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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 ...
A Bad Case of Stripes is a children's book written and illustrated by David Shannon published in 1998 by Blue Sky Press, a division of Scholastic Press. A Bad Case of Stripes highlights the theme of being true to oneself, and is commonly used by educators to teach young students important values. Amongst some negative responses, this children ...
During cross-examination Tacopina had questioned a passage from Carroll's 2019 book suggesting that all men should be sent to Montana for "retraining", and the judge explained it was an allusion to Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal (the title of which Carroll took for her 2019 book's subtitle), which satirically suggests that poor Irish people ...
January 1843. " The Tell-Tale Heart " is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843. It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of the narrator's sanity while simultaneously describing a murder the narrator committed. The victim was an old man with a filmy pale blue "vulture-eye", as ...
Old Oscar is excited to hear his old friend Winnie Winger is coming out to visit him, but he believes she's coming to see his famous stunt, the Double-Over-Under-Upside-Down-Loop-De-Loop. Jay Jay helps him practice the move so he's ready, unaware of that Winnie is only here to visit her old friend, and she doesn't mind the move at all.
Heart of Darkness at Wikisource. Heart of Darkness is an 1899 novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad in which the sailor Charles Marlow tells his listeners the story of his assignment as steamer captain for a Belgian company in the African interior. The novel is widely regarded as a critique of European colonial rule in Africa, whilst ...
The Fault in Our Stars is a novel by John Green.It is his fourth solo novel, and sixth novel overall. It was published on January 10, 2012. The title is inspired by Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, in which the nobleman Cassius says to Brutus: "Men at some time were masters of their fates, / The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are ...
Curb Your Enthusiasm features many celebrity guest star appearances, fictionalized to varying degrees. In August 2022, the series was renewed for a twelfth and final season, [2] [3] that premiered on February 4, 2024. [4] During the course of the series, 121 episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm aired, concluding on April 7, 2024.