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"The Other Two" is a short story by Edith Wharton, originally published in Collier’s Weekly on February 13, 1904. It is considered by some critics to be among her best short fiction. [ 1 ] Wharton explores themes of marriage , divorce , and social class through the perspective of businessman Mr. Waythorn, shortly after his marriage to the ...
It is listed #23 on The New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century list. [9] "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" features as the closing piece in the 2008 short story collection, My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro, edited by novelist Jeffrey Eugenides.
In 2009, The New York Times Book Review and San Francisco Chronicle named Carol Sklenicka's unauthorized biography, Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life (2009), published by Scribner, one of the Best Ten Books of that year; [24] [25] and the San Francisco Chronicle deemed it: "exhaustively researched and definitive biography". Carver's widow, Tess ...
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 ...
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 Beggar Maid" in The New Yorker, 27 June 1977; [9] in Who Do You Think You Are?, 1978; in 78: Best Canadian Stories, 9–42; in Best Canadian Short Stories (1981), 96–121. [8] (republished in 2006/ 2008) "The Children Stay" in The New Yorker, 22 December 1997, Extended summary, in The Love of a Good Woman, 1998 (republished in 2003, 2011 ...
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The list was criticized as biased towards English-language books, particularly those published by American authors. [7] Nigerian academic Ainehi Edoro criticized the lack of literature by African authors and the predominance of American literature on the list and called the list "an act of cultural erasure". [ 8 ]