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"Eveline" is a short story by the Irish writer James Joyce. It was first published in 1904 by the journal Irish Homestead [1] and later featured in his 1914 collection of short stories Dubliners. It tells the story of Eveline, a teenager who plans to leave Dublin for Argentina with her "lover".
Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World is a novel written by English author Frances Burney and first published in 1778. Although published anonymously, its authorship was revealed by the poet George Huddesford in what Burney called a "vile poem".
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... move to sidebar hide. Eveline may refer to: Eveline (given name) "Eveline" (short story), a short story by James ...
Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American novelist and short story writer. [1] [2] His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States, in novels such as Tobacco Road (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933), won him critical acclaim.
She was a prolific author and published over 30 books either under her maiden name, Underhill, or under the pseudonym "John Cordelier", as was the case for the 1912 book The Spiral Way. Initially an agnostic, she gradually began to acquire an interest in Neoplatonism and from there was increasingly drawn to Catholicism against the objections of ...
Eveline, in the end, is more George Eliot than Jane Austen." [26] The Washington Post called Anthropology "as vast and ambitious as the country itself, a panorama of a particular culture being born and dying and being reborn again. The book is a lengthy exegesis on the merits of first love and true love--in this case, two very different phenomena."
Among later writers influenced by "Araby" was John Updike, whose oft-anthologized short story "A&P" is a 1960s American reimagining of Joyce's tale of a young man, lately the wiser for his frustrating infatuation with a beautiful but inaccessible girl. Her allure has excited him into confusing his emergent sexual impulses for those of honor and ...
The story follows Thomas Chandler, or "Little Chandler" as he is known, through a portion of his day. The story drops the reader into Little Chandler's life when he is at work, where he cannot focus because he is preoccupied with the thought of a visit later that day. He anxiously awaits this visit with his old friend Ignatius Gallaher.