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  2. Country house poem - Wikipedia

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    "To Richard Cotton, Esq.," composed by Geoffrey Whitney in 1586, which describes Combermere Abbey using the metaphor of a beehive, may be the earliest example. [ 3 ] Other well-known instances of the genre include Andrew Marvell 's Upon Appleton House , which describes Thomas, Lord Fairfax 's country house, where Marvell was a tutor between ...

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  4. No Comebacks - Wikipedia

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    The stories in the collection are: No Comebacks; A wealthy Englishman, who can have anything he wants, finally encounters a woman he wants but cannot have. The desired Spaniard is married to a husband who needs her so long as he's alive. But for a man with money and no scruples, there's an obvious fix for that.

  5. Category:British short stories - Wikipedia

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  6. Tall, dark and handsome - Wikipedia

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    David Puts is an associate professor of anthropology at Pennsylvania State University who has studied the evolutionary bases of human sexuality.In 2017 he was asked if "tall, dark and handsome" is universally attractive in the human experience and he stated that not enough cross-cultural work had been conducted to be very confident in the concept's scientific validity.

  7. Romantic literature in English - Wikipedia

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    By the mid-19th century, the pre-eminence of literature from the British Isles began to be challenged by writers from the former American colonies. This included one of the creators of the new genre of the short story, and inventor of the detective story Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49). A major influence on American writers at this time was ...

  8. Story paper - Wikipedia

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    A story paper is a periodical publication similar to a literary magazine, but featuring illustrations and text stories, and aimed towards children and teenagers. Also known in Britain as "boys' weeklies", story papers were phenomenally popular before the outbreak of the Second World War .

  9. Tales of the Unexpected (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected is a collection of 16 short stories written by British author Roald Dahl and first published in 1979. All of the stories were earlier published in various magazines, and then in the collections Someone Like You and Kiss Kiss. [1]