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  2. 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 ...

  3. Category:Short stories by Leo Tolstoy - Wikipedia

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    Three Days in the Village. Three Deaths. The Three Hermits. The Three Questions. Too Dear! Twenty-Three Tales. The Two Brothers and the Gold. Two Hussars. Two Old Men (story)

  4. Story within a story - Wikipedia

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    Stories within stories can be used simply to enhance entertainment for the reader or viewer, or can act as examples to teach lessons to other characters. [2] The inner story often has a symbolic and psychological significance for the characters in the outer story. There is often some parallel between the two stories, and the fiction of the ...

  5. Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare is a 1907 collection published by E. Nesbit with the intention of entertaining young readers and retelling William Shakespeare 's plays in a way they could be easily understood by younger readers. She also included a brief Shakespeare biography, a pronunciation guide to some of the more difficult names and a ...

  6. Storytelling - Wikipedia

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    For example, the Sto:lo community in Canada focuses on reinforcing children's identity by telling stories about the land to explain their roles. [32] Furthermore, Storytelling is a way to teach younger members of indigenous communities about their culture and their identities.

  7. Mṛcchakatika - Wikipedia

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    The play is set in the ancient city of Ujjayini during the reign of the King Pālaka, near the end of the Pradyota dynasty that made up the first quarter of the fifth century BCE. The central story is that of a noble but impoverished young Brahmin , Sanskrit : Cārudatta , who falls in love with a wealthy courtesan or nagarvadhu , Sanskrit ...

  8. Little Birds (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    0-15-152761-X. Little Birds is Anaïs Nin 's second published work of erotica, which appeared in 1979 two years after her death, [1] but was apparently written in the early 1940s when she was part of a group "writing pornography for a dollar a day." [2] The book is a collection of thirteen short stories. The sexual topics covered are quite ...

  9. 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.

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