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  2. BBC's 100 Most Inspiring Novels - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] The Guardian noted surprising titles missing from the list, like Moby-Dick (1851), [6] and writing in The Daily Telegraph, Jake Kerridge called it "a short-sighted list that will please nobody." [7] The BBC relied on six experts: Stig Abell, Mariella Frostrup, Juno Dawson, Kit de Waal, Alexander McCall Smith and Syima Aslam.

  3. Zen in the Art of Writing - Wikipedia

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    Ray Bradbury, pictured in 2009, writer of Zen in the Art of Writing. Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity is a collection of essays by Ray Bradbury and published in 1990. [1] The unifying theme is Bradbury's love for writing. Essays included are: The Joy of Writing (1973) [1]

  4. File:Top of the world stories for boys and girls.pdf - Wikipedia

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    English: Five of these stories were written by the noted Finnish author, Zachris Topelius, who wrote them, and much else, for the children of Finland and Sweden more than fifty years ago. His loving sympathy for children, and his earnest desire to write only what was wholesome and good for them, shine through all his literary work for the young.

  5. 75 powerful LGBTQ quotes for Pride Month and every month - AOL

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    Observed in June, Pride Month is a time for celebration, reflection and remembrance. It's also a time to spotlight LGBTQ voices and members of the community including historymakers like Harvey ...

  6. Inspirational fiction - Wikipedia

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    July 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Inspirational fiction is a sub-category within the broader categories of " inspirational literature " or "inspirational writing". It has become more common for booksellers and libraries to consider inspirational fiction to be a separate genre, classifying and shelving books accordingly.

  7. The Seven Basic Plots - Wikipedia

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    The third event in a series of events becomes "the final trigger for something important to happen." This pattern appears in childhood stories such as "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", "Cinderella", and "Little Red Riding Hood". In adult stories, the Rule of Three conveys the gradual resolution of a process that leads to transformation. This ...

  8. Twenty-six Men and a Girl - Wikipedia

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    The story is cruelly realistic. But it is traversed by such a powerful current of poetry, by such a convincing faith in beauty and freedom and in the essential nobility of man, and at the same time it is told with such precision and necessity, that it can hardly be refused the name of a masterpiece.

  9. Teaching stories - Wikipedia

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    A teaching story is a narrative that has been deliberately created as a vehicle for the transmission of wisdom. The practice has been used in a number of religious and other traditions, though writer Idries Shah's use of it was in the context of Sufi teaching and learning, within which this body of material has been described as the "most valuable of the treasures in the human heritage". [1]