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2. The Devil and Daniel Webster - Wikipedia

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   October 24, 1936. " The Devil and Daniel Webster " (1936) is a short story by American writer Stephen Vincent Benét. He tells of a New Hampshire farmer who sells his soul to the devil and is later defended by a fictionalized Daniel Webster, a noted 19th-century American statesman, lawyer and orator. The narrative references real events in the ...

3. Lord Dunsany - Wikipedia

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   Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, FRSL ( / dʌnˈseɪni /; 24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957), commonly known as Lord Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist. He published more than 90 books during his lifetime, [2] [4] [a] and his output consisted of hundreds of short stories, plays, novels, and essays. [1]

4. List of works by Rabindranath Tagore - Wikipedia

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   Includes 13 stories: The Fruit-Seller, The School Closes, A Resolve Accomplished, The Dumb Girl, The Wandering Guest, The Look Auspicious, A Study in Anatomy, The Landing Stairway, The Sentence, The Expiation, The Golden Mirage, The Trespass, The Hungry Stone. Short Stories. 1916. The Hungry Stones and other stories.

5. Mothers and Sons (book) - Wikipedia

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   Mothers and Sons. Mothers and Sons is a 2006 collection of short stories written by Irish writer Colm Tóibín and published in 2006. The book was published in hardback by Picador, and each of its stories explores an aspect of the mother-son relationship. All take place in contemporary Ireland, except that the last and longest, "A Long Winter ...

6. Cathedral (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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   Dewey Decimal. 813/.54. LC Class. PS3553.A7894 C3 1983. Cathedral is the third major-press collection of short stories by American writer Raymond Carver, published in 1983. [1] It received critical acclaim and was a finalist for the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. [2]

7. Short story - Wikipedia

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   Short stories date back to oral storytelling traditions which originally produced epics such as the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey. Oral narratives were often told in the form of rhyming or rhythmic verse, often including recurring sections or, in the case of Homer, Homeric epithets. Such stylistic devices often acted ...