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  2. Malgudi Days (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan published in 1943 by Indian Thought Publications. [1] The book was republished outside India in 1982 by Penguin Classics. [2] The book includes 32 stories, all set in the fictional town of Malgudi, [3] located in South India. Each of the stories portrays a facet of life in Malgudi. [4]

  3. Twenty-Three Tales - Wikipedia

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    Twenty-Three Tales. Twenty-Three Tales is a popular compilation of short stories by Leo Tolstoy. According to its publisher, Oxford University Press, the collection is about contemporary classes in Russia during Tolstoy's time, written in a brief, morality-tale style. [1] It was translated into English by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude.

  4. The Last Flower - Wikipedia

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    The Last Flower is an anti-war short story written and illustrated by James Thurber's own drawings; it deals with themes of war, peace, love, and resilience. This short parable was originally published in November 1939, two months after World War II officially began.

  5. The Book of Virtues - Wikipedia

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    Kathryn Bold, Los Angeles Times Virtues debuted at #13 on The New York Times Best Seller List (Nonfiction) for December 26, 1993. It secured the #1 spot during its fourth week (on January 16, 1994), and remained on the chart for 88 consecutive weeks by late 1995, the 30th-longest run as of 2014. When it reached #1, the second rank on the list belonged to Howard Stern's Private Parts, a fact ...

  6. Run, Melos! - Wikipedia

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    Run, Melos! "Run, Melos!" (走れメロス, Hashire Merosu) is a Japanese short story by Osamu Dazai. It was first published 1940 and is a widely read classic in Japanese schools. It was first used as teaching material for Japanese middle high schoolers in 1956. [1]

  7. A Flowering Tree: A Woman's Tale - Wikipedia

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    "A Flowering Tree" is a short story written by A. K. Ramanujan in his 1997 book A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India. In actuality, it is a Karnataka folklore told by women which was translated by A. K. Ramanujan from Kannada to English. The story was collected in several versions in the Karnataka region over the span of twenty ...

  8. The Ant and the Grasshopper - Wikipedia

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    The Ant and the Grasshopper, alternatively titled The Grasshopper and the Ant (or Ants), is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 373 in the Perry Index. [1] The fable describes how a hungry grasshopper begs for food from an ant when winter comes and is refused. The situation sums up moral lessons about the virtues of hard work and planning for the ...

  9. A Good Man Is Hard to Find (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Publication date. 1953. " A Good Man Is Hard to Find " is a Southern gothic short story first published in 1953 by author Flannery O'Connor who, in her own words, described it as "the story of a family of six which, on its way driving to Florida [from Georgia], is slaughtered by an escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit".

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