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

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    Publication date. 1953. " A Good Man Is Hard to Find " is a Southern gothic short story first published in 1953 by author Flannery O'Connor who, in her own words, described it as "the story of a family of six which, on its way driving to Florida [from Georgia], is slaughtered by an escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit".

  3. The Most Dangerous Game - Wikipedia

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    The Most Dangerous Game. " The Most Dangerous Game ", also published as " The Hounds of Zaroff ", is a short story by Richard Connell, [1] first published in Collier's on January 19, 1924, with illustrations by Wilmot Emerton Heitland. [2][3] The story features a big-game hunter from New York City who falls from a yacht and swims to what seems ...

  4. The Lottery - Wikipedia

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    Publication date. June 26, 1948. " The Lottery " is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. [a] The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens.

  5. Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life - Wikipedia

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    Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life is a realistic fiction novel by James Patterson that serves as the beginning of Patterson's Middle School series. [1] Published in the United States by Little, Brown and Company on June 27, 2011, the book follows sixth grader Rafe Khatchadorian as he begins middle school and copes with the awkwardness of adolescence, "crushes, bullying, family issues ...

  6. The Veldt (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The Veldt (short story) " The Veldt " is a science fiction short story by American author Ray Bradbury. Originally appearing as " The World the Children Made " in the September 23, 1950, issue of The Saturday Evening Post, it was republished under its current name in the 1951 anthology The Illustrated Man.

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

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

  8. I Funny - Wikipedia

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    I Funny. I Funny: A Middle School Story, also known as I Funny, is a realistic fiction novel by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein. [1] It was published by Little, Brown and Company in 2012. It was followed by I Even Funnier (2013), I Totally Funniest (2015), I Funny TV (2016), I Funny: School of Laughs (2017) and The Nerdiest, Wimpiest ...

  9. Fariba Vafi - Wikipedia

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    Fariba Vafi was born in Tabriz on 21 January 1963 in a middle-class family. She started writing early in school and later authored short stories. Her first short story collection Dar Omghe Sahneh (In the depth of the Stage) was published by Cheshmeh Publishers in 1996.

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