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"The Lotus Eater" is a short story by British author W. Somerset Maugham in 1935 and loosely based on the life story of John Ellingham Brooks. It was included in the 1940 collection of Maugham stories The Mixture as Before .
The lotus fruit is about the size of the lentisk berry and in sweetness resembles the date. [6] The lotus-eaters even succeed in obtaining from it a sort of wine. [7] Polybius identifies the land of the lotus-eaters as the island of Djerba (ancient Meninx), off the coast of Tunisia. [1] Later, this identification is supported by Strabo. [8]
"The Lotus Eaters" is a science fiction short story by American writer Stanley G. Weinbaum originally published in the April 1935 issue of Astounding Stories. "The Lotus Eaters" was Weinbaum's fifth published story, and is a sequel to " Parasite Planet ".
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. Born in the British Embassy in Paris, where his father worked, Maugham was an orphan by the age of ten. [1]
The Lotus Eaters (2010) is a novel by Tatjana Soli. [1] [2] [3] [4] It tells the story of an American woman who goes to war-torn Vietnam as a combat photojournalist ...
The story of The Lotos-Eaters comes from Homer's The Odyssey. However, the story of the mariners in Homer's work has a different effect from Tennyson's since the latter's mariners are able to recognize morality. Their arguments are also connected to the words spoken by Despair in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book One. With the connection ...
Life on Earth would be so dull without animals. Lucky for us, there are more than 8 million different species of them on the planet, many of which we might never encounter in our lifetime. From ...
The Lotus Eater", a 1945 short story by W. Somerset Maugham "The Lotus Eaters" (Weinbaum), a 1935 short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum; The Lotus Eaters, a 2010 novel by Tatjana Soli "The Lotos-Eaters", an 1832 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Lotus Eaters" (Ulysses episode) an episode in James Joyce's novel Ulysses