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Publisher. Harper & Row. Publication date. 1981–1991. Publication place. United States. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a series of three collections of short horror stories for children, written by Alvin Schwartz and originally illustrated by Stephen Gammell. In 2011, HarperCollins published editions featuring new art by Brett Helquist ...
Reading in the Dark won the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize and Irish Literature Prizes, and is a New York Times Notable Book. It also won the 1996 South Bank Show Award for Literature, and was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1996. [citation needed] It has been translated into 20 languages.
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 ...
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.
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.
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark is a 1995 book by the astrophysicist Carl Sagan. (Four of the 25 chapters were written with Ann Druyan ). [ 1]: x In it, Sagan aims to explain the scientific method to laypeople and to encourage people to learn critical and skeptical thinking. He explains methods to help distinguish ...
The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. [ 1] " Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening " is a poem by Robert Frost, written in 1922, and published in 1923 in his New Hampshire volume. Imagery, personification, and repetition are prominent in the work.
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 .