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She is a kind-hearted, gentle, affectionate young woman, a devoted wife, and a loving mother, completely wrapped up in her family (wrapt up in her family; a devoted wife, a doting mother); he is an intelligent, quick-witted man, rather cold and pragmatic, with occasional brusqueness towards his wife and bouts of bad temper, but loving domestic ...
The Compass Rose is a 1982 collection of short stories by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, and illustrated by Anne Yvonne Gilbert in 1983. It is organized into sections on the theme of directions, though not strictly compass-related as the title implies. It won the Locus Award for best Single Author Collection in 1983. [2]
The story is unusual for its point-of-view: Of the many books and stories on werewolves, few are written from the perspective of wolves.Le Guin goes to great lengths to conceal the nature of the narrator, fully exploiting the reader's assumptions to purposefully heighten the plot twist at the story's denouement.
The World's Wife is Carol Ann Duffy's fifth collection of poetry. Her previous collection, Standing Female Nude, is tied to romantic and amorous themes, while her collection The Other Country takes a more indifferent approach to love; The World's Wife continues this progression in that it critiques male figures, masculinity, and heterosexual love to instead focus on forgotten or neglected ...
The father and content creator based in Marlborough, Massachusetts, has been sharing his experiences trying to divide the mental load — those tasks that take planning, preparation and keeping ...
George seems indifferent to Ruth's absence, but later starts showing signs of severe depression. Brenda almost slips into old habits; later she attends a Sex Addicts Anonymous meeting. Claire experiences her first orgasm with the help of classmate Jimmy using the coital alignment technique .
The Story of My Wife: The Reminiscences of Captain Storr is a Hungarian novel by Milán Füst. First published in Hungary in 1946, it was eventually translated into English by Ivan Sanders in 1988. [1] The book is written as if it is a memoir and tells the story of captain Jacob Storr, a Dutch man who suspects his wife of infidelity.
The story, like Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), is written in the present tense, employing the second-person singular “you” when the protagonist addresses his wife. “Wife-Wooing” is part of the Maples family saga, first collected in Too Far to Go: The Maples Stories (1979) [4] No plot develops, and though unnamed, the married couple are Joan and Richard Maple.