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"The Three Questions" is a 1903 short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy as part of the collection What Men Live By, and Other Tales. The story takes the form of a parable, and it concerns a king who wants to find the answers to what he considers the three most important questions in life.
Children's short stories are fiction stories, generally under 100 pages long, written for children. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
"The Cop and the Anthem" is a December 1904 short story by the United States author O. Henry. It includes several of the classic elements of an O. Henry story, including a setting in New York City, an empathetic look at the state of mind of a member of an underprivileged class, and an ironic ending.
Kabuliwala, is a Bengali short story written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1892, [1] [2] during Tagore's "Sadhana" period (named for one of Tagore's magazines) from 1891 to 1895. . The story is about a fruit seller, a Pashtun (his name is Rahmat) from Kabul, Afghanistan, who visits Calcutta (present day Kolkata, India) each year to sell dry frui
"The River" is a Southern gothic short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor that was first published in 1953 about a very young boy who is taken by his babysitter to a preacher at a Christian healing where he is baptized in a river, and, the next day, runs away from home to the site of his baptism and baptizes himself, and then is ...
In the village of Garhwal, a girl named Binya used to live there. She was living with her widowed mother and her older brother named Biju. In that same village, a man named Ram Bharosa had an old shop that sold Coca-Cola with no ice, tea, curd, or sweets. One day, Binya receives a beautiful blue umbrella from some foreigners in exchange for
The Five-Forty-Eight is a short story written by John Cheever that was originally published in the April 10, 1954, issue of The New Yorker [1] [2] and later collected in The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories (1958) and The Stories of John Cheever (1978). In 1955 The Five-Forty-Eight was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Magazine Award ...
The story was first published in Modern Woman's Magazine in November 1959 under the title "A Choice of Love and Hate". [12] [8] The original manuscript copy for "Risico" is titled "Risiko". [17] The story was first published in the Daily Express in April 1960 under the name "The Double-Take". This was adapted from another idea from the planned ...