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2. ASCII - Wikipedia

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   ASCII ( / ˈæskiː / ⓘ ASS-kee ), [3] : 6 an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices.

3. Mary Roberts Rinehart - Wikipedia

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   Mary Roberts Rinehart. Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie. [1] Rinehart published her first mystery novel The Circular Staircase in 1908, which introduced the "had I but known" narrative style. Rinehart is also considered the source of "the butler did ...

4. Category:Short stories by Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia

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   The Man of the Crowd. The Man That Was Used Up. The Masque of the Red Death. Metzengerstein. Morella (short story) MS. Found in a Bottle. The Murders in the Rue Morgue. The Mystery of Marie Rogêt. Mystification (Poe)

5. Vanka (short story) - Wikipedia

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   Synopsis. A nine-year-old boy is in desperate need to convince his grandfather Konstantin Makarych, his only relative, to take him back to his home in the country. As an orphan, Vanka finds himself in a dire situation, having moved to Moscow three months prior where he now toils under the harsh conditions of shoemaker Alyachin's household ...

6. The Sniper (story) - Wikipedia

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   The Sniper. (story) The Sniper is a short story written by the Irish writer Liam O'Flaherty. Set during the early weeks of the Irish Civil War, during the Battle of Dublin, it is O'Flaherty's first published work of fiction. It was published in a small London -based socialist weekly, The New Leader (12 January 1923) [1] [2] while the war that ...

7. Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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   Print (hardback & paperback) Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare is a 1907 collection published by E. Nesbit with the intention of entertaining young readers and retelling William Shakespeare 's plays in a way they could be easily understood by younger readers. She also included a brief Shakespeare biography, a pronunciation guide to some of the ...

8. The Toynbee Convector (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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   The Toynbee Convector is a short story collection by American writer Ray Bradbury. Several of the stories are original to this collection. Others originally appeared in the magazines Playboy, Omni, Gallery, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Woman's Day, and Weird Tales. Contents. The Toynbee Convector" "Trapdoor" "On the Orient, North"

9. Johnny Mnemonic - Wikipedia

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   The Gernsback Continuum. " Johnny Mnemonic " is a science fiction short story by American-Canadian writer William Gibson. It first appeared in Omni magazine in May 1981, [1] and was subsequently included in Burning Chrome, a 1986 collection of Gibson's short fiction. It takes place in the world of Gibson's cyberpunk novels, predating them by ...