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Illuminated manuscript. Various examples of pages from illuminated manuscripts. An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is decorated with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations. Often used in the Roman Catholic Church for prayers and liturgical books such as psalters and courtly literature, the ...
Peter Lombard. The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 71 A 22 (Peter Lombard, Glossa in Epistulas Pauli) The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 135 F 8 (Peter Lombard, Commentarius in psalmos) Martin of Opava. The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 71 G 63 (Martin of Opava, Chronicon Imperatorum) St. Jerome.
PS3503.R167 A6 1980. The Stories of Ray Bradbury is an anthology containing 100 short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury, first published by Knopf in 1980. The hundred stories, written from 1943 to 1980, were selected by the author himself. Bradbury's work had previously been collected in various compilations, such as The Martian ...
The science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) was productive during a writing career that spanned the last 49 years of his life; the Robert A. Heinlein bibliography includes 32 novels, 59 short stories and 16 collections published during his life. Four films, two TV series, several episodes of a radio series, at least two songs ...
Marionettes, Inc. " Marionettes, Inc. " is a short story by American writer Ray Bradbury, originally published in Startling Stories (March 1949) and later reprinted in his collection of short stories The Illustrated Man. In the story, Bradbury conjures a conflict between man and machine and depicts the human dependence on technology, a common ...
He co-wrote screenplays for film, including for You Only Live Twice (1967) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). [10][11] In 1982 Dahl published the first of three editions of poems aimed at children. The following year he edited a book of ghost stories. [12] He wrote several works of non-fiction, including three autobiographies, a cookery book ...
Illustrated fiction. A plate from the 1742 deluxe edition of Samuel Richardson 's Pamela, or, Virtue Rewarded. Illustrated fiction is a hybrid narrative medium in which images and text work together to tell a story. It can take various forms, including fiction written for adults or children, magazine fiction, comic strips, and picture books.
The Veldt (short story) " The Veldt " is a science fiction short story by American author Ray Bradbury. Originally appearing as " The World the Children Made " in the September 23, 1950, issue of The Saturday Evening Post, it was republished under its current name in the 1951 anthology The Illustrated Man.