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  2. The Man Made of Words: Essays, Stories, Passages - Wikipedia

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    The book received numerous positive reviews. For example, Kirkus Reviews wrote, "The best pieces in the book, such as a wonderful essay on Navajo place names, combine this ethic with a profound attention to local knowledge and old ways of knowing; echoing Borges, Momaday proclaims that for him paradise is a library, but also 'a prairie and a plain . . .

  3. The Bedford Reader - Wikipedia

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    The eleventh edition of the book is composed of over seventy essays, one short story, and one poem. It is divided into eleven sections by the various methods of development: narration , description, example, comparison and contrast , analysis, process analysis , classification , cause and effect , definition , argument and persuasion , along ...

  4. Gooseberries (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The story was much discussed by the contemporary critics and garnered mostly positive reviews. The in-depth analysis were provided by Alexander Skabichevsky in Syn Otechestva [4] and Angel Bogdanovich in the October 1898 issue of Mir Bozhy, the latter describing the story "as a kind of setting for the environment where the Man in a Case rules ...

  5. Five-paragraph essay - Wikipedia

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    Example: "In the book Night, Elie Wiesel says..."). After this, the author narrows the discussion of the topic by stating or identifying a problem. Often, an organizational sentence is used here to describe the layout of the paper. Finally, the last sentence of the first paragraph of such an essay would state the thesis the author is trying to ...

  6. Short story - Wikipedia

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    [5] Sukumar Azhikode defined a short story as "a brief prose narrative with an intense episodic or anecdotal effect". [3] Flannery O'Connor emphasized the need to consider what is exactly meant by the descriptor short. [7] Short story writers may define their works as part of the artistic and personal expression of the form.

  7. The Immortal (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The story can be compared to Homer's Odyssey, in the sense that it is a tribute to the universal, mythical proportion of Homer's work. [2] The Immortal displays Borges' literary irony, fusing Swiftian satire, George Bernard Shaw 's creative evolution in Back to Methusela , and the dream visions of Thomas De Quincey in a single work.

  8. Idgah (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The story appears in Indian textbooks, and its adaptions also appear in moral education books such as The Joy of Living. [5] The story has been adapted into several plays and other performances. Asi-Te-Karave Yied (2008) is a Kashmiri adaption of the story by Shehjar Children's Theatre Group, Srinagar. [6]

  9. Why I Write - Wikipedia

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    Aesthetic enthusiasm- Orwell explains that the present in writing is the desire to make one's writing look and sound good, having "pleasure in the impact of one sound on another, in the firmness of good prose or the rhythm of a good story." He says that this motive is "very feeble in a lot of writers" but still present in all works of writing.