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Venus in Furs (German: Venus im Pelz) is a novella by the Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and the best known of his works. The novel was to be part of an epic series that Sacher-Masoch envisioned called Legacy of Cain ( Das Vermächtniß Kains ).
Hind died from cancer, aged 79, on 21 February 2008. He had been due to appear on 7 March 2008 with famous writers from around the world at the Aye Write! literary festival in Glasgow's Mitchell Library to mark the reprinting of The Dear Green Place, along with the Fur Sadie manuscript and examples of his writing.
"Allerleirauh" (English: "All-Kinds-of-Fur", sometimes translated as "Thousandfurs") is a fairy tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm. Since the second edition published in 1819, it has been recorded as Tale no. 65. [1] Andrew Lang included it in The Green Fairy Book. [2] It is Aarne–Thompson folktale type 510B, unnatural love.
In his 1997 collection of essays on children's literature, A Child's Delight, Noel Perrin noted that the book is very different from (and in his opinion far superior to) the movie, commending the book for its inventive plot and for the "ease and freedom", "elegance", and "irony" of Sharp's writing. [2]
Al-Thaʿālibī was born in Nishapur and was based there throughout his life. [2] Of Arab ethnicity, [3] his nickname means 'furrier' or 'tailor who works with fox fur', and medieval biographers speculated that this was his job or his father's, but there is no convincing evidence for either proposition. The only hint as to al-Thaʿālibī's ...
A caveat regarding trusting someone against his inherent nature; the moral of Aesop's fable The Farmer and the Viper. vir quisque vir: every man a man: Motto of the US collegiate fraternity Lambda Chi Alpha. vires acquirit eundo: she gathers strength as she goes: A quotation from Vergil's Aeneid, Book 4, 175, which in the original context ...
Barkskins is a 2016 novel by American writer Annie Proulx.It tells the story of two immigrants to New France, René Sel and Charles Duquet, and of their descendants. [1] It spans over 300 years and witnesses the deforestation of the New World from the arrival of Europeans into the contemporary era of global warming.
The Jungle Book has been adapted many times in a wide variety of media. In literature, Robert Heinlein wrote the Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel, Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), when his wife, Virginia, suggested a new version of The Jungle Book, but with a child raised by Martians instead of wolves.