In musical theatre, what does "book by" mean? For example, the Bonnie and Clyde 2012 musical has a book by Ivan Menchell. I've tried Googling it and came up with nothing. I often see this a lot for other plays and musicals too. What book?
At the end of Chapter Two of The Time Machine, when the Time Traveller provides the brief summary of his journey he says:
I was in my laboratory at four o'clock, and since then... I've lived eight days...such days as no human being ever lived before!
However, at the beginning of Chapter Three, ...
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In "[The Markenmore Mystery][1]" (1922) by J. S. Fletcher, the chief constable was talking to two lawyers about a stranger man who had gone to "Sceptre Inn" and booked a room there, but he never come back to it.
“Grimsdale asserts that the first man was an American,” remarked Walkinshaw. “We hav...
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I forgot the title of the short story.
It is about a man who is in court because of his prosthesis'.
If I remember correctly he was a famous motorbiker.
A company wants all his prosthesis' back, because of financial stuff (don't remember exactly).
That includes half his brain, which makes loud no...
Mem and Zin is
a Kurdish classic love story written down in 1692
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is based on a true story, laid down from generation to generation through oral tradition.
It appears to be often compared to Romeo and Juliet (1597). I first saw a reference in an English translation's Preface
But the poeti...
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The works of Stanisław Lem
Stanisław Lem was born in 1921, so the Polish Parliament declared 2021 Stanisław Lem Year. Lem published philosophical works, such as Dialogs (1957) and Summa Technologiae (1964), but he is best know as author of science-fiction works. These include the novels The Astro...
