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The White Knight is a fictional character in Lewis Carroll's 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass. He represents the chess piece of the same name. As imagined in John Tenniel 's illustrations for the Alice stories, he is inspired by Albrecht Dürer 's 1513 engraving " Knight, Death and the Devil ."
The Quill is a game creation system for text adventures. [1] Written by Graeme Yeandle, it was published on the ZX Spectrum by Gilsoft in December 1983. [2] Although available to the general public, it was used by several games companies to create best-selling titles; over 450 commercially published titles for the ZX Spectrum were written using The Quill.
A white knight is a mythological figure and literary stock character. They are portrayed alongside a black knight as diametric opposites. A white knight usually represents a heroic warrior fighting against evil, with the role in medieval literature being represented by a knight-errant .
"Haddocks' Eyes" is the nickname [1] of the name of a song sung by The White Knight from Lewis Carroll's 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, chapter VIII. "Haddocks' Eyes" is an example used to elaborate on the symbolic status of the concept of " name ": a name as identification marker may be assigned to anything, including another name, thus ...
Quill is a suite of software tools. [1] [2] It was published by D.C. Heath and Company, in Lexington, MA, USA. The Quill software was designed and developed in 1982-84 by a team led by Bertram Bruce and Andee Rubin. Its purpose was to help in the creation of functional learning environments [3] that involved extensive writing and reading. It ...
The Black Knight's Pawn tries to murder the White Bishop's Pawn, but his attempt is foiled by the White Queen's Pawn. She captures him and sends him to the bag, then leaves, resolved to live a single and celibate life. The White Knight and the White Duke have just finished a decadent meal at the Black court.
Come, Tell Me How You Live is a short book of autobiography and travel literature by crime writer Agatha Christie.It is one of only two books she wrote and had published under both of her married names of "Christie" and "Mallowan" (the other being Star Over Bethlehem and other stories) and was first published in the UK in November 1946 by William Collins and Sons and in the same year in the US ...
The White Knight is a biography of the author Lewis Carroll by Alexander L. Taylor, first published in 1952. [1] References This page was last edited on ...