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Osip Dymov (Russian: Осип Дымов) is the central fictional character in the classic Russian story "The Grasshopper" (Poprygunya; 1892) by Anton Chekhov. [1] For generations this character has served to inspire medical professionals as to the standards of dedication expected from them.
The first part of the book describes eight major character archetypes in detail. [7] Those are: Hero: someone who is willing to sacrifice his own needs on behalf of others; Mentor: all the characters who teach and protect heroes and give them gifts; Threshold Guardian: a menacing face to the hero, but if understood, they can be overcome
The Dark Is Rising Sequence is a series of five contemporary fantasy novels for older children and young adults that were written by the British author Susan Cooper and published from 1965 to 1977. The first book in the series, Over Sea, Under Stone , was originally conceived as a stand-alone novel, [ 2 ] and the sequence gets its name from the ...
The Grasshopper and the Ants (film) The Grasshopper & the Ants; H. Hopper (A Bug's Life) I. Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow; M. Mr. Bug Goes to Town;
Set in England between 1910 and 1929, it features the title character Maisie Dobbs, a private investigator building her business in the aftermath of the First World War. Generally well received by critics, mostly because of Maisie's strength of character, the novel was nominated for several awards and received the 2003 Agatha Award for Best ...
"The Grasshopper" was first published in the Nos. 1 and 2 (5 and 12 January 1892, respectively) issues of the Sever magazine. In a slightly changed version it was included into the Moscow-published Novellas and Stories (Повести и рассказы), 1894 collection, and later into Volume 8 of the Collected Works by A.P. Chekhov published ...
The second Grasshopper is a fictional, corporate superhero in the Marvel Comics universe who first appeared in the pages of GLX-Mas Special #1, a Marvel Comics one-shot, in 2005. The character was created by Dan Slott and artist Ty Templeton, who based his design on Paul Pelletier's design for the original Grasshopper. [citation needed]
Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, The Grasshopper (1872), National Gallery of Victoria, Australia. Because of the influence of La Fontaine's Fables, in which La cigale et la fourmi stands at the beginning, the grasshopper then became the proverbial example of improvidence in France: so much so that Jules-Joseph Lefebvre (1836–1911) could paint a picture of a female nude biting one of her nails among ...