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  2. The Drover's Wife (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The Drover's Wife is a 1945 painting by Australian artist Russell Drysdale. While the painting does not specifically illustrate a scene from the story, it takes its title from it. Murray Bail 's story, "The Drover's Wife" (1975), is based on Drysdale's painting and is narrated by the woman's first husband. [1]

  3. NBC Presents: Short Story - Wikipedia

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    NBC Presents: Short Story is a half-hour American radio program offering dramatizations of contemporary American short stories that began on NBC on February 21, 1951, and ended on May 30, 1952. [1] The primary goal of the series, as stated by script editor Hugh Kemp, was to combat what appeared to be a widespread lack of respect for the short ...

  4. List of time travel works of fiction - Wikipedia

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    Short story - A circular paradox in which a man discovers that he is his own mother and father. 1959–1989 The Time Machine series "Donald Keith" alias of Donald & Keith Monroe: Series of 23 short stories published in Boys' Life magazine centered around a patrol of Boy Scouts who acquire an abandoned time machine. 1961 Danny Dunn, Time Traveler

  5. Category:Short stories by Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia

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    The Man of the Crowd. The Man That Was Used Up. The Masque of the Red Death. Metzengerstein. Morella (short story) MS. Found in a Bottle. The Murders in the Rue Morgue. The Mystery of Marie Rogêt. Mystification (Poe)

  6. Life in the Iron Mills - Wikipedia

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    In the era of the feminist movement, the short story resurfaced through the help of the feminist writer Tillie Olsen. As an adviser for the Feminist Press in the 1970s, she came across Life in the Iron Mills and suggested it for republication. Olsen helped the short story gain critical reception once again as Davis intended in the 19th century.

  7. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    List of writing genres. Writing genres (more commonly known as literary genres) are categories that distinguish literature (including works of prose, poetry, drama, hybrid forms, etc.) based on some set of stylistic criteria. Sharing literary conventions, they typically consist of similarities in theme/topic, style, tropes, and storytelling ...

  8. Axiomatic (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Axiomatic (short story) "Axiomatic" is a science-fiction short story by Australian writer Greg Egan, [1] first published in Interzone 41 in November 1990. [2] The short story was included in the collection The Best of Greg Egan in 2020. [3]

  9. A Sound of Thunder (film) - Wikipedia

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    The film is based on a short story by Ray Bradbury that was first published in 1952 and had been adapted for TV in 1989 as an episode of Ray Bradbury Theatre. Breck Eisner was attached to direct at one stage. The film was originally going to be directed by Renny Harlin, star Pierce Brosnan in the main role, and be shot in Montreal, Canada.