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The friar tells him that before overcoming a challenge you must first find "the door in the wall". Robin's parents had planned for him to stay with Sir Peter de Lindsay to be a page, the first step in becoming a knight. John Go-in-the-Wynd, a minstrel, gives him a letter from Robin's father telling him and John Go-in-the-Wynd and Brother Luke ...
The book was made into the 1955 film Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, which inspired a popular eponymous song. In her 1980 autobiographical work, My House Has Two Doors, Suyin evinced no interest in watching the film even in Singapore, where it ran for several months. Her motive in selling the film rights was to pay for an operation in England ...
"The Door in the Wall" is a short story by H. G. Wells first published in the Daily Chronicle in 1906 and first collected in his The Country of the Blind and Other Stories in 1911. It covers the whole life of a successful politician who has always been haunted by his memory of having in early childhood been welcomed into a paradisal garden of ...
Kirkus Reviews called The Ten Thousand Doors of January "a love letter to imagination, adventure, the written word, and the power of many kinds of love." The review compliments the diverse cast of characters as well as the strong woman lead, noting that "this portal fantasy doesn't shy away from racism, classism, and sexism, which helps it ...
The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers is a 2007 memoir by British-American author Harry Bernstein. It was Bernstein's first published book; he started writing it at the age of 93. It was Bernstein's first published book; he started writing it at the age of 93.
The novel tells the struggle and survival of Paula Spencer, an abused wife who is the narrator. The title comes from an incident where Paula's husband asks her how she received a bruise he was responsible for, and she replies that she "walked into a door." A sequel, Paula Spencer, was published in 2006. The narrative blends her recounting of ...
After several strange adventures, he finds him in the ballroom of a palace in a ruined city, but they are unable to return until the master locks of the cupboards are set back to their location, and they hide in a dark cupboard. They witness a group of people with wolves called "witch-dogs" kill almost all of the guests at a ball, but they escape.
The story is set on Venus at a time when mankind has achieved routine travel to the various planets of the solar system. Unlike the actual planet, Zelazny's Venus is Earth-like, offering breathable air, water-filled oceans and native fauna, one of which is the fictional Ichthyform Leviosaurus Levianthus, a 300-foot-long denizen of the Venusian oceans commonly called "Ikky".