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See media help. "A Retrieved Reformation" is a short story by American author O. Henry first published in The Cosmopolitan Magazine, April 1903. [1][2] The original title was "A Retrieved Reform". It was illustrated by A.I. Keller.
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was first proposed by Georges Polti in 1895 to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance. [1] Polti analyzed classical Greek texts, plus classical and contemporaneous French works.
Short stories by Guy de Maupassant Original Title Translated Title Originally Published Date published Pseudonym used Former Title; Un bandit corse "The Corsican bandit" Gil Blas: 5/25/1882 Maufrigneuse Une partie de campagne "A country excursion" Modern Life 04/02/1881 - 04/09/1881 Un coup d’État "A Coup d'État" Moonlight collection 10/1/1883
After an evening meal at the inn, Parkins inspects the whistle while alone in his room. First clearing the hard-packed soil from the item onto a sheet of paper, he then empties the soil out of the window, observing what he believes to be a sole individual "stationed on the shore, facing the inn". Parkins then holds the whistle close to a candle, discovering two inscriptions on the item. On one ...
The Second Gong (1932 short story) was expanded into the 1937 novella Dead Man's Mirror; The Regatta Mystery (1936 short story) was re-written in 1939 featuring Parker Pyne instead of Poirot; Yellow Iris (1937 short story) was expanded into the 1945 novel Sparkling Cyanide featuring Col. John Race instead of Poirot
The Suit (short story) " The Suit " is a short story by the South African writer Can Themba. [1] It was first published in 1963 in the inaugural issue of The Classic, [2] a South African literary journal founded by Nat Nakasa and Nadine Gordimer. [3] On publication, the story was banned by the apartheid regime. [4] ".
In the 1920s flash fiction was referred to as the "short short story" and was associated with Cosmopolitan magazine, and in the 1930s, collected in anthologies such as The American Short Short Story. [8] Somerset Maugham was a notable proponent, with his Cosmopolitans: Very Short Stories (1936) being an early collection.
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. [1] Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.