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  2. There Will Come Soft Rains (short story) - Wikipedia

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    April 2057: The Long Years. October 2057: The Million-Year Picnic. " There Will Come Soft Rains " is a science fiction short story by author Ray Bradbury written as a chronicle about a lone house that stands intact in a California city that has otherwise been obliterated by a nuclear bomb, and then is destroyed in a fire caused by a windstorm.

  3. Idgah (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Story. "Idgah" tells the story of a four-year-old orphan, named Hamid who lives with his grandmother Amina. Hamid, the protagonist of the story, has recently lost his parents; however, his grandmother tells him that his father has left for the milk, and that his mother has gone to Allah to fetch lovely gifts for him.

  4. The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby - Wikipedia

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    The story is thematically concerned with Christian redemption, though Kingsley also uses the book to argue that England treats its poor badly, and to question child labour, among other themes. Tom embarks on a series of adventures and lessons, and enjoys the community of other water-babies on Saint Brendan's Island once he proves himself a ...

  5. Sideways Stories from Wayside School - Wikipedia

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    Sideways Stories from Wayside School. Sideways Stories from Wayside School is a 1978 children's short story cycle novel by American author Louis Sachar, and the first book in the Wayside School series. The novel was later adapted into a Teletoon animated series, Wayside .

  6. Summary of Decameron tales - Wikipedia

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    This article contains summaries and commentaries of the 100 stories within Giovanni Boccaccio 's The Decameron . Each story of the Decameron begins with a short heading explaining the plot of the story. The 1903 J. M. Rigg translation headings are used in many of these summaries. Commentary on the tale itself follows.

  7. Short story - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

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