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CLASSIC SHORT STORIES COLLECTION: FRENCH STORIES

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A short story is a story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less complex than a novel. This form of literature is frequently defined as stories that can be read in one sitting and that do not take more than 10 to 30 minutes to read. Short Stories can be also defined as being 'short and at the same time stories. But it is not its briefness alone that establishes whether a story fit in to this particular genre. The significant features of a short story are that it should be able to articulate more than what it says. This is what set apart a short story from a novel that can intentional at length. Short stories are amazing and fascinating. In a short frame of narrative, it describes the subject matter more than an elaborate novel, at least in many cases. There are so many short stories, written by the legendary authors, which made the readers stunned and puzzled even today. CLASSIC SHORT STORIES COLLECTION  FRENCH STORIES This volume brings tog...

Myths For Children: A SELECTION OF THE CLASSIC MYTHS OF ALL TIMES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

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In many parts of the country when the soil is disturbed arrowheads are found. Now, it is a great many years since arrow heads have been used, and they were never used by the people who own the land in which they appear or by their ancestors. To explain the presence of these roughly cut pieces of stone we must recall the weapons with which the Indians fought when Englishmen, Frenchmen, Dutchmen, and Spaniards first came to this part of the world. There may be no authentic history of Indians in the particular locality in which these old-fashioned weapons come to light, but their presence in the ground is the best kind of evidence that Indians once lived on these fields or were in the habit of hunting over them. In many parts of the country these arrow heads are turned up in great numbers; museums large and small are plentifully supplied with them; and they form part of the record of the men who once lived here, and of their ways of killing game and destroying their enemies. Wherever the...