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"Twenty-six Men and a Girl" is a pioneering story of social realism, and is a story of lost ideals. Twenty-six men labor in a cellar, making kringles in an effective prison. They are looked down upon by all around them, including the bun bakers.
The book appears in a season three episode of the television series Mad Men titled "The Color Blue" (2009, S03E10). It is also referred to in the pilot episode of the series American Dreams, during a scene in which one member of a woman's book group suggests The Group as a title that might make her contemporaries re-evaluate their lives as ...
The novel describes the relationship between men and women in Saudi Arabia. Girls of Riyadh tells the story of four college-age high class friends in Saudi Arabia, girls looking for love but stymied by a system that allows them only limited freedoms and has very specific expectations and demands. There's little contact between men and women ...
Dancing Girls & Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, originally published in 1977 by McClelland & Stewart, [1] Toronto. It was the winner of the St. Lawrence Award for Fiction and the award of The Periodical Distributors of Canada for Short Fiction.
The Call-Girls: A Tragi-Comedy with Prologue and Epilogue (ISBN 0-09-112550-2) is 1972 a novel by Hungarian-British author Arthur Koestler. [1] Its plot tells the story of a group of academic scientists struggling to understand the human tendency towards self-destruction, while the group members gradually become more suspicious and aggressive towards each other.
The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-year Friendship is a 2009 book by Jeffrey Zaslow, about a group of women from Ames, Iowa and their lifelong friendships.. In the book, Zaslow chronicled eleven childhood friends who formed a special bond growing up in Ames.
Men Without Women (1927) is the second collection of short stories written by American author Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961). The volume consists of 14 stories, 10 of which had been previously published in magazines.
The architecture of Munro's short stories is essential for any interpretation. [2] This story consists of three sections, with the first being the shortest and the last the longest. In this regard, there is not much of a difference between the book version and the earlier one. The story consists of roughly 17 pages.