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  2. The Reluctant Dragon (short story) - Wikipedia

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    One scholar describes the book as "a story about language", such as the "dialect of the illiterate people", and the "literary aspirations of the dragon". [3] The story also has an opening scene in which a little girl named Charlotte (a character from Grahame's The Golden Age) and a grown-up character find mysterious reptilian footprints in the snow and follow them, eventually finding a man who ...

  3. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway - Wikipedia

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    The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigía Edition, is a posthumous collection of Ernest Hemingway's (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) short fiction, published in 1987. It contains the classic First Forty-Nine Stories as well as 21 other stories and a foreword by his sons.

  4. Burhi Aair Sadhu - Wikipedia

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    The author collected these stories from the common native people of Assam and then prepared this book. The names he mentioned in the preface of the book who contributed the folklores (but without explicitly mentioning who contributed which one) were Bhramarendra Saikia, Mahi Chandra Bora, Sitanath Sharma, Sarveshwar Sharma Kotoky, Rudrakanta Goswami, Wajed Ali, Naranath Sharma, Rusheswar ...

  5. The Woman on Platform 8 - Wikipedia

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    According to Nidhi Malik, The Woman on Platform 8 is a representation of Ruskin Bond's own unfulfilled childhood, following a recurring theme of Bond's children's stories where young boys often play the lead role. In the story, Arun travels alone because his parents cannot spare the time to be with him.

  6. All Aunt Hagar's Children - Wikipedia

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    All Aunt Hagar's Children (2006) is a collection of short stories by African-American author Edward P. Jones; it was his first book after winning the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for The Known World. The collection of 14 stories centers on African Americans in Washington D.C. during the 20th century.

  7. Twenty-Three Tales - Wikipedia

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    Twenty-Three Tales is a popular compilation of short stories by Leo Tolstoy.According to its publisher, Oxford University Press, the collection is about contemporary classes in Russia during Tolstoy's time, written in a brief, morality-tale style. [1]

  8. Sideways Stories from Wayside School - Wikipedia

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    Sideways Stories from Wayside School is a 1978 children's short story cycle novel by American author Louis Sachar, and the first book in the Wayside School series. The novel was later adapted into a Teletoon animated series, Wayside .

  9. A Good Man Is Hard to Find (short story) - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] The story appears in her own collection of short stories A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories published in 1955 by Harcourt. [6] In 1960, it was included in the anthology The House of Fiction, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, and later included in numerous other short-story collections.

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