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2. Malgudi Days (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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   Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan published in 1943 by Indian Thought Publications. [1] The book was republished outside India in 1982 by Penguin Classics. [2] The book includes 32 stories, all set in the fictional town of Malgudi, [3] located in South India. Each of the stories portrays a facet of life in Malgudi. [4]

3. Short story - Wikipedia

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   Short stories date back to oral storytelling traditions which originally produced epics such as the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey. Oral narratives were often told in the form of rhyming or rhythmic verse, often including recurring sections or, in the case of Homer, Homeric epithets. Such stylistic devices often acted ...

4. For sale: baby shoes, never worn - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." is a six-word story, popularly attributed to Ernest Hemingway, although the link to him is unlikely. [1] [2] Versions of the story date back to the early 1900s, and it was being reproduced and expanded upon within a few years of its initial publication. [1] [3] The first known connection to Hemingway ...

5. A Good Man Is Hard to Find (short story) - Wikipedia

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   Publication date. 1953. " A Good Man Is Hard to Find " is a Southern gothic short story first published in 1953 by author Flannery O'Connor who, in her own words, described it as "the story of a family of six which, on its way driving to Florida [from Georgia ], is slaughtered by an escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit". [2]

6. Children's literature - Wikipedia

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   E. T. A. Hoffmann's tale "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" was published in 1816 in a German collection of stories for children, Kinder-Märchen. It is the first modern short story to introduce bizarre, odd and grotesque elements in children's literature and thereby anticipates Lewis Carroll's tale, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

7. Roald Dahl short stories bibliography - Wikipedia

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   The New Yorker (17 September 1949) More Tales, Someone Like You, Skin; Best. "Poison". Collier's (June 1950) More Tales, Someone Like You. "Girl Without a Name". Today's Woman (November 1951) Working title "Meet My Sister"; republished in Woman's Journal in December 1951.

8. At Home (short story) - Wikipedia

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   Just started to write a bit and maybe will get used to somebody else's writing desk," he wrote to his cousin Georgy Mitrofanovich Chekhov on 11 October, also from Nice, France. In retrospect, and on the basis of Chekhov's notebooks, "At Home" is now regarded as closely related to "The Petcheneg" and "In the Cart". All three stories, similar in ...

9. Category:Short stories by Anton Chekhov - Wikipedia

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   The Siren (short story) Sleepy (short story) Small Fry (short story) A Story Without a Title. The Student (short story) Surgery (short story)