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"The Great Stone Face" as it appeared in The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales "The Great Stone Face" is a short story published by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850. The story reappeared in a full-length book, The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales, published by Ticknor, Reed & Fields in 1852.
"The Passing of Grandison" is a short story written by Charles W. Chesnutt and published in the collection The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line (1899). [1] The story takes place in the United States in the early 1850s, [ 2 ] at the time of anti-slavery sentiment and the abolitionist movement in the Northern United States ...
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town is a 2006 true crime book by John Grisham, his first nonfiction title. The book tells the story of Ronald 'Ron' Keith Williamson of Ada, Oklahoma, a former minor league baseball player who was wrongly convicted in 1988 of the rape and murder of Debra Sue Carter in Ada and was sentenced to death.
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Henry of Huntingdon tells the story as one of three examples of Canute's "graceful and magnificent" behaviour (outside of his bravery in warfare), [1] the other two being his arrangement of the marriage of his daughter to the later Holy Roman Emperor and the negotiation of a reduction in tolls on the roads across Gaul to Rome at the imperial coronation of 1027.
Maria Elizabeth Budden, (née Halsey, c. 1780 – 26 April 1832) [1] was a novelist, translator and writer of didactic children's books, who frequently signed her work "M. E. B." or "A Mother".
24 Must-Read Novels That Are Based on True Stories. Carole V. Bell, Trish Bendix. October 30, 2023 at 2:56 PM. ... There are moments of humility and wondrous humor, which are balanced with the ...
It contains 12 stories :- "True Short Story" - A discussion between two men in a cafe discussing the relative merits of novels and short stories is overheard. The narrator (named Ali) rings a friend and continues the argument quoting the views of various authors and the story of Echo and Narcissus from Greek mythology.