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  2. Short story - Wikipedia

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    The short story is one of the oldest types of literature and has existed in the form of legends, mythic tales, folk tales, fairy tales, tall tales, fables and anecdotes in various ancient communities around the world. The modern short story developed in the early 19th century. [1]

  3. A Good Man Is Hard to Find (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Publication date. 1953. " A Good Man Is Hard to Find " is a Southern gothic short story first published in 1953 by author Flannery O'Connor who, in her own words, described it as "the story of a family of six which, on its way driving to Florida [from Georgia ], is slaughtered by an escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit". [2]

  4. The Yellow Wallpaper - Wikipedia

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    1892. " The Yellow Wallpaper " (original title: " The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story ") is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. [1] It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature for its illustration of the attitudes towards mental and ...

  5. A Sound of Thunder - Wikipedia

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    Collier's. " A Sound of Thunder " is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury, first published in Collier's magazine in the June 28, 1952, issue, and later in Bradbury's collection The Golden Apples of the Sun in 1953. [1]

  6. Category:Short stories by Leo Tolstoy - Wikipedia

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    The Poor People. The Porcelain Doll (by Tolstoy) The Port (short story) Posthumous Notes of the Hermit Fëdor Kuzmich. The Prisoner of the Caucasus (story) Promoting a Devil.

  7. Alice Munro, acclaimed short-story writer and Nobel Prize ...

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    In dozens of short stories set in Ontario, she combined the “intractably rural” region with the human commotion it hosted — "gothic passions, buried sorrows and forlorn mysteries,” a ...

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