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  2. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia

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    The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was first proposed by Georges Polti in 1895 to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance. [1] Polti analyzed classical Greek texts, plus classical and contemporaneous French works. He also analyzed a handful of non-French authors.

  3. Beginners (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    ISBN. 9780224089296. OCLC. 799539673. Beginners is the title given to the manuscript version of Raymond Carver 's 1981 short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, published with the permission of Carver's widow Tess Gallagher in 2009.

  4. Category:Short stories by H. P. Lovecraft - Wikipedia

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    The Temple (Lovecraft short story) The Terrible Old Man. The Thing on the Doorstep. Through the Gates of the Silver Key. Till A' the Seas. The Tomb (short story) The Transition of Juan Romero. The Tree on the Hill. The Tree (short story)

  5. Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare is a 1907 collection published by E. Nesbit with the intention of entertaining young readers and retelling William Shakespeare 's plays in a way they could be easily understood by younger readers. She also included a brief Shakespeare biography, a pronunciation guide to some of the more difficult names and a ...

  6. The Monkey's Paw - Wikipedia

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    The Monkey's Paw. " The Monkey's Paw " is a horror short story by English author W. W. Jacobs. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in 1902, and was reprinted in his third collection of short stories, The Lady of the Barge, later that year. [1] In the story, three wishes are granted to the owner of The Monkey's Paw, but the wishes come with an ...

  7. Magic for Beginners (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    978-1931520157. Magic for Beginners is a collection of nine works of fantasy and light horror short fiction by American writer Kelly Link, released by Small Beer Press in 2005. The stories were all previously published in other venues from 2002 to 2005. The book won the 2006 Locus Award for best short story collection.

  8. Misery (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The story was positively reviewed by Peterburgskiye Vedomosti (No.167, 1886) and N. Ladozhsky. Leonid Obolensky, writing for Russkoye Bogatstvo praised Chekhov for his extraordinary ability to see the hidden drama behind deceptively simple things, and cited "Misery" as a perfect example of that.

  9. First Person Singular (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    First Person Singular. First Person Singular ( Japanese: 一人称単数, Hepburn: Ichininshō Tansū) is a collection of eight stories by Haruki Murakami. [1] It was first published on 18 July 2020 by Bungeishunjū. As its title suggests, all eight stories in the book are told in a first-person singular narrative.