his ...
The next morning, Lucia and Agnese are visited by beggars, Don Rodrigo's men in disguise. They examine the house in order to plan an assault. Late at night, Agnese distracts Don Abbondio's servant Perpetua while Tonio and his brother Gervaso enter Don Abbondio's study, ostensibly to pay a debt. They are followed indoors secretly by Lucia and Renzo.
De casibus is an encyclopedia of historical biography and a part of the classical tradition of historiography.It deals with the fortunes and calamities of famous people starting with the biblical Adam, going to mythological and ancient people, then to people of Boccaccio's own time in the fourteenth century. [1]
A Man's Head has been dramatized numerous times, in several languages. First filmed in 1933, just two years after publication, it was among the first to be filmed. The story has been filmed twice: In French, in 1933, as A Man's Neck; starring Harry Baur in the title role, [4] and in English, in 1950, as The Man on the Eiffel Tower (with Charles Laughton).
Frontispiece to George Etherege's The Man of Mode (1676).. The Man of Mode, or, Sir Fopling Flutter is a Restoration comedy by George Etherege, written in 1676.The play is set in Restoration London and follows the womanizer Dorimant as he tries to win over the young heiress Harriet and to disengage himself from his affair with Mrs. Loveit.