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  2. The Open Boat - Wikipedia

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    First American edition of The Open Boat, illustrated by Will H. Bradley, Doubleday, New York, 1898. " The Open Boat " is a short story by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). First published in 1897, it was based on Crane's experience of surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Florida earlier that year while traveling to Cuba to work as ...

  3. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - Wikipedia

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    La rivière du hibou ("The Owl River", known in English as An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge ), a French version directed by Robert Enrico and produced by Marcel Ichac and Paul de Roubaix, was released in 1963. Enrico's film won Best Short Subject at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival, and the 1963 Academy Award for Live Action Short Film.

  4. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - Wikipedia

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    Death in the Zoo. Interview with a Lemming. " The Secret Life of Walter Mitty " (1939) is a short story by James Thurber. The most famous of Thurber's stories, [1] it first appeared in The New Yorker on March 18, 1939, and was first collected in his book My World and Welcome to It ( Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942 ). [2]

  5. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber - Wikipedia

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    The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. " The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber " is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. Set in Africa, it was published in the September 1936 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine concurrently with "The Snows of Kilimanjaro". The story was eventually adapted to the screen as the Zoltan Korda film The Macomber ...

  6. Philip K. Dick - Wikipedia

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    Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982), often referred to by his initials PKD, was an American science fiction writer and novelist. [1] He wrote 44 novels and about 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. [2] His fiction explored varied philosophical and social questions ...

  7. The Snows of Kilimanjaro (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Hemingway hunting on safari, 1934 "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway first published in August 1936, in Esquire magazine. It was republished in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories in 1938, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories in 1961, and is included in The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigía Edition (1987).

  8. Dubliners - Wikipedia

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    Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. [1] It presents a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging ...

  9. Tales of Soldiers and Civilians - Wikipedia

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    1892. Tales of Soldiers and Civilians is a collection of short stories by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce, also published under the title In the Midst of Life. With a stated publication date of 1891 (but actually published in early 1892 [1]) the stories describe unusual incidents in the lives of soldiers and civilians ...

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