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  2. The Lesson (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The Lesson (short story) " The Lesson " is a short story by Toni Cade Bambara (1938–1995). It was first published in 1972. [1] The Lesson” is a first-person narrative told by a young, black girl named Sylvia who is growing up in Brooklyn. The story is about a trip initiated by a well-educated woman named Miss Moore who has taken it upon ...

  3. Parable - Wikipedia

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    Literature. A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, that illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters. [1] A parable is a type of metaphorical analogy.

  4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (short story) - Wikipedia

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    May 27, 1922. " The Curious Case of Benjamin Button " is a short story about a man who ages in reverse, from senescence to infancy, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in Collier's Magazine on May 27, 1922, with the cover and illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg. It was subsequently anthologized in Fitzgerald's 1922 book ...

  5. 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.

  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. 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. Moral Disorder - Wikipedia

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    Moral Disorder ( ISBN 0-7475-8162-2) is a collection of connected short stories by Margaret Atwood. It was first published on 4 September 2006 [1] by McClelland and Stewart. It chronicles the hidden pains of a troubled Canadian family over a 60-year span. All the short stories have the same female main character at different times of her life ...

  9. Folklore of Malaysia - Wikipedia

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    A Kelantanese Wayang Kulit that narrated the tale of Hikayat Seri Rama. Malaysian folklore is the folk culture of Malaysia and other indigenous people of the Malay Archipelago as expressed in its oral traditions, written manuscripts and local wisdoms. Malaysian folklores were traditionally transmitted orally in the absence of writing systems.

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