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2. The Best American Short Stories - Wikipedia

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   1978 edition. Language. English. Series. The Best American Short Stories. The Best American Short Stories yearly anthology is a part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Since 1915, the BASS anthology has striven to contain the best short stories by some of the best-known writers in contemporary American literature.

3. List of Nobel laureates in Literature - Wikipedia

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   novel, short story 1910: Paul von Heyse (1830–1914) Germany: German: 80 "as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories" poetry, drama, novel, short story 1911: Maurice Maeterlinck

4. The Lottery - Wikipedia

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   "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 ...

5. Short story - Wikipedia

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   The short story is one of the oldest types of literature and has existed in the form of legends, mythic tales, folk tales, fairy tales, tall tales, fables, and anecdotes in various ancient communities around the world. The modern short story developed in the early 19th century. [1]

6. Category:Short stories by genre - Wikipedia

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   Children's short stories ‎ (3 C, 40 P) Christmas short stories ‎ (1 C, 40 P) Collaborative short stories ‎ (13 P) Comic short stories ‎ (15 P) Cyberpunk short stories ‎ (17 P)

7. The Tell-Tale Heart - Wikipedia

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   Publication date. January 1843. " The Tell-Tale Heart " is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843. It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of the narrator's sanity while simultaneously describing a murder the narrator committed. The victim was an old man with a filmy pale blue ...