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"The Jar" A poor farmer buys a jar with something floating in it for twelve dollars and it soon becomes the conversation piece of the town. However his wife begins to realize that she cannot stand the jar or him. "The Lake" A man revisits his childhood home and recalls a friend who drowned in a lake during childhood. "The Emissary"
Interior of a room at the Barbizon hotel (1942). Esther Greenwood, the protagonist of the story, is an ambitious English major from Boston.Having won a summer job as a "guest editor" for Ladies' Day magazine, she lives at the Barbizon hotel [4] (referred to in the novel as the "Amazon" hotel) in New York City, along with the other young women who were selected as guest editors.
Juna's Jar is a children's picture book written by Jane Bahk and with illustrations by Felicia Hoshino. The book tells the story of Juna, a little girl whose best friend left to live somewhere else. Through her imagination, she finds solitude by filling an old kimchi jar with a variety of things.
"Cookie Jar" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the spring 2016 issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review. [1] Plot summary
Beetlejuice is a 1988 American gothic dark fantasy comedy horror [3] [4] [5] film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by Michael McDowell and Warren Skaaren based on a story by McDowell and Larry Wilson. The film stars Michael Keaton as the title character, along with Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O'Hara, and Winona ...
HAIFA, Israel (AP) — As her 4-year-old son perused the Israeli museum’s ancient artifacts, Anna Geller looked away for just a moment. Then a crash sounded, a rare 3,500-year-old jar was broken ...
The mistranslation of pithos, a large storage jar, as "box" [14] is usually attributed to the sixteenth century humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam when he translated Hesiod's tale of Pandora into Latin. Hesiod's pithos refers to a large storage jar, often half-buried in the ground, used for wine, oil or grain. [15] It can also refer to a funerary ...
The context in which the story appeared was Erasmus' collection of proverbs, the Adagia (1508), in illustration of the Latin saying Malo accepto stultus sapit (from experiencing trouble a fool is made wise). In his version the box is opened by Epimetheus, whose name means 'Afterthought' – or as Hesiod comments, "he whom mistakes made wise". [14]