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In The Independent, Matt Thorne reviews the book Just After Sunset, in which "Harvey's Dream" can be found.He mentions "Harvey's Dream" as being one of the weaker stories in the collection (along with "Graduation Afternoon"), stating that "in both of these stories, which seem to have been written quickly, [King] seems less interested in creating compelling fiction than in transcribing his ...
"Greenleaf" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor published in 1956 in The Kenyon Review, and later appeared in her short story collection Everything That Rises Must ...
In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories is a collection of horror stories, poems and urban legends retold for children by Alvin Schwartz and illustrator Dirk Zimmer. It was published as part of the I Can Read! series in 1984. In 2017 the book was re-released with illustrations by Spanish freelance illustrator Victor Rivas. [1]
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
Mile 81 is a novella by Stephen King, originally published as an e-book on September 1, 2011. The publication also includes an excerpt from King's novel 11/22/63 , published two months later. It has also been collected in the 2015 short story collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams .
Train Dreams is a novella by Denis Johnson. It was published on August 30, 2011, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux . [ 2 ] It was originally published, in slightly different form, in the Summer 2002 issue of The Paris Review .
Reading in the Dark won the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize and Irish Literature Prizes, and is a New York Times Notable Book. [9] It also won the 1996 South Bank Show Award for Literature, and was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1996. [citation needed] It has been translated into 20 languages. [10]
A first sequel, The Dark Volume, was published in the UK by Penguin on May 1, 2008. A second sequel, The Chemickal Marriage was released in 2012. The idea for the book came to Dahlquist during a jury duty in Manhattan in 2004, when he had a dream the second night about a mystery in a strange, dark, Victorian building. The character who would be ...