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"The Beach of Falesá", along with his two other South Seas tales in Island Nights' Entertainments, were generally poorly received by his peers in London. Stevenson was known and loved for his historical romances such as Treasure Island , Kidnapped and The Master of Ballantrae and so his shift to realism was not widely applauded.
Michael Witzel was born July 18, 1943, in Schwiebus, Germany (modern Świebodzin, Poland).He studied indology in Germany from 1965 to 1971 under Paul Thieme, H.-P. Schmidt, K. Hoffmann, and J. Narten, as well as in Nepal (1972 to 1973) under Mīmāmsaka Jununath Pandit. [1]
Stith Thompson, in his book The Folktale, claimed that the tale type was "purely Scandinavian", [21] since most of the available variants at the time were collected in Denmark (10 tales) and Sweden (5 tales), apart from 6 tales recorded in Greece and some tales sparsely collected in other countries. [22]
Trump said he is not considering military force to annex Canada ‒ whose longtime prime minister, Justin Trudeau resigned Monday ‒ but said he hopes the U.S. can acquire the neighboring country ...
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 ...
Brooke Shields is sharing a backhanded compliment then-husband Andre Agassi made years ago, saying it made her “spin a bit" at the time.. In chapter 6 of her new book, Brooke Shields Is Not ...
The Packers could move up to the No. 6 seed if they beat the Bears and the Commanders lose to the Cowboys. Philadelphia won the first game between these two teams this season, 34-29.