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Advice : Italian Short Story
Let us enjoy reading this Italian Story of Advice.
Story by Italian writer Agnolo Firenzuolo (1493-1543)
A porcupine and a fox were returning from a great battle.
“Why wear that armour of spines?” said the fox. “The fighting is over.”
Thus beguiled, the porcupine took off his armour and the fox promptly pounced on him and devoured him.
Moral: Beware of advice from those who have their own interests at heart.
The short story is a literary genre. It is usually fictional, narrative prose and tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction. These stories have their origins in oral story-telling traditions and the prose anecdote, a swiftly-sketched situation that comes rapidly to its point. The history of this kind of stories dates back to the oral story-telling traditions. Modern trend in them emerged as their own genre in the early 19th century. They tend to be less complex than novels. Usually, a short story will focus on only one incident, has a single plot, a single setting, a limited number of characters and covers a short period of time.
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