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  2. The Ant and the Grasshopper - Wikipedia

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    The English writer W. Somerset Maugham reverses the moral order in a different way in his short story, "The Ant and The Grasshopper" (1924). It concerns two brothers, one of whom is a dissolute waster whose hard-working brother has constantly to bail out of difficulties.

  3. Never Bet the Devil Your Head - Wikipedia

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    The story was published in the September 1841 issue of Graham's Magazine as "Never Bet Your Head: A Moral Tale". Its republication in the August 16, 1845, issue of the Broadway Journal included its now-standard title "Never Bet the Devil Your Head". Noted Poe biographer Arthur Hobson Quinn dismissed the story, stating "it is a trifle."

  4. A Good Man Is Hard to Find (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Publication date. 1953. " A Good Man Is Hard to Find " is a Southern gothic short story first published in 1953 by author Flannery O'Connor who, in her own words, described it as "the story of a family of six which, on its way driving to Florida [from Georgia ], is slaughtered by an escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit". [2]

  5. The Lion and the Mouse - Wikipedia

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    The fable in literature. In the oldest versions, a lion threatens a mouse that wakes him from sleep. The mouse begs forgiveness and makes the point that such unworthy prey would bring the lion no honour. The lion agrees and sets the mouse free. Later, the lion is netted by hunters. Hearing it roaring, the mouse remembers its clemency and frees ...

  6. Moral - Wikipedia

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    Moral. A moral (from Latin morālis) is a message that is conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. The moral may be left to the hearer, reader, or viewer to determine for themselves, or may be explicitly encapsulated in a maxim. A moral is a lesson in a story or in real life.

  7. The Fox and the Grapes - Wikipedia

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    The illustration of the fable by François Chauveau in the first volume of La Fontaine's fables, 1668. The Fox and the Grapes is one of Aesop's Fables, [1] numbered 15 in the Perry Index. [2] The narration is concise and subsequent retellings have often been equally so. The story concerns a fox that tries to eat grapes from a vine but cannot ...

  8. Fable - Wikipedia

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    Anthropomorphic cat guarding geese, Egypt, c. 1120 BCE. Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or ...

  9. The Dog and Its Reflection - Wikipedia

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    The morals at the end of the fable have provided both English and French with proverbs and the story has been applied to a variety of social situations. The fable [ edit ] A dog that is carrying a stolen piece of meat looks down as it is walking beside or crossing a stream and sees its own reflection in the water.

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