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Flowers for Algernon, short story and novel by Daniel Keyes (short story 1959, novel 1966) To Kill a Mockingbird, novel by Harper Lee (1960) Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls (1961) A Clockwork Orange, a novel by Anthony Burgess (1962) The Learning Tree, novel by Gordon Parks (1963) The Graduate, novel by Charles Webb (1963)
The stories were all previously published in other venues from 2002 to 2005. The book won the 2006 Locus Award for best short story collection. [1] The title story, "Magic for Beginners", won the 2006 Nebula Award for Best Novella [2] and 2006 Locus Award for Best Novella, [1] and the 2006 BSFA Award for best short fiction. [3]
The meaning within the stories is not always explicit, and children are expected to make their own meaning of the stories. In the Lakota Tribe of North America, for example, young girls are often told the story of the White Buffalo Calf Woman , who is a spiritual figure that protects young girls from the whims of men.
Minisagas are used in business, as an educational tool, [1] a creative outlet, and a source of entertainment. They are not poems, but rather "bite-sized lessons for life and business". [ 2 ] They are often used to stimulate creativity, stretch one's thinking, determine the essential elements of a story, or enhance discipline in writing.
Cumulative tale This Is the House That Jack Built. In a cumulative tale, sometimes also called a chain tale, action or dialogue repeats and builds up in some way as the tale progresses.
Betrachtung (published in English as Meditation or Contemplation) is a collection of eighteen short stories by Franz Kafka written between 1904 and 1912. It was Kafka's first published book, printed at the end of 1912 (with the publication year given as "1913") in the Rowohlt Verlag on an initiative by Kurt Wolff.
Dealing with a strong cough, Anton Chekhov wrote "The Student" while on a monthlong vacation to Yalta, a city he found to be "ever so boring". [2] The story, which initially bore the title "In the Evening", was published in issue number 104 of the newspaper Russkie Vedomosti (The Russian News) [b] on April 16, 1894, [a] and, at just four pages long, was one of Chekhov's shortest stories.
Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the use of literary tropes or with various traditions of poetry and poetics.