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  2. The Visitor (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The Visitor (short story) " The Visitor " is a 1965 short story by British writer Roald Dahl, centered on the fictional Uncle Oswald and the lurid adventures he describes in his elaborate diaries. In this story, set in 1946, Oswald has amorous designs on his Syrian host's wife and teenage daughter, with unfortunate and unexpected consequences.

  3. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway - Wikipedia

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    Print. 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. Only a small handful of stories published ...

  4. 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)

  5. Category:Short stories by Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia

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    The Man of the Crowd. The Man That Was Used Up. The Masque of the Red Death. Metzengerstein. Morella (short story) MS. Found in a Bottle. The Murders in the Rue Morgue. The Mystery of Marie Rogêt. Mystification (Poe)

  6. List of science fiction short stories - Wikipedia

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    1975. A Braver Thing. Charles Sheffield. Asimov's Science Fiction. 1990. A Cabin on the Coast. Gene Wolfe. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. 1984.

  7. Ray Bradbury (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    ISBN. 0-245-52746-X. OCLC. 2090106. Dewey Decimal. 813/.5/4. LC Class. PZ3.B72453 Ray3 PS3503.R167. Ray Bradbury is a collection of science fiction short stories by Ray Bradbury edited by Anthony Adams and published by Harrap in 1975.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Tales of the Unexpected (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    282. ISBN. 0-14-005131-7. OCLC. 261341390. Roald Dahl 's Tales of the Unexpected is a collection of 16 short stories written by British author Roald Dahl and first published in 1979. All of the stories were earlier published in various magazines, and then in the collections Someone Like You and Kiss Kiss. [1]