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The Collected Connoisseur (Tartarus Press, 2010) is about the mystical encounters of an aesthete whose real name is never revealed, some written jointly with John Howard. ‘The Descent of the Fire’, a story in this series by Valentine & Howard, was included in the 2004 World Fantasy Award winning anthology Strange Tales edited by Rosalie ...
The Great Automatic Grammatizator (published in the U.S. as The Umbrella Man and Other Stories) [1] [2] is a collection of thirteen short stories written by British author Roald Dahl. The stories were selected for teenagers from Dahl's adult works. All the stories included were published elsewhere originally; their sources are noted below.
Twitterature (a portmanteau of Twitter and literature) is a literary use of the microblogging service of X (formerly known as Twitter).It includes various genres, including aphorisms, poetry, and fiction (or some combination thereof) written by individuals or collaboratively.
It's not always easy to read poetry well out loud. But understanding it first makes it easier, writes poet Marilyn Singer. Poetry from Daily Life: Marilyn Singer explains how to read a poem aloud
The story even includes a pun about a sparrow, which served as a euphemism for female genitals. The story, which predates the Grimms' by nearly two centuries, actually uses the phrase "the sauce of Love." The Grimms didn't just shy away from the feminine details of sex, their telling of the stories repeatedly highlight violent acts against women.
For example: "'Dog!' he taunted. 'You can't hit me! I was not born to die on Hyrkanian steel! Try again, pig of Turan!'" [6] Howard's best short stories have been compared to Elizabethan plays and poems, in the sense of the strength of the narrative, the striking imagery and the sense of a larger context than man's own immediate environment. [3]
Switch Bitch (1974) is a book of adult short stories by British writer Roald Dahl.Four stories, originally published in Playboy between 1965 and 1974, [1] are collected. They are linked by themes of rape by deception: in each one, some major act of cunning, cruelty, or hedonism underpins the sexuality.
A verse novel is a type of narrative poetry in which a novel-length narrative is told through the medium of poetry rather than prose.Either simple or complex stanzaic verse-forms may be used, but there is usually a large cast, multiple voices, dialogue, narration, description, and action in a novelistic manner.