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In 1916–1917 Maugham and his secretary-companion Gerald Haxton travelled in the Pacific, and the stories in this collection are among the writings produced as a result. . During the voyage, the ship had to pause at Pago-Pago for a quarantine inspection, and some fellow-passengers who lodged on the island became models for Maugham's story "Rain"; he also met there a young American sailor who ...
Lady Amabel Kerr (1846–1906) – A Bible Picture Book for Catholic Children, Lives of the Saints for Children; P. B. Kerr (1956–2018) – Children of the Lamp series; Alexander Key (1904–1979) – Escape to Witch Mountain, The Forgotten Door, The Case of the Vanishing Boy; Dorothy Kilner (1755–1836) – The Life and Perambulation of a Mouse
The Wonder Book of Bible Stories is a 1904 collection by Logan Marshall published in the United States. The book includes biblical stories from both the Old and New Testaments retold for children and illustrated with rich woodcuts and color plates. Reprinted several times in the 1920s, it went out of print in 1925.
"Rain" is a short story by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham. It was originally published as " Miss Thompson " in the April 1921 issue of the American literary magazine The Smart Set , [ 1 ] and was included in the collection of stories by Maugham The Trembling of a Leaf .
The Mackintosh raincoat (abbreviated as mac) is a form of waterproof raincoat, first sold in 1824, made of rubberised fabric. [ 2 ] The Mackintosh is named after its Scottish inventor Charles Macintosh , although many writers added a letter k .
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She wrote more than thirty books in a range of genres, from picture books (The Carp in the Bathtub, 1972) to retellings of Biblical stories (e.g., The Binding of Isaac, 1978; David, 1995) to classical literature (Four Canterbury Tales, 1987) to young adult dystopias (Unicorns in the Rain, 1980). [3]
Jackanory was a BBC children's television series, which was originally broadcast between 13 December 1965 [1] to 24 March 1996. The show's format was designed to stimulate an interest in reading, and usually involved an actor reading an abridged version of a children's novel or folk tale whilst seated in an armchair.