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

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    t. e. "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." is a six-word story, one of the most famous examples of flash fiction. 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][2] The story is popularly misattributed to Ernest Hemingway; this is implausible, as ...

  3. How Beautiful the Ordinary - Wikipedia

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    The story describes "Jenny's" first experience as she dresses in girls' clothing that belongs to her older sister and goes to a local fair. A subplot about a Taiwanese exchange student who becomes trapped in a wall bookends the narrative, providing a metaphor for what the transsexual narrator feels. The story is 18 pages long.

  4. The Six Servants - Wikipedia

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    The story is very similar to other European folk tales and fairy tales about a man with very talented servants, such as How Six Made Their Way in the World, Long, Broad and Sharpsight, The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, How the Hermit Helped to Win the King's Daughter, The Clever Little Tailor and one of the stories in Baron Munchhausen.

  5. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ - Wikipedia

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    Ben-Hur is a story of a fictional hero named Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman who was falsely accused and convicted of an attempted assassination of the Roman governor of Judaea and consequently enslaved by the Romans. He becomes a successful charioteer. [ 4 ][ 5 ] The story's revenge plot becomes a story of compassion and forgiveness. [ 6 ]

  6. List of stories within One Thousand and One Nights - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the stories in Richard Francis Burton 's translation of One Thousand and One Nights. Burton's first ten volumes—which he called The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night —were published in 1885.

  7. Little Red Riding Hood - Wikipedia

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    Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf [de] is a 1937 adaptation of the story by the German state which had a deep interest in the stories of the Brothers Grimm and saw them as useful for teaching ideology.

  8. Epic of Gilgamesh - Wikipedia

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    The Epic of Gilgamesh (/ ˈɡɪlɡəmɛʃ /) [2] is an epic from ancient Mesopotamia. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about Gilgamesh (formerly read as Sumerian "Bilgames" [3]), king of Uruk, some of which may date back to the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2100 BC). [1] These independent stories were later used as source material for a combined epic in Akkadian. The ...

  9. McGuffey Readers - Wikipedia

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    McGuffey Readers. The Eclectic Readers (commonly, but informally known as the McGuffey Readers) were a series of graded primers for grade levels 1–6. They were widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, and are still used today in some private schools and homeschooling.

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