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Hace 4 días · And he liked them enough to hand pick them for this collection of short fiction. Featuring such notable writers as Lorrie Moore, Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, Jean Thompson, and Tobias Wolff, Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules includes some of the most influential and talented short story writers, contemporary and classic.
7 de may. de 2024 · Sedaris is the editor of Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories. His pieces regularly appear in The New Yorker and have twice been included in The Best American Essays.
Hace 3 días · He was found by his nurse playing with them on his cot as if they were toys. Astonished, Amphitryon sent for the seer Tiresias, who prophesied an unusual future for the boy, saying he would vanquish numerous monsters. Youth Side of terracotta kantharos in the form of the head of Heracles, Athens, c. 470 BC The choice of Hercules by Annibale ...
Hace 4 días · Contributor: David Sedaris (Introduction by), David Sedaris (Edited by). Author: David Sedaris. Title: Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules. Topic: Fiction. Release Date: 04/04/2005. Format: Paperback.
7 de may. de 2024 · Sedaris is the editor of Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories. His pieces regularly appear in The New Yorker and have twice been included in The Best American Essays.
8 de may. de 2024 · Heracles, one of the most famous Greco-Roman legendary heroes. Traditionally, Heracles was the son of Zeus and Alcmene ( see Amphitryon ), granddaughter of Perseus. Zeus swore that the next son born of the Perseid house should become ruler of Greece, but—by a trick of Zeus’s jealous wife, Hera —another child, the sickly Eurystheus, was ...
Hace 3 días · Hebe was a remarkably popular subject in art in the period from about 1750 to 1880, having attracted little artistic attention before or after. In the later period, many depictions were portraits of ladies as Hebe, for which at a minimum the only modifications to a normal costume needed were a flowing white dress, some flowers in the hair and a cup to hold.
