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  2. The Yellow Wallpaper - Wikipedia

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    A Story") is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature for its illustration of the attitudes towards mental and physical health of women in the 19th century.

  3. Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories - Wikipedia

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    24374139. Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories is a book of short stories published in 1991 by the Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros. The collection reflects Cisneros's experience of being surrounded by American influences while still being familially bound to her Mexican heritage as she grew up north of the Mexico-US border .

  4. Trifles (play) - Wikipedia

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    A year after Trifles' success, Glaspell turned the play into a short story, retitling it "A Jury of Her Peers". Glaspell used third-person, limited-omniscient narration to express the point of view of Martha Hale. "A Jury of Her Peers" adds irony by "highlighting the impossibility of women facing such a jury at a time when women were ...

  5. The Lottery - Wikipedia

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    "The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens. The lottery, its preparations, and its execution are all described in detail, though it is not ...

  6. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream - Wikipedia

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    Ellison wrote the 13-page short story in a single night in 1966 while making almost no changes from the first draft. [1] [2] Afterwards, his editor Frederik Pohl dealt with the story's "difficult sections", toning down some of the narrator's imprecations and eliminating mentions of sex , penis size , homosexuality and masturbation ; said ...

  7. List of metafictional works - Wikipedia

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    This is a partial list of works that use metafictional ideas. Metafiction is intentional allusion or reference to a work's fictional nature. It is commonly used for humorous or parodic effect, and has appeared in a wide range of mediums, including writing, film, theatre, and video gaming.

  8. The Gift of the Magi - Wikipedia

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    Publication date. December 10, 1905 (newspaper); April 10, 1906 (book) [1] " The Gift of the Magi " is a short story by O. Henry first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral ...

  9. Lysistrata - Wikipedia

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    Lysistrata persuades the women of the warring cities to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace—a strategy, however, that inflames the battle between the sexes. [citation needed] The play is notable for being an early exposé of sexual relations in a male-dominated society.