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[6] [73] Willy Ley's 1937 short story "At the Perihelion" involves a close approach to the Sun as part of an escape from Mars, [4] [5] [74] and Charles L. Harness's 1949 novel The Paradox Men (a.k.a. Flight into Yesterday) is a space opera that climaxes with a swordfight atop a space station on the surface of the Sun. [4] [5] [75] [76] In Ray ...
In many ways, the novel's stripped-down prose became a model for 20th-century American writing. Nagel writes that "The Sun Also Rises was a dramatic literary event and its effects have not diminished over the years." [114] The success of The Sun Also Rises led to interest from Broadway and Hollywood. In 1927 two Broadway producers wanted to ...
Nothing Like the Sun is a fictional biography of William Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess first published in 1964. It tells the story of Shakespeare's life with a mixture of fact and fiction, the latter including an affair with a black prostitute named Fatimah, who inspires the Dark Lady of the Sonnets .
A 17th-century English Baroque school using extended conceit, often (though not always) about religion [18] [19] John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell: Cavalier Poets: 17th-century English Baroque royalist poets, writing primarily about courtly love, called Sons of Ben (after Ben Jonson) [20] Richard Lovelace, William Davenant: Euphuism
I love that line in the poem, and it was a metaphor for my story, about taking a cup full of fire from the sun." [1] The Golden Apples of the Sun was Bradbury's third published collection of short stories. [3] The first, Dark Carnival, was published by Arkham House in 1947; the second, The Illustrated Man, was published by Doubleday & Company ...
and "Handsomely evoking a landscape filled with castles, trolls, shamans and spellbound princes, the story will exercise its audience's imagination." [ 2 ] Inis magazine was critical writing that "Pattou has replaced the conciseness of the folktale form (her novel makes use of 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon') with a detail-oriented kind of ...
Paradiso (Italian: [paraˈdiːzo]; Italian for "Paradise" or "Heaven") is the third and final part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and the Purgatorio.It is an allegory telling of Dante's journey through Heaven, guided by Beatrice, who symbolises theology.
Half of a Yellow Sun is a 2006 novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It is Adichie's second novel. The novel was first published in London by 4th Estate on 1 January 2006. The story, which is set in Nigeria in the 1960s, centers on Ugwu, who left his village to become a houseboy for a revolutionary and professor Odenigbo. Odenigbo ...