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2. Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales - Wikipedia

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   PS3503.R167 A6 2003. Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (2003) is a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury. Bradbury wrote an introduction to the collection where he speaks about some of the inspirations, influences and among other things, the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. The collection repeats no stories from The Stories ...

3. To Kill a Mockingbird - Wikipedia

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   Biographical background and publication Born in 1926, Harper Lee grew up in the Southern town of Monroeville, Alabama, where she became a close friend of soon-to-be-famous writer Truman Capote. She attended Huntingdon College in Montgomery (1944–45), and then studied law at the University of Alabama (1945–49). While attending college, she wrote for campus literary magazines: Huntress at ...

4. 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 ...

5. Category:Children's short story collections - Wikipedia

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   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)

6. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Wikipedia

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   Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at Oxford University. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre.

7. Children's literature - Wikipedia

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   E. T. A. Hoffmann's tale "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" was published in 1816 in a German collection of stories for children, Kinder-Märchen. It is the first modern short story to introduce bizarre, odd and grotesque elements in children's literature and thereby anticipates Lewis Carroll's tale, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.