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  2. Short story - Wikipedia

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    The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot, resonance and other dynamic components as in a novel, but typically to a lesser degree. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel or novella/short novel, authors generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques. [citation needed]

  3. Bartleby, the Scrivener - Wikipedia

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    Pages. 45. " Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street " is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. In the story, a Wall Street lawyer hires a ...

  4. The Best American Short Stories - Wikipedia

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    The Best American Short Stories. The Best American Short Stories is a yearly anthology that's part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Since 1915, the BASS has anthologized more than 2,000 short stories, [1] including works by some of the most famous writers in contemporary American literature.

  5. Category:British short stories - Wikipedia

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    S. Slog's Dad. Somebody Else's Prince. The Star (Wells short story) The Storm (Utterson short story) Supertoys Last All Summer Long.

  6. Category:English short story writers - Wikipedia

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    C. Alan Caillou; Richard Calder (writer) Ramsey Campbell; Bernard Capes; Lewis Carroll; C. J. Carter-Stephenson; Angela Carter; Patrick Skene Catling; Max Catto

  7. English literature - Wikipedia

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    The first page of Beowulf. Old English literature, or Anglo-Saxon literature, encompasses the surviving literature written in Old English in Anglo-Saxon England, in the period after the settlement of the Saxons and other Germanic tribes in England (Jutes and the Angles) c. 450, after the withdrawal of the Romans, and "ending soon after the Norman Conquest" in 1066. [12]

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