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Palm-of-the-Hand Stories (掌の小説, Tenohira no shōsetsu or Tanagokoro no shōsetsu [a]) is the name Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata gave to 146 short stories he wrote during his long career. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The earliest stories were published in the early 1920s, with the last appearing posthumously in 1972.
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843. It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of the narrator's sanity while simultaneously describing a murder the narrator committed.
William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer known primarily for his short stories, though he also wrote poetry and non-fiction.
It contains one of the author's most famous stories, "A Boy and His Dog", adapted into a film of the same name. "The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" won the 1969 Hugo Award for Best Short Story , while "A Boy and His Dog" was first published in New Worlds nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novella and won the 1970 Nebula ...
In “Heart of a Broken Story” Salinger takes the measure of wishful fantasy as the basis for popular entertainment and —at a remarkably early point in his career —registers his uneasiness with formula fiction. This story constitutes his earliest attack on phony art.” —John Wenke in J. D. Salinger: A Study of the Short Fiction (1991) [9]
"Her Husband's Hands" was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 2011 [1] and the 2011 Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction; [2] the French translation, "Les mains de son mari", was a finalist for the 2013 Grand prix de l'Imaginaire for foreign-language short fiction.
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Heart (Italian: Cuore) is a children's novel by the Italian author Edmondo De Amicis who was a novelist, journalist, short story writer, and poet. The novel is his best known work to this day, having been inspired by his own children Furio and Ugo who had been schoolboys at the time.