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  2. Short story - Wikipedia

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    The Frame story, also known as the frame narrative or story within a story, is a narrative technique that probably originated in ancient Indian works such as Panchatantra. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The evolution of printing technologies and periodical editions were among the factors contributing to the increasing importance of short story publications.

  3. Timun Mas - Wikipedia

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    Timun Mas or Timun Emas (English: "The Golden Cucumber") is a Javanese folktale telling the story of a brave girl who tries to escape from an evil green giant that tries to catch and eat her. [ 1 ] Summary

  4. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves - Wikipedia

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    Galland was an 18th-century French Orientalist who heard it in oral form from a Syrian Maronite story-teller called Hanna Diyab, who came from Aleppo in modern-day Syria and told the story in Paris. [1] In any case, the earliest known text of the story is Galland's French version.

  5. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Wikipedia

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    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford.It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures.

  6. Story - Wikipedia

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    Story, a narrative (an account of imaginary or real people and events) Short story, a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting; Story (American English), or storey (British English), a floor or level of a building; News story, an event or topic reported by a news organization

  7. Goldilocks and the Three Bears - Wikipedia

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    The story makes extensive use of the literary rule of three, featuring three chairs, three bowls of porridge, three beds, and the three title characters who live in the house. There are also three sequences of the bears discovering in turn that someone has been eating from their porridge, sitting in their chairs, and finally, lying in their ...

  8. A Christmas Carol - Wikipedia

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    The story is followed by a passage about Christmas in Dickens's editorial Master Humphrey's Clock. [9] The professor of English literature Paul Davis writes that although the "Goblins" story appears to be a prototype of A Christmas Carol, all Dickens's earlier writings about Christmas influenced the story. [10]

  9. Beauty and the Beast - Wikipedia

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    Beauty and the Beast ... The Story Retold (1886), by Laura E. Richards. Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (1978), by Robin McKinley. "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon" (1979), from Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber, based on Madame Le Prince de Beaumont's version. [87] "The Tiger's Bride" in the same book is a variant of the tale.