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Ranked among Steinbeck's "finest and best-known" fiction, these are among the most frequently anthologized of Steinbeck's stories, widely read by university undergraduates and high school students. [3] [4] Author and social critic Andre Gide declared that several stories in The Long Valley "equaled or surpassed" those of Russian author Anton ...
The story of Jim Scarfedale is told by his neighbour as a cautionary tale against living at home too long. Jim, thought to be a mother's boy, marries with little announcement to the surprise and consternation of his domineering mother.
Sittenfeld’s latest is a short story collection that threads tales of marriage, friendship, fame and ambition, even revisiting the beloved character Lee Fiora from her 2005 bestseller “Prep ...
In a publishing climate built to sell novels, short fiction is an endangered species. Zach Williams, author of ‘Beautiful Days,’ explains why you might be reading more short stories than you ...
The short story was later used as the basis for the first act of the feature film A.I. Artificial Intelligence directed by Steven Spielberg in 2001. In the same year, the short story was republished in the eponymous Aldiss short-story collection Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time , along with the tie-in stories ...
J.D. Salinger’s novel is a portrait of two siblings as they come of age in the 1950s, and it was originally published as two (very long) short stories in The New Yorker.
To Cut a Long Story Short (ISBN 0-00-226149-9) is a 2000 short story collection by British writer and politician Jeffrey Archer. Unlike his previous collections, which have contained 12 stories, this one has 15. A list of the featured stories is below. Death Speaks (from W. Somerset Maugham's Sheppey) The Expert Witness; The Endgame; The Letter ...
"The Long Rain" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury. This story was originally published in 1950 under a different title in the magazine Planet Stories, and then in the collection The Illustrated Man. The story tells of four men who have crashed on Venus, where it is always raining.
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