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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. 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]

  4. 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."

  5. The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs - Wikipedia

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    Story and moral. Avianus and Caxton tell different stories of a goose that lays a golden egg, where other versions have a hen, as in Townsend: "A cottager and his wife had a Hen that laid a golden egg every day. They supposed that the Hen must contain a great lump of gold in its inside, and in order to get the gold they killed [her].

  6. Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection

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    Published in 2010 and edited by Matt Dembicki, Trickster contains twenty-one short stories, all told by Indigenous storytellers from many different native nations. [2] [4] [5] The premise of each short story is to teach a moral lesson or explain how certain natural events happen.

  7. The Two Brothers and the Gold - Wikipedia

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    The Two Brothers and the Gold" ("Два брата и золото") is a short story by Leo Tolstoy written in 1885. Influence [ edit ] According to Nadejda Gorodetzky, this story discusses the joys of poverty if poverty is willingly accepted. [1]

  8. The Greatest Gift - Wikipedia

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    The Greatest Gift. " The Greatest Gift " is a 1943 short story written by Philip Van Doren Stern, loosely based on the Charles Dickens 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, which became the basis for the film It's a Wonderful Life (1946). It was self-published as a booklet in 1943 and published as a book in 1944.

  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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