Short Fiction For educational use only. Here are some of the short fiction offerings you may choose to study. (You are going to read four, and then do this for three of them. Be sure to read at least two different authors. Your least favourite of the stories you read, you will do The Loser Assignment for.): |
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Fairy Tales Andrew Lang (edited and translated) Fairy Tales: Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales: Japanese Folktales The Five Chinese Brothers Italo Calvino Pentamerone Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales: Neil Foster Macphail: French Canadian folktale in English Indigenous Folktales |
Mythology Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology stories of Thor and Loki (Available in the classroom in hardcover or online at this link.) Crackling Mountain: Japanese myth about the tanuki (tanooki), the magical raccoon-like creature that explains why Super Mario wears a tanuki suit to fly. WARNING: disturbing content. The Odyssey Beowulf the Monster Slayer Misc. "Lesser Evil," Andrzej Sapkowski's story that the first episode of the TV show The Witcher is based on. "Heorot" (Jim Butcher's modern Beowulf, with a battle wizard in Chicago) |
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Speculative Fiction Star Trek: Orson Scott Card's original short story version of "Ender's Game" |
"Traditional High School English" Short Stories Ernest Hemingway's "The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (man takes his wife lion hunting. She may be cheating on him.) |
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