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The Spirit of the Age (full title The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits) is a collection of character sketches by the early 19th century English essayist, literary critic, and social commentator William Hazlitt, portraying 25 men, mostly British, whom he believed to represent significant trends in the thought, literature, and politics of his time.
"Pictures" is a 1917 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published under the title of The Common Round in the New Age on 31 May 1917 and later as The Pictures in Art and Letters in Autumn 1919. It was then reprinted as Pictures in Bliss and Other Stories. [1]
"Young Goodman Brown" is a short story published in 1835 by American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. The story takes place in 17th-century Puritan New England, a common setting for Hawthorne's works, and addresses the Calvinist/Puritan belief that all of humanity exists in a state of depravity, but that God has destined some to unconditional election through unmerited grace.
In Our Time is the title of Ernest Hemingway's first collection of short stories, published in 1925 by Boni & Liveright, New York, and of a collection of vignettes published in 1924 in France titled in our time. Its title is derived from the English Book of Common Prayer, "Give peace in our time, O Lord". [1]
Cutting out this phrase from a half-century-old law would save homebuyers $175,000 and help tackle the housing crisis, economists say Jason Ma May 25, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Furthermore, the old artist himself dies of pneumonia contracted while being out in the wet and cold. The scene of the story of "The Last Leaf" is the Greenwich artist colony in New York City. Over the past century, it has developed from a poor literati settlement to a world-famous art center and tourist attraction. [3]
The Old Bulletin Reader : The Best Stories from The Bulletin 1881–1901 (1973) An Australian Selection : Short Stories By Lawson, Palmer, Porter, White and Cowan edited by John Barnes (1974) The World of Henry Lawson edited by Walter Stone (1974) The Bulletin, 29 January 1980; Short Stories by Henry Lawson (1981)
The century-old home where Kelly, her husband, dog Sissy, and two cats, Bleep and Little Kitty, live was built earlier than 1901 and has a beautiful family history that they are now preserving.