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Full Dark, No Stars, published in November 2010, is a collection of four novellas by American author Stephen King, all dealing with the theme of retribution. [1] [2] One of the novellas, 1922, is set in Hemingford Home, Nebraska, which is the home of Mother Abagail from King's epic novel The Stand (1978), the town the adult Ben Hanscom moves to in It (1986), where Alice and Billy stop for a ...
Take Us to Your Chief: and Other Stories is a collection of nine short stories by Canadian author, playwright, and journalist Drew Hayden Taylor published in 2016 by Douglas & McIntyre. [1] [2] Taylor, who is part Caucasian, part Ojibwe, [3] [4] explains in the acknowledgments section of the book that the origin of the project lies in several ...
Delta of Venus. Delta of Venus is a book of fifteen short stories by Anaïs Nin published posthumously in 1977 [1] —though largely written in the 1940s as erotica for a private collector. [2] In 1994 a film inspired by the book was directed by Zalman King .
35318437. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments is a 1997 collection of nonfiction writing by David Foster Wallace . In the title essay, originally published in Harper's as "Shipping Out", Wallace describes the excesses of his one-week trip in the Caribbean aboard the cruise ship MV Zenith, which he rechristens the Nadir.
"The Fair at Sorochyntsi" is the first story in the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Ukrainian writer Nikolai Gogol. Later in the 19th century the story was adapted as an opera of the same name by Modest Mussorgsky (left unfinished by the composer, and completed by other hands). The Fair at Sorochyntsi Plot summary
The Wheel of Love and Other Stories. The Wheel of Love is contains 20 works of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates published by Vanguard Press in 1970. [1] The volume brought Oates "abundant national acclaim" [2] including this assessment from librarian and critic John Alfred Avant: "Quite simply, one of the finest collections of short stories ...
LC Class. PZ3.K11 Co PT2621.A26. The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka is a compilation of all of Kafka's short stories. With the exception of three novels ( The Trial, The Castle and Amerika ), this collection includes all of his narrative work. The book was originally edited by Nahum N. Glatzer and published by Schocken Books in 1971.
Harrison Bergeron is the fourteen-year-old son of George Bergeron and Hazel Bergeron, who is 7 feet (2.1 m) tall, a genius, and an extraordinarily handsome, athletic, strong, and brave person. George Bergeron is Harrison's father and Hazel's husband. A very smart and sensitive character, he is handicapped artificially by the government.