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Ruskin Bond (born 19 May 1934) is an Indian author. His first novel, The Room on the Roof, published in 1956, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.Bond has authored more than 500 short stories, essays, and novels which includes 69 books for children. [1]
I survived falling off a mountain. Gurbaz Singh, 18, student. When I was 13, I climbed my first mountain—a fairly gentle 3,900-foot peak near where I live in Surrey, British Columbia.
The story narrates the life and death of titular councillor Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin (Russian: Акакий Акакиевич Башмачкин), an impoverished government clerk and copyist in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. Although Akaky is dedicated to his job, he is little recognized in his department for his hard work.
Diane A. Oliver (July 28, 1943 – May 21, 1966) was an American short fiction writer. [1] She published four short stories in her lifetime and a further ten posthumously, eight of those only seeing print nearly 58 years after her death. [2]
Last Tuesday, an 18-year-old gunman barged into a Texas elementary school and killed 19 children and two teachers in one of the deadliest school massacres in U.S. history.
The full text of A School Story at Wikisource; An omnibus collection of James's short fiction at Standard Ebooks; A School Story public domain audiobook at LibriVox; Full text of "A School Story" A Podcast to the Curious: Episode 9 - A School Story; Cast of Wonders: Episode 172 - A School Story
It has run for four series. The show took a year break before announcing the fifth series which aired in 2017 on Channel 4. It uses a fly on the wall format to show the everyday lives of the staff and pupils of secondary schools all over the UK. It shows an insight to the realities of a British secondary school.
Birthday Deathday and Other Stories is a 1985 collection of twelve short stories by Padma Perera, written and published from 1974 onwards. Eight provide vignettes of upper-class family life in India , while four others deal with cultural displacement and exile in North America .