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To Build a Fire (1969) was made by David Cobham, with Ian Hogg as the man and Orson Welles as the narrator. [18] To Build a Fire (2003) is a French version starring Olivier Pagès. [19] Build a Fire (2011) is an American version with a modified story. [20] To Build a Fire (2016) is an animated short film directed by Fx Goby. [21]
CliffsNotes began in 1958 as $1 reprints of Canadian study guides for 16 plays by Shakespeare. At that time, Hillegass worked for a major distributor of college textbooks. He knew hundreds of campus bookstore managers across the country. Those close relationships gave him the first outlets for the Notes.
IDG Books purchased CliffsNotes in 1998 for $14.2 million. John Wiley & Sons acquired IDG Books (renamed Hungry Minds) in 2001. In 2011, CliffsNotes announced a joint venture with Mark Burnett, a TV producer, to create a series of 60-second video study guides of literary works. [4] In 2012, CliffsNotes was acquired by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. [1]
My Side of the Mountain is a middle-grade adventure novel written and illustrated by American writer Jean Craighead George published by E. P. Dutton in 1959. [1] It features a boy who learns courage, independence, and the need for companionship while attempting to live in the Catskill Mountains of New York State.
About midway through Christine Murphy’s debut novel, “Notes on Surviving the Fire,” her protagonist, Sarah Common, tells a guy she’s dating that rape-revenge movies don’t work.
In the harshness of midwinter, an unnamed man attempts to travel across ten miles of Yukon wilderness to arrive at a camp where his friends are while bracing temperatures dropping to seventy-five degrees below zero with his companion, a wolf-dog. Struggling to survive, he makes multiple attempts to build a simple fire. [6]
The novel was reprinted in the Modern Library series in 1931. [5] It was included in Life Magazine's list of the 100 outstanding books of 1924–1944. [6] It was also included on Time 's 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005 [7] and Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century [8] and was chosen by the Western Writers of America to be the 7th ...
Between Two Fires is a 2012 historical fiction horror novel by Christopher Buehlman.Set during the Black Death, it follows a disgraced knight and a mysterious young girl who travel across France, as Lucifer and other fallen angels start another war with Heaven.