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From If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. The entire story is told in second person.A boy named Matthew gives a cookie to a mouse. The mouse asks for a glass of milk. He then requests a straw (to drink the milk), a napkin and then a mirror (to avoid a milk mustache), nail scissors (to trim his hair in the mirror), and a broom (to sweep up his hair trimmings).
Venus in Furs (German: Venus im Pelz) is a novella by the Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and the best known of his works. The novel was to be part of an epic series that Sacher-Masoch envisioned called Legacy of Cain ( Das Vermächtniß Kains ).
Some time after the neighbour's wife dies, the man notices Seline has fine golden hair like his deceased wife, and decides to marry her. Seline laughs at the proposal, but, realizing he is serious, and her own father seems inclined to agree, she tries to delay the wedding by asking for three dresses: one shining like the midday sun, one like a ...
Madonna in a Fur Coat (Turkish: Kürk Mantolu Madonna) is a novel written by Turkish author Sabahattin Ali.It was published in 1943. The book tells the story of Raif, who is living a purposeless life until he meets a woman named Maria Puder. Initially, the book was criticized by many critics because "it was just another love story", [1] but it became a bestseller in time, a
"Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat" is a short story by Roald Dahl that first appeared in the 1959 issue of Nugget.The story is Dahl's variation on a popular anecdote dating back at least to 1939: [1] a married woman receives a glamorous mink coat from a man with whom she had an affair.
Kiss of the Fur Queen is a novel by Tomson Highway, [1] first published by Doubleday Canada in September 1998. [ 2 ] The novel's main characters are Champion and Ooneemeetoo Okimasis, two young Cree brothers from Eemanipiteepitat in northern Manitoba who are taken from their family and sent to a residential school . [ 2 ]
In the Latin versions of Walter of England, [5] Odo of Cheriton [6] and Heinrich Steinhöwel's Aesop, [7] for example, the word umbra is used. At that time it could mean both reflection and shadow, and it was the latter word that was preferred by William Caxton, who used Steinhöwel's as the basis of his own 1384 collection of the fables. [8]
The Lady and the Little Fox Fur is a novel by French author Violette Leduc. [1] [2] It was first published in French as La Femme au petit renard in 1965. It was released in English by Peter Owen in 1967, and rereleased by them in 2006. [3] [4] In 2018, a new version was released by Penguin European Writers, with an introduction by Deborah Levy. [5]