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2. A Bit of Singing and Dancing - Wikipedia

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   A Bit of Singing and Dancing is a short story collection by British writer Susan Hill. It was published in 1973 in the United Kingdom and reissued along with In the Springtime of the Year in the United States in 1984. The stories mainly focus on tyranny and freedom.

3. Marigolds (short story) - Wikipedia

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   The story draws from Collier's early life in rural Maryland during the Great Depression. Its themes include poverty, maturity and the relationship between innocence and compassion. [ 1 ] While teaching literature at the Community College of Baltimore County , she published "Marigolds" in Negro Digest , and it won the inaugural Gwendolyn Brooks ...

4. A Bit on the Side - Wikipedia

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   A Bit on the Side is a short story collection written by William Trevor, first published by Viking Press in 2004. It comprises twelve short stories arranged in the following order: "Sitting with the Dead" "Traditions" "Justina's Priest" "An Evening Out" "Graillis's Legacy" "Solitude" "Sacred Statues" "Rose Wept" "Big Bucks" "On the Streets"

5. The Crow and the Snake - Wikipedia

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   The story is much the same but the moral drawn is that the biter shall be bit. Another epigram by Antipater of Thessalonica , dating from the first century BCE, has an eagle carry off an octopus sunning itself on a rock, only to be entangled in its tentacles and fall into the sea, 'losing both its prey and its life'.

6. The White Snake - Wikipedia

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   The tale is part of a cycle of stories where the character comes to know the language of animals through the help of a serpent - in this case, by eating the flesh of a white serpent. [3] The motif is well-known in Europe and frequently found in Central and Eastern Europe, but also in Scotland, Ireland, Scandinavia, in the Baltic countries and ...

7. Magic for Beginners (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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   According to Book Marks, the book received a "positive" consensus, based on four critic reviews: one "rave", two "positive", and one "mixed". [6] On November/December 2005 issue of Bookmarks, the book received a (3.5 out of 5) based on critic reviews with a summary saying, "Link’s collection may defy simple interpretation, but it also challenges readers to decipher for themselves what is ...

8. The Storm (short story) - Wikipedia

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   "The Storm" is a short story written by the American writer Kate Chopin in 1898. The story takes place during the 19th century in the South of the United States, where storms are frequent and dangerous. It did not appear in print in Chopin's lifetime, but it was published in The Complete Works of Kate Chopin in 1969. [1]

9. The Reluctant Dragon (short story) - Wikipedia

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   One scholar describes the book as "a story about language", such as the "dialect of the illiterate people", and the "literary aspirations of the dragon". [3] The story also has an opening scene in which a little girl named Charlotte (a character from Grahame's The Golden Age) and a grown-up character find mysterious reptilian footprints in the snow and follow them, eventually finding a man who ...