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They loosened the story's grip on the security of plot, but he broke it altogether and forced the form to live dangerously. O'Hara played with the brand names of our things, and Donald Barthelme plays with the brand names of our ideas. While Hemingway and O'Hara worked with specific feelings, he works with the structure of our emotional makeup.
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
Miss Zarves is the teacher of the nineteenth story of Wayside school. However, there is no nineteenth story of Wayside School, which means there is no Miss Zarves. The book apologizes for the absence of a nineteenth chapter (a nineteenth "story") and moves on. 20. Kathy Kathy hates everyone, especially the reader, even though she has not met them.
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"The Library of Babel" (Spanish: La biblioteca de Babel) is a short story by Argentine author and librarian Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format and character set.
A short story by this author features the question, "In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word?" A character in a story by this author describes knowing "the Secret," which is a "British artillery park on the Ancre". A story by this author features a hunt by the "Purifiers" through (*) infinite hexagonal rooms. Richard ...
In the short Foreword, the editors state that "[s]ome notable stories are missing" for purposes of balance, and also that "parody, nonsense, and casual essays" have been excluded as "outside the scope of this book." There is a conventional table of contents and an index lists each story alphabetically by its author's last name.
A boy who spends his whole school time reading Superman comics is forced to throw them away by his father due to his failing school grades. He then meets a man who resembles Superman, but this superhero gets his powers by drinking soup.