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  2. For sale: baby shoes, never worn - Wikipedia

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    t. e. "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." is a six-word story, one of the most famous examples of flash fiction. Versions of the story date back to the early 1900s, and it was being reproduced and expanded upon within a few years of its initial publication. [1][2] The story is popularly misattributed to Ernest Hemingway; this is implausible, as ...

  3. A Tale of Two Cities - Wikipedia

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    A Tale of Two Cities at Wikisource. A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter ...

  4. The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes - Wikipedia

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    The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes is a children's story published by John Newbery in London in 1765. The story popularized the phrase "goody two-shoes" as a descriptor for an excessively virtuous person or do-gooder. [1] Historian V.M. Braganza refers to it as one of the first works of Children's literature, perhaps the earliest children's ...

  5. The Cat in the Hat - Wikipedia

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    Followed by. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Cat in the Hat Comes Back (plot wise) The Cat in the Hat is a 1957 children's book written and illustrated by American author Theodor Geisel, using the pen name Dr. Seuss. The story centers on a tall anthropomorphic cat who wears a red and white-striped top hat and a red bow tie.

  6. Flash fiction - Wikipedia

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    Flash fiction is a brief fictional narrative [ 1 ] that still offers character and plot development. Identified varieties, many of them defined by word count, include the six-word story; [ 2 ] the 280-character story (also known as " twitterature "); [ 3 ] the "dribble" (also known as the " minisaga ", 50 words); [ 2 ] the " drabble " (also ...

  7. Storytelling - Wikipedia

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    Storytelling is a means for sharing and interpreting experiences. Peter L. Berger says human life is narratively rooted, humans construct their lives and shape their world into homes in terms of these groundings and memories. Stories are universal in that they can bridge cultural, linguistic and age-related divides.

  8. Jabberwocky - Wikipedia

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    Jabberwocky. The Jabberwock, as illustrated by John Tenniel, 1871. " Jabberwocky " is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock". It was included in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). The book tells of Alice's adventures within the ...

  9. The Garden of Words - Wikipedia

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    Yukari in The Garden of Words from Man'yōshū, Book 11, verse 2,513 Following summer break, Takao returns to school and spots Yukari, discovering that she is a literature teacher and had been the target of gossip and bullying. To avoid further confrontation, Yukari opted to avoid work and retreat to the park, hoping she would learn to overcome her fears. However, she quits her job and leaves ...