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This was the book published fifth, but the book's events are chronologically third. Bree was born as a free talking beast in the Land of Narnia, but was captured as a colt by the Calormenes, and has lived his life as a warhorse in Calormen, owned by humans, and hiding his true nature as a talking horse. Living as the only talking beast among ...
Portrait of Siegfried Sassoon by Glyn Warren Philpot, 1917. January Francis Picabia produces the first issue of the Dada periodical 391 in Barcelona.; Philosopher Hu Shih, the main advocate of replacing scholarly language with the vernacular in Chinese literature, publishes an article in the magazine New Youth (Xin Qingnian), "A Preliminary Discussion of Literature Reform", offering eight ...
Abel Sánchez: A Story of Passion (Spanish: Abel Sánchez: Una historia de pasión) is a 1917 novel by Miguel de Unamuno. Abel Sanchez is a re-telling of the story of Cain and Abel set in modern times, which uses the parable to explore themes of envy .
The first of two novels to be written from a woman's perspective, as well as the prequel to a later novel (The Haunted Bookshop), Parnassus on Wheels was inspired by the novel The Friendly Road by David Grayson (pseudonym of Ray Stannard Baker), and starts with an open letter to Grayson, taking him to task for not concerning himself (except in ...
"A Report to an Academy" (German: "Ein Bericht für eine Akademie") is a short story by Franz Kafka, written and published in 1917.In the story, an ape named Red Peter, who has learned to behave like a human, presents to an academy the story of how he effected his transformation.
Baree, Son of Kazan is a novel about a wild wolfdog pup sired by Kazan (1/4 wolf, 3/4 dog) and born of blind Greywolf (pure wolf). It explores Baree's survival after he is separated as a young pup from his parents. He eventually is cared for by Nepeese and her father Pierrot, a trapper. [1] He bonds with Nepeese, and the novel develops from there.
South Wind is a 1917 novel by British author Norman Douglas. [1] It is Douglas's most famous book [2] and his only success as a novelist. [3] It is set on an imaginary island called Nepenthe, located off the coast of Italy in the Tyrrhenian Sea, [1] a thinly fictionalized description of Capri's residents and visitors. The narrative concerns ...
Piccadilly Jim is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 24 February 1917 by Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, and in the United Kingdom in May 1918 by Herbert Jenkins, London. [1] The story had previously appeared in the US in the Saturday Evening Post between 16 September and 11 November 1916.