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T. The Tale of Hongxian. The Tale of Huo Xiaoyu. Tale of the Transcendent Marriage of Dongting Lake. Toba Tek Singh (short story) The Turning (short story collection)
The Bet (short story) " The Bet " ( Russian: "Пари", romanized : Pari) is an 1889 short story by Anton Chekhov about a banker and a young lawyer who make a bet with each other following a conversation about whether the death penalty is better or worse than life in prison. The banker wagers that the lawyer cannot remain in solitary ...
August 9, 1956. ( 1956-08-09) Star Tonight, an American television anthology series, aired on ABC from February 3, 1955, [1] to August 9, 1956. [2] It consisted of 80 total episodes, 30 from 1955 and 50 from 1956. Each episode was a self-contained story, usually adapted from famous plays, short-stories or novels by some of the writers of the day.
NBC Presents: Short Story is a half-hour American radio program offering dramatizations of contemporary American short stories that began on NBC on February 21, 1951, and ended on May 30, 1952. [1] Broadcasting from Hollywood, the series premiered on February 21, 1951, on NBC with an adaptation of "Fifty Grand" by Ernest Hemingway . [1]
A frame story is a literary device that acts as a convenient conceit to organize a set of smaller narratives, either devised by the author or taken from a previous stock of popular tales, slightly altered by the author for the purpose of the longer narrative. Sometimes a story within the main narrative encapsulates some aspect of the framing ...
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 ...
Twenty-Three Tales. Twenty-Three Tales is a popular compilation of short stories by Leo Tolstoy. According to its publisher, Oxford University Press, the collection is about contemporary classes in Russia during Tolstoy's time, written in a brief, morality-tale style. [1] It was translated into English by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude .
The Washingtonians. We All Scream for Ice Cream (Masters of Horror) What You Need (The Twilight Zone) Whistle and I'll Come to You (Omnibus) Wong's Lost and Found Emporium. Categories: Television shows based on works. Works based on short fiction.
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