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Children's short stories are fiction stories, generally under 100 pages long, written for children. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales. Shen of the Sea. Sir Green Hat and the Wizard. The Sneetches and Other Stories. Spooky Stories for a Dark and Stormy Night. Still William. The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. The Stone Book Quartet. Sweet William (short story collection)
Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan published in 1943 by Indian Thought Publications. [1] The book was republished outside India in 1982 by Penguin Classics. [2] The book includes 32 stories, all set in the fictional town of Malgudi, [3] located in South India. Each of the stories portrays a facet of life in Malgudi. [4]
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 ...
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 .
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader, from picture books for the very young to young adult fiction .
Little Birds. Little Birds is Anaïs Nin 's second published work of erotica, which appeared in 1979 two years after her death, [1] but was apparently written in the early 1940s when she was part of a group "writing pornography for a dollar a day." [2] The book is a collection of thirteen short stories. The sexual topics covered are quite ...
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 ...