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The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka. 487 p. The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka is a compilation of all of Kafka's short stories. With the exception of three novels ( The Trial, The Castle and Amerika ), this collection includes all of his narrative work. The book was originally edited by Nahum N. Glatzer and published by Schocken Books in 1971.
Soames found other clues in his office: pencil shavings, a broken pencil lead, a fresh cut in his desk surface, and a small blob of black clay speckled with sawdust. Soames wants to uncover the cheater and prevent him from taking the exam, since it is for a sizeable scholarship. Three students who will take the exam live above him in the same ...
Examination Day. " Examination Day " is the first segment of the sixth episode of the first season of the television series The Twilight Zone. The segment is based on the short story "Examination Day" by Henry Slesar. The story was first published in Playboy (February 1958).
The Financial Expert is a 1952 novel by R. K. Narayan. It takes place, as do many other novels and short stories by this author, in the town of Malgudi. The central character in this book is the financial expert Margayya, who offers advice to his fellow townspeople from under his position at the banyan tree. He is a man of many aspirations and ...
Mirgorod. (short story collection) Mirgorod ( Russian: «Миргород») is a collection of short stories written by Nikolai Gogol, composed between 1832 and 1834 and first published in 1835. [1] It was significantly revised and expanded by Gogol for an 1842 edition of his complete works. [2] The title Mirgorod is the Russian pronunciation ...
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald is a compilation of 43 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1989. It begins with a foreword by Charles Scribner II and a preface written by Bruccoli, after which the stories follow ...
4 December 1947 [1] Chronology. < >. Leaf by Niggle Farmer Giles of Ham. " On Fairy-Stories " is an essay by J. R. R. Tolkien which discusses the fairy story as a literary form. It was written as a lecture entitled "Fairy Stories" for the Andrew Lang lecture at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, on 8 March 1939.
A Dream (German: Ein Traum) is a short story by Franz Kafka. [1] The narrator describes a dream in which Joseph K. is walking through a cemetery. There are tombstones around him, and the setting is typically misty and dim. Soon he sees someone carving a name on a stone, and as he approaches he notices that it is his own name. Kafka is known to ...