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  2. The Lotus Eater - Wikipedia

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    "The Lotus Eater" is a short story by British author W. Somerset Maugham in 1935 and loosely based on the life story of John Ellingham Brooks. It was included in the 1940 collection of Maugham stories The Mixture as Before .

  3. Allegory of the cave - Wikipedia

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    Plato's allegory of the cave by Jan Saenredam, according to Cornelis van Haarlem, 1604, Albertina, Vienna. Plato's allegory of the cave is an allegory presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a, Book VII) to compare "the effect of education (παιδεία) and the lack of it on our nature".

  4. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Wikipedia

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    "Bridgeport?' said I, pointing. 'Camelot', said he.". The story begins as a first-person narrative in Warwick Castle, where a man details his recollection of a tale told to him by an "interested stranger" who is personified as a knight through his simple language and familiarity with ancient armor. . After a brief tale of Sir Lancelot of Camelot and his role in slaying two giants from the ...

  5. Shadows in Zamboula - Wikipedia

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    "Shadows in Zamboula" is one of the original stories by Robert E. Howard about Conan the Cimmerian, first published in Weird Tales in November 1935. Its original title was "The Man-Eaters of Zamboula". The story takes place over the course of a night in the desert city of Zamboula, with political intrigue amidst streets filled with roaming ...

  6. The Man-Eating Myth - Wikipedia

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    The second chapter, entitled "The Classic Man-Eaters", explores the accounts of cannibalism produced by European colonialists and travellers in the Americas during the Early Modern era. It begins by documenting the Spanish interaction with the Carib people of the Lesser Antilles, first begun by Christopher Columbus and his men in the 1490s.

  7. Talk:Allegory of the cave - Wikipedia

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    "The allegory of the cave is also commonly known as Myth of the Cave, Metaphor of the Cave or the Parable of the Cave depending on the author of the book." The link to "Myth of the Cave" is about music, I think. Doesn't belong here. This is a "loose association". Secondly, there needs to be documentation that this is "commonly known".

  8. Laestrygonians - Wikipedia

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    The fourth panel of the so-called “Odyssey Landscapes” wall painting from the Vatican Museums in Rome, 60–40 B.C.E.. In Greek mythology, the Laestrygonians / ˌ l ɛ s t r ɪ ˈ ɡ oʊ n i ə n z / or Laestrygones / l ɛ ˈ s t r ɪ ɡ ə ˌ n iː z / [1] (Greek: Λαιστρυγόνες) were a tribe of man-eating giants.

  9. Life & Times of Michael K - Wikipedia

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    Life & Times of Michael K is a 1983 novel by South African-born writer J. M. Coetzee.The novel won the Booker Prize for 1983. The novel is a story of a man named Michael K, who makes an arduous journey from Cape Town to his mother's rural birthplace, amid a fictitious civil war during the apartheid era, in the 1970-80s.