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The Witan summons Uhtred to an audience with King Alfred in Cippanhamm, where he is accused, based on the testimony of Asser, of using the king's ship to raid the Britons, with whom Wessex is at peace, and joining Svein in attacking the Cynuit abbey. Steapa Snotor, one of Odda the Younger's warriors, says he too saw Uhtred at the abbey.
The Erl-King (French: Le Roi des aulnes) is a 1970 novel by the French writer Michel Tournier. It is also known as The Ogre. The novel received the Prix Goncourt. [1] The 1996 film The Ogre, directed by Volker Schlöndorff, is based on the novel. Currently it is published in the United Kingdom by Atlantic Books.
"The Other Two" is a short story by Edith Wharton, originally published in Collier’s Weekly on February 13, 1904. It is considered by some critics to be among her best short fiction. [ 1 ] Wharton explores themes of marriage , divorce , and social class through the perspective of businessman Mr. Waythorn, shortly after his marriage to the ...
The story, even before its first publication, had been adapted as Stephen King's N., a multi-part graphic video series, as part of the marketing campaign for King's upcoming collection. The series consists of 25 [ 2 ] one and a half-minute episodes totaling approximately 30 minutes in length.
At Swim-Two-Birds presents itself as a first-person story by an unnamed Irish student of literature. The student believes that "one beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with", and he accordingly sets three apparently quite separate stories in motion. [4]
Cabbages and Kings is a 1904 novel made up of interlinked short stories, written by O. Henry and set in a fictitious Central American country called the Republic of Anchuria. [1] It takes its title from the poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter", featured in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. Its plot contains famous elements in the poem ...
Joey King and Steven Piet's love story is straight out of a fairytale. The pair first crossed paths in 2018 on the set of The Act, in which King portrayed Gypsy Rose Blanchard. Piet served as a ...
A Monstrous Regiment of Women is the second book in the Mary Russell series of mystery novels by Laurie R. King.. The title is taken from a work by John Knox, published in 1558, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regimen of Women. [1]