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  2. The Girls in Their Summer Dresses - Wikipedia

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    February 4, 1939. "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" is a work of short fiction by Irwin Shaw, originally published in The New Yorker in 1939 and first collected in Sailor off the Bremen and Other Stories (1939) by Random House.[1] The story is widely recognized as one of Shaw's finest short stories. [2][3] It was adapted, along with two other ...

  3. The Little Match Girl - Wikipedia

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    This short was subsequently released as a special feature on the 2006 Platinum Edition DVD of The Little Mermaid (1989). In 2015, the short was released on the Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection Blu-ray Disc [6] and is now streaming on Disney+. "Allumette" (2016) by Penrose Studios Released as a free VR animated film for PS4 ...

  4. The Boy in the Dress (novel) - Wikipedia

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    233262822. The Boy In The Dress is a comedic children's book written by David Walliams and illustrated by Quentin Blake, published in October 2008. It is the first book by Walliams, a television comedian best known for the cult BBC show Little Britain. It tells the story of a fourteen-year-old boy called John and a twelve-year-old boy called ...

  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. How I Learned to Drive - Wikipedia

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    Genre. Drama. How I Learned to Drive is a play written by American playwright Paula Vogel. The play premiered on March 16, 1997, Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre. Vogel received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work. It was written and developed at the Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska, with Molly Smith as artistic director.

  7. List of stock characters - Wikipedia

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    A stock character, popular in 16th-century Spanish literature, who is comically and shockingly vulgar. Clarín, the clown in Pedro Calderón de la Barca 's Life is a dream, is a gracioso. Examples of similar characters in Anglophone culture include Bubbles, Wheeler Walker, Jr. and the stand-up persona of Bob Saget.

  8. The Big Comfy Couch - Wikipedia

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    This imaginative play was also demonstrated through dress-up games and through Loonette's dollhouse, in which she imagined the adventures of The Foley Family. Shown first as a doll-sized family, in Loonette's imagination they would become a family of regular-sized clowns, whose nonverbal but high-energy activities were shown in high speed and ...

  9. The Dressmaker (Ham novel) - Wikipedia

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    296 pp (first edition) ISBN. 978-1875989706. The Dressmaker is a Gothic novel written by the Australian author Rosalie Ham, [1] and is Ham's debut novel. [2] It was first published by Duffy & Snellgrove on January 1, 2000. [3][4] The story is set in a 1950s fictional Australian country town, Dungatar, and explores love, hate and haute couture.