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  2. It's a Good Life - Wikipedia

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    "It's a Good Life" is a short story by American writer Jerome Bixby, written in 1953. In 1970, the Science Fiction Writers of America selected it for The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, as one of the 20 best short stories in science fiction published prior to the Nebula Award. The story was first published in Star Science Fiction ...

  3. Marigolds (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The story draws from Collier's early life in rural Maryland during the Great Depression. Its themes include poverty, maturity and the relationship between innocence and compassion. [ 1 ] While teaching literature at the Community College of Baltimore County , she published "Marigolds" in Negro Digest , and it won the inaugural Gwendolyn Brooks ...

  4. The Terrible Old Man - Wikipedia

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    "The Terrible Old Man" is a short story of fewer than 1200 words by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written on January 28, 1920, and first published in the Tryout, an amateur press publication, in July 1921. It is notable as the first story to make use of Lovecraft's imaginary New England setting, introducing the fictional town of ...

  5. The Gift of the Magi - Wikipedia

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    As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been popular for adaptation, especially for presentation at Christmas time. The plot and its twist ending are well known; the ending is generally considered an example of cosmic irony. [2] The story was allegedly written at Pete's Tavern [3] on Irving Place in New York City.

  6. The Eyes (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The story presents him as a wealthy upper-class man, an Epicurean, [1] who hosts dinners at his home in his old age. These dinners are the method with which the audience is introduced to Andrew Culwin, as he tells the tale of his supernatural encounters in his youth to two of guests of said dinners, one of which being the narrator of the short ...

  7. Feathertop - Wikipedia

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    "Feathertop" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1852. The moral tale uses a metaphoric scarecrow named Feathertop and its adventure to offer the reader a conclusive lesson about human character. It has since been used and adapted in several other media forms, such as opera and theatre.

  8. Blind men and an elephant - Wikipedia

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    Blind men and the elephant, 1907 American illustration. Blind Men Appraising an Elephant by Ohara Donshu, Edo Period (early 19th century), Brooklyn Museum. The parable of the blind men and an elephant is a story of a group of blind men who have never come across an elephant before and who learn and imagine what the elephant is like by touching it.

  9. What Men Live By - Wikipedia

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    "What Men Live By" (also translated as "What People Live By" [1]) is a short story written by Russian author Leo Tolstoy in 1885. It is one of the short stories included in his collection What Men Live By, and Other Tales, published in 1885.