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The Woman on Platform 8 is a short story written by Indian author Ruskin Bond. [1] [2] It is narrated in first person by a schoolboy named Arun, and recounts an encounter with a mysterious woman in a train station. [3] The story was first published in The Illustrated Weekly of India between 1955 and 1958. [4]
Notable short film adaptations include The 1912 film Falling Leaves is a very loose adaptation. The 1917 two-reel silent film The Last Leaf, one of a series of O. Henry works produced by Broadway Star Features. [5] In 1952 it was one of five stories adapted for O. Henry's Full House. In this adaptation, the protagonist's nickname is Jo, and ...
Modelled on Madame de Genlis's Adèle et Théodore (1782) and Tales of the Castle (1785), both of which have frame stories and a series of inset moral tales, Original Stories narrates the re-education of two young girls, fourteen-year-old Mary and twelve-year-old Caroline, by a wise and benevolent maternal figure, Mrs. Mason. (Wollstonecraft ...
The earliest reference to the Blue Jackal can be found in Panchatantra, a collection of stories which depict animals in human situations (see anthropomorphism, Talking animals in fiction). In each of the stories every animal has a "personality" and each story ends in a moral. [citation needed]
The story draws from Collier's early life in rural Maryland during the Great Depression. Its themes include poverty, maturity and the relationship between innocence and compassion. [ 1 ] While teaching literature at the Community College of Baltimore County , she published "Marigolds" in Negro Digest , and it won the inaugural Gwendolyn Brooks ...
The story was published in the September 1841 issue of Graham's Magazine as "Never Bet Your Head: A Moral Tale". Its republication in the August 16, 1845, issue of the Broadway Journal included its now-standard title "Never Bet the Devil Your Head". [3] Noted Poe biographer Arthur Hobson Quinn dismissed the story, stating "it is a trifle." [6]
"The Bet" (Russian: "Пари", romanized: Pari) is an 1889 short story by Anton Chekhov about a banker and a young lawyer who make a bet with each other following a conversation about whether the death penalty is better or worse than life in prison. The banker wagers that the lawyer cannot remain in solitary confinement voluntarily for a ...
Goodman wrote a book about his experiences, The Miracle Man: An Inspiring Story of Motivation and Courage. [1] A motivational/training short film about Morris' experience was also made, [7] and a feature film of his story, written and to be directed and produced by filmmaker Brian Jude is currently in development.