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"The Crawling Chaos" is a short story by American writers H. P. Lovecraft and Winifred V. Jackson, first published April 1921 in the United Cooperative. [1] As in their other collaboration, "The Green Meadow", the tale was credited to "Elizabeth Berkeley" (Jackson) and "Lewis Theobald, Jun" (Lovecraft). [2]
"The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was" or "The Story of a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear" (German: Märchen von einem, der auszog das Fürchten zu lernen) is a German folktale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales (KHM 4). [1] The tale was also included by Andrew Lang in The Blue Fairy Book (1889).
Courage (also called bravery, valour (British and Commonwealth English), or valor (American English)) is the choice and willingness to confront agony, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. Valor is courage or bravery, especially in battle .
Call It Courage is a story set in the Pacific Islands. It chronicles the journey of Mafatu, the son of the chief of Hikueru Island , Tavana Nui. Mafatu is afraid of the sea due to witnessing his mother die while he was a young child, which makes him a shame to his father, and referred to as a coward among his tribe.
"Deux amis" or "Two Friends" is a short story by the French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1883. The story is set in Paris during the Franco-Prussian War, when the city lay under siege. The story examines French bravery, German stereotypes and, unusually for Maupassant, discusses the nature and justification of war in the form of a ...
Published in the United States in 1971, it as a ten-year retrospective of Ellison's short stories. It was later published in the United Kingdom in two volumes as All the Sounds of Fear in 1973 and The Time of the Eye in 1974 (the 1974 volume only containing a new introduction). All of the stories in this collection center around isolation and ...
Mellow described the story as "one of Hemingway’s classic studies of fear". Macomber hears the roar of a lion and is unnerved because he has never "heard, as Hemingway pointedly states, the Somali proverb that says, 'a brave man is always frightened three times by a lion: [ 2 ] when he first sees his track, when he first hears him roar, when ...
Furthermore, there was a Private James Conklin who served in the 124th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, [31] and Crane's short story "The Veteran", which was published in McClure's Magazine the year after The Red Badge of Courage, [32] depicts an elderly Henry Fleming who specifically identifies his first combat experience as having ...