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The Magic Finger is a 1966 children's story by British author Roald Dahl. [3] [4] First published in the United States by Harper & Row with illustrations by William Pène du Bois, [1] [5] Allen & Unwin published the first U.K. edition in 1968. [2] Later editions have been illustrated by Pat Marriott, Tony Ross, and Quentin Blake. [5]
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare is a 1907 collection published by E. Nesbit with the intention of entertaining young readers and retelling William Shakespeare 's plays in a way they could be easily understood by younger readers. She also included a brief Shakespeare biography, a pronunciation guide to some of the more difficult names and a ...
The series was quick to draw attention. A few years later Goscinny began to write Le Petit Nicholas in short story form, with illustrations by Sempé. The first Nicholas story, L’œuf de Pâques, was published 29 March 1959 in the journal Sud-Ouest Dimanche. The authors hadn't initially planned to continue the series but the sudden popularity ...
A prime example is the story The History of Gherib and His Brother Agib (from Nights vol. 6), in which Gherib, an outcast prince, fights off a family of ravenous Ghouls and then enslaves them and converts them to Islam. [97] Horror fiction elements are also found in "The City of Brass" tale, which revolves around a ghost town. [98]
7813056. Preceded by. The Dark Room. Followed by. The English Teacher. Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan published in 1943 by Indian Thought Publications. [1] The book was republished outside India in 1982 by Penguin Classics. [2] The book includes 32 stories, all set in the fictional town of Malgudi, [3] located in ...
Sandie Angulo Chen of Common Sense Media rate the film three stars out of five, stating that the film's "noticeable improvement to Stassen's other historical drama Fly Me to the Moon." She also notes that the story is "more accessible to kids," the characters are "better developed," and the messages aren't as "preachy."
Website. www.kateatkinson.co.uk. Kate Atkinson MBE (born 20 December 1951) is an English writer of novels, plays and short stories. [1] She is known for creating the Jackson Brodie series of detective novels, which has been adapted into the BBC One series, Case Histories. [1][2] She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize in 1995 in the Novels ...
Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene V Romeo and Juliet is sometimes considered to have no unifying theme, save that of young love. Romeo and Juliet have become emblematic of young lovers and doomed love. Since it is such an obvious subject of the play, several scholars have explored the language and historical context behind the romance of the play. On their first meeting, Romeo and Juliet use a ...