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The work was included in the short fiction collection The Enormous Radio and Other Stories (1953), published by Funk and Wagnalls. [1] [2] "Torch Song" is included in The Stories of John Cheever (1978). A work often anthologized, the story is a modern rendering of the mythological Angel of Death. [3] [4]
"A Christmas Memory" is a short story by Truman Capote. Originally published in Mademoiselle magazine in December 1956, it was reprinted in The Selected Writings of Truman Capote in 1963. It was issued in a stand-alone hardcover edition by Random House in 1966, and it has been published in many editions and anthologies since.
"The Fife of Bodidharma", a 1959 short story by Cordwainer Smith, reprinted in The Rediscovery of Man; Jorge Palma, a Portuguese singer whose 1972 song was named after and inspired by the story "The Nine Billion Names of God", a 1984 short story by Carter Scholz about an exact replica of Clarke's story [note 3]
He also talks to Russel about his past and how each person had a song with which they can identify themselves. He lets Russel know to bring him to the frozen ocean, where he wants to bid farewell as his resting spot for the end of his life. Russel’s father: The father of the main protagonist Russel. His wife leaves him for a trapper and most ...
"The Scarlet Ibis" is a short story written by James Hurst. [1] It was first published in The Atlantic Monthly in July 1960 [2] and won the "Atlantic First" award. [3] The story has become a classic of American literature, and has been frequently republished in high school anthologies and other collections.
Earlier fragments of the story appeared in Russkoye Slovo (1913, No.120, May 26) as "O.Kir". I Still Say Nothing (Ya vsyo molchu, Я всё молчу). Russloye Slovo, 1913, No.231, October 8. The Loopy Ears and Other Stories collection. 1914. The Saints (Svyatyie, Святые). Vestnik Evropy. 1914. No.4, April. Features in Mitya's Love ...
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
The earliest surviving version of the song is in a broadside printed in England between 1672 and 1679. Little Bo-Peep 'Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep' United Kingdom c. 1805 [135] This rhyme was first recorded in a manuscript that dates to around 1805. Bo Peep is described in the rhyme as an adult with a short (little) stature. Oh Dear!