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Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a single ...
1894. To the Edge of the World (Na krai sveta, На край света). Novoye Slovo, 1895, No.1, October, subtitled "From the Notebook" and with the dedication to D.I. Zverev, a statistician who invited Bunin to the settlement used by the local villagers as a base during their trips to the Ussuri krai.
"The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 18, 1948. The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens. The lottery, its preparations, and its execution are all described in detail, though it is not ...
Sweet Pickles is a fictional town with animal residents, whose misadventures impart basic values, ethics and social skills to children. A variety of techniques are employed in the series, such as comedy, music, story-telling, and active play. There was one book for each of the 26 Sweet Pickles characters, each representing a letter of the alphabet:
82 = The Moons of Jupiter – 1982. 86 = The Progress of Love – 1986. 90 = Friend of My Youth – 1990. 94 = Open Secrets – 1994. 98 = The Love of a Good Woman. 01 = Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage – 2001. 04 = Runaway – 2004. 06 = The View from Castle Rock – 2006. 09 = Too Much Happiness – 2009.
Complete lists of the short stories that won these awards are at Hugo Award for Best Short Story and Nebula Award for Best Short Story. See also. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One, 1929-1964, the best short stories from before the awarding of the Nebulas. References
The bibliography of Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 – 1881) comprises novels, novellas, short stories, essays and other literary works. Raised by a literate family, Dostoyevsky discovered literature at an early age, beginning when his mother introduced the Bible to him. Nannies near the hospitals—in the grounds of which he was raised—introduced ...
Letters from the Earth is a posthumously published work of American author Mark Twain (1835–1910) collated by Bernard DeVoto. [1] It comprises essays written during a difficult time in Twain's life (1904–1909), when he was deeply in debt and had recently lost his wife and one of his daughters. [2] The content concerns morality and religion ...