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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 ...
Scary stories related to the children in their early years by their nurse Agafya Kumskaya might also have had some bearing upon this story, according to Mikhail Chekhov. [3] On more than one occasion Chekhov referred to "Happiness" as his best loved story and, while working on the collection Rasskazy insisted that it should open it. In January ...
"The Widow and the Parrot" is a children's story by Virginia Woolf composed in 1922 or 1923 for a family newspaper. [1] The story follows Mrs. Gage, an elderly widow, as she goes to collect an inheritance left to her by her miserly brother, Mr. Joseph Brand. In addition to a small cottage and £3,000, Mrs. Gage also inherits a parrot named ...
"About Love" (Russian: О любви, romanized: O lyubvi) is an 1898 short story by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. The third and final part of the Little Trilogy, started by " The Man in the Case " and continued by " Gooseberries ".
Happiness, Like Water is a 2013 collection of short stories written by Nigeria writer Chinelo Okparanta. It was first published on 13 August 2013, by Mariner Books , an imprint of HarperCollins publishers .
A young prince in northern India meets and falls deeply in love with, “a young maiden of indescribable beauty and delightfulness.” [2] Theirs is a love, "beyond anything you have ever dreamt of love." The couple marries but have spent little more than a year together when the prince's beloved dies from, "some venomous sting that came to her ...
The Chicago Tribune paid $750 for the story and featured it in the “Blue Ribbon Fiction” section of the December 12, 1920 Sunday edition. [3] In the annotated table of contents which Fitzgerald introduces the stories collected in Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), he placed “The Lees of Happiness” under the category “Unclassified Masterpieces”:
"A Simple Heart", or Un cœur simple in French, is a story about a servant girl named Felicité. After her one and only love Théodore purportedly marries a well-to-do woman to avoid conscription, Felicité quits the farm where she works and heads for Pont-l'Évèque, where she picks up work in a widow's house as a servant.