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  2. Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Print (hardback & paperback) Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare is a 1907 collection published by E. Nesbit with the intention of entertaining young readers and retelling William Shakespeare 's plays in a way they could be easily understood by younger readers. She also included a brief Shakespeare biography, a pronunciation guide to some of the ...

  3. The Children's Story - Wikipedia

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    ISBN. 0440204682. "The Children's Story" is a 4,300-word dystopian fiction novelette by James Clavell. It first appeared in Ladies' Home Journal (October 1963 issue) and was printed in book form in 1981. It was adapted by Clavell himself into a thirty-minute short film for television which aired on Mobil Showcase. [1]

  4. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - Wikipedia

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    The DVD also contains an extended version of the story with more background and detail than the one included in the trilogy. Owl Creek Bridge, a 2008 short film by director John Giwa-Amu, won the BAFTA Cymru Award for best short. The story was adapted to follow the last days of Khalid, a young boy who is caught by a gang of racist youths.

  5. Frame story - Wikipedia

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    A frame story (also known as a frame tale, frame narrative, sandwich narrative, or intercalation) is a literary technique that serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, where an introductory or main narrative sets the stage either for a more emphasized second narrative or for a set of shorter stories. The frame story leads readers ...

  6. List of science fiction short stories - Wikipedia

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    Arena (short story) Fredric Brown: Analog Science Fiction: 1944 Armaments Race: Arthur C. Clarke: Adventure: 1954 Arvies: Adam-Troy Castro: Lightspeed Magazine: 2010 Auto-da-Fé (short story) Roger Zelazny: Dangerous Visions: 1967 Azathoth (short story) H. P. Lovecraft: Leaves 1938 Baby, You Were Great: Kate Wilhelm: Orbit 2: 1968 Backstage ...

  7. List of adaptations of works by Stephen King - Wikipedia

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    1990: Ghost Stories was an adaptation of Stephen King's short stories "The Return of Timmy Baterman," about zombies; "Strawberry Spring," about a campus serial killer; "Gray Matter," a black comedy about a hideous mutation caused by a bottle of beer; "Uncle Otto's Truck," and "The Boogeyman," about a distraught father's encounter with a child ...

  8. 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)

  9. Drama (film and television) - Wikipedia

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    Drama (film and television) Gone with the Wind is a popular romance drama. In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. [1] The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or ...