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"The Lotus Eater" is a short story by British author W. Somerset Maugham in 1935 and loosely based on the life story of John Ellingham Brooks. It was included in the 1940 collection of Maugham stories The Mixture as Before .
Joel Heyman as Bill Beavers, a man with a rare disease that makes it impossible for him to sleep: initially considered a death sentence with a life-expectancy of six months, Bill faces the very real possibility he will be the last man on Earth. (regular season 2; guest season 1) Bill was the main character of the original unreleased Day 5 short ...
The post office on Westland Row is the setting of episode 5 ("Lotus Eaters"). Sweny's Pharmacy on Lombard Street, where Bloom purchases soap, and Lincoln Place [15] are also settings of episode 5 ("Lotus Eaters"). The Freeman's Journal on Prince's Street, [16] off of O'Connell Street, is the setting of episode 7 ("Aeolus").
First edition (publ. Oxford University Press) Man-Eaters of Kumaon is a 1944 book written by hunter-naturalist Jim Corbett. [1] It details the experiences that Corbett had in the Kumaon region of India from the 1900s to the 1930s, while hunting man-eating Bengal tigers [2] and Indian leopards. [3]
The story was republished in the collections Conan the Barbarian (Gnome Press, 1954), Conan the Wanderer (Lancer Books, 1968), and The Devil in Iron (Grant, 1976).It has more recently been published in the collections The Conan Chronicles Volume 1: The People of the Black Circle (Gollancz, 2000) as "Shadows in Zamboula" and in Conan of Cimmeria: Volume Three (1935–1936) (Del Rey, 2005) under ...
The Man-eaters of Tsavo is a semi-autobiographical book written by Anglo-Irish military officer and hunter John Henry Patterson. Published in 1907, [ 1 ] it recounts his experiences in East Africa while supervising the construction of a railroad bridge over the Tsavo river in Kenya , in 1898.
Life & Times of Michael K is a 1983 novel by South African-born writer J. M. Coetzee.The novel won the Booker Prize for 1983. The novel is a story of a man named Michael K, who makes an arduous journey from Cape Town to his mother's rural birthplace, amid a fictitious civil war during the apartheid era, in the 1970-80s.
The man accepts, and the ogress's son explains he will appear by his door and beg for alms, after the coming of heavy clouds, the season of winds, clouds and rains. The man comes home and gives the golden stone to his daughter. Some time later, the weather becomes heavy and stormy, and a beggar appears at their door, asking for food.