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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. All Summer in a Day - Wikipedia

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   The story is about a class of students on Venus, which, in this story, is a world of constant rainstorms, where the sun is only visible for two hours every seven years. One of the children, Margot, moved to Venus from Earth five years earlier and is the only one who remembers the sun, since it shines regularly on Earth. She describes the sun to ...

4. Ford County (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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   Ford County. Ford County is a collection of novellas by John Grisham. His first collection of stories, it was published by Doubleday in the United States in 2009. [1] The book contains 7 short stories or novellas: [2] "Blood Drive"; "Fetching Raymond"; "Fish Files"; "Casino"; "Michael's Room"; "Quiet Haven"; and "Funny Boy".

5. Category:Short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin - Wikipedia

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   The Wife's Story. Winter's King. Categories: Short stories by writer. American short stories by writer. Works by Ursula K. Le Guin. Hidden category: CatAutoTOC generates no TOC.

6. The Laughing Man (short story) - Wikipedia

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   The Laughing Man (short story) " The Laughing Man " is a short story by J. D. Salinger, published originally in The New Yorker on March 19, 1949; and also in Salinger's short story collection Nine Stories. [1] It largely takes the structure of a story within a story and is thematically occupied with the relationship between narrative and ...

7. The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke - Wikipedia

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   ISBN. 0-575-07065-X. OCLC. 49338196. The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 2001, is a collection of almost all science fiction short stories written by Arthur C. Clarke. It includes 114 [1] stories, arranged in order of publication, from "Travel by Wire!" in 1937 through to "Improving the Neighbourhood" in 1999.