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"The Lady with the Dog" (Russian: Дама с собачкой, romanized: Dama s sobachkoy) [a] is a short story by Anton Chekhov. First published in 1899, it describes an adulterous affair between an unhappily married Moscow banker and a young married woman that begins while both are vacationing alone in Yalta.
Good Women, by Halle Hill In these edgy stories set in Appalachia and the Deep South, Black women face the full monty of modern life—weirdo predators, bogus jobs, ill-fated pregnancies, the ...
The post The 25 Best, Most Iconic Short Stories of All Time appeared first on Reader's Digest. Indisputable proof that good things come in small packages! These powerful short stories will stay ...
Jenny Bhatt (born September 18, 1972) is an Indian American writer, literary translator, and literary critic. [1] She is the author of an award-winning story collection, Each of Us Killers, an award-shortlisted literary translation, Ratno Dholi: The Best Stories of Dhumketu, and the literary translation, The Shehnai Virtuoso and Other Stories by Dhumketu.
The Revolver (El revólver) is a short story by Emilia Pardo Bazán, which was first published in 1895. [ 1 ] Ángel Flores later translated it from Spanish to English in 1960. [ 1 ] It became one of Pardo Bazán’s classic works in feminist literature .
For when you need to go on a full adventure…but only have a lunch break, these are the best short stories for an instant escape. For when you need to go on a full adventure…but only have a ...
"The Dead" is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. It is by far the longest story in the collection and, at 15,952 words, is almost long enough to be described as a novella. The story deals with themes of love and loss, as well as raising questions about the nature of the Irish identity.
"The Married Couple" (German: "Das Ehepaar") is a 1922 short story by Franz Kafka. It was published posthumously in Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer (Berlin, 1931). The first English translation by Willa and Edwin Muir was published by Martin Secker in London in 1933. It appeared in The Great Wall of China.