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The Real Book Spy website really liked this book, saying, "There isn’t a better storyteller alive than Mr. Archer, and This Was A Man is his finest work to date." [2] A book review by Stephanie Jones in The Coast website said "while Archer aficionados are likely to be sated, readers seeking a more engrossing and rewarding multipart epic might ...
A Man (1979) (Italian: Un Uomo) (Greek: Ένας Άνδρας, transliteration: Enas Andras) is a biographical novel written by Oriana Fallaci chronicling her romantic relationship with the resistance fighter Alexandros Panagoulis, who attempted to assassinate the Greek dictator George Papadopoulos, leader of the Greek junta known as the Regime of the Colonels.
"What Is Man?" is a short story by American writer Mark Twain, published in 1906. It is a dialogue between a Young Man and an Old Man regarding the nature of man. The title refers to Psalm 8:4, which begins "what is man, that you are mindful of him...". It involves ideas of determinism and free will, as well as of psychological egoism. The Old ...
How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (March 9, 1897) [1] is a series of essays by Mark Twain. All except one of the essays were published previously in magazines. The essays included are the following: How to Tell a Story (originally published October 3, 1895). In Defence of Harriet Shelley (August 1894). Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences ...
The work is split into two sections: the first section, "Useful Fictions," consisting of two short stories, titled "Salad Days" and "Courting Disaster (or "Serious in the Fifties"), about a character named Nathan Zuckerman, and the second section, "My True Story," which takes the form of a first-person memoir by Peter Tarnopol, a Jewish writer who authored the two stories in the first section.
To Be a Man: Stories is a collection of short stories by American writer Nicole Krauss. It was published in 2020 by Harper in the United States [ 1 ] and by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom. References
A Man Without Words is a book by Susan Schaller, first published in 1991, with a foreword by author and neurologist Oliver Sacks. [1] The book is a case study of a 27-year-old deaf man whom Schaller teaches to sign for the first time, challenging the Critical Period Hypothesis that humans cannot learn language after a certain age.
"Jerry Was a Man" (1947) is a short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It is about an attempt by a genetically modified chimpanzee to achieve human rights . The main theme of the story is civil liberties , in this case extended towards a group of genetically enhanced chimpanzees to allow them equal rights under the law.