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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 ...
0-689-71173-5. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is a 1972 ALA Notable Children's Book written by Judith Viorst and illustrated by Ray Cruz. [ 1][ 2] It has also won a George G. Stone Center Recognition of Merit, a Georgia Children's Book Award, and is a Reading Rainbow book. Viorst followed this book up with three ...
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.
The book version of Riis' work was published in January 1890 as How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York. [ 20 ] The title of the book is a reference to a sentence by French writer François Rabelais , who wrote in Pantagruel : "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives" ("la moitié du monde ne sait ...
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 .
Influence. "A Sound of Thunder" is often credited as the origin of the term "butterfly effect", a concept of chaos theory in which the flapping of a butterfly's wings in one part of the world could create a hurricane on the opposite side of the globe. The term was actually introduced by meteorologist Edward Norton Lorenz in the 1960s.
Followed by. The Relativity of Wrong. Far as Human Eye Could See: Essays on Science (published 1987) is a collection of science essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov, short works which originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction ( F&SF ), these being first published between November 1984 and March 1986.
The Spy Who Loved Me is the ninth novel and tenth book in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published by Jonathan Cape on 16 April 1962. [a] It is the shortest and most sexually explicit of Fleming's novels, as well as the only Bond novel told in the first person.