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  • recognizes excellence in the art of the short story. The basis of the award ... * The Magic Barrel (short story collection) (1958) * A New Life (novel ...
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  • novel, she was primarily known for her short story, "The Lottery," ... She is perhaps best known for her short story, "The Lottery" ...
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  • Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an African-American novelist and short story writer, who is arguably the ...
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  • A novella is a narrative work of prose fiction shorter in both length and breadth than a novel, but longer than a short story. Typically, novellas ...
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  • In 1891, he published his first short story, "Country Sketch ... a short novel, nor a novel, nor a long short story, but . . . of a genre ...
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  • satirist Jonathan Swift. His comic short story, "The Overcoat," ... In the same year, he published his great short story, "The Overcoat." ...
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  • as the "father of the Japanese short story." Akutagawa wrote ... a newspaper. In 1914, he published his short story Rashōmon, the tale of ...
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  • essays and articles, including his first short story (in 1936) "The three ... crime was calling Ivan Bunin, an emigre short story writer who was critical ...
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  • British novelist best known for her short story "The Birds" ... novels highlight her talent for unfolding a story full of suspense. By the ...
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  • revisions glorifying military valor. The story is intended to be told in ... The story of the Heike Monogatari was compiled from a collection of ...
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  • This excerpt opens the short story, The Garden Party, for which Mansfield ... Katherine Mansfield is widely considered one of the best short story ...
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  • | occupation = Short story and non-fiction writer, novelist, commercial ... women's studies in the 1970s. Her short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper ...
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  • another big success. Having lived for a short time in Bath, he returned ... to 1765. During this period he served a short prison sentence for libel ...
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  • Companion. Her major works were two short story collections, Bayou Folk ... Kate, deeply discouraged by the criticism, turned to short story writing ...
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  • the foremost modern writer of the short story. His technique, which ... from Suvorin. The following year the short story collection "At Dusk ...
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  • English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. He was hugely popular ... *A House to Let (1858), a short story co-written with Charles Dickens ...
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  • month. In 1921, he published his first short story, "Shokonsai Ikkei ... The novel began as a single short story published in a literary journal ...
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  • nineteenth-century American novelist and short story writer. He is recognized ... Melville had just read Hawthorne's short story collection Mosses from ...
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  • over 150 works, who was best known for his short stories and books of memoirs ... html Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award] ...
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  • On the whole, Crane, despite his tragically short life and small overall output ... and psychological depth in telling the story of a young soldier facing ...
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  • author of highly experimental novels and short stories who is considered ... Cortázar is highly regarded as a master of the fantastical short ...
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  • most beloved authors. A writer of poetry, short-stories, and more than twenty ... spent most of her day writing poetry and short-stories, and trying to get ...
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  • Edward Morgan Forster (January 1, 1879 – June 7, 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He is most famous for his ...
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  • of international literary fame that was cut short by his early death. ... Moore's most famous works include a short story entitled, "Violets ...
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  • success, in 1927. The film is the story of a young Jewish man, Jakie ... Jolson made The Singing Fool (1928)—the story of a driven entertainer who ...
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  • departed from Anglican doctrine."Short Biography of John Smyth, ... set out his own beliefs in his 1609 "Short Confession of Faith in 20 ...
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  • vernacular) literature, Lu Xun was a short story writer, editor, translator ... first major baihua (Chinese vernacular) short story, Kuangren Riji (狂人日記 ...
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  • an American author who wrote many plays and short stories about growing up ... the rootlessness of the immigrant. The short story collection, My Name is ...
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  • diagonal lines intersected by a number of short horizontal and vertical bars ... *Hunt, Morton. 1994. The Story of Psychology. Anchor. ISBN 0385471491 ...
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  • Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist and short story writer whose works, drawn from his wide range ...
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  • | occupation = journalist, playwright, and short story writer ... – January 27, 1940) was a Soviet journalist, playwright, and short ...
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  • were republished years later in the short story collection The Simple ... *The King in Yellow (1938)Not to be confused with the 1895 short story ...
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  • Ivo Andrić (Serbian: Иво Андрић) (October 9, 1892 – March 13, 1975) was a Yugoslav novelist, short story writer, and the 1961 winner ...
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  • Juan Rulfo (May 16, 1918 – January 7, 1986) was one of Latin America's most admired novelists and short story writers. His most commendable ...
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  • writing and in her youth won a prize for a story she submitted to the Washington ... In addition to the The Yearling, Gal Young Un, based on her short ...
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  • wrote ten novels, two collections of short stories and over 500 poems ... === Short Story Collections === * Revenge of the Lawn, (1971 ISBN 0671209604 ...
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  • Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, the story takes place over a period ... culture and modernism. The Chosen is a story of the friendship between ...
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  • Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist and short story writer who became one of the most popular authors ...
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  • James Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was a novelist, short story writer, and essayist, who is regarded as one of the most important ...
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  • In 1905, Geronimo agreed to tell his story to S. M. Barrett, superintendent ... the church has helped me much during the short time I have been a member ...
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  • Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21,1940) was an Irish American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer, who is ...
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  • and is credited with defining the short story as a literary art form. ... juror, acting independently, chooses a short story of special interest and ...
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  • of Eric the Red. With wood being in very short supply in Greenland, the ... The first area discovered by Leif, according to one story, was Helluland ...
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  • And It and its sequels, as well as The Story of the Treasure Seekers and ... before being reprinted in book form, as The Story of the Treasure Seekers in ...
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  • Walker also won the 1986 O. Henry Award for her short story "Kindred ... ===Novels and short story collections=== * The Third Life of Grange ...
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  • novel, was a tragicomedy. It recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby ... Twentieth century British novelist and short story writer, Angus Wilson ...
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  • his seat, a long and complicated comical story. The story is narrated as ... into a long and complicated comical story. Performances are generally ...
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  • and cartoons about his experience, Caught Short! A Saga of Wailing Wall Street ... had previously appeared in a number of short films and two features in ...
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  • The saga has been interpreted as the story of a man who arrives at the ... The saga tells the story of the Norwegian man Hallfreðr, who becomes ...
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  • to earn a precarious living by writing short stories for the Chicago Tribune ... aware of the financial rewards of writing short stories for the press, he ...
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  • deaths together down a waterfall in the story, "The Final Problem ... His work on this topic was one of the reasons that one of his short ...
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  • Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – 1913) was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer, and satirist, today best known ...
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  • However, like most folklore, the story as well as Tell's own ... and in the first theater adaptation of the story, the Tellenspiel from 1512 ...
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  • defines myth as "A traditional story, typically involving supernatural ... covenant with Noah (Genesis 9); or the story of Lot's wife in Genesis ...
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  • but she only published two novels and a few short stories. Though her literary ... In 1930, Larsen published Sanctuary, a short story that caused her ...
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  • mature works include twelve novels, two short story collections, plays, and ... as a writer, publishing The Aunt's Story and The Tree of Man, which ...
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  • Gideon was one of the more significant judges whose story is recorded ... The story of Gideon begins with a prologue detailing the oppression ...
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  • John Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs ...
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  • everything, off great serves, off tricky short balls, off low volleys. He ... and a 79-5 record. Because he had fallen short of the Grand Slam, he delayed ...
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  • A ballad is a story, usually portraying a dramatic or exciting episode ... living oral tradition. As a vehicle of the story, a ballad contributes toward ...
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  • winning Polish born American writer of both short stories and novels. He wrote ... such themes in his works. In his short story, The Slaughterer, he described ...
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  • Instead, one slowly pieces together the story and the emotional experience ... ====A Short story collection==== *Instantanés (1962) ====Essays==== ...
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  • of de-Stalinization. Ilya Ehrenburg wrote a short novel entitled The Thaw. ... The publication of this short novel caused a tremendous stir both ...
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  • as Mrs. Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. She is perhaps best known for her biography of Charlotte Brontë ...
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  • of the story, radishes or lamb's lettuce), planted in the garden ... #039;s tower room. A variation on the story also has the enchantress ...
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  • published story written by Ellison was a short story entitled "Hymie& ... Invisible Man was originally developed out of Ellison's short ...
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  • inspired H. P. Lovecraft in creating his short story "Dagon," first ... title of a movie in 2002, based on the Lovecraft short story. ...
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  • In this context, the narrative is a story that functions to legitimize ... "about," and a narrative is a story. Therefore, a metanarrative ...
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  • The story is found in Grimm's Fairy Tales, although its origins ... considered the oldest known version of the story.[http://www.aldokkan.com/art/cinderella ...
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  • George Augustus Moore (February 24, 1852 – January 21, 1933) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist ...
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  • by writing. He contributed a number of short stories (1795-1798) to the ... beyond the Saxon capital. The new series of short stories which he began to ...
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  • 3 Short story collection: (i) "From a View to a Kill," ... 7 Posthumously compiled short story collection. Originally published ...
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  • #039;s middle finger was removed, leaving a short stump. After some adjustments ... the court, as he wrote many unsuccessful short stories and novels about ...
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  • motion pictures. Dinesen's short story writing was influenced ... She began publishing her short stories in various Danish periodicals ...
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  • 60s. Although his promising career was cut short by his death at age 21, Cochran ... Cochran was a prolific performer in his short career, and the British ...
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  • by linguistic playfulness. The short story "The Vane Sisters ... famous novel, Lolita. There is a German short story also entitled "Lolita ...
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  • *"Der Tunnel" (1952). Short story translated as "The ... *Die Panne (1956). Short story translated as "Traps." See ...
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  • 13, 2023. Her first published work was a short story for children, "The ... Gordimer, who said she believed the short story to be the literary form ...
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  • historical chronicles, riddles, and short lyrics. Some of the most ... in the damaged Nowell Codex. It tells the story of the legendary Geatish ...
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  • The story of Ananthabhadram depicts a fairy tale. Set in rural Kerala ... The real story begins when Ananthan (Prithviraj Sukumaran) returns ...
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  • stories and works of various genres. His short story Bartleby the Scrivener ... is easily Melville's most famous short story, and one of the most influential ...
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  • A variation on the story was also applied to Longinus, the soldier ... Anderson Imbert, particularly in his short-story El Grimorio (The Grimoire ...
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  • reading Gogol's 1831-1832 volume of short stories, Evenings on a Farm ... *Kirdzhali Kırcali (short story) *Gavriiliada *Istoriya Sela Goryukhina ...
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  • Note: The short story "Dragonfly" from Tales from Earthsea ... * Tales from Earthsea, short story collection, 2001 (winner of Endeavour ...
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  • Roald Dahl (September 13, 1916 – November 23, 1990) was a British novelist, short story author, and screenwriter famous as a writer for both ...
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  • Soseki's literary career began in 1905, when he wrote a short ... of the literary sketch was that it had no story lines. I Am a Cat was written ...
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  • In Judaism, the phoenix is known as Milcham or Chol (or Hol): The ... Sylvia Townsend Warner's 1940 short story "The Phoenix" ...
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  • books for young and older children: Novels, story collections, and some non ... Blyton dominated--that of the adventure story. Sequels followed, with The ...
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  • New York City, communicating with Russia by short-wave radio. His arrest in ... Overflight: The U-2 Spy Pilot Tells His Story for the First Time (1970). ...
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  • Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems, and novels ... The Periodic Table is a collection of short pieces, mostly episodes from ...
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  • Johnson taught him how to write a short story. He joined the Poetry ... ===Short story collections=== * (1947) Dark Carnival. Colorado Springs ...
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  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. This story describes a slave who found ... work. She went to one meeting with a short story about a black girl who ...
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  • According to the popular story, Joan Cadogan Lancaster. Godiva of Coventry ... In the story, Tom bores a hole in his shutters so that he might see ...
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  • of them for Shochiku. Ozu made a number of short comedies, before turning ... over the world. His 1953 masterpiece, Tokyo Story, is considered by many critics ...
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  • narrative masterfully to achieve a story of psychological depth that ... Great War England. Constructed out of two short stories that Woolf had previously ...
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  • craft kits, and displays used for story-telling for children. The ... the fourth bishop of Rome, who placed tow (short flax or linen fibers) in ...
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  • McTeague (1899), The Octopus: A California Story (1901), and The Pit (1903 ... His short story "A Deal in Wheat" (1903) and the novel The ...
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  • * L'Hérèsiarque et Cie (short story collection), 1910 ... * Les Épingles (short story collection), 1928 ===Plays and screenplays=== ...
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  • Troilus and Criseyde is the love story of Troilus, a Trojan prince ... for the poem was Boccaccio, who wrote the story in his Il Filostrato, itself ...
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  • 1289). A well-known Korean legend tells the story of Seonmyo, a young woman ... === The Story of Seonmyo (Shanmiao) === When Uisang arrived in China ...
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  • series of articles, chipped away at the story behind the 1972 burglary ... In 1980, the Post published a dramatic story called "Jimmy's ...
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  • From a young age, Dodgson wrote poetry and short stories, sending ... that Dodgson invented the outline of the story that eventually became his ...
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  • Fantasmagoriana, decided to have a ghost-story writing contest. Another ... " Then she set herself to put the story on paper. In time it would ...
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  • Beaumont's omits. Chiefly, the back story of both Beauty and the Beast ... the tale appear in Angela Carter's short story collection The Bloody ...
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  • was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist ... * Teaching the Short Story (1966) * The Sound of Mountain Water (1969) ...
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  • he produced almost all of his best-known short stories for the leading pulp ... quot; is one of Lovecraft's best-known short stories and a superb example ...
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  • the act of storytelling as it is about the story itself. ... Barnabas. Significantly, he composed a story during this same period entitled ...
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  • boats were blocked by the rapids at Famaka short of the Sudan-Ethiopian border ... and two handheld video cams, sharing their story in the IMAX film, Mystery ...
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  • Trnka's works carried sublte story lines expressing the struggles ... content and form, it strictly follows the story outline without developing ...
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  • to modern fiction by the inclusion of short stories and literary reviews; ... subsequent decades the magazine published short stories by many of the most ...
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  • Cicero (De oratore, ii. 86) tells the story of the end of his relations ... the distinction between the long and short vowels (ε, η, ο, ω), ...
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  • East Asian Buddhism. The name Guan Yin is short for Guan Shi Yin, which means ... role of granting children and wealth. A story from the Yuan Dynasty indicates ...
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  • in the literature field was the Observer short story prize (1951) for "The ... *You Should Have Seen the Mess (short story) ==Analysis of Muriel Spark ...
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  • The story revolves around Judith, a daring and beautiful widow. During ... The story's geographical setting in a city called "Bethulia ...
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  • . The highly symbolic tale is actually a story within a story. The narrator ... * "The Idiots" (Conrad's first short story; written ...
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  • author of hardboiled detective novels and short stories. Among the enduring ... involved with Nell Martin, an author of short stories and several novels ...
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  • Dostoevsky, and the playwright and short story writer, Anton Chekhov ... helped to introduce realism into the short story genre and into drama, ...
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  • , in the Hispania Baetica. Despite his short life, he is regarded one ... ostensibly an epic, Pharsalia is not a story of legendary heroes and mythological ...
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  • *The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ... *March of Time: The Movies Move On (1939) (short subject) ...
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  • during World War II. Reportedly, the short story "took Chang more ... Lust, Caution based upon Chang's short story of the same title. ...
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  • |rowspan="2"| 1957 || Short-Cut to Hell || (in pre-credits ... |rowspan="2"| 1950 || The West Point Story || || ...
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  • Arlene was killed instantly. Only thirteen short weeks later, Chuck O'Connor ... Comedy Hour in the 1950s. He also had a short-lived television series during ...
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  • He continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late ... * Lovers in London (1905) (Some consider this more of a short story ...
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  • it collapsed. The younger Musil was a bit short, but strong and skilled at ... in Vienna. He published a collection of short stories, Drei Frauen (Three ...
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  • Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) was one of the major German language novelists and short story writers of the twentieth century, ...
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  • a significant event in Egyptian drama. The story of 'the people of the ... vicious anger against the female sex by the story-telling virtuosity of the ...
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  • in 1922 with a much shorter popular work, A Short History of the World ... *"The Chronic Argonauts" (short story, 1888) * Textbook of ...
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  • aesthetic sensibilities, he began writing short stories. ... editor-in-chief; attained celebrity as a short-story writer; lost a son in ...
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  • a track to Lincoln, titled "A Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who ... Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between ...
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  • Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (October 18, 1777 – November 21, 1811) was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, and short story writer. He ...
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  • illustrating the narrative and telling the story. Traditional dances focused ... beneath the hill of Puokinau Nana. Another story states that when Pele, the ...
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  • Arnaz and Ball weave the pregnancy into the story line, but remained adamant ... to ever speak with Desi Arnaz.Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi ...
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  • Agnon, derived from the name of the story. It became his literary name ... works were published by Schocken Books. His short stories regularly appeared ...
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  • as he describes in the autobiographical short story "Souvenirs d'Enfance ... There Verne studied Latin, which he later used in his short story ...
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  • William Somerset Maugham, CH (January 25, 1874 – December 16, 1965) was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer. He was one ...
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  • published his translated version of one short story "The Circular Ruins ... In 1991 Paul Bowles was awarded the Rea Award for the Short Story ...
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  • | occupation = Novelist, short story writer | nationality = United States ... | magnum_opus = Wise Blood, A Good Man Is Hard To Find, short stories ...
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  • which came to be merged together in the story of the Children's Crusade ... * "Sea and Sunset," short story by Mishima Yukio. ...
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  • a group of young reporters in starting a short-lived newspaper called Riget ... from Satan's Book. This deals with the Story of Satan's banishment ...
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