"The Necklace" is a short story about Mathilde Loisel, a middle-class woman who longs for a wealthy lifestyle. What will happen after she borrows a very expensive necklace from a wealthy friend?
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This is the story of a miller who gets his daughter in hot water by falsely telling the King she can spin straw into gold. The king locks her in a room and forces her to prove her abilities or die.
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The wife of a rich man dies, leaving the widower and their daughter. On her deathbed, the mother tells her daughter, "If you are good and say your prayers faithfully ... I shall look down from heaven and always be with you." The next year the widower marries a widow with two daughters, who despise the daughter of the house.
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''The Discourager of Hesitancy'' opens with an entourage from another country who have called upon the ''semi-barbaric king'' to get to the bottom of a great mystery: did their fellow countryman in the arena choose the door with the beautiful woman or the door with the ruthless tiger?
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