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Gwen Grant [1] [2] [3] is an English writer primarily known for her works for children and young adults and is the author of seventeen published novels and picture books. Many of her short stories and poems have been anthologised in collections by leading publishers, including Oxford University Press and Macmillan.
Idealised illustration of an early 20th-century English schoolgirl. Brunette Coleman was a pseudonym used by the poet and writer Philip Larkin.In 1943, towards the end of his time as an undergraduate at St John's College, Oxford, he wrote several works of fiction, verse and critical commentary under that name, including homoerotic stories that parody the style of popular writers of ...
The poem was translated by Kerstin and Roger Tanner. Stina Wirsén made the illustrations next to the poem. Ilon Wikland had previously illustrated some publications of the poem in Sweden and Germany. Next to this the Dutch composer Patrick van Deurzen composed a song to Astrid Lindgren's English text. It was made for a mixed choir, viola and ...
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders is a collection of short stories and poetry by English author Neil Gaiman. It was published in the US and UK in 2006 by HarperCollins and Headline Review. Most of the stories in this book are reprints from other sources: magazines, anthologies , and even CD sleeves.
As with Maiden Voyage, contemporary reviews were mixed, but perhaps overall less positive than the earlier work.Writing in The Saturday Review, Basil Davenport was repelled by the "soul-sick" Orvil as a person, but praised Welch's skill generally in drawing out "such labyrinthine regions of the human soul", comparing Orvil to the first-person protagonist of Welch's earlier short story "When I ...
Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected is a collection of 16 short stories written by British author Roald Dahl and first published in 1979. All of the stories were earlier published in various magazines, and then in the collections Someone Like You and Kiss Kiss. [1]
War Dances is a collection of short stories, poems, and short works. It won the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The collection, however, received mixed reviews. [15] Other short stories by Alexie include: Superman and Me (1997) The Toughest Indian in the World (2000) (collection of short stories) [32]
"Marigolds" is a 1969 short story by Eugenia Collier. The story draws from Collier's early life in rural Maryland during the Great Depression . Its themes include poverty, maturity and the relationship between innocence and compassion. [ 1 ]