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2. The Oblong Box (short story) - Wikipedia

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   The Oblong Box" (not a story of crime as Poe told it) is based in part on the murder of the printer Samuel Adams by John C. Colt— which succeeded the death of Mary Rogers as the leading sensational topic for the American press. ^ Vierra, Clifford (1959). "Poe's 'Oblong Box': Factual Origins".

3. The Lottery - Wikipedia

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   "The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. 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. The lottery, its preparations, and its execution are all described in detail, though it is not ...

4. List of short stories by Alice Munro - Wikipedia

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   06 = The View from Castle Rock – 2006. 09 = Too Much Happiness – 2009. 12 = Dear Life – 2012. Compilations. s96 = Selected Stories – 1996. s03 = No Love Lost – 2003. s04 = Vintage Munro – 2004. s06 = Alice Munro's Best: A Selection of Stories – Toronto 2006/ Carried Away: A Selection of Stories – New York 2006; both with an ...

5. Taste (short story) - Wikipedia

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   "Taste" is a short story by Roald Dahl that was first published in the December 8 1951 edition of The New Yorker and was included in the 1953 collection Someone Like You. Plot summary [ edit ] There are six people eating a fine dinner at the house of Mike Schofield, a London stockbroker : Mike, his wife and daughter, an unnamed narrator and his ...

6. Parson's Pleasure (short story) - Wikipedia

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   One trip sees him exploring Suffolk. After leaving his station wagon hidden so as not to spoil his image as an old clergyman, he walks to a rundown farmhouse where he meets three locals – Claud, Bert, and Rummins – in the yard. On being allowed into the farmhouse to have a look at the furniture, he finds a priceless Chippendale commode [1 ...

7. The Moons of Jupiter (short story) - Wikipedia

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   22 May 1978. ( 1978-05-22) " The Moons of Jupiter " (1978/1982) is a short story by Alice Munro, the Canadian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. It deals with how facts may change over time. [1] The story is 17 pages in length and made up of 7 sections with the shortest section being the final one.