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Dancing Girls & Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, originally published in 1977 by McClelland & Stewart, [1] Toronto. It was the winner of the St. Lawrence Award for Fiction and the award of The Periodical Distributors of Canada for Short Fiction.
Dance of the Happy Shades is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by Ryerson Press in 1968. [1] It was her first collection of stories and won the 1968 Governor General's Award for English Fiction. The title of the main story is the English translation provided for the ballet in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice when it was first presented ...
Andersen named the story's anti-heroine Karen after his own loathed half-sister, Karen Marie Andersen. [3] The story is based on an incident Andersen witnessed as a small child. His father, who was a shoemaker, was sent a piece of red silk by a rich lady to make a pair of dancing slippers for her own daughter.
Ōgai first published "The Dancing Girl" in 1890, based on his experiences as a medical student in Germany from 1884 to 1888. [3] On the incorporation of Ōgai's experiences into the narrative of "The Dancing Girl", literary scholar Christopher Hill notes that while some scholarly interpretations of the story have argued that the narrative is autobiographical, Ōgai based the story off of ...
Dancing Girls may refer to: Dancing Girls, 1977 collection of short stories by Margaret Atwood; Dancing Girls, 1984 single by Nik Kershaw; Dancing Girls, British silent short film; Make It Happen, 2008 American film, known in France as Dancing Girls
The book concerns three adopted sisters, Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil. Each of the girls is discovered as a baby by Matthew Brown (Great-Uncle-Matthew, known as "Gum"), an elderly, absentminded palaeontologist and professor, during his world travels, and sent home to his practical great niece, Sylvia and her childhood nanny, Nana who live in London, England.
Drag performer Maxi Glamour reads “Leonardo the Terrible Monster,” a book about friendship, to a group of more than 20 children during the drag queen storytime event June 21, 2022, at the Glen ...
The Dancing Girl of Izu or The Izu Dancer (伊豆の踊子, Izu no odoriko) is a short story [1] [2] [3] (or, accounting for its length, a novella) [4] [5] [6] by Japanese writer and Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata first published in 1926.