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  2. The Monkey's Paw - Wikipedia

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    The Monkey's Paw. " The Monkey's Paw " is a horror short story by English author W. W. Jacobs. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in 1902, and was reprinted in his third collection of short stories, The Lady of the Barge, later that year. [1] In the story, three wishes are granted to the owner of The Monkey's Paw, but the wishes come with an ...

  3. List of works by W. Somerset Maugham - Wikipedia

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    Short story collection by Maugham, screen adaptation by Maugham, R.C. Sherriff and Noel Langley. [44] Encore. 1951. Heinemann. Short story collection by Maugham, screen adaptation by Maugham, T.E.B Clarke, Arthur Macrae and Eric Ambler.

  4. 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. 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 ...

  5. Category:Short stories adapted into plays - Wikipedia

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    T. The Tale of Hongxian. The Tale of Huo Xiaoyu. Tale of the Transcendent Marriage of Dongting Lake. Toba Tek Singh (short story) The Turning (short story collection)

  6. List of works by Rabindranath Tagore - Wikipedia

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    The Padma, the houseboat ("Bajra") 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.

  7. The Tell-Tale Heart - Wikipedia

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    January 1843. " The Tell-Tale Heart " is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843. It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of the narrator's sanity while simultaneously describing a murder the narrator committed. The victim was an old man with a filmy pale blue "vulture-eye", as ...

  8. The Machine Stops - Wikipedia

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    Publication date. November 1909. " The Machine Stops " is a science fiction short story by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. After being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965, it was included that ...

  9. A Drama in the Air - Wikipedia

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    "A Drama in the Air" (French: "Un drame dans les airs") is an adventure short story by Jules Verne. The story was first published in August 1851 under the title "Science for families. A Voyage in a Balloon" (French: "La science en famille. Un voyage en ballon") in Musée des familles with five illustrations by Alexandre de Bar.