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"The Lady with the Dog" (Russian: Дама с собачкой, romanized: Dama s sobachkoy) [a] is a short story by Anton Chekhov. First published in 1899, it describes an adulterous affair between an unhappily married Moscow banker and a young married woman that begins while both are vacationing alone in Yalta .
The Girl With Two Husbands is a Greek fairy tale translated and published by Richard MacGillivray Dawkins in Modern Greek Folktales.The tale is part of the more general cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom, [1] and is classified in the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index as tale type ATU 433B, "King Lindworm", a type that deals with maidens disenchanting serpentine husbands.
[2] [3] Exemplary Stories. Exemplary Stories (Novelas ejemplares) is a series of twelve novellas that follow the model established in Italy and written by Miguel de Cervantes between 1590 and 1612. The collection was printed in Madrid in 1613 by Juan de la Cuesta, and was well received in the wake of the release of the first part of Don Quixote.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (original title in Swedish: Män som hatar kvinnor, lit. 'Men who hate women') is a psychological thriller novel by Swedish author Stieg Larsson . It was published posthumously in 2005, translated into English in 2008, and became an international bestseller .
The dog tears its way out of the final photograph, killing Merrill in the process. Inspired by his nightmares, Kevin has brought another Sun with him, and just as the dog is about to release itself, he takes its picture, trapping it once more in the "Polaroid world". In the epilogue, Kevin gets a computer for his following birthday.
To the right of the Infanta are two dwarfs: the achondroplastic Austrian Mari Bárbola (4), [27] and the Italian Nicolás Pertusato (5), who playfully tries to rouse a sleepy mastiff with his foot. The dog is thought to be descended from two mastiffs from Lyme Hall in Cheshire, given to Philip III in 1604 by James I of England.
The Queen, impressed by such industry, offers to take the girl with her. Once at the castle, the queen takes the girl to a room filled with flax. If she spins it all within three days, she will be married to the queen's oldest son. Two days later, the queen returns and is amazed to find the flax untouched.