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  2. The Lottery - Wikipedia

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    Publication date. June 26, 1948. " The Lottery " is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. [a] 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.

  3. The Necklace - Wikipedia

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    "Paste" (1899), a short story by Henry James in which the twist ending is reversed [11] "Mr. Know-All" (1925) and "A String of Beads" (1943), short stories by Somerset Maugham that both revolve around the price of a necklace [12] Doctor Innocentanu (2012), a Malayalam family drama film is inspired by The Necklace.

  4. Category:English-language drama short films - Wikipedia

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  5. Drama - Wikipedia

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    Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. [1] Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.

  6. List of works by Rabindranath Tagore - Wikipedia

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    List of works by Rabindranath Tagore. The Padma, the houseboat (" ") of the Tagore family, at Shilaidaha Kuthibadi, where Tagore wrote many of his short stories and other works. Below is a chronological list of works by Rabindranath Tagore between 1877 and 1941. Tagore wrote most of his short stories, novels, drama, poems and songs in Bengali ...

  7. Drama (film and television) - Wikipedia

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    In this broader sense, drama is a mode distinct from novels, short stories, and narrative poetry or songs. [3] In the modern era, before the birth of cinema or television, "drama" within theatre was a type of play that was neither a comedy nor a tragedy. It is this narrower sense that the film and television industries, along with film studies ...

  8. 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature - Wikipedia

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    drama, screenplay Haakon Shetelig (1877–1955) 3 Ivan Bunin (1870–1953) Soviet Union: short story, novel, poetry Romain Rolland (1866–1944) 4 Grazia Deledda (1871–1936) Italy: novel, short story, essays Carl Bildt (1850–1931) 5 Paul Ernst (1866–1933) Germany: novel, short story, drama, essays

  9. J.J. Ncongwane - Wikipedia

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    Enoch Ngotjwa Ncongwane (1936- 1977), Sonto Sarah Zwane (1925 -) [ 1] Jabulane Johan Ncongwane, better known by his pen name J.J. Ncongwane (born 30 September 1961), is a South African novelist, short-story author, poet and educator who writes in Siswati. He was born at a farm called KaMagwamazi in Chief Albert Luthuli 's Carolina area.