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The book was adapted as both a television film in 1991 [4] and a one-act children's musical that was performed Off-Broadway in 2002. [5] It was followed by four sequels exploring the Witting family after Sarah's arrival called Skylark , Caleb's Story , More Perfect Than the Moon , and Grandfather's Dance .
Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The book made the shortlist for the Nebula, Hugo and Locus awards for best science fiction novel of that year, [1] although it did not win. It did win a retrospective Libertarian Futurist Society award: the Prometheus Hall of Fame ...
Slavicist Louis Léger translated the tale as Long, Large et Clairvoyant, in his Contes Populaires Slaves, and indicated its origin as Czech. [2]Andrew Lang included the tale in The Grey Fairy Book, as Long, Broad and Quickeye, and A. H. Wratislaw collected it in his Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources, as Long, Broad and Sharpsight. [3]
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is often considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and is one of Poe's best known short stories. The specific motivation for murder, aside from the narrator's hatred of the old man's eye, the relationship between narrator and old man, the gender of the narrator, and other details are left unclear.
Multiple sources have identified the story of Epimenides as the earliest known variant of the "Rip Van Winkle" fairy tale. [17] [18] [20] [12] [21] The story of "Rip Van Winkle" itself is widely thought to have been based on Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal's German folktale "Peter Klaus", [5] [12] which is a shorter story set in a German ...
A Tale of Love and Darkness (Hebrew: סיפור על אהבה וחושך Sipur al ahava ve choshech) is a memoir by the Israeli author Amos Oz, first published in Hebrew in 2002. The book has been translated into 28 languages and over a million copies have been sold worldwide.
Holes is one of 42 books written by Louis Sachar, most of which are classified as children's literature. The novel is categorized as young adult literature but has also been labeled as realistic fiction, a tall tale, a folk tale, a fairy tale, a children's story, a postmodern novel, detective fiction, and a historical legend. [3]
A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual. Some tall tales are exaggerations of actual events, for example fish stories ("the fish that got away") such as, "That fish was so big, why I tell ya', it nearly sank the boat when I pulled it in!"