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"The Real Thing" is a short story by Henry James, first syndicated by S. S. McClure in multiple American newspapers and then published in the British publication Black and White in April 1892 [1] and the following year as the title story in the collection, The Real Thing and Other Stories published by Macmillan. This story, often read as a ...
The short story was later used as the basis for the first act of the feature film A.I. Artificial Intelligence directed by Steven Spielberg in 2001. In the same year, the short story was republished in the eponymous Aldiss short-story collection Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time , along with the tie-in stories ...
The Lottery is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. [a] The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens.
The first word of the story, "True!", is an admission of their guilt, as well as an assurance of reliability. [10] This introduction also serves to gain the reader's attention. [13] Every word contributes to the purpose of moving the story forward, exemplifying Poe's theories about the writing of short stories. [14]
Over Zoom last month, we spoke about writing short stories in an industry built to sell novels, getting fired from a Hollywood job for reading books under his desk, and why you might be reading ...
"Young Goodman Brown" is a short story published in 1835 by American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. The story takes place in 17th-century Puritan New England, a common setting for Hawthorne's works, and addresses the Calvinist/Puritan belief that all of humanity exists in a state of depravity, but that God has destined some to unconditional election through unmerited grace.
"Cat Person" is a short story by Kristen Roupenian that was first published in December 2017 in The New Yorker before going viral online. [1] [2] The BBC described the short story as "being shared widely online as social media users discuss how much it relates to modern-day dating".
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a short story about a man who ages in reverse, from senescence to infancy, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in Collier's Magazine on May 27, 1922, with the cover and illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg.