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A Dialogue Among Clever People" (AKA: "A Talk Among Leisured People") is a short story by Leo Tolstoy published in 1892. Aylmer Maude was one of the first translators. According to literary critic Robert Ellsberg , in this story, an aristocrat articulates about happiness and concludes that happiness can best be found in the ideal of the ...
Big Two-Hearted River. " Big Two-Hearted River " is a two-part short story written by American author Ernest Hemingway, published in the 1925 Boni & Liveright edition of In Our Time, the first American volume of Hemingway's short stories. It features a single protagonist, Hemingway's recurrent autobiographical character Nick Adams, whose ...
The story is an enigmatic examination of a young married couple, Muriel and Seymour Glass, on vacation in Florida. [1] It is the first of his stories to feature a member of the fictional Glass family. When the 28-year-old Salinger submitted the manuscript to The New Yorker in January 1947, titled "The Bananafish", [2] its arresting dialogue and ...
1 December 1951. " The Fun They Had " is a science fiction story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in a children's newspaper in 1951 and was reprinted in the February 1954 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Earth Is Room Enough (1957), 50 Short Science Fiction Tales (1960), and The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973 ...
The Killers. " Hills Like White Elephants " is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. It was first published in August 1927, in the literary magazine transition, then later in the 1927 short story collection Men Without Women. Later the story was adapted for film in 2002. "Hills Like White Elephants" is a short 38-minute film; British actor Greg ...
April 1893. "The Fiddler of the Reels" is a short story by British writer Thomas Hardy. It was first published in Scribner's Magazine, volume 13 issue 4, April 1893. [ 1] It was included in Life's Little Ironies, a collection of Thomas Hardy's short stories first published in 1894. In the story, set in South Wessex and London, the interaction ...
Plot summary. “The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse” is narrated by a nine-year-old Armenian boy named Aram, a member of the Garoghlanian tribe, living among the lush fruit orchards and vineyards of the San Joaquin Valley in California. One morning Aram is awakened at four in the morning by his thirteen-year-old cousin Mourad, who is ...
Three Days in the Village. Three Deaths. The Three Hermits. The Three Questions. Too Dear! Twenty-Three Tales. The Two Brothers and the Gold. Two Hussars. Two Old Men (story)