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311 (novel) [1] ISBN. 0-15-131510-8. OCLC. 232370. Flowers for Algernon is a short story by American author Daniel Keyes, later expanded by him into a novel and subsequently adapted for film and other media. The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo ...
1892. " The Yellow Wallpaper " (original title: " The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story ") is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. [1] It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature for its illustration of the attitudes towards mental and ...
Noon Wine is a 1937 short novel by American author Katherine Anne Porter. It initially appeared in a limited numbered edition of 250, all signed by the author and published by Shuman's. [ 1 ] It later appeared in 1939 as part of Pale Horse, Pale Rider ( ISBN 0-15-170755-3 ), a collection of three short novels by the author, including the title ...
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Ender's Game (short story) " Ender's Game " is a science fiction novelette by American writer Orson Scott Card. It first appeared in the August 1977 issue of Analog magazine and was later expanded into the 1985 novel Ender's Game. [1] Although it serves as the foundation of the Ender's Game series, the novelette is not considered to be properly ...
Grace. —. " The Dead " is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. It is by far the longest story in the collection and, at 15,952 words, is almost long enough to be described as a novella. The story deals with themes of love and loss, as well as raising questions about the nature of the Irish identity.
René. (novella) René is a short novella by François-René de Chateaubriand, which first appeared in 1802. The work had an immense impact on early Romanticism, comparable to that of Goethe 's The Sorrows of Young Werther. Like the German novel, it deals with a sensitive and passionate young man who finds himself at odds with contemporary society.
Animal Farm is a satirical allegorical novella, in the form of a beast fable, [1] by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. [2] [3] It tells the story of a group of anthropomorphic farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy.