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The Three Questions. " The Three Questions " is a 1903 short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy as part of the collection What Men Live By, and Other Tales. The story takes the form of a parable, and it concerns a king who wants to find the answers to what he considers the three most important questions in life.
A Dialogue Among Clever People" (AKA: "A Talk Among Leisured People") is a short story by Leo Tolstoy published in 1892. Aylmer Maude was one of the first translators. According to literary critic Robert Ellsberg , in this story, an aristocrat articulates about happiness and concludes that happiness can best be found in the ideal of the ...
January 19, 1924. " The Most Dangerous Game ", also published as " The Hounds of Zaroff ", is a short story by Richard Connell, [ 1 ] first published in Collier's on January 19, 1924, with illustrations by Wilmot Emerton Heitland. [ 2 ][ 3 ] The story features a big-game hunter from New York City who falls from a yacht and swims to what seems ...
Three Days in the Village. Three Deaths. The Three Hermits. The Three Questions. Too Dear! Twenty-Three Tales. The Two Brothers and the Gold. Two Hussars. Two Old Men (story)
The Killers. " Hills Like White Elephants " is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. It was first published in August 1927, in the literary magazine transition, then later in the 1927 short story collection Men Without Women. Later the story was adapted for film in 2002. "Hills Like White Elephants" is a short 38-minute film; British actor Greg ...
Big Two-Hearted River. " Big Two-Hearted River " is a two-part short story written by American author Ernest Hemingway, published in the 1925 Boni & Liveright edition of In Our Time, the first American volume of Hemingway's short stories. It features a single protagonist, Hemingway's recurrent autobiographical character Nick Adams, whose ...
"The Last Question" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the November 1956 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly and in the anthologies in the collections Nine Tomorrows (1959), The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973), Robot Dreams (1986), The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov (1986), the retrospective Opus 100 (1969), and in Isaac Asimov: The Complete ...
The New Yorker. Publication date. July 10, 1964. " The Swimmer " is a short story by American author John Cheever. It was originally published in The New Yorker on July 18, 1964, and later in the short-fiction collections The Brigadier and the Golf Widow (1964) and The Stories of John Cheever (1978). [1] Considered one of the author's most ...