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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 ...
PZ8.A37 Fo [ 2] The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain is a collection of short high fantasy stories for children by Lloyd Alexander and illustrator Margot Zemach. The 1973 first edition includes six stories; the 1982 edition, eight. The 1999 edition adds a map of Prydain and a pronunciation guide . [ 3][ 4][ 5] All are prequels to The ...
The collection of short stories that makes up this anthology was written during the 1940s for a private client known simply as "Collector". This "Collector" commissioned Nin, along with other now well-known writers (including Henry Miller and the poet George Barker), to produce erotic fiction for his private consumption. [3]
Shapiro was born on January 15, 1984,[1]in Los Angeles, California, to a Conservative Jewishfamily. He is Ashkenazi Jewish. [2][3][4][5]When he was 9 years old, his family began to observe Orthodox Judaism.[5] He started playing violin at a young age[6]and performed at the Israel BondsBanquet in 1996 at age 12.[7]
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 ...
"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 Winds of Change and Other Stories. First edition, cover art by Kiyoshi Kanai. The Winds of Change and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by American writer Isaac Asimov, published in 1983 by Doubleday .