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In a Free State is a novel by V. S. Naipaul published in 1971 by Andre Deutsch.It won that year's Booker Prize.The plot consists of a framing narrative and three short stories – "One out of Many", "Tell Me Who to Kill", and the title story, "In a Free State".
Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat.Set in 1944 in Normandy, France, during World War II, it follows a group of soldiers, led by Captain John Miller (), on a mission to locate Private James Francis Ryan and bring him home safely after his three brothers have been killed in action.
Two Brothers opened at No.9 with $6,144,160 in its opening weekend (25–27 June). The film earned a worldwide total of $62,174,008 by the end of its theatrical run against an estimated budget of €57,860,727, [1] making it a box office success. Two Brothers opened in theaters in the United States by Universal Pictures by 25 June 2004. It was ...
The youngest of the three men draws the shortest straw and departs; while he is away, the remaining two plot to overpower and both stab him upon his return. However, the one who leaves for town plots to kill the other two to keep the treasure all for himself and does not repent: he purchases rat poison and laces the wine. When he returns with ...
Chuck does not go with the first batch, and for a long time, he, Thomas, and Teresa remain friends. Thomas begins to watch his friends covertly through the "Beetle blades" and sees one of the boys, George, suddenly go crazy and try to kill his friends, only to be killed by Alby. Dr. Ava Paige explains what happened to George and reveals that ...
Claudius killed King Hamlet, his brother, and married his sister-in-law, Gertrude, in order to become King of Denmark in William Shakespeare's Hamlet.; In the Thomas Harris novel Hannibal, Margot Verger kills her brother Mason as revenge for his abuse of her when they were younger, as she was encouraged to do by her former therapist, Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
“Even if the people that they’re targeting aren’t present, they’ll shoot somebody’s grandmother’s house up, they’ll shoot somebody’s parent’s house up, or if that’s their ...
Brothers is a thriller novel by William Goldman. It is the sequel to his 1974 novel Marathon Man and is Goldman's final novel. Daniel Woodrell wrote in The Washington Post that "The ultimate significance of the title becomes clear only in the surprising, explosive twist at the end." [1] The BBC later aired a radio adaptation. [2]