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Three of a Kind is a collection of three novellas by James M. Cain, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1943. Each originally appeared as serials in magazines during the 1930s. [1] [2] [3] The collection includes Double Indemnity, first published in 1936 as a serial for Liberty magazine; [4] [5] Career in C Major, originally entitled "Two Can Sing" when it appeared in The American Magazine in 1938 ...
Cain is the last novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago.The book was first published in 2009. [1] In an earlier novel, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Saramago retold the main events of the life of Jesus Christ, as narrated in the New Testament, presenting God as the villain.
Books sold well, with The Butterfly achieving Cain's second-highest hard-cover total - 45,000 copies. [24] Hoopes adds that, by the time The Butterfly was completed, Cain "was probably the most reprinted author in the country- over one and a half million of his books had been sold…in hard-cover and paperback editions…"
Cain's paternal and maternal grandparents emigrated from Ireland and both families settled in New Haven, Connecticut during the early 1850s. Cain reported they were not agrarian refugees of the Great Famine of Ireland. [8] His paternal grandfather P. W. Cain was an industrial worker who served as a superintendent for the Hartford Railroad. His ...
Young caterpillars are black with lighter colored transverse stripes. Older larvae have two color forms. The more common form is green with yellow and white transverse stripes; the rarer form is black and banded with white and orange. In both forms, between the swollen thorax and the abdomen, there is a yellow, black, and bluish-white band.
Deckard Cain is a fictional character who appears in the Diablo video game franchise by Blizzard Entertainment.Within the series, Cain is a prominent non player character who acts as an advisor and guide to the player character of the first three games, and represents the wise old man archetype who provides most of the in-game lore.
Cain's appearance was based on that of then-young comics writer Len Wein (right), shown with his creation Swamp Thing.. In 1968, Cain was created to "host" the EC-style horror comic anthologies The House of Mystery (which had begun publishing in 1950).
Cain [a] is a biblical figure in the Book of Genesis within Abrahamic religions. He is the elder brother of Abel , and the firstborn son of Adam and Eve , the first couple within the Bible. [ 1 ] He was a farmer who gave an offering of his crops to God .