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Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan published in 1943 by Indian Thought Publications. [1] The book was republished outside India in 1982 by Penguin Classics. [2] The book includes 32 stories, all set in the fictional town of Malgudi, [3] located in South India. Each of the stories portrays a facet of life in Malgudi. [4]
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is the debut short story collection by Yiyun Li. It is the author's first book of fiction. It is the author's first book of fiction. Two of the stories were adapted into films: the title story and The Princess of Nebraska , both directed by Wayne Wang .
Royal, August 1904 . Boys' Life (US), April 1931; Plot. Liss, of the Upper Fourth form, and Buxton, of the Lower Fifth, share study eight in Appleby's at Wrykyn.One day, Buxton starts wearing a strong scent called Simpkins Idle Moments, in order to annoy his Form-master Mr Day, who had put him "in extra" for throwing paper.
The definitive collection of his stories, Where I'm Calling From, was published shortly before his death in 1988. In their 1989 nomination of Carver for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the jury concluded, "The revival in recent years of the short story is attributable in great measure to Carver's mastery of the form." [3]
"The Priest of Shiga Temple and His Love" appeared in the UNESCO collection Modern Japanese Stories. [5] A British edition appeared the following year, published by Secker & Warburg. [2] "Manatsu no shi" ("Death in Midsummer") was also the name of a collection of Mishima short stories published by Sōgensha in 1953. Apart from the title story ...
"The River" is a Southern gothic short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor that was first published in 1953 about a very young boy who is taken by his babysitter to a preacher at a Christian healing where he is baptized in a river, and, the next day, runs away from home to the site of his baptism and baptizes himself, and then is ...
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.
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 .