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"The Master Thief" is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Chr. Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Brothers Grimm included a shorter variant as tale 192 in their fairy tales . Andrew Lang included it in The Red Fairy Book .
Each so-called alphabetical story emphasizes words beginning with consecutive letters of the alphabet, e.g., arrow, bread, chair and so on. The principal characters are the good friends Ant (the naughtier and more adventurous half of the duo) and Bee (fussier and more sensible). Other regular characters are Kind Dog and his master, the Zoo Man.
For Joyce's contemporaneous audience, the term "counterparts" could be expected to suggest (hand-written) duplicate copies of legal documents. [1] At the story's end, Farrington, “the man” is seen to be the "counterpart" of Mr. Alleyne, his superior at his workplace, since he abuses his child at home, just as Mr. Alleyne abuses him at the office.
"Moxon's Master" is a short story by American writer Ambrose Bierce, which speculates on the nature of life and intelligence. It describes a chess -playing automaton that murders its creator. First published in The San Francisco Examiner on April 16, 1899, it is one of the first descriptions of a robot in English-language literature , though ...
The 20-novel series, the first of which is Master and Commander, is known for its well-researched and highly detailed portrayal of early 19th-century life, as well as its authentic and evocative language. A partially finished 21st novel in the series was published posthumously containing facing pages of handwriting and typescript.
Gor (/ ˈ ɡ ɔːr /) is the fictional setting for a series of sword and planet novels written by philosophy professor John Lange, writing as John Norman.The setting was first described in the 1966 novel Tarnsman of Gor.
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The first issue featured the short story "Master Race", co-plotted by Gaines & Feldstein and illustrated by Krigstein. [2] "Master Race" is one of the first comic book stories about The Holocaust, and has been described as the Citizen Kane of comic books. [3] [4] Impact was reprinted as part of publisher Russ Cochran's Complete EC Library in 1988.