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The two novellas ("The Circus in the Attic" and "Prime Leaf") were placed by Warren at the beginning and the end respectively, bracketing the short fiction cycle. [5] "The Circus in the Attic" (Cosmopolitan, September 1947) " Blackberry Winter" (Cummington Press, 1946) [6] "When the Light Gets Green" (Southern Review, Spring 1936)
Shepherd, Allen G. 1979. "Prototype, Byblow and Reconception: Notes on the Relation of Warren's The Circus in the Attic to His Novels and Poetry" Mississippi Quarterly, Winter 1979–1980 in Robert Penn Warren: A Study of the Short Fiction. pp. 104–116 Twayne Publishers, ISBN 0-8057-8346-6; Warren, Robert Penn. 1983. The Circus in the Attic ...
A Night in the Lonesome October is a novel by American writer Roger Zelazny published in 1993, near the end of his life. It was his last book, and one of his five personal favorites. [1] The book is divided into 32 chapters, each representing one "night" in the month of October (plus one "introductory" chapter).
The Attic Nights found many readers in antiquity. Writers who used this compilation include Apuleius , Lactantius , Nonius Marcellus , Ammianus Marcellinus , the anonymous author of the Historia Augusta , Servius , and Augustine ; but most notable is how Gellius' work was mined by Macrobius , "who, without mentioning his name, quotes Gellius ...
Children's literature portal; Falling Up is a 1996 poetry collection primarily for children written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein [1] and published by HarperCollins.It is the third poetry collection published by Silverstein, following Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) and A Light in the Attic (1981), and the final one to be published during his lifetime, as he died just three years after ...
In the book, he talks about traveling to various foster homes after being abandoned by his mother, his experiences in each of them, and how he relied upon a stuffed animal he named "Doggie". American musician Michael Jackson wanted to direct an adaptation of the work with Bryan Michael Stoller , [ 1 ] whom he previously worked with for Miss ...
Something Upstairs is about a twelve-year-old boy, Kenny Huldorf, who tells a story to Avi who had visited the school on a book tour. He moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island. He lives in a house of past events, built in 1789. Kenny's room is in the attic. One night Kenny wakes to a scraping noise in the old slave room.
The Fox in the Attic was originally published in 1961 by Chatto & Windus: London as volume 1 of The Human Predicament, and then in the United States by Harper & Brothers: New York. [1] This was 23 years after Hughes's previous novel, In Hazard: A Sea Story , and 33 years after A High Wind in Jamaica , which was a best seller in the United ...