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What were the works of Tagore that Mistral commented on?
And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well.
-- Rabindranath Tagore, an untitled poem, Gitanjali (1910), #95, and Poetry Magazine, December 1912, p. 86
I boasted among men that I ...
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Looking for a young-adult book about kids that get stuck in a cave
That is similar to the plot of Danny Dunn and the Fossil Cave.
Three children and two adults explore a cave. They get trapped when a natural bridge over a ravine collapses stranding them on the other ...
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What's the title of this sci-fi story about a sentient planet?
This is Gene Wolfe's 1973 story The Death of Doctor Island (not to be confused with his stories The Island of Doctor Death or The Doctor of Death Island).
WolfeWiki says that the characters are:
Dr. ...
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Looking for a young-adult book about kids that get stuck in a cave
This sounds very much like the 1950 children's adventure story The Cave by Richard Church (retitled as Five Boys in a Cave for the American edition.)
The lead character is John Walters, who has been ...
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Short Story about a car breaking down in the desert, darts, and maybe cannibals
"And The Rock Cried Out" by Ray Bradbury
Description from Goodreads:
A couple find themselves in Uruguay when the US is wiped out in a
nuclear exchange. With American economic and military ...
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Book that ends with someone knocking on the door
The short story Knock by Fredric Brown starts with:
There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long:
“The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door…”
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A book I read around 25 years ago including a salt sea that blinds people, "gods" including two called Ari and Paty
Humility Garden by Felicity Savage
Description from Goodreads:
Her destiny was among the gods. In the land of Salt, the gods have
ruled among the humans for centuries. Now a new movement has taken
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A Title "That in Aleppo Was"
Possibly, you are vaguely remembering the short story "That in Aleppo Once …", which Vladimir Nabokov published in The Atlantic in November 1943.
The words of the title are taken from ...
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Looking for O. Henry short story about poor young man in New York, robs a bank to live indulgently before his suicide
"Paul's Case" is a short story by Willa Cather. It was first published in McClure's Magazine in 1905 under the title "Paul's Case: A Study in Temperament".
Over yonder the ...
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Short story about African missionary couple losing his mind, making mud statue
The Man Who Saw Through Heaven by Wilbur Daniel Steele, 1946
Reverend Hubert Diana has disappeared. He was last seen traveling with a group of women including his fiance. The narrator was on the trip ...
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Children's book where a boy runs away from his foster home. Encounters a con man and travels with him
Chancy and the Grand Rascal by Sid Fleischman perhaps.
From the Kirkus review:
The plot is an old saw —a teenage boy heads across country to find the
members of his family, which was split up when ...
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Book about a boy that joins a traveling "snake-oil" show and eventually escapes, finds his father?
The Black Symbol by Annabel and Edgar Johnson
The Kirkus review is:
Barney Morgan, slight for a boy in his early teens, finds that he has
what it takes to be a pioneer in this story of gold ...
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'Classical' horror short story in which overwork is linked to a supernatural demon
Nearly eight years later, I found it! The author is well-known, but perhaps this particular story isn't: "The Silver Mirror" by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Back in 2021, user14111 identified another ...
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