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short story brief prose fiction. The term covers a wide variety of narratives—from stories in which the main focus is on the course of events to studies of character, from the "short short" story to extended and complex narratives such as Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. Most often the... Read more |
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Deluge
Deluge , in the Bible, the overwhelming flood that covered the earth and destroyed every living thing except the family of Noah and the creatures in his ark . Archaeology has yielded little trace of the biblical flood, but some oceanographers and geophysicists have speculated that the actual... Read more |
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Hestia
Hestia , in Greek religion and mythology, goddess of the hearth; daughter of Kronos and Rhea. Both public and private worship of Hestia were widespread; she represented personal and communal security and happiness. An Olympian goddess, she was thought of as the kindest and mildest of the gods. She... Read more |
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Katherine
Katherine ♀ English form of the name of a saint martyred at Alexandria in 307. The story has it that she was condemned to be broken on the wheel for her Christian belief. However, the wheel miraculously fell apart, and so she was beheaded instead. There were many elaborations on this story,... Read more |
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Richard Harding Davis
Richard Harding Davis 1864-1916, American author and journalist, b. Philadelphia; son of Rebecca Harding Davis . After attending Lehigh and Johns Hopkins universities, he became a reporter in Philadelphia and later was on the New York Evening Sun. His stories and articles were soon attracting... Read more |
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Blanche Willis Howard
Howard, Blanche Willis (1847–98), novelist born in Maine, lived after 1875 in Germany, marrying there and becoming the Baroness von Teuffel. She wrote many exotic romances, of which the most popular was Guenn: A Wave on the Breton Coast (1883), the story of an egocentric American artist who... Read more |
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Batrachomyomachia
Batrachomyomachia the ‘battle of the frogs and mice’, a short Greek mock-epic poem in Homeric style, describing a one-day war between the frogs and the mice in a story deriving from one of Aesop's fables. The fighting is brought to an end by Zeus at the request of Athena; having... Read more |
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Arthur Laurents
Laurents, Arthur (b. 1918), playwright and director. He was born in Brooklyn and educated at Cornell before his first play, Home of the Brave (1945), was praised by many critics, but failed commercially. His only play to find major success was one of his lightest, The Time of the Cuckoo (1952).... Read more |
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