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"Rain" is a short story by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham. It was originally published as "Miss Thompson" in the April 1921 issue of the American literary magazine The Smart Set, [1] and was included in the collection of stories by Maugham The Trembling of a Leaf.
Rain is a 1932 pre-Code drama film that stars Joan Crawford as prostitute Sadie Thompson. Directed by Lewis Milestone and set in the South Seas , the production was filmed in part at Santa Catalina Island and what is now Crystal Cove State Park in California.
The story was first published in issue 3 of the magazine Midnight Graffiti in spring 1989. In 1993, it was republished in King's short story collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes collection. [1] In 2006, a version of the story illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne was published as part of the Cemetery Dance Publications book The Secretary of Dreams ...
The Rain Heron is a 2020 novel by the Australian author Robbie Arnott. [1] Synopsis ... What follows is a story of ecological tension, survival and redemption.
The story is about a class of students on Venus, which, in this story, is a world of constant rainstorms, where the sun is only visible for an hour every seven years. One of the children, Margot, moved to Venus from Earth five years earlier and is the only one who remembers the sun, since it shines regularly on Earth. She describes the sun to ...
"The Long Rain" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury. This story was originally published in 1950 under a different title in the magazine Planet Stories, and then in the collection The Illustrated Man. The story tells of four men who have crashed on Venus, where it is always raining.
Ugetsu Monogatari (雨月物語, Tales of Moonlight and Rain) is a collection of nine supernatural tales first published in 1776. It is the best known work of Japanese author Ueda Akinari . Largely adapted from traditional Japanese and Chinese ghost stories , the collection is among the most important works of Edo period (1603–1867) and ...
Laurence Kim Peek was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, [7] with macrocephaly, [5] damage to the cerebellum, and agenesis of the corpus callosum, [8] a condition in which the nerves that connect the two hemispheres of the brain are missing; in Peek's case, secondary connectors, such as the anterior commissure, were also missing. [5]