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The Wall (German: Die Wand) is a 1963 novel [1] by Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer. Considered the author's finest work, The Wall is an example of dystopian fiction. [2] The English translation by Shaun Whiteside was published by Cleis Press in 1990. The novel's main character is a 40-something woman whose name the reader never learns.
The Wall (French: Le Mur) by Jean-Paul Sartre, a collection of 5 short stories published in 1939 containing the eponymous story "The Wall", is considered one of the author's greatest existentialist works of fiction. Sartre dedicated the book to his companion Olga Kosakiewicz, a former student of Simone de Beauvoir.
The Wall (German: Die Wand) is a 2012 Austrian-German drama film written and directed by Julian Pölsler and starring Martina Gedeck. [3] Based on the 1963 novel Die Wand by Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer and adapted for the screen by Julian Pölsler, the film is about a woman who visits with friends at their hunting lodge in the Austrian Alps.
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain is a children's book written and illustrated by Peter Sís. [1] It received both the American Library Association's Caldecott Honor and ALA's 2008 Robert Silbert Medal for the most distinguished informational book for young readers.
Belshazzar's feast, or the story of the writing on the wall, chapter 5 in the Book of Daniel, tells how Belshazzar holds a great feast and drinks from the vessels that had been looted in the destruction of the First Temple. A hand appears and writes on the wall. The terrified Belshazzar calls for his wise men, but they cannot read the writing.
The friar tells him that before overcoming a challenge you must first find "the door in the wall". Robin's parents had planned for him to stay with Sir Peter de Lindsay to be a page, the first step in becoming a knight. John Go-in-the-Wynd, a minstrel, gives him a letter from Robin's father telling him and John Go-in-the-Wynd and Brother Luke ...
Christine Coulson, who spent 25 years working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has written a short, clever novel that tells the story of a woman over the course of her life in a series of museum ...
This begins to happen frequently, and soon she is convinced that the voices are speaking about her. Finally she hears them calling her by name and eventually traces them to a secret room behind the attic wall, where two large dolls--Timothy John and Miss Christabel--live in a makeshift home with their small china dog.