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O. Henry's short story The Gift of the Magi (1905) contains the following description to convey the preciousness of character Jim Dillingham Young's pocket watch: "Had King Solomon been the janitor, with all his treasures piled up in the basement, Jim would have pulled out his watch every time he passed, just to see him pluck at his beard from ...
Edward Lipinski suggests that the story is an example of "king's bench tales", a subgenre of the wisdom literature to which he finds parallels in Sumerian literature. [14] Scholars have pointed out that the story resembles the modern detective story genre. Both king Solomon and the reader are confronted with some kind of a juridical-detective ...
In 1979, a low-budget version was directed by Alvin Rakoff, King Solomon's Treasure, combining both King Solomon's Mines as well as Allan Quatermain in one story. The 1985 film, King Solomon's Mines, was a more tongue-in-cheek parody of the story, followed by a sequel in the same vein: Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987).
"The Butterfly that Stamped" is one of the stories that is about King Solomon, his lovely wife Balkis, the Queen of Sheba (she is the one he is in love with, and she loves him, in most versions the others are there just because he is king and has to have more wives than anyone else), his other nine-hundred ninety nine wives, and two charming, but quarrelsome, butterflies.
It was also used in 1852, in a retelling of the fable entitled "Solomon's Seal" by the English poet Edward FitzGerald. [5] [6] In it, a sultan requests of King Solomon a sentence that would always be true in good times or bad; Solomon responds, "This too will pass away". [7] On September 30, 1859, Abraham Lincoln recounted a similar story:
This novella is the seventh story in the Quatermain series and had never before been published. Hunter Quatermain's Story - at a Yorkshire dinner-party after the events of King Solomon's Mines (1885), Quatermain recounts an encounter he once had with a buffalo on an African hunting expedition. This short story originally appeared in 1885, and ...
The "King David and King Solomon Discovered" exhibit will be on display through mid-January at the Armstrong Auditorium, 14400 S Bryant, Edmond. Hours are: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through ...
"King Solomon's Ring" was originally published in the October 1963 issue of Fantastic "King Solomon's Ring" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Roger Zelazny which appeared in the magazine Fantastic: Stories of Imagination in 1963. The novelette was republished five years later in Great Science Fiction, a reprint companion to ...