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Inner Story of Emperor Wu of Han
The Inner Story of Emperor Wu of Han (Han Wudi neizhuan) is a Chinese Daoist tale in which the Queen Mother of the West visits Emperor Wu.
Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri's 1999 Houghton Mifflin debut story collection of nine Bengali diaspora stories, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the New Yorker Prize for Best First Book.
Italian novella
The Italian novella is a short prose narrative of real or imaginary events told realistically to entertain rather than teach, whose tradition runs from the 13th-century Novellino through Boccaccio's Decameron to the Renaissance.
Ityala lamawele
Ityala lamawele (The Lawsuit of the Twins) is an isiXhosa novella by S. E. K. Mqhayi, first published in 1914 and widely considered the first isiXhosa novel.
Ivko's Slava
Ivko's Slava (Ивкова слава) is an 1895 humorous novella by the Serbian writer Stevan Sremac, set in Niš and revolving around the Serbian Orthodox patron-saint family celebration, the slava.
Jamila
Jamila (Джамиля) is a 1958 novella by the Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aitmatov about a young married woman who leaves her husband for the man she loves.
Jatakamala
The Jatakamala, also titled Bodhisattvavadanamala, is a Sanskrit collection of 34 jataka tales of the Buddha's previous lives, composed by Aryashura in the 4th century or earlier.
Jerusalem's Lot
Jerusalem's Lot ('Salem's Lot) is Stephen King's fictional haunted Maine town, setting of the 1975 vampire novel, the 1850 epistolary prequel story in Night Shift, "One for the Road", Chapelwaite, and Dark Tower links.
Jingben Tongsu Xiaoshuo
Jingben Tongsu Xiaoshuo (京本通俗小說), "Popular Stories in the Capital Edition," is a Chinese collection of huaben vernacular short stories published by the bibliographer Miao Quansun in 1915 from a claimed Yuan manuscript whose authenticity is disputed.
Jingshi Tongyan
Jingshi Tongyan (警世通言), or Stories to Caution the World, is a collection of 40 vernacular Chinese stories compiled by the Ming writer Feng Menglong and first printed in 1624, the second of the three Sanyan collections.
Jolene: A Life
Jolene: A Life is E.L. Doctorow's 2002 New Yorker short story, collected in Sweet Land Stories (2004), about a foster-care girl's three bad marriages; adapted as the 2008 film Jolene starring Jessica Chastain.
Kafan
Kafan (क़फ़न, "The Shroud") is a 1935 short story by Munshi Premchand, his last completed one, in which a poor father and son drink away a burial shroud's money.
Kaidan-shū
Kaidan-shū (怪談集) is a Japanese book collection of kaidan, written tales of the strange and supernatural, a genre that took shape in the Edo period.
Kali Shalwar
Kali Shalwar (کالی شلوار, "The Black Shalwar") is an Urdu short story by Saadat Hasan Manto, written in the early 1940s and known for the obscenity controversy it provoked.
Kannada short story
The Kannada short story (ಸಣ್ಣ ಕಥೆ, sanna kathe) is a prose fiction genre in Kannada, the language of Karnataka, with Panje Mangesharaya's 1900 story considered the first modern example.
Karnak Café
Karnak Café (Arabic: الكرنك, al-Karnak) is a novella by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, published in 1974, that exposes torture in the prisons of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egypt.
Kathonibari Ghat
Kathanibari Ghat (কাঠনিবাৰী ঘাট) is an Assamese book by Mahim Bora, first published in 1961, known for its title story of a night at a Brahmaputra river station.
Khevisberi Gocha
Khevisberi Gocha (Georgian: ხევისბერი გოჩა) is an 1884 Georgian historical novella by Aleksandre Qazbegi about a mountain village chief who kills his son for betraying the community.
Khirer Putul
Khirer Putul (ক্ষীরের পুতুল, "The Doll of Condensed Milk") is a Bengali children's fairy tale by Abanindranath Tagore, first published in 1896 and regarded as an early landmark of Bengali children's literature.
Killed Near Moscow
Killed Near Moscow (Убиты под Москвой) is a 1961 novella by Konstantin Vorobyov about young Kremlin cadets destroyed fighting German tanks near Moscow in November 1941.
King Stakh's Wild Hunt
King Stakh's Wild Hunt is a Gothic historical novella by the Belarusian writer Uladzimir Karatkievich, first published in 1964 and widely regarded as a classic of Belarusian literature.
Kiswahili short story
The Kiswahili short story (Swahili: hadithi fupi) is a short prose fiction work in Swahili treating a single idea with few characters, dominant in East Africa since the 1970s.
Kolyma Tales
Kolyma Tales (Колымские рассказы) is a cycle of stories and sketches by Russian writer Varlam Shalamov about life in the Soviet labor camps, written between 1954 and 1973 after his imprisonment on Kolyma.
Kong Yiji
Kong Yiji (孔乙己) is a short story in vernacular Chinese by Lu Xun, first published in New Youth in April 1919 and collected in Call to Arms in 1923.
Koöperasiestories
Koöperasiestories is a collection of humorous Afrikaans short stories by P.G. du Plessis, set in the small town of Gezinasrus and told from the local co-operative's stoep.
Krik? Krak!
Krik? Krak! is a 1995 collection of nine short stories by Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat, a National Book Award finalist drawn from Haitian oral storytelling.
La guerra gaucha
La guerra gaucha is a 1905 cycle of linked short stories by the Argentine writer Leopoldo Lugones, recounting the gaucho guerrilla war against Spanish royalist armies under Martín Miguel de Güemes.
La palabra del mudo
La palabra del mudo (Spanish for "The word of the mute one") is the title under which Peruvian writer Julio Ramón Ribeyro collected his short stories, first published in 1973.
Laços de Família
Laços de Família (Family Ties) is a collection of 13 short stories by the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, published in 1960 and awarded the Jabuti prize in 1961.
Lady Susan
Lady Susan is Jane Austen's short epistolary novella about the charming, manipulative widow Lady Susan Vernon, written around 1794-95, unpublished until 1871, and surviving as the only complete Austen fiction manuscript, in the Morgan Library.