Sentences with phrase «famous short story»

In the following years, P.R. published many famous short stories by Isaac Balshevic Singer, Saul Bellow, and James Farrell.

I first became entranced with Xi Xi through one of her most famous short stories, «A Girl Like Me,» about a young woman working as a make - up artist...

This version of James Thurber's famous short story bears little resemblance to Danny Kaye's 1947 portrayal of the bumbling man with a chronic imagination.

Named after James Joyce's most famous short story, the Dubliner is a classic Irish pub in DC This family - run bar has been in business since 1974 and proudly maintains the Celtic heritage of its founders.

In his famous short story, «A Clean, Well - Lighted Place,» Ernest Hemingway made a parody of the Lord's Prayer, built on the Spanish word nada, meaning nothingness: «Our nada who are in nada, nada be thy name...»

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In Ursula K. Le Guin's most famous short story, «The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,» the city of Omelas is perfect for 99.99999999999999 percent of its citizens.

Total Recall is an action thriller about reality and memory, inspired anew by the famous short story «We Can Remember It For You Wholesale» by Philip K. Dick.

Occasionally the film cuts to a blurred image of what appears to be Pullman shaking his head and screaming, to me looking like Pullman in the electric chair, apparently referencing Ambrose Bierce's famous short story An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge in which a convict about to be hanged imagines an entire last minute escape and flight home in the microseconds before his death.

Synopsis: «Total Recall» is an action thriller about reality and memory, inspired anew by the famous short story «We Can Remember It For You Wholesale» by Philip K. Dick.

The sole object in the space and the only source of light, its cube structure refers to Jorge Luis Borges» famous short story, The Aleph, a point in space that contains all other points; looking into it enables one to see everything in the universe, simultaneously from every angle.

The plot is one of four «locked room» mysteries from the famous short story collection, and was selected by the author as his overall favourite — something that will surely be a selling point for the seven bedroom townhouse.