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61The Hothouse — is a play written by Harold Pinter between two of his best known early plays, The Birthday Party and The Caretaker . After writing The Hothouse in the winter of 1958, Pinter shelved the play following the initial commercial failure of The… …
62The Fisherman and the Jinni — is the second top level story told by Shahrazad in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights.ynopsisThere was an old, poor fisherman who caste his net four times a day and only four times. One day he went to the shore and cast his net. When he… …
63The Prophetess (play) — The Prophetess is a late Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy written by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger. It was initially published in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647.Date and performanceThe play was licensed for performance… …
64The Great Conversation — is a reference to what many Catholic apologists believe happens in purgatory.Peter Kreeft, Between Heaven and Hell (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1982), 7.] In effect, people in purgatory are to naturally converse with each other in an… …
65The Philosophy of Furniture — is an essay written by American author Edgar Allan Poe published in 1840. An unusual work by Poe, whose more typical works include horror tales like The Tell Tale Heart, the essay is essentially Poe s theories on interior decorating.OverviewPoe… …
66The Thin Red Line — is a term for an outgunned military unit holding firm against attack. The phrase has now also taken on the more general meaning of the manner in which soldiers and military personnel hold the line between the safety of a country and individuals… …
67The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of — The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World (1998, ISBN 0 684 82405 1) is a somewhat sardonic overview of the interactions between science fiction and the real world, written by Thomas M. Disch, a noted author in the… …
68The Fifth Mountain — by Paulo Coelho was published in 1996 and was his fourth major publication.The story is based on the story of Elijah from the Judeo Christian Bible (1 Kings chapters 17 19). The focus is on Elijah s time in Zarephath (in this book named Akbar).… …
69The Affluent Society — is a 1958 book by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith. The book sought to clearly outline the manner in which the post World War II America was becoming wealthy in the private sector but remained poor in the public sector, lacking social and …
70The Sword of Knowledge — omnibus cover A Dirge for Sabis Wizard Spawn Reap the Whirlwind Author …
