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For Your Eyes Only is a collection of short stories by the British author Ian Fleming, featuring the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond, the eighth book to feature the character. It was first published by Jonathan Cape on 11 April 1960. It marked a change of format for Fleming, who had previously written James Bond ...
August 1949. " Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed " is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury. It was originally published in the magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories in August 1949, under the title " The Naming of Names ". It was subsequently included in the short-story collections A Medicine for Melancholy and S Is for Space .
This is a list of miscarriage of justice cases.This list includes cases where a convicted individual was later cleared of the crime and either has received an official exoneration, or a consensus exists that the individual was unjustly punished or where a conviction has been quashed and no retrial has taken place, so that the accused is legally assumed innocent.
As I Lay Dying. As I Lay Dying is a 1930 Southern Gothic [ 1] novel by American author William Faulkner. Faulkner's fifth novel, it is consistently ranked among the best novels of the 20th century. [ 2][ 3][ 4] The title is derived from William Marris 's 1925 translation of Homer 's Odyssey, [ 5] referring to the similar themes of both works.
You Like It Darker is a collection of twelve stories by American author Stephen King, published by Scribner in May 2024. [1] The book was announced on November 6, 2023, via Entertainment Weekly, which provided a look at the book's wraparound cover, table of contents, and an excerpt from "Rattlesnakes", a sequel to King's 1981 novel Cujo.
Tibullus book 1 is the first of two books of poems by the Roman poet Tibullus (c. 56–c.19 BC). It contains ten poems written in Latin elegiac couplets , and is thought to have been published about 27 or 26 BC.
960. ISBN. 0-671-74103-9. Swan Song is a 1987 horror novel by American novelist Robert R. McCammon. Published June 1, 1987, [ 1] it is a work of post-apocalyptic fiction describing the aftermath of a nuclear war that provokes an evolution in humankind. Swan Song won the 1987 Bram Stoker award, tying with Stephen King's Misery.
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is a book by Australian historian Christopher Clark, first published in 2012. The book covers the causes of the First World War, starting in 1903 with the murder of Alexander I of Serbia and ending with the outbreak of World War One. In The Sleepwalkers, Clark argues that no sole country is to ...