The Vane Sisters Erythraean Sibyl, which were written on leaves and arranged so that the initial letters of the leaves always formed a word. Sybil Vane is also a character in Oscar Wilde's only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. She is an actress who commits suicide when Dorian rejects her, first causing the portrait to change and Dorian to notice the connection between him and the portrait. The apparent uniqueness of this narrative approach has created fame for this story, and Nabokov himself described this device as something that 'can only be tried once in a thousand years of fiction'. The trick
To the Last Man (Grey novel) To the Last Man (Grey novel) To the Last Man: A Story of the Pleasant Valley War is a western novel written by Zane Grey. "To The Last Man" is a shorter version of "Tonto Basin". Grey submitted the manuscript of "Tonto Basin" to the magazine "The Country Gentleman," which published it in serialization as "To the Last Man" from May 28, 1921 through July 30, 1921. This was a much shorter version of the original leaving out much of the backstory. This shorter version was published by Harper Brothers. It is a story of a family feud healed by