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That Evening Sun" is a short story by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1931 in the collection These 13, which included Faulkner's most anthologized story, "A Rose for Emily". The story was originally published, in a slightly different form, as "That Evening Sun Go Down" in The American Mercury in March of the same year.
Nightmares & Dreamscapes. Four Past Midnight is a collection of novellas written by Stephen King in 1988 and 1989 and published in August 1990. [1] It is his second book of this type, the first one being Different Seasons. The collection won the Bram Stoker Award in 1990 for Best Collection [2] and was nominated for a Locus Award in 1991. [3]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 November 2024. 1952 novella by Ernest Hemingway This article is about the novella by Ernest Hemingway. For other uses, see The Old Man and the Sea (disambiguation). The Old Man and the Sea Original book cover Author Ernest Hemingway Language English Genre Literary fiction Publisher Charles Scribner's ...
A 30-minute television adaptation was created, originally broadcast on the PBS children's series WonderWorks in 1982. The adaptation differs from the story in that the sun only appears every nine years, and the ending is expanded: the children atone for their horrible act by giving Margot flowers they picked while the Sun was out. [2]
The story of the pear tree, best known to English-speaking readers from The Canterbury Tales, also originates from Persia in the Bahar-Danush, in which the husband climbs a date tree instead of a pear tree. The story could have arrived in Europe through the One Thousand and One Nights, or perhaps the version in book VI of the Masnavi by Rumi.
Platonism. The analogy of the Sun (or simile of the Sun or metaphor of the Sun) is found in the sixth book of The Republic (507b–509c), written by the Greek philosopher Plato as a dialogue between his brother Glaucon and Socrates, and narrated by the latter. Upon being urged by Glaucon to define goodness, a cautious Socrates professes himself ...
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses. Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from ...
Plot. The novel tells the story of Hajime, from his childhood in a small town in Japan to his adult years in Tokyo. He meets Shimamoto, a girl with polio and a fellow only child. They spend their time together talking about their interests in life and listening to records on Shimamoto's stereo. They are separated in their high school years, and ...