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2. The View from Saturday - Wikipedia

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   0-689-80993-X (first edition, soft) OCLC. 33983334. LC Class. PZ7.K8352 Vi 1996. The View from Saturday is a children's novel by E. L. Konigsburg, published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers in 1996. [1] It won the 1997 Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature, the author's second Medal. [2]

3. There Will Come Soft Rains (short story) - Wikipedia

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   April 2057: The Long Years. October 2057: The Million-Year Picnic. " There Will Come Soft Rains " is a science fiction short story by author Ray Bradbury written as a chronicle about a lone house that stands intact in a Californian city that has otherwise been obliterated by a nuclear bomb, and then is destroyed in a fire caused by a windstorm.

4. Short story - Wikipedia

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   The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot, resonance and other dynamic components as in a novel, but typically to a lesser degree. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel or novella/short novel, authors generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques. [citation needed]

5. Nightfall (Asimov novelette and novel) - Wikipedia

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   ISBN. 978-0-553-29099-8. OCLC. 24434629. " Nightfall " [1] is a 1941 science fiction short story by the American writer Isaac Asimov about the coming of darkness to the people of a planet ordinarily illuminated by sunlight at all times. It was adapted into a novel with Robert Silverberg in 1990. The short story has appeared in many anthologies ...

6. The Dead (Joyce short story) - Wikipedia

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   1914. Chronology. Grace. —. " The Dead " is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. It is by far the longest story in the collection and, at 15,952 words, is almost long enough to be described as a novella. The story deals with themes of love and loss, as well as raising questions about the nature of the Irish ...

7. Fahrenheit 451 - Wikipedia

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   Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. [4] It presents a future American society where books have been outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. [5] The novel follows in the viewpoint of Guy Montag, a fireman who soon becomes disillusioned with his role of censoring literature and destroying knowledge ...