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Children of the Sun is a 1957 non-fiction book by Morris West, an investigation into the slums of post-war Naples. It was his first international success. [1] The US title was Children of the Shadows: The True Story of the Street Urchins of Naples. [2] The book was a best seller in Europe and England and marked a turning point in the career of ...
Children of the Sun, a 1957 book by Morris West Children of the Sun (play) , a 1905 play by Maxim Gorky Children of the Sun , a children's book by Kenjiro Haitani
This resulted in the non-fiction book Children of the Sun (1957) which was West's first international success. [7] [8] According to a later profile on the author: With this work, West not only found his way as a writer but discovered the theme that would underpin almost all of his subsequent books — the nature and misuse of power.
A 30-minute television adaptation was created, originally broadcast on the PBS children's series WonderWorks in 1982. The adaptation differs from the story in that the sun only appears every nine years, and the ending is expanded: the children atone for their horrible act by giving Margot flowers they picked while the Sun was out. [2]
Gorky's most famous works are his early short stories "Chelkash", "Old Izergil", and "Twenty-six Men and a Girl" (written in the 1890s); plays The Philistines (1901), The Lower Depths (1902) and Children of the Sun (1905); a poem, "The Song of the Stormy Petrel" (1901); his fictional autobiographical trilogy, My Childhood, In the World, My ...
“Sun Children” is the story of 12-year-old Ali and his three friends. Together they work hard to survive and support their families, doing small jobs in a garage and committing petty crimes to ...
Klara and the Sun is the eighth novel by the British writer Kazuo Ishiguro, published on 2 March 2021.It is a dystopian science fiction story.. Set in the U.S. in an unspecified future, the book is told from the point of view of Klara, a solar-powered AF (Artificial Friend), who is chosen by Josie, a sickly child, to be her companion.
Children of the Sun (Russian: Дети солнца, romanized: Deti solntsa) is a 1905 play by Maxim Gorky, written while he was briefly imprisoned in Saint Petersburg's Peter and Paul Fortress during the abortive Russian Revolution of 1905.