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The Palooka. The Palooka is a 1937 one-act about an old has-been boxer. The characters are The Palooka (Galveston Joe), The Kid and The Trainer. The Kid is nervous about his first fight, and The Palooka relieves the Kid's anxiety by telling about the fictional life he wanted to lead after he retired as Galveston Joe.
January 19, 1924. " The Most Dangerous Game ", also published as " The Hounds of Zaroff ", is a short story by Richard Connell, [1] first published in Collier's on January 19, 1924, with illustrations by Wilmot Emerton Heitland. [2] [3] The story features a big-game hunter from New York City who falls from a yacht and swims to what seems to be ...
Based on the short story "Jerusalem's Lot". Epix: 60%: TBA The Jaunt: Based on the short story of the same name. MRC Television: TBA TBA Revelations: Based on the short story "The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson". Warner Bros. Television The CW: Sleeping Beauties: Based on the novel of the same name, co-authored with his son, Owen King. Sugar23
A short story taken from the short story collection of the same name Novel 1953 Human decline Childhood's End: Arthur C. Clarke: Novel 1954 War Tomorrow! Philip Wylie: Cautionary (for its time) civil defense-themed "tale of two cities": one (fictional) American city is ready for nuclear World War III, while the other is not Play 1954 War
Ender's Shadow is a parallel novel to Ender's Game, telling many of the same events from the perspective of Bean, Ender's second-in-command and a mostly peripheral character in Ender's Game, while the first three sequels, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets and Shadow of the Giant tell the story of the struggle for world dominance after the ...
The protagonist of the first game. An ordinary high school student who was accepted to the academy by raffle. He has no spectacular talents, aside from his belief that he is a bit more optimistic than most people, and was given the title of Ultimate Lucky Student (超高校級の「幸運」, Chō kōkō-kyū no "Kōun", lit.
This is a list of short stories and novellas that have been made into feature films. The title of the work is followed by the work's author, the title of the film, and the year of the film. If a film has an alternate title based on geographical distribution, the title listed will be that of the widest distribution area.
Plot summary. The children, Grisha, Anya, Alyosha, and Sonya, as well as Andrey, the son of a cook, stay up late, taking advantage of the adults' being absent, and play lotto. Quite different things motivate them. Grisha, a nine-year-old, is the most ardent of the contestants; greedy and highly anxious, he plays only for the money.