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2. Open Library - Wikipedia

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   Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, [3] [4] Brewster Kahle, [5] Alexis Rossi, [6] Anand Chitipothu, [6] and Rebecca Malamud, [6] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization. It has been funded in part by grants from the ...

3. African-American folktales - Wikipedia

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   African-American folktales are the storytelling and oral history of enslaved African Americans during the 1700s-1900s. Prevalent themes in African-American folktales include tricksters, life lessons, heartwarming tales, and slavery. African Americans created folktales that spoke about the hardships of slavery and told stories of folk spirits ...

4. 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 ...

5. The Complete Stories (O'Connor) - Wikipedia

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   The Complete Stories is a collection of short stories by Flannery O'Connor. It was published in 1971 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It comprises all the stories in A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must Converge plus several previously unavailable stories. Complete Stories won the 1972 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. [1]

6. Wayside School - Wikipedia

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   Published. January 1, 1978 – March 3, 2020. Wayside School is a series of short story cycle children's books written by Louis Sachar. Titles in the series include Sideways Stories from Wayside School (1978), Wayside School Is Falling Down (1989), Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger (1995), and Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom (2020 ...

7. Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales - Wikipedia

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   PS3503.R167 A6 2003. Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (2003) is a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury. Bradbury wrote an introduction to the collection where he speaks about some of the inspirations, influences and among other things, the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. The collection repeats no stories from The Stories ...