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    Reinhold Niebuhr. In 1959, King published a short book called The Measure of a Man, which contained his sermons "What is Man?" and "The Dimensions of a...
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    "What Is Man?" is a short story by American writer Mark Twain, published in 1906. It is a dialogue between a Young Man and an Old Man regarding the nature...
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  • 1906 What Is Man? (King essay), essay written by Martin Luther King Jr. and published in 1959 What Is Man?, a book by Wolfhart Pannenberg What is Man, a...
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    modern essays are written in prose, but works in verse have been dubbed essays (e.g., Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism and An Essay on Man). While...
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  • A video essay is an essay presented in the format of a video recording or short film rather than a conventional piece of writing; the form often overlaps...
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    Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author. Widely known for his horror novels, he has been crowned the "King of Horror". He has...
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    and 1990s. In response, King allowed the novel to fall out of print. In 2013, King published the anti-firearms violence essay "Guns". Charlie Decker,...
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    called On the Duty of Civil Disobedience or Civil Disobedience for short, is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published...
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  • title is a reference to the 2005 film King Kong, directed by Peter Jackson. In the first essay of the book, Despentes describes herself as "more King Kong...
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  • statement: Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes, And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills, Brings...
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    The Man in the Iron Mask (French: L'Homme au Masque de Fer; died 19 November 1703) was an unidentified prisoner of state during the reign of King Louis...
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    Foucault's essay "What is the Enlightenment?" took up Kant's formulation of "dare to know" in an attempt to find a place for the individual man and woman...
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    The Abolition of Man is a 1943 book by C. S. Lewis. Subtitled "Reflections on education with special reference to the teaching of English in the upper...
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  • " "You mean all the people?" "What is the nature of the Good? What is the nature of justice?" "What is happiness?" A man in a bird costume then attempts...
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    Missionary Critics" (1901) "Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany" (1901) "What Is Man?" (1906) "Christian Science" (1907) "Queen Victoria's Jubilee" (1910)...
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    Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court...
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  • homeless man who claims that his mission is to find the Holy Grail. Parry tries to enlist Jack's help in getting the Grail, explaining that the Fisher King was...
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    Process" (essay), "Morals and Civilisation" (essay) The Time Machine (1975), collection of 1 novel and 1 short story: The Time Machine (novel), "The Man Who...
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  • The Lion King is a 1994 American animated musical coming-of-age drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Buena Vista Pictures...
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    'Salem's Lot (category Novels by Stephen King)
    'Salem's Lot is a 1975 horror novel by American author Stephen King. It was his second published novel. The story involves a writer named Ben Mears who...
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  • Bachman is a pen name (as well as a fictional character) of American horror fiction author Stephen King, adopted in 1977 for the novel Rage. King hid the...
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    King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is loosely based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age...
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    second part addresses Black life in America, including what is sometimes considered Baldwin's best essay, the titular "Notes of a Native Son"; the final part...
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    in which he states: Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked...
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    Greek: Οἰδίπους Τύραννος, pronounced [oidípuːs týrannos]), or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC. Originally...
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    According to Wierus, Bael is the first king of Hell with estates in the east. He has three heads: a toad, a man, and a cat. He also speaks in a raucous...
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  • On Fairy-Stories (category Essays by J. R. R. Tolkien)
    "On Fairy-Stories" is a 1947 essay by J. R. R. Tolkien which discusses the fairy story as a literary form. It was written as a lecture entitled "Fairy...
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  • A Room of One's Own (category 1929 essays)
    A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in September 1929. The work is based on two lectures Woolf delivered in October...
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    Alexander Pope (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    part to the character of Wormius in The Dunciad, who is seemingly based on Hearne. An Essay on Man is a philosophical poem in heroic couplets published between...
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  • compilation Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing (2000). Some of these pieces, however, remain uncollected. Stephen King bibliography Unpublished...
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