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His Recollections were published at Philadelphia in 1890, [7] and an elementary school in Philadelphia is named after him, [18] as is the George W. Childs Recreation Site, in Pike County, Pennsylvania and Childs, Maryland. [19] George and Emma are interred in a mausoleum in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia. [20] [21]
Georgie and the Outlaws—The Outlaws' parents discover there is such a thing as a perfect child. William Plays Santa Claus —William is given the task of distributing Christmas presents at two separate parties.
A Crystal Age (1887), by W.H. Hudson – An amateur ornithologist and botanist falls down a crevice, and wakes up centuries later, in a world where humans live in families, in harmony with each other and animals; but, where reproduction, emotions, and secondary sexual characteristics are repressed, except for the Alpha males and females. [26]
With deliberately both vague and vivid descriptions, the narrator depicts a summer festival in the utopian city of Omelas, whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child. [2] "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Short Fiction in 1974 [3] and won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story ...
Angela and Bill, who have failed to conceive a child so far, intend to spend a large amount of money to artificially create a perfect child for themselves, which they plan to call Eugene. Both of them give in samples of their DNA. At first the plan seems to fail, but then a simulation on the computers of the clinic of how Eugene might later be ...
A character, often a child (or a child-like adult) who shows moral purity, kindness and goodness. They may be naive, vulnerable and afraid of abandonment. Despite having almost all positive traits, they do have some issues. With their sunny outlook, they may be blind to risks or unaware of the ploys of deceitful characters. Tiny Tim (A ...
He delighted audiences by infusing his characters with bizarre qualities: an irate, monosyllabic short-order cook, an apocalyptic Joe Cocker, a grumbling samurai. His genius lay in the contradictions.
Winesburg, Ohio (full title: Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life) is a 1919 short story cycle by the American author Sherwood Anderson.The work is structured around the life of protagonist George Willard, from the time he was a child to his growing independence and ultimate abandonment of Winesburg as a young man.