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Pilgrims is a collection of twelve short stories by American author Elizabeth Gilbert.It was named a New York Times Notable Book, won a Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award.
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (/ ˈ w ʊ d h aʊ s /; 1881–1975) was a prolific English author, humorist and scriptwriter.After being educated at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life, he was employed by a bank, but disliked the work and wrote magazine pieces in his spare time. [1]
Featuring 31 short stories, most narrated by a golf club's Oldest Member, usually from his seat on the terrace overlooking part of the golf course. One of the golf stories, "Those in Peril on the Tee", is also a Mr Mulliner story. The UK magazine version of "Archibald's Benefit" is a cricket story titled "Reginald's Record Knock".
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Pelham is an 1828 novel by the British writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton, originally published in three volumes. It was his breakthrough novel, launching him as one of Britain's leading authors. It is part of the tradition of silver fork novels that enjoyed great popularity in the late Regency and early Victorian eras
Originally the character of Felix Krull appeared in a short story written in 1911. The story was not published until 1936, in the book Stories of Three Decades , along with 23 other stories written between 1896 and 1929, the year in which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature .
"The Strange Case of Mr. Pelham" is a 1940 [1] short story (later expanded in book form in 1957) by English writer Anthony Armstrong about a man involved in a serious car accident. The man recovers only to find himself being stalked by a seemingly identical version of himself. [2] It is also known as The Case of Mr Pelham.
The story even includes a pun about a sparrow, which served as a euphemism for female genitals. The story, which predates the Grimms' by nearly two centuries, actually uses the phrase "the sauce of Love." The Grimms didn't just shy away from the feminine details of sex, their telling of the stories repeatedly highlight violent acts against women.