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  2. Wikipedia:How to write a plot summary - Wikipedia

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    A plot summary is not a recap. It should not cover every scene or every moment of a story. A summary is not meant to reproduce the experience of reading or watching the work. In fact, readers might be here because they didn't understand the original. Just repeating what they have already seen or read is unlikely to help them.

  3. Summary of Decameron tales - Wikipedia

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    The story of the pear tree, best known to English-speaking readers from The Canterbury Tales, also originates from Persia in the Bahar-Danush, in which the husband climbs a date tree instead of a pear tree. The story could have arrived in Europe through the One Thousand and One Nights, or perhaps the version in book VI of the Masnavi by Rumi.

  4. The Story of a New Name - Wikipedia

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    The Story of a New Name (Italian: Storia del nuovo cognome) is a 2012 novel written by Italian author Elena Ferrante. It is the second volume in her four-book series known as the Neapolitan Novels , being preceded by My Brilliant Friend , and succeeded by Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay and The Story of the Lost Child .

  5. The Black Cat (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The plot essentially retells the short story in a semi-autobiographical manner, with Poe himself undergoing a series of events involving a black cat which he used to inspire the story of the same name. In 2012, Big Fish Games released a point and click mystery game loosely based on the story called Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat: Dark Tales [14]

  6. The Story of a Mother - Wikipedia

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    "The Story of a Mother" (Danish: Historien om en moder) is a story by the Danish poet, travel writer, short story writer and novelist Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875). The tale was first published in December 1847. The story has been made into films several times, and was also adapted into an animated film which used the stop-motion puppet ...

  7. The Real Thing (story) - Wikipedia

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    "The Real Thing" is a short story by Henry James, first syndicated by S. S. McClure in multiple American newspapers and then published in the British publication Black and White in April 1892 [1] and the following year as the title story in the collection, The Real Thing and Other Stories published by Macmillan. This story, often read as a ...

  8. Wikipedia:How to streamline a plot summary - Wikipedia

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    People like to explicitly state the setting of a story even when it's irrelevant. The worst writing uses "in the year", which is pointlessly verbose. "The story takes place in the city of London in the year 1522." → "In 16th century London, ..." "Far in the future, in the year 2760, a thief plots her heist." → "In 2760, a thief plots her ...

  9. The Giver - Wikipedia

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    The Giver is a 1993 American young adult dystopian novel written by Lois Lowry and is set in a society which at first appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopian as the story progresses. In the novel, the society has taken away pain and strife by converting to "Sameness", a plan that has also eradicated emotional depth from their ...