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  2. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia

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    The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was first proposed by Georges Polti in 1895 to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance. [1] Polti analyzed classical Greek texts, plus classical and contemporaneous French works. He also analyzed a handful of non-French authors.

  3. Jorge Luis Borges - Wikipedia

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    Signature. Jorge Luis Borges's voice. Recorded 1962. Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (/ ˈbɔːrhɛs / BOR-hess; [2] Spanish: [ˈxoɾxe ˈlwis ˈboɾxes] ⓘ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature.

  4. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Wikipedia

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    The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane (1858) by John Quidor. The story was the longest one published as part of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (commonly referred to as The Sketch Book), which Irving issued serially throughout 1819 and 1820, using the pseudonym "Geoffrey Crayon". [2]

  5. The Garden of Forking Paths - Wikipedia

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    The story's theme has been said to foreshadow the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. [1] [2] It may have been inspired by work of the philosopher and science fiction author Olaf Stapledon. [1] Borges's vision of "forking paths" has been cited as inspiration by numerous new media scholars, in particular within the field of ...

  6. George Orwell - Wikipedia

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    George Orwell. "Orwell" redirects here. For other uses, see Orwell (disambiguation). Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell, a name inspired by his favourite place, the River Orwell. [ 2 ]

  7. Animal Farm - Wikipedia

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    Followed by. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Animal Farm is a satirical allegorical novella, in the form of a beast fable, [1] by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. [2][3] It tells the story of a group of anthropomorphic farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal ...

  8. Shooting an Elephant - Wikipedia

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    Shooting an Elephant. " Shooting an Elephant " is an essay by British writer George Orwell, first published in the literary magazine New Writing in late 1936 and broadcast by the BBC Home Service on 12 October 1948. The essay describes the experience of the English narrator, possibly Orwell himself, called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant ...

  9. The Library of Babel - Wikipedia

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    For example, a coordinate may look like "389fj39l-w4-s5-v32" where, "389fj39l" is the hexagon name, "w4" specifies wall 4, "s5" specifies shelf 5, and "v32" specifies volume 32. In Steven L. Peck's novella A Short Stay In Hell (2009), the protagonist must find the book of his life's story in a library containing every possible book. Borges ...