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The Left Bank and Other Stories is the first collection of short stories and literary debut of Dominican author Jean Rhys. It was first published by Jonathan Cape (London) and Harper & Brothers (New York) in 1927, and contained an introduction by Ford Madox Ford. The original subtitle of the collection was "sketches and studies of present-day ...
This collection's first eight stories were written by Rhys during her 1950s period of obscurity and first published in the early 1960s. The second nine are reissued from her 1927 debut collection The Left Bank and Other Stories. In 1979, the title story from Rhys's collection was adapted into a UK-produced short film, directed by Hussein Shariffe.
Rhys's father, William Rees Williams, was a Welsh medical doctor and her mother, Minna Williams, née Lockhart, a third-generation Dominican Creole of Scots ancestry. [citation needed] ("Creole" was broadly used in those times to refer to any person born on the island, whether they were of European or African descent, or both.)
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He is the author of bestseller The Piano Shop on the Left Bank, a memoir of his experiences with pianos and his time spent in a Parisian piano atelier. [3] His book Across the Endless River is a historical novel about Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau , the son of Sacagawea , and his intriguing sojourn as a young man in 1820s Europe.
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prevalence. At many of the 25 refugee sites and in seventeen other locations visited, independent national and international religious and relief assistance workers were also interviewed and added valuable complementary information.
The proletariat are members of the working class.The proletarian novel is a subgenre of the novel, written by workers mainly for other workers.It overlaps and sometimes is synonymous with the working-class novel, [7] socialist novel, [8] social problem novel (also problem novel or sociological novel or social novel), [9] propaganda or thesis novel, [10] and socialist realism novel.