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Leslie Charteris bibliography Novels ↙ 19 Collections ↙ 14 Scripts ↙ 8 Translations ↙ 1 Novellas ↙ 11 Non-fiction ↙ 2 Introduction ↙ 1 References and footnotes Leslie Charteris (born Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin; 1907–1993) was a British-American writer best known for his series on stories featuring Simon Templar, also known as The Saint. Born in Singapore to a Chinese father ...
Josiah Gilbert Holland (July 24, 1819 – October 12, 1881) was an American novelist, essayist, poet and spiritual mentor to the Nation in the years following the Civil War. [1] Born in Western Massachusetts, he was “the most successful man of letters in the United States” in the latter half of the nineteenth century and sold more books in ...
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.
No Grasshopper to date has survived past the issue in which they first appeared. The Grasshoppers are a simultaneous homage to and satire of stereotypical superheroes and Marvel's tendency towards animal-themed characters. They are also a lampoon of the tendency of superhero team books to introduce new, hastily developed characters only to ...
Regarding the origins of the character and the series concept, see Kung Fu: Bruce Lee's involvement. Regarding the issue of the actor's casting, see Kung Fu : Casting controversy . In a May 1973 interview by Black Belt Magazine to John Furia Jr. , the series story editor, expresses his view of the character: “Essentially, the story is one of ...
Frontispiece of the 1808, London, publication of The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast. The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast is a poem by William Roscoe, written in 1802, and telling the story of a party for insects and other small animals.
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 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 ...