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) is a fictional short story written by prolific Indian author Sudha Murthy. This story was published in the book How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and Other Stories in the year 2004 by Penguin Books, India. Later it was included in the Class 9 English Communicative CBSE Syllabus. In the story, the author recalls how she taught her illiterate ...
The story was likely intended as a literature primer for young readers, but departed from highly moralistic, often religious stories written for the same purpose. Adaptations throughout the 1880s incorporated appealing illustrations in order to hold the reader's attention as interest became more relevant to reading lessons.
There is disagreement regarding the number of pages or words necessary for a story to be considered a novella, a short story or a novel. [2] The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association defines a novella's word count to be between 17,500 and 40,000 words; [ 3 ] [ 4 ] at 250 words per page, this equates to 70 to 160 pages.
The reference is direct in The hind and the panther transvers'd to the story of the country-mouse and the city mouse, written by Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax and Matthew Prior in 1687. [15] This was a satire directed against a piece of pro-Stuart propaganda and portrays the poet John Dryden (under the name of Bayes) proposing to elevate ...
'Maiden questions') is a Nepali short stories collection by Durga Karki. [1] It was published on February 21, 2020 by Nepa-laya publication. The book is a collection of 13 short stories. [2] The major themes of the stories are social realism and feminism. The stories highlights the social and gender inequality in Nepali society. [3]
The story of the evil King Kachadruma I.1 The naughty monkey and the wedge I.1 I.2 84A I.1 II.2 The jackal and the war drum I.2 I.4 84B I.2 The wise minister I.3 The adventures of an ascetic I.3a I.4a The saint, his own pouch and the rogue I.3a I.5 I.4a The wolf and the rams I.3b I.5.1 I.4b The unfaithful wife Tantuvayika I.5.2
Her only book was Black Beauty, written between 1871 and 1877 in her house at Old Catton. During this time, her health was declining, and she could barely get out of bed. Her dearly loved mother often had to help her with her illness. She sold the book to the local publishers, Jarrold & Sons. The book broke records for sales and is the "sixth ...
Some editions are entitled Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children. The book is an expanded version of Nesbit's earlier book, The Children's Shakespeare (1897), a collection of twelve tales likewise based on plays by William Shakespeare.