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...Mount Athos is famed for prohibiting women from within 500m of its coast, a convention that allows the orthodox monks to devote their attention to the Virgin Mary....
...At the heart of these legends is that of Prince Kibogo who, struck by lightning on top of Mount Runani, rose to heaven and brought the rains. Mukasonga’s novella is made up of four parts....
...a coffee bar in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant neighbourhood, may be a rarity elsewhere....
...It finds Frank, now in his seventies, and his 47-year-old son Paul travelling from their home in Haddam, New Jersey, to see Mount Rushmore....
...Only one film that I know of — Yves Angelo’s wonderful Le Colonel Chabert (1994), based on a Balzac novella in which an officer presumed dead at Eylau returns to attempt to claim his property and wife —...
...If that is true, then the Paradise cinema — the theatre at the heart of this louche and filmic first novella — surely lives up to its billing....
...This painting of Katz’s wife Ada also illustrates the cover of a charming novella, Anita by Alain Elkann....
...I trekked with my wife Tiffany around Tokyo, Kyoto and Mount Fuji. It was magical: 12 days of walking 20-25km a day. Japan, for me, is the only developed country that’s a culture shock....
...Such friction is put to productive use in “The Standing Chandelier”, the first of two novellas that bookend a lengthy collection of 10 other stories....
...George, 87-88 Mount Street (020-7491 4433; www.georgeclub.com). Harry’s Bar, 26 South Audley Street (020-7408 0844; www.harrysbar.co.uk)....
...The author frequently halts proceedings to mount a hobby-horse, inveighing against stupid judges, greedy royalty, wicked meat-eaters and so on....
...There have been movies, notably Nightbreed (1990) and Hellraiser (1987), the latter a low-budget, high-quality gem based on his novella The Hellbound Heart (1986), which introduced the Cenobites, a priest...
...But where the Lake District is merely hilly, the Caucasus is Russia’s biggest mountain range, and Mount Elbrus is Europe’s highest peak – three times higher than Ben Nevis....
...Santa Maria Novella, Florence’s first great Renaissance church, still has the name of its banker builder, Giovanni Rucellai, inscribed across its facade in foot-high letters....
...“It’s like being in a tele-novella,” said one. “This logic that things can’t go on like this, I’m not sure its Yemeni logic.”...
...Now, in an instance of the ill wind that prompts cash-strapped museums to focus on their permanent collections rather than mount costly temporary shows, the National Gallery has decided to winnow its holding...
...Here, Wharton anticipates the design of The Mount....
...It may be the cinema’s only faithful literary adaptation – from Cormac McCarthy’s novella about stolen drug money and the pursuit of an amateur thief by a near-cyborgian killer – whose fidelity scorches...
...Faber ₤12.99, 304 pages FT bookshop price: ₤8.79 Billed as “an entertainment”, Gilbert Adair’s seventh work of fiction departs from the elegant, erotically charged culture of Paris of his last two novellas...
...13• Who wrote the ghostly novella The Turn of the Screw?...
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