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A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with ...
Stories and Texts for Nothing is a collection of stories by Samuel Beckett.It gathers three of Beckett's short stories ("The Expelled," "The Calmative," and "The End": all written in 1946) and the thirteen short prose pieces he named "Texts for Nothing" (1950–1952).
The second edition is split into four parts, and includes many new stories, some of which were very personal to Plath. As Plath's husband at the time of her death in 1963, fellow poet and writer Ted Hughes managed the publication and distribution of all her unpublished works, including her poetry.
Good Women, by Halle Hill In these edgy stories set in Appalachia and the Deep South, Black women face the full monty of modern life—weirdo predators, bogus jobs, ill-fated pregnancies, the ...
The six prose pieces ranged from 75 to 187 words and were about war and bullfighting. [18] The battle scenes came from the experiences of Hemingway's friend Chink Dorman-Smith who was at the Battle of Mons; the matador story originated from another friend, Mike Strater. Hemingway himself witnessed the events which inspired the story about the ...
A vignette (/ v ɪ n ˈ j ɛ t / ⓘ, also / v iː n ˈ-/) is a French loanword expressing a short and descriptive piece of writing that captures a brief period in time. [1] [2] Vignettes are more focused on vivid imagery and meaning rather than plot. [3]
William Enfield's The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces was published in 1774 and was a mainstay of 18th Century schoolrooms. Important nineteenth century anthologies included Palgrave's Golden Treasury (1861), Edward Arber 's Shakespeare Anthology (1899) and the first edition of Arthur Quiller Couch 's Oxford Book of English Verse (1900).
The Fizzles are eight short prose pieces written by Samuel Beckett: Fizzle 1 [He is barehead] Fizzle 2 [Horn came always] Fizzle 3 Afar a Bird [1] Fizzle 4 [I gave up before birth] [2] Fizzle 5 [Closed place] Fizzle 6 [Old earth] Fizzle 7 Still; Fizzle 8 For to end yet again