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Literature can be described as all of the following: Communication – activity of conveying information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space.
Short story - A work of at least 2,000 words but under 7,500 words (between about 10 and 40 pages). Novella - A work of at least 17,500 words but under 50,000 words (90-170 pages). [6] The boundary between a long short story and a novella is vague. [7] Novel - A work of 50,000 words or more (about 170+ pages). Epic - A long poem.
Ford County is a collection of novellas by John Grisham.His first collection of stories, it was published by Doubleday in the United States in 2009. [1]The book contains 7 short stories or novellas: [2] "Blood Drive"; "Fetching Raymond"; "Fish Files"; "Casino"; "Michael's Room"; "Quiet Haven"; and "Funny Boy".
It is a prequel story to "Herbig-Haro"—set several centuries after humanity has conquered the Orion Arm of the Milky Way— published a year before under the name "Eric Iverson". This short story contains ideas which were later more developed in the Worldwar series , in which the invading aliens have an initial technological edge that is soon ...
The plot essentially retells the short story in a semi-autobiographical manner, with Poe himself undergoing a series of events involving a black cat which he used to inspire the story of the same name. In 2012, Big Fish Games released a point and click mystery game loosely based on the story called Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat: Dark Tales [14]
"Miriam" is a short story written by Truman Capote. It was originally published in the June 1945 issue of Mademoiselle . [ 1 ] " Miriam" was one of Capote's first published short stories, and in 1946 it earned an O. Henry Award in the category Best First-Published Story.
"Runaround" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, featuring his recurring characters Powell and Donovan. It was written in October 1941 and first published in the March 1942 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. It appears in the collections I, Robot (1950), The Complete Robot (1982), and Robot Visions (1990).
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