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  2. The Spectacles (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Plot summary. Illustration by Byam Shaw for a London edition dated 1909. The narrator, 22-year-old Napoleon Buonaparte Froissart, changes his last name to "Simpson" as a requirement to inherit a large sum from a distant cousin, Adolphus Simpson. At the opera he sees a beautiful woman in the audience and falls in love instantly.

  3. Glasses (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Glasses (short story) "Glasses" is an 1896 short story by Henry James. A young woman whose only asset is a supremely beautiful face is about to make a society marriage. That is, until her fiancé discovers that, being virtually blind, she needs thick glasses which ruin her looks.

  4. Time Enough at Last - Wikipedia

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    The episode was adapted from a short story by Lynn Venable, [2] which appeared in the January 1953 edition of If: Worlds of Science Fiction. [3] [4] "Time Enough at Last" became one of the most famous episodes of the original Twilight Zone. It is "the story of a man who seeks salvation in the rubble of a ruined world."

  5. The Veldt (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The Veldt (short story) " The Veldt " is a science fiction short story by American author Ray Bradbury. Originally appearing as " The World the Children Made " in the September 23, 1950, issue of The Saturday Evening Post, it was republished under its current name in the 1951 anthology The Illustrated Man.

  6. The Seven Basic Plots - Wikipedia

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    Cinderella, Aladdin, Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë), A Little Princess (Frances Hodgson Burnett), Great Expectations (Charles Dickens), David Copperfield (Charles Dickens, Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe), The Red and the Black (Stendhal), The Prince and the Pauper (Mark Twain), "The Ugly Duckling" (Hans Christian Andersen), The Gold Rush, The Jerk.

  7. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    A narrative technique (also, in fiction, a fictional device) is any of several specific methods the creator of a narrative uses [1] —in other words, a strategy applied in the delivering of a narrative to relay information to the audience and to make the narrative more complete, complex, or engaging. Some scholars also call such a technique a ...

  8. Double Identity (Haddix novel) - Wikipedia

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    Dad acts strangely and nervous. Suddenly, 12-year-old Bethany Cole finds herself in the car with them, frantically driving across several states in the dead of night. With no explanation, they leave her at a house in Illinois with a woman Dad calls Aunt Myrlie. Myrlie is visibly shaken to see Dad, and she's even more stunned when she sees ...

  9. A Good Man Is Hard to Find (short story) - Wikipedia

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    'A good story,' she wrote, 'is literal in the same sense a child's drawing is literal. ' " [19] In other words, O'Connor understood that her anagogical vision is a challenge to readers because they must not only understand the literal story but also associate the literal with their knowledge or experience. Consequently, "A Good Man Is Hard to ...