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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. 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]

4. Flowers for Algernon - Wikipedia

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   Flowers for Algernon is a short story by American author Daniel Keyes, later expanded by him into a novel and subsequently adapted for film and other media.The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960.

5. The Pedestrian - Wikipedia

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   August 7, 1951. " The Pedestrian " is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury. This story was originally published in the August 7, 1951 issue of The Reporter by The Fortnightly Publishing Company. [1] It is included in the collection The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953), but was dropped from later editions of this ...

6. Kabuliwala (short story) - Wikipedia

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   Kabuliwala, is a Bengali short story written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1892, [1] [2] during Tagore's "Sadhana" period (named for one of Tagore's magazines) from 1891 to 1895. The story is about a fruit seller, a Pashtun (his name is Rahmat) from Kabul, Afghanistan, who visits Calcutta (present day Kolkata, India) each year to sell dry fruits.

7. Rain, Rain, Go Away (short story) - Wikipedia

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   Rain, Rain, Go Away (short story) "Rain, Rain, Go Away" was originally published in the September 1959 issue of Fantastic Universe. " Rain, Rain, Go Away " is a short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. A fantasy/horror story, it was based on an idea by Bob Mills, editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, but rejected by him.