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The story was published in the September 1841 issue of Graham's Magazine as "Never Bet Your Head: A Moral Tale". Its republication in the August 16, 1845, issue of the Broadway Journal included its now-standard title "Never Bet the Devil Your Head". [3] Noted Poe biographer Arthur Hobson Quinn dismissed the story, stating "it is a trifle." [6]
Isaac Asimov used the song "Give My Regards to Broadway" to form an elaborate story pun in his short story "Death of a Foy". [3] He uses the "Marseillaise" in the short story "Battle-Hymn" [4] for the same effect. His short story "A Loint of Paw" ends with the one-sentence judicial verdict "A niche in time saves Stein."
Novella – a written, fictional, prose narrative normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. Parable – a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. Play – a story that is told mostly through dialogue and is meant to be performed on stage.
The opening paragraph introduces the sailor, Albert Edward Thomson, “probably the most memorable of all Pritchett’s eccentrics.” [4] He was lifting his knees high and holding his hands up, when I first saw him, as if, crossing the road through the stinging rain, he was breaking through the beaded curtain of a Pernambuco bar.
One More for the Road is a 2002 collection of 25 short stories written by Ray Bradbury. Contents "First Day"
Ernest Hemingway in 1923, two years before the publication of "Big Two-Hearted River" "Big Two-Hearted River" is a two-part short story written by American author Ernest Hemingway, published in the 1925 Boni & Liveright edition of In Our Time, the first American volume of Hemingway's short stories.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 October 1892.It contains the earliest short stories featuring the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, which had been published in twelve monthly issues of The Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892.