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On Christmas Eve, he comes across a farm in the forest. He goes into the chicken's shed and wants to eat a chicken, but he is stopped by Tomten. Tomten knows how hungry a fox can be in such a cold winter's night. When a child leaves a plate of groat on the doorstep for Tomten, Tomten wants to share it with Mickel. He tells Mickel that he would ...
The plot of Falling Leaves owes elements to the O. Henry short story "The Last Leaf" (1907). [2] [3] The child hero is a recurring theme in Guy-Blaché films; [4] the first film produced by Solax, A Child's Sacrifice (1910), which also starred Magda Foy, is another example.
Pinocchio encounters The Fox and the Cat after leaving Mangiafuoco's theatre with five gold coins. The Fox claims to know Pinocchio's father Geppetto and proposes to Pinocchio to visit the Land of Barn Owls (Italian: Paese dei Barbagianni) and thence to a Field of Miracles, where coins can be grown into a money-producing tree. They convince him ...
The Fox is a novella by D. H. Lawrence which first appeared in The Dial in 1922. Set in Berkshire, England, during World War I, The Fox, like many of D. H. Lawrence's other major works, deals with the psychological relationships of three protagonists in a triangle of love and hatred. Without the help of any male laborers, Nellie March and Jill ...
The Falling Leaves is a poem written by Margaret Postgate-Cole (1893–1980) in November 1915 about World War I. [1] Cole was an English atheist, feminist, pacifist, and socialist; her pacifist views influenced her poetry. Her brother was jailed for refusing to obey conscription. She wrote poems about World War I and against the government.
Almost 2 million men and women who served in Iraq or Afghanistan are flooding homeward, profoundly affected by war. Their experiences have been vivid. Dazzling in the ups, terrifying and depressing in the downs. The burning devotion of the small-unit brotherhood, the adrenaline rush of danger, the nagging fear and loneliness, the pride of service.
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