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Several notable scholars believe that Pushkin's is an original tale based on the Grimms' tale, [2] "The Fisherman and His Wife". [a]Mark Azadovsky wrote monumental articles on Pushkin's sources, his nurse "Arina Rodionovna", and the "Brothers Grimm" demonstrating that tales recited to Pushkin in his youth were often recent translations propagated "word of mouth to a largely unlettered ...
To each question he replies, "You shall know that, only when I come back." The boy finds the entrance to Hell on the other side of the river and, upon entering, finds only the Devil's grandmother . He tells her what he wants, and she promises to assist him how she can, turning him into an ant and hiding him in the folds of the clothing.
Dhalgren is a 1975 science fiction novel by American writer Samuel R. Delany.It features an extended trip to and through Bellona, a fictional city in the American Midwest cut off from the rest of the world by an unknown catastrophe.
Tales of Nevèrÿon is a collection of five sword and sorcery stories by Samuel R. Delany published in 1978. It is the first of the four-volume Return to Nevèrÿon series and contains the stories "The Tale of Gorgik," "The Tale of Old Venn," "The Tale of Small Sarg," "The Tale of Potters and Dragons," and "The Tale of Dragons and Dreamers."
The New York Times Book Review called Sum a "delightful, thought-provoking little collection [which] belongs to that category of strange, unclassifiable books that will haunt the reader long after the last page has been turned". [10] Sum was chosen by Time magazine for their 2009 Summer Reading list, with the acclaim "Eagleman is a true original.
Kirkus Reviews began "A haunting series of stories, in most cases putting it up to the reader to interpret the final outcome – in all cases using the device of the moment in life when emotion or reason reaches the point of tension beyond which something snaps", and finished with "In this collection...Daphne du Maurier's peerless craftmanship, her eerie sense of the macabre, her gift for ...
n November 1954, 29-year-old Sammy Davis Jr. was driving to Hollywood when a car crash left his eye mangled beyond repair. Doubting his potential as a one-eyed entertainer, the burgeoning performer sought a solution at the same venerable institution where other misfortunate starlets had gone to fill their vacant sockets: Mager & Gougelman, a family-owned business in New York City that has ...
Children of the Lens is the sixth and final book in the Lensman series. The story takes place twenty years after the close of Second Stage Lensmen, and focuses on the five children of Kimball and Clarrissa Kinnison: a boy and two pairs of twin girls. As Kimball and Clarrissa are both Lensmen, their offspring are dubbed the "Children of the Lens".