this story, the first being as part of his 2000 compendium of Aesop's Fables. When creating this book it was important for Pinkney to balance retelling...
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provides lists of best-selling books and book series to date and in any language. "Best-selling" refers to the estimated number of copies sold of each book...
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printing technology lowered the costs of publishing and made books more affordable to the working classes, who were also likely to buy smaller and cheaper...
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by Nick Hern Books. In 2021 BBC Radio 4 broadcast an adaptation by Ayeesha Menon which resets the story as a "gangland coming-of-age fable" in modern India...
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The Kite and the Doves is a political fable ascribed to Aesop that is numbered 486 in the Perry Index. During the Middle Ages the fable was modified by...
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metaphor for credulity with roots in fable, this refers to the perception of a simpleton who sees a reflection of the Moon in water and mistakes it for a...
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Bergman, The Bells of Saint Marys, 1945 The Bishop's Wife, 1948 These are films that were made for television (including streaming services), or for the direct-to-video...
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Megalopolis (film) (redirect from Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis: A Fable)
yourself over to. But instead, it only prompted me to check my watch." Also referred to as Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis: A Fable Catilina's surname...
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The Mountain in Labour is one of Aesop's Fables and appears as number 520 in the Perry Index. The story became proverbial in Classical times and was applied...
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The Cock and the Jewel is a fable attributed to Aesop and is numbered 503 in the Perry Index. As a trope in literature, the fable is reminiscent of stories...
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Augustan prose (section The precondition of literacy)
the Balance of Power (1701). However, Davenant's work was not directly very influential. On the other hand, Bernard de Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees...
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ought to strike a balance between the customer being right and wrong. Business Insider said that the adoption of this motto has "created a sense of entitlement...
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Official publishers of Star Trek novels include Simon & Schuster and U.K. publisher Titan Books. Bantam Books published novels from 1967 to 1981. Past publishers...
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Festina lente (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
Jean de la Fontaine alluded to the motto in his famous fable of "The Hare and the Tortoise" (Fables, 1668–94), writing that the tortoise "with a prudent...
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objects encompass a variety of items (e.g. weapons, armor, clothing) found in mythology, legend, folklore, tall tale, fable, religion, spirituality, superstition...
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Personal fable consists of believing that you are exceptional in some way. These types of social thinking begin in the concrete stage but carry on to the formal...
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and pastiche, with short fables interspersed throughout. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is Andrea Lawlor's debut novel. The book received positive...
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fairy-tale fable and distinctive cut-out look was created using Nuke compositing software, from the Toronto-based Guru Studio. During the development of the screenplay...
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translates as "The Realm of Fables"), did not see the last eight volumes in translation – most likely because of disappointing sales. On the other hand,...
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Émilie du Châtelet (category Contributors to the Encyclopédie (1751–1772))
[citation needed] In her first independent work, the preface to her translation of the Fable of the Bees, du Châtelet argued strongly for women's education...
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Return of the Jedi Cinestory Comic. 3 September 2019. ISBN 978-1772757255. "Step Into Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge With New Books, Comics, And Fables". StarWars...
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"What happened to a good Man and his Son, leading a beast to market," is the familiar fable The miller, his son and the donkey. The book opens with a...
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pp. 589–590. Brewers Dictionary of 20th Century Phrase and Fable Great War Primary Documents Archive, 2007, "Battle of Jutland – Commonwealth Casualties"...
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Lucianic fable, Menippean satire, natural history, and morality play, among others…” Oddvar Holmesland of University of Edinburgh agrees that The Blazing...
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authority: the book was written in the extreme old age of the author and is full of fable. But William H. Sparks himself married into the Green family...
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Dune (franchise) (redirect from List of religions in the Orange Catholic Bible)
Times. Archived from the original on March 23, 2024. O'Reilly, Tim. "Chapter 3: From Concept to Fable". Frank Herbert. Archived from the original on July...
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Alarm device (category Articles to be expanded from March 2021)
ignore an actual emergency: Aesop's fable of The Boy Who Cried Wolf exemplifies this problem. A false alarm is one of the most significant issues with conventional...
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terribly time-consuming that it is to be used only for dramatic scenes. The objective is to find the right balance of telling versus showing, summarization...
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editions. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at Project Gutenberg "The Beast Within", Freudian fable, sexual morality tale, gay allegory – the novella...
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Silent Spring (redirect from The Silent Spring)
designed the cover. The final writing was the first chapter, "A Fable for Tomorrow", which was intended to provide the fact that something like the story...
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