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The Sacrifice (1909) Love's Surprises Are Futile (1916) The Gift of the Magi (1917) Ustedes los ricos ("You, the Rich Ones") (1948) includes the tale as a small sub-plot; As a segment of O. Henry's Full House (1952) The Gift of the Magi (1958) The Gift of Love (1978) Dary magów (Poland, 1972) Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1977)
"The New Year's Sacrifice" (祝福) is a short story by Lu Xun, originally published in Oriental Magazine, Volume 21, Number 6 (March 25, 1924). It was later compiled in Lu Xun's second collection of short stories, Wandering .
The Lottery is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. [a] The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens.
In her analysis, Virginia Borges concludes that the story contains a theme about love and self-sacrifice and the dangers of accepting abuse or inconsiderate treatment in the name of love. [ 13 ] Alienation, or feeling like an outsider, is also a theme of the tale.
"The Dead" is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. It is by far the longest story in the collection and, at 15,952 words, is almost long enough to be described as a novella. The story deals with themes of love and loss, as well as raising questions about the nature of the Irish identity.
Love's Sacrifice, like most of Ford's plays, employs a three-level plot structure. The secondary plot yields a serio-comic treatment of the romances of Ferentes, a profligate courtier. The comic third-level subplot concerns the character Mauruccio, and provides a mirror-image portrayal of love as sham and pretense.
Ishqedarriyaan is a story about love, sacrifice, family values and relationships. Rishteydarriyaan means relationships and Ishqedarriyaan signifies the relationship when one falls in love. Luvleen (Evelyn Sharma) is a teacher by profession who wants to collect donations for her grandfather's school.
The short story has been called a "marvelously effective meditation on the nature of evil" [8] that weaves magic into its unpromising premise. [9] It is considered one of the stories that signaled Ellison's development into a thoughtful and mature fantasist [ 8 ] and secured his reputation as a bold science-fiction innovator.