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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. Madame Butterfly (short story) - Wikipedia

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    19. " Madame Butterfly " is a short story by American lawyer and writer John Luther Long. It is based on the recollections of Long's sister, Jennie Correll, who had been to Japan with her husband, a Methodist missionary. It was first published in Century Magazine in 1898 and adapted for the stage in 1900. Giacomo Puccini based his 1904 opera ...

  4. Flowers for Algernon - Wikipedia

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    Flowers for Algernon is a short story by American author Daniel Keyes, later expanded by him into a novel and subsequently adapted for film and other media.The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960.

  5. Flash fiction - Wikipedia

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    In 1986 Jerome Stern at the Florida State University organized the World's Best Short-Short Story Contest for stories of less than 250 words. Michael Martone, the first winner, received $100 and a crate of Florida oranges as the prize. The Southeast Review continues the contest but has increased the maximum to 500 words.

  6. Fahrenheit 451 - Wikipedia

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    Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. [4] It presents a future American society where books have been outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. [5] The novel follows in the viewpoint of Guy Montag, a fireman who soon becomes disillusioned with his role of censoring literature and destroying knowledge ...

  7. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway - Wikipedia

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    Print. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigía Edition, is a posthumous collection of Ernest Hemingway 's (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) short fiction, published in 1987. It contains the classic First Forty-Nine Stories as well as 21 other stories and a foreword by his sons. Only a small handful of stories published ...

  8. Word Processor of the Gods - Wikipedia

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    January 1983. " Word Processor of the Gods " is a short story by American writer Stephen King, first published in the January 1983 issue of Playboy magazine under the title "The Word Processor", and collected in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew. [1]

  9. BBC 500 Words: Two sets of siblings reach final - AOL

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    Two sets of siblings have reached the final of the BBC's 500 Words competition. Sisters Zemira and Akeeva, from Oxfordshire, and brother and sister Henry and Isabella, from Hampshire, are in the ...

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