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Wedding at Cana. The wedding at Cana (also called the marriage at Cana, wedding feast at Cana or marriage feast at Cana) is the name of the story in the Gospel of John at which the first miracle attributed to Jesus takes place. [1][2] In the Gospel account, Jesus, his mother and his disciples are invited to a wedding at Cana in Galilee.
The Wedding of Zein (Arabic: عرس الزين, romanized: ʿUrs az-Zayn) is an Arabic novella by the late Sudanese author Tayeb Salih. It was partially published in Arabic in 1964, fully published in 1966 and translated into English in 1968. [1] Within the realm of Arabic literature, the book is considered a classic and was republished as part ...
The Wedding (Sparks novel) The Wedding. (Sparks novel) The Wedding is a 2003 romantic novel by Nicholas Sparks. It is about a couple who celebrate 30 years' marriage, and has been described as a sequel to Sparks's previous novel The Notebook. [1] The book follows the life of Noah and Allie's daughter, Jane and her husband, Wilson.
The Notebook was Nicholas Sparks' first published novel and written over a time period of six months in 1994. [1][2] Literary agent Theresa Park discovered Sparks by picking the book out of her agency's slush pile and reading it. Park offered to represent him. In October 1995, Park secured a $1 million advance for the book from the Time Warner ...
The Member of the Wedding is told from the point of view of Frankie, who is a troubled adolescent. But some critics think it is a mistake to view The Member of the Wedding as simply a coming of age novel—a "sweet momentary illumination of adolescence before the disillusion of adulthood," [5] as it is sometimes regarded, or as Patricia Yaeger puts it, "an economical way of learning about the ...
The first is Yaichnitsa (which can mean either 'fried eggs' or 'omelet'). Yaichnitsa is overly concerned with the dowry and appears skeptical as to whether Fyokla has told him the truth about it. The second suitor, Anuchkin is a man of refinement and wants a bride who speaks French, a language fashionable among the upper classes, even though he ...
Gawain and the loathly lady in W. H. Margetson 's illustration for Maud Isabel Ebbutt's Hero-Myths and Legends of the British Race (1910) The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle (The Weddynge of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnell) is a 15th-century English poem, one of several versions of the "loathly lady" story popular during the Middle Ages.
A Marriage Proposal (sometimes translated as simply The Proposal, Russian: Предложение, romanized:Predlozheniye) is a one-act farce by Anton Chekhov, written in 1888–1889 and first performed in 1890. It is a fast-paced play of dialogue-based action and situational humour. A young man Lomov comes to propose to his neighbour Natalya ...