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The short story is a literary genre of fictional prose narrative that tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction such as novellas and novels. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for science fiction define a short story as having a word count of 7,500 or less.
This subject includes well known or critically acclaimed short stories.
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1915. Akutagawa Ryunosuke is regarded as the "Father of the Japanese short story. This was his first published story. Despite its name, it provided no direct plot material for the Akira Kurosawa movie RashÅmon, which was based on Akutagawa's 1921 short story, In a Grove. 2000. Alice Ann Munro (née Laidlaw; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short-story writer and three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. Title story of a collection published in 1974 Title story of a collection, 1978; winner, Canadian Governor General's Award Won the Hawthornden Prize in 1959 Set during the American Civil War (1909); one of the first descriptions of robots in English literature At least three films made from this story One of the most extensively anthologized stories of the last quarter century. Hempel won the Ambassador Book Award in 2007 for her Collected Stories, which was also named as one of the The New York Times' Ten Best Books of the year. In 2008 she won the Rea Award for the Short Story. In 2009 she won the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction with Alistair McLeod. Story Collection. National Book Award, 1959 Published in 1914, two years after his death, in a collection entitled Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories In Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories In a collection called, Snowbound: The Record of a Theatrical Touring Party, (1908) In a collection called, Under the Sunset, 1881 In "South of No North", 1973 Adapted into a film by Alfred Hitchcock From a collection of early stories, published 1916 1955. It comprises three short stories which were initially intended to be the opening chapters of a novel, and 20 short stories produced early in Thomas' career. Published posthumously. New York Times Best Illustrated Books Award 1940. Short story collection 1841. It has been grouped with Poe's tales of ratiocination and also labeled an early form of science fiction. 1841. As the first true detective in fiction, the Dupin character established many literary devices which would be used in future fictional detectives including Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. 1843. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is widely considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and one of Poe's most famous short stories. A collection of unusual, short, free-form poems that collectively describe the life of the fictional small town of Spoon River, named after the real Spoon River that ran near Masters' home town. 2001; basis of the TV series 'Justified' about U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens From Millegenille, Georgia, she died young from lupus, wrote stories of the Southern gothic tradition. One of several "Basil and Josephine" stories From The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother Pen name of Karen von Blixen-Finecke In the collection, Dubliners, (1914) One in the collection, Tales of the South Pacific Collected in The King's Indian Collected in The King's Indian Made from an excluded chapter of Catch-22 In The Wheel of Love and Other Stories, 1970 2005 Hugo and Nebula Award Collected in Welcome to the Monkey House Title is reference to a speech in Macbeth Set in the early weeks of the Irish Civil War From the collection, "Moral Disorder", 2006 From the collection by the same name Samuel Longhorn Clemens, 1835-1910 Translation by Paul Bowles The basis for an opera of the same name In which kidnappers pay the father for the return of an obnoxious boy From the title collection, Stories, 1940-1949 First published in Fantastic Universe, 1956 In "We'll Always Have Paris" From "We'll Always Have Paris" First published in Playboy, 1987 From the collection, Kiss Kiss (1959) From the collection, Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying (1946) From the collection, Someone Like You (1953 First published in The Day's Work, 1898 From a collection entitled, Piranha to Scurfy From the collection, "The Fallen Curtain" From the collection by the same name Title story in a collection of stories featuring Inspector Wexford Part of the novel Winesburg, Ohio 1999, in a collection of stories by the same name A Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker 1902, grants three wishes
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