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"Haircut" is a short story by American writer Ring Lardner, first published in 1925. [1] It is told from the perspective of a loquacious barber as he recounts the story of a town prankster named Jim Kendall. The story is a bleak satire on warped small-town morality and considered Lardner’s most famous work outside of sports writing. [2]
Among the short stories, the book includes Hemingway's previous volumes and added his latest published works "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", "The Capital of the World" and "Old Man at the Bridge" as well as his very first writing, "Up in Michigan". [6] [7] [8]
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.
Banal Story" is a short parody written by Ernest Hemingway which appeared in the spring/summer 1926 issue of The Little Review. [ 1 ] and the following year (with slight modifications) in the collection Men Without Women .
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (2003) is a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury. Bradbury wrote an introduction to the collection where he speaks about some of the inspirations, influences and among other things, the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. The collection repeats no stories from The Stories of Ray Bradbury.
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The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka is a compilation of all of Kafka's short stories. With the exception of three novels (The Trial, The Castle and Amerika), this collection includes all of his narrative work. The book was originally edited by Nahum N. Glatzer and published by Schocken Books in 1971.
The Fly" is a 1922 short story by Katherine Mansfield. Mansfield wrote the story in February 1922 at the Victoria Palace Hotel in Montparnasse, Paris. It was first published in The Nation and Athenaeum on 18 March 1922 and in The Doves' Nest and Other Stories in 1923. [1] The story relates to the death of a soldier in World War I.