Ads
related to: english short story grade 2
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 Monkey's Paw" is a horror short story by English author W. W. Jacobs. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in September, 1902, [1] and was reprinted in his third collection of short stories, The Lady of the Barge, later that year. [2]
It is the first modern short story to introduce bizarre, odd and grotesque elements in children's literature and thereby anticipates Lewis Carroll's tale, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [38] There are not only parallels concerning the content (the weird adventures of a young girl in a fantasy land), but also the origin of the tales as both ...
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 the intent of evoking a single effect or mood.
Tara: A Play in Two Acts is an English short story written by Mahesh Dattani. It is the story of Tara, a girl who faced discrimination due to her gender. [1] It was written in 1990 and published in 1995 by Orient Blackswan. [2] [3] It focuses on gender discrimination, sexual marginalisation, familial discord, and communalism. [2]
Thumbelina (/ ˌ θ ʌ m b ə ˈ l iː n ə /; Danish: Tommelise) is a literary fairy tale written by the famous Danish author, Hans Christian Andersen.It was first published by C. A. Reitzel on 16 December 1835 in Copenhagen, Denmark, with "The Naughty Boy" and "The Travelling Companion" in the second installment of Fairy Tales Told for Children.