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Woodcutters ( German title: Holzfällen) is a novel by Thomas Bernhard, originally published in German in 1984. A roman à clef, its subject is the theatre and it forms the second part of a trilogy, between The Loser (1983) and Old Masters (1985) which deal with music and painting respectively. Its publication created an uproar in Austria ...
Thomas Bewick (c. 11 August 1753 – 8 November 1828) was an English wood-engraver and natural history author. Early in his career he took on all kinds of work such as engraving cutlery, making the wood blocks for advertisements, and illustrating children's books. He gradually turned to illustrating, writing and publishing his own books ...
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce(2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic. He contributed to the modernistavant-gardemovement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses(1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odysseyare ...
List of illustrations from the book "Ship of Fools", which are attributed to Dürer. [ 4] Frontiscipe of The Ship of fools. Of Negligent Fathers Ayenst Their Children. Of Taleberers And Mouers Of Debate. Of Vngoodly Maners, And Dysordred. Of Dispysers Of Holy Scripture. Of Disordred And Venerious Loue.
before 8th century AD. [ 7][ 8] Orbis Pictus. John Amos Comenius. 1658. Earliest picture book specifically for children. [ 9][ 10] A Token for Children. Being An Exact Account of the Conversion, Holy and Exemplary Lives, and Joyful Deaths of several Young Children. James Janeway.
The Honest Woodcutter. The Honest Woodcutter, also known as Mercury and the Woodman and The Golden Axe, is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 173 in the Perry Index. It serves as a cautionary tale on the need for cultivating honesty, even at the price of self-interest. It is also classified as Aarne-Thompson 729: The Axe falls into the Stream.
Kathie Lee Gifford is sharing insight into her recovery following a fall that led to a week-long hospital stay and a fractured pelvis while she was still healing from hip surgery. The former Today ...
Reuben James (c. 1776 – 3 December 1838) was a boatswain's mate [1] of the United States Navy, famous for an act of heroism in the First Barbary War. As of current knowledge, that act was likely conducted by fellow sailor Daniel Frazier and later attributed to James due to a misunderstanding.