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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 .
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 2001.. In 2006, the story "The Bear Came over the Mountain" was adapted into a film, Away from Her, directed by Sarah Polley and produced by Atom Egoyan.
“In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future.”— Alex Haley “It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness ...
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 ...
The Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů based a short opera on this story; however, he used the title of another story by Tolstoi, "What Men Live By". Libretto of this opera-pastoral in one act (1952) was written by the composer. The story was made into a 1977 claymation special animated by Will Vinton. Vinton's recreation was a faithful ...
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”:
In 2004, twelve-year-old Mark suddenly enters a state of constant happiness. After also losing balance when walking, a medulloblastoma is discovered in his brain causing higher levels of Leu-enkephalin, which binds to the same receptors as morphine or heroin and hence is the reason for his happiness. Mark physically cannot be sad about the ...
Free Love and Other Stories is a short story collection by Scottish Booker-shortlisted author Ali Smith, first published in 1995 by Virago Press. It was her first published book and won the Saltire First Book of the Year award. [1] and a Scottish Arts Council award [2] It contains twelve short stories. "A Sweetly memorable collection" - The ...