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Beat the Turtle Drum has been compared with similar book Bridge to Terabithia as an exploration of childhood death from a child's perspective, earning praise early on for its approach to the subject matter. Barbara Wersba, a critic for The New York Times, said, "it is a simple book, and in many ways an unexceptional one. But its characters are ...
Lord Dunsany's poem "The Gate of Horn" in his 1940 book War Poems. The poem is about leaving his native Ireland and its false dream of neutrality in WW2 to volunteer in Kent to fight the Germans if they invade, and the hope of a true dream of victory. The Ivory Gate, a novel by Walter Besant, describing a solicitor with a split personality. The ...
Mack is the turtle at the bottom who ultimately rebels and brings the stack crashing down. Maturin: The Dark Tower (series) & It (novel) Stephen King: Considered the most powerful of the guardians of the beams. Minn Minn of the Mississippi: Holling C. Holling: Tortoise The Grapes of Wrath [Chapter 3] John Steinbeck: A tortoise crosses the road ...
Turtle Diary is a 1975 British book by author Russell Hoban. Set in London, the novel concerns two lonely middle-aged people who unexpectedly form a connection over captive green turtles. In 1985 the book was adapted into a film of the same name .
The book was reissued in 2003 to coincide with the publication of The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla. The book derives its title from the T. S. Eliot 1922 poem The Waste Land, several lines of which are reprinted in the opening pages. In addition, the two main sections of the book ("Jake: Fear in a Handful of Dust" and "Lud: A Heap of Broken ...
Urashima Tarō and princess of Horai, by Matsuki Heikichi (1899) Urashima Tarō (浦島 太郎) is the protagonist of a Japanese fairy tale (otogi banashi), who, in a typical modern version, is a fisherman rewarded for rescuing a sea turtle, and carried on its back to the Dragon Palace (Ryūgū-jō) beneath the sea.
A carved turtle, known as bixi was used as a plinth for memorial tablets of high-ranking officials during the Sui dynasty (581-618 CE) and the Ming periods (1368-1644 CE). Enormous turtles supported the memorial tablets of Chinese emperors [36] and support the Kangxi Emperor's stele near Marco Polo Bridge in Beijing, China. Tortoise shells were ...
In Dreams (ISBN 0-575-05201-5) is a 1992 anthology of science fiction and horror short stories, [1] 'a celebration of the 7-inch single in all-original SF and horror fiction'. It was edited by Paul J. McAuley and Kim Newman , and published by Gollancz .