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On the Last Day of the Year (Japanese: 大つごもり, Hepburn: Ōtsugomori) is a short story by Japanese writer Ichiyō Higuchi first published in 1894. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It tells the story of a young housemaid, Omine, who steals money from her employers to help a sick relative.
Kingdom Come: The Final Victory is the sixteenth and final book of the Left Behind series, released on Tuesday, April 3, 2007. It takes place from the day after the Glorious Appearing to the last day of the Millennium.
The last day in the 12th lunar month is called ōmisoka (大晦日) —with the 大 indicating it is the final last day of the month for that year—or the "great thirtieth day". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As part of the Meiji Restoration , Japan switched to the Gregorian calendar in 1873, and ōmisoka was set as December 31, or New Year's Eve . [ 3 ]
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[1] Publishers Weekly also had a positive review, calling the book "skillfully constructed." [2] The novel was a 2011 Middle Reader Honor Awards book of the E.B. White Read Aloud Award. [3] It received the 2013 Young Hoosier Book Award (Intermediate). [4]
It was the day after crossing the "Place de l'Hotel de Ville" where an executioner was greasing the guillotine in anticipation of a scheduled execution that Hugo began writing The Last Day of a Condemned Man. He finished very quickly. [1] The book was published in February 1829 by Charles Gosselin without the author's name.
The book is composed of eight short stories, with the title story coming seventh: "Last Day of Summer" is an eerily haunting story of a twelve-year-old boy who, having lost his own mother, finds another mother figure in Jenny, a large woman who comes to stay with him. On one of their many journeys in his rowing boat on the Thames, however ...
The Darkest Evening of the Year is a novel by the author Dean Koontz, released on November 27, 2007. The title is a possible allusion to Robert Frost 's " Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ". Premise