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  2. Dictation: A Quartet - Wikipedia

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    First edition. Dictation: A Quartet (2008) is the seventh collection of short stories by American Author Cynthia Ozick.. Synopsis. Dictation. The secretaries of Henry James and Joseph Conrad have a brief lesbian affair, and hatch a scheme to switch a paragraph from each of their bosses' new works.

  3. The Lottery - Wikipedia

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    "The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens. The lottery, its preparations, and its execution are all described in detail, though it is not ...

  4. Dictation (exercise) - Wikipedia

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    Dictation is the transcription of spoken text: one person who is "dictating" speaks and another who is "taking dictation" writes down the words as they are spoken. Among speakers of several languages, dictation is used as a test of language skill, similar to spelling bees in the English-speaking world. Secondary to teaching language skills, the ...

  5. Kim Yujin (writer) - Wikipedia

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    She was awarded the 2nd Munhakdongne Young Writer’s Award in 2011, and the 2nd Sonagi Village – Hwang Soonone Literature Prize in 2013. She has published a short story collection The Mark of the Wolf (늑대의 문장), and a novel Sumeun bam (숨은 밤 The Hidden Night). Writing. Kim Yujin’s early works contain apocalyptic imagination.

  6. Dysgraphia - Wikipedia

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    Dysgraphia is a neurological disorder [2] and learning disability that concerns impairments in written expression, which affects the ability to write, primarily handwriting, but also coherence. It is a specific learning disability (SLD) as well as a transcription disability, meaning that it is a writing disorder associated with impaired ...

  7. Dictator novel - Wikipedia

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    Literary critic Roberto González Echevarría argues that the dictator novel is "the most clearly indigenous thematic tradition in Latin American literature", and traces the development of this theme from "as far back as Bernal Díaz del Castillo's and Francisco López de Gómara's accounts of Cortés's conquest of Mexico."

  8. Roald Dahl short stories bibliography - Wikipedia

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    The New Yorker (17 September 1949) More Tales, Someone Like You, Skin; Best. "Poison". Collier's (June 1950) More Tales, Someone Like You. "Girl Without a Name". Today's Woman (November 1951) Working title "Meet My Sister"; republished in Woman's Journal in December 1951.

  9. Category:Short story collections by Stephen Baxter - Wikipedia

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    V. Vacuum Diagrams. Categories: Science fiction short story collections by writer. Works by Stephen Baxter.