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It is listed #23 on The New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century list. [9] "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" features as the closing piece in the 2008 short story collection, My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro, edited by novelist Jeffrey Eugenides.
This is a list of the stories in Richard Francis Burton's translation of One Thousand and One Nights. Burton's first ten volumes—which he called The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night —were published in 1885.
Brigadoon is a musical with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and score by Frederick Loewe. [1] The plot features two American tourists who stumble upon Brigadoon, a mysterious Scottish village that appears for only one day every 100 years; one tourist soon falls in love with a young woman from Brigadoon.
Some wives prefer more material tokens of appreciation (a friend on marriage #2 just received a Birkin bag). But after 27 years of marriage, I crave small, constant signs that prove beyond a doubt ...
This month, they celebrated 70 years as husband and wife. Mrs. DeHaai offered this advice: "I'm afraid some people think when they get married they're joined at the hip, you know you've got to be ...
[note 13] [100] The marriage ends in scandal, as she succumbs to her feelings for Henry Crawford, leading to social rejection. In the era’s conduct books , such as Hester Chapone 's Letters on the Improvement of the Mind , there were warnings about marriages based solely on financial gain or social status. [ 23 ]
Dr Lisa Blower, from Stoke-on-Trent, an author herself, has launched a project called "100 books for 100 years" in a bid to find one publication from every year between 1925 and 2025.
The straw-to-gold quandary is the plot device driving the Grimms' version of the age-old fable, published by Georg Reimer in 1812. But an earlier iteration — one recorded by the Grimms just two years earlier, and sent to academic friends for comment — tells a different, more empowering story of the miller's daughter.