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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.
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a short story about a man who ages in reverse, from senescence to infancy, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in Collier's Magazine on May 27, 1922, with the cover and illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg .
The Staveneys insist on a DNA test and, when it is done, accept the sweet caramel-coloured Mary with joy, ignoring the difficult black Dickson who is no kin. They take Mary for a month's holiday in a cottage in Dorset, where Victoria joins them for a week but is intimidated by their lifestyle and hates the country.
The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl is a 1991 short story collection for adults by Roald Dahl. [1] The collection containing tales of macabre malevolence comprises many of Dahl's stories seen in the television series Tales of the Unexpected and previously collected in Someone Like You (1953), Kiss, Kiss (1960), Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl (1969), Switch Bitch (1974), and Ah, Sweet ...
Observed on the last Monday in May, Memorial Day is a federal holiday celebrated on May 27 this year.. For many people, it means a three-day weekend, and like other national holidays, a majority ...
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (2003) is a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury. Bradbury wrote an introduction to the collection where he speaks about some of the inspirations, influences and among other things, the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. The collection repeats no stories from The Stories of Ray Bradbury.
The Informers is a collection of short stories, linked by the same continuity, written by American author Bret Easton Ellis. The collection was first published as a whole in 1994. Chapters 6 and 7, "Water from the Sun" and "Discovering Japan", were published separately in the UK by Picador in 2007. [1]
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