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1846 in A Danish Story-Book. " The Princess and the Pea " ( Danish: Prinsessen på Ærten, lit. 'The Princess on the Pea') [ 1] is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a princess who is tested to become the wife to a lonely prince. The tale was first published with three others by Andersen in a cheap booklet on 8 May 1835 in ...
Matryona's Place ( Russian: Матрёнин двор, romanized : Matryonin dvor ), sometimes translated as Matryona's Home (or House), is a novella written in 1959 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. First published by Aleksandr Tvardovsky in the Russian literary journal Novy Mir in 1963, it is Solzhenitsyn's most read short story. [1]
Print (hardback & paperback) Pages. 250. Preceded by. A Murder Is Announced. Followed by. They Came to Baghdad. Three Blind Mice and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1950. [ 1] The first edition retailed at $2.50.
The Langs' Fairy Books are a series of 25 collections of true and fictional stories for children published between 1889 and 1913 by Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Alleyne. The best known books of the series are the 12 collections of fairy tales also known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many ...
978-0-7710-0680-7. Stone Mattress is a 2014 short fiction collection by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood. [ 1] Atwood describes the pieces in the collection as "tales" rather than short stories, as they draw from the mythical and fantastical aspects associated with fables and fairy tales, rather than from conventional literary realism. [ 1]
PS3503.R167 A6 2003. Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (2003) is a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury. Bradbury wrote an introduction to the collection where he speaks about some of the inspirations, influences and among other things, the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. The collection repeats no stories from The Stories ...
Pages. 306 pp. The Lottery and Other Stories is a 1949 short story collection by American author Shirley Jackson. Published by Farrar, Straus, it includes "The Lottery" and 24 other stories. This was the only collection of her stories to appear during her lifetime. Her later posthumous collections were Come Along with Me (Viking, 1968), edited ...
50 Clever Ideas for Small Bedrooms Sylvie Becquet. If you have a small bedroom, you’ll know the true meaning of “sleeping tight.”. Perhaps your full-size mattress lends your bijou ...