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Traditionally, the canon of Sherlock Holmes consists of the 56 short stories and four novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. [1] In this context, the term "canon" is an attempt to distinguish between Doyle's original works and subsequent works by other authors using the same characters. Usually capitalized by aficionados of the Sherlockian ...
Doraemon's Long Tales (大長編ドラえもん, Daichōhen Doraemon), also known as Doraemon's Long Stories, is a manga series based on Fujiko F. Fujio’s Doraemon.As the name suggests, Doraemon’s Long Tales features whole volumes of longer and continuous narratives about Doraemon, Nobita and friends on their adventures into various lands of science fiction and fantasy, unlike the regular ...
Tale of the Man Who Was Lavish of His House and His Provision to One Whom He Knew Not. Tale of the Melancholist and the Sharper. Tale of Khalbas and his Wife and the Learned Man. Tale of the Devotee Accused of Lewdness. Tale of the Hireling and the Girl. Tale of the Weaver Who Became a Leach by Order of His Wife.
Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales ( German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen, pronounced [ˌkɪndɐ ʔʊnt ˈhaʊsmɛːɐ̯çən], commonly abbreviated as KHM ), is a German collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812. Vol. 1 of the first edition ...
Aesop (left) as depicted by Francis Barlow in the 1687 edition of Aesop's Fables with His Life. Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of varied and unclear origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern ...
The Long Valley. The Long Valley is a collection of short fiction by John Steinbeck. Most of the stories appeared originally in literary periodicals, and were first collected by Viking Press in 1938. [1] [2] Ranked among Steinbeck’s “finest and best-known” fiction, these are among the most frequently anthologized of Steinbeck’s stories ...
The works of American author Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) include many poems, short stories, and one novel. His fiction spans multiple genres, including horror fiction, adventure, science fiction, and detective fiction, a genre he is credited with inventing. [1] These works are generally considered part of the Dark ...
Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a single ...