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1301 – King Andrew III died without any male heirs, ending the Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century.; 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (poster pictured), based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
The Seven Basic Plots has received mixed responses from scholars and journalists. Some have celebrated the book's audacity and breadth; for example, the author and essayist Fay Weldon wrote the following: "This is the most extraordinary, exhilarating book. It always seemed to me that 'the story' was God's way of giving meaning to crude creation.
It grows to 1.7 metres (5.6 feet) in length from head to tail, although a few specimens have grown more than 2 metres (6.6 feet) with weights upward of 20 pounds (9.1 kilograms). Green iguanas possess a row of spines along their backs and tails, which helps to protect them from predators.
English: Five of these stories were written by the noted Finnish author, Zachris Topelius, who wrote them, and much else, for the children of Finland and Sweden more than fifty years ago. His loving sympathy for children, and his earnest desire to write only what was wholesome and good for them, shine through all his literary work for the young.
Stories from The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938) The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (1936) The Capital of the World (1936) The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1936) Old Man at the Bridge (1938) From Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923) Up in Michigan (1923, revised 1938) In Our Time (1925 and 1930) On the Quai at Smyrna; Indian ...
Zoetrope: All-Story (vol.22, no.1) Wendell Berry "The Great Interruption: A Story of a Famous Story of Old Port William and How It Ceased to Be Told (1935–1978)" Threepenny Review (no.155) Jamel Brinkley "No More Than a Bubble" LitMag (no.2) Deborah Eisenberg "The Third Tower" Ploughshares (vol.44, no.1) Julia Elliott "Hellion" The Georgia ...
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The resulting list of "100 novels that shaped our world", [1] called the "100 Most Inspiring Novels" by BBC News, [2] was published by the BBC to kick off a year of celebrating literature. [2] [3] The list triggered comments from critics and other news agencies.