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The Chrysanthemums" is a short story by American writer John Steinbeck. It was first published in 1937 before being included as part of his collection The Long Valley the following year. The Chrysanthemums
Ware, Elaine. "Struggle for Survival: Parallel Theme and Techniques in Steinbeck's 'Flight' and Norris's 'McTeague'." Steinbeck Quarterly 21.03-04 (Summer/Fall 1988): 96–103. Kohzadi, Hamedreza. "The Marriage of Hysteria and Feminism in John Steinbeck's The Chrysanthemums: Elisa Allen as a Married but Virgin Feminist Homosexual Hysteric."
Elissa's clothing as heavy and masculine. Steinbeck repeats the word heavy several times throughout the story to prove how her appearance can come across as masculine. Steinbeck does shoe how the character's feminist by pointing out her wearing a "figured print dress" but then details how the dress is "completely covered by a big corduroy apron."
Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California. [8] He was of German, English, and Irish descent. [9] Johann Adolf Großsteinbeck (1828–1913), Steinbeck's paternal grandfather, was a founder of Mount Hope, a short-lived farming colony in Palestine that disbanded after Arab attackers killed his brother and raped his brother's wife and mother-in-law. [10]
The Chrysanthemums; F. Flight (Steinbeck story) G. The Gift (Steinbeck) The Great Mountains; L. The Leader of the People; P. ... Category: Short stories by John ...
John Steinbeck – The Chrysanthemums and Other Stories; Peter Straub – Blue Rose; Paul Theroux – The Greenest Island; Henry David Thoreau – Walking; John Thorn – Baseball: Our Game; Leo Tolstoy – Master and Man; Mark Twain – The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Stories (5 stories) H.G. Wells – The Time Machine
East of Eden is a novel by American author and Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, published in September 1952.Many regard the work as Steinbeck's most ambitious novel, and Steinbeck himself considered it his magnum opus. [2]
Steinbeck, John. 1996. John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings, 1936-1941. The Library of America, Robert DeMott, notes and Elaine Anderson Steinbeck, consultant. ISBN 1-883011-15-9; Renner, Stanley. 1985. “Steinbeck and Thomas Hardy” Steinbeck Quarterly, Winter-Spring 1985 in Steinbeck’s Literary Dimension: A Guide to ...