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  2. Getting Married (collection) - Wikipedia

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    Getting Married (Swedish: Giftas) is a collection of short stories by the Swedish writer August Strindberg. [1] The first volume was first published on 27 September 1884 and contained twelve stories depicting "twenty marriages of every variety," some of which present women in an egalitarian light. [ 2 ]

  3. Her Body and Other Parties - Wikipedia

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    In the story, all women have a specific location and color to their ribbon. The narrator talks the reader through her sexual explorations, marriage, motherhood, and the extent in which the "good" men in her life lead to her demise. The short story begins at a party where the narrator meets her future husband and the father to her child.

  4. Marriage à la Mode (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The title is inspired by a series of paintings by William Hogarth, called Marriage A-la-Mode. [2] The story was sometimes seen as a minor work in Mansfield oeuvre, because it was published in The Sphere, a more popular (and less literary) newspaper, but critics including Saralyn R. Daly and Anna Kwiatkowska argue that the story is more complex than is often thought, and that Mansfield herself ...

  5. The Best Short-Story Collections of 2023

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    In these edgy stories set in Appalachia and the Deep South, Black women face the full monty of modern life—weirdo predators, bogus jobs, ill-fated pregnancies, the nightmares of weight control ...

  6. The Married Couple - Wikipedia

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    "The Married Couple" (German: "Das Ehepaar") is a 1922 short story by Franz Kafka. It was published posthumously in Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer (Berlin, 1931). The first English translation by Willa and Edwin Muir was published by Martin Secker in London in 1933. It appeared in The Great Wall of China.

  7. List of short stories by Alice Munro - Wikipedia

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    "The Beggar Maid" in The New Yorker, 27 June 1977; [9] in Who Do You Think You Are?, 1978; in 78: Best Canadian Stories, 9–42; in Best Canadian Short Stories (1981), 96–121. [8] (republished in 2006/ 2008) "The Children Stay" in The New Yorker, 22 December 1997, Extended summary, in The Love of a Good Woman, 1998 (republished in 2003, 2011 ...

  8. A Perfect Day for Bananafish - Wikipedia

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    It was anthologized in 1949's 55 Short Stories from the New Yorker, as well as in Salinger's 1953 collection Nine Stories. The story is an enigmatic examination of a young married couple, Muriel and Seymour Glass, on vacation in Florida. [1] It is the first of his stories to feature a member of the fictional Glass family.

  9. Nothing Serious (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    Nothing Serious is a collection of ten short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United Kingdom on 21 July 1950 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 24 May 1951 by Doubleday & Co., New York. [1] It was published again in 2008 by The Overlook Press.