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Bluebeard Bluebeard
Bluebeard nickname of the chevalier Raoul in a story by Charles Perrault. In the story Bluebeard's seventh wife, Fatima, yielding to curiosity, opens a locked door and discovers the slain bodies of her predecessors. She is saved from death by the timely arrival of her brothers, for whose coming her... Read more
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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
The Story of Rimini The Story of Rimini
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Seven Sleepers of Ephesus Seven Sleepers of Ephesus
Seven Sleepers of Ephesus , in a Christian version of a widespread story, martyrs immured in a cave near Ephesus during the persecutions by Decius (c.250). Long afterward, in the 5th cent., they awoke (as from sleep) and were taken before Theodosius II, Roman emperor of the east. Their story... Read more
Mary Mapes Dodge Mary Mapes Dodge
Mary Mapes Dodge 1831-1905, American writer of children's stories, b. New York City. During her lifetime she was the acknowledged leader in the field of juvenile fiction. Her story Hans Brinker; or, The Silver Skates (1865) has become a children's classic. From 1873 until her death she edited and... Read more
Mabinogion Mabinogion
Mabinogion , title given to a collection of medieval Welsh stories. Scholars differ as to the meaning of the word mabinogion: some think it to be the plural of the Welsh word mabinogi, which means "youthful career" ; others think it derives from the Welsh word mabinog, meaning "aspirant... Read more
The Turn of the Screw The Turn of the Screw
Turn of the Screw, The, story by Henry James, published in 1898. The ambiguities of the tale have led to a large body of interpretations, particularly Freudian and anti‐Freudian analyses, of which the best known is Edmund Wilson's in The Triple Thinkers, itself twice revised. The story was... Read more
J D Salinger J D Salinger
J. D. Salinger (Jerome David Salinger) , 1919-, American novelist and short-story writer, b. New York City. Salinger depicts the loneliness and frustration of individuals caught in a world of banalities and restricting conformity. His best-known work, The Catcher in the Rye (1951), is a... Read more
Rex Stout Rex Stout
Rex Stout 1886-1975, American writer, b. Noblesville, Ind. He served in the navy and worked in New York City as founder and director of the Vanguard Press. His best-known works are nearly 70 mystery stories featuring Nero Wolfe, a large gourmet detective who solves crimes from the comfort of his... Read more

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