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The novel was expanded from Dick's short story "Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday", first published in the August 1966 edition of Amazing Stories. Iain Banks's novel Use of Weapons (1990) interweaves two parallel stories, one told in standard chronology and one in reverse, both concluding at a critical moment in the main character's life.
Famous people quotes about life. 46. “There is only one certainty in life and that is that nothing is certain.” —G.K. Chesterton (June 1926) 47. “Make it a rule of life never to regret and ...
An early example of this type of retcon is the return of Sherlock Holmes, whom writer Arthur Conan Doyle apparently killed off in "The Final Problem" in 1893, [1] [8] [page needed] only to bring him back, in large part because of readers' responses, with "The Empty House" in 1903. The character Zorro was retconned early in his existence.
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The original edition had 15,000 words and each successive edition has been larger, [3] with the most recent edition (the eighth) containing 443,000 words. [6] The book is updated regularly and each edition is heralded as a gauge to contemporary terms; but each edition keeps true to the original classifications established by Roget. [2]
Every relationship milestone deserves its moment in the sun. Maybe you’re experiencing new love for the first time—or for the first time in decades—and, like F. Scott Fitzgerald, feel like ...
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction is a 2006 collection of nonfiction by Joan Didion. It was released in the Everyman's Library , a series of reprinted classic literature, as one of the titles chosen to mark the series' 100th anniversary. [ 1 ]
Versions of the story date back to the early 1900s, and it was being reproduced and expanded upon within a few years of its initial publication. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The story is popularly misattributed to Ernest Hemingway ; this is implausible, as versions of the story first appeared in 1906, when Hemingway was 7 years old, and it was first attributed ...