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The Open Doors is a short British film based on a short story "The Open Window" by Saki (H. H. Munro). Plot [ edit ] Framton Nuttel ( Sheen ) enters the house of Mrs Sappleton ( Lunghi ).
Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered by English teachers and scholars a master of the short story and is often compared ...
Secret Window is a 2004 American psychological horror thriller film starring Johnny Depp and John Turturro. It was written and directed by David Koepp, based on the novella Secret Window, Secret Garden by Stephen King, [1] featuring a musical score by Philip Glass and Geoff Zanelli. The story appeared in King's 1990 collection Four Past Midnight.
The Boarded Window. " The Boarded Window: An Incident in the Life of an Ohio Pioneer " is a short story by American Civil War soldier and writer Ambrose Bierce. It was first published in The San Francisco Examiner on April 12, 1891, and was reprinted the same year in Bierce's collection Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. [1]
Window (short story) "Window" is a science fiction story by American writer Bob Leman, originally published in the May 1980 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, [1] and reprinted numerous times.
Open Window, a 2004 album by Robert Rich; Open Window, a 2006 American film written and directed by Mia Goldman; The Open Window, a 1905 painting by Henri Matisse; The Open Window, a 1921 painting Pierre Bonnard "The Open Window", a story by Saki; The Open Window, a 1954 stage drama written by Lenore Coffee and William Joyce Cowen.
The parable of the broken window was introduced by French economist Frédéric Bastiat in his 1850 essay " That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen " (" Ce qu'on voit et ce qu'on ne voit pas ") to illustrate why destruction, and the money spent to recover from destruction, is not actually a net benefit to society.
After an evening meal at the inn, Parkins inspects the whistle while alone in his room. First clearing the hard-packed soil from the item onto a sheet of paper, he then empties the soil out of the window, observing what he believes to be a sole individual "stationed on the shore, facing the inn". Parkins then holds the whistle close to a candle, discovering two inscriptions on the item. On one ...