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The story has also been published as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" (its original title) and "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. The narrator describes him: "If he even seen ...
Palo Alto is a collection of linked short stories by American actor, writer, and director James Franco.The collection was published on October 19, 2010, by Scribner's.The stories are about teenagers and their experiments with vices and their struggles with their families.
This short-story collection consists of twelve stories that mainly focus on the lives of women and the misogynistic hardships each individual faces, touching on subjects such as patriarchal resentment, alcoholism, and rape. Featured stories include “$100 or Nothing,” “Loved to Death,” “Sins Leave Scars”, and “Color Me Real”. [2] [5]
The Pastures of Heaven is a short story cycle by John Steinbeck published by Brewer, Warren and Putnam in 1932. [1]This episodic collection is composed of ten self-contained but related stories set in the Corral de Tierra of the Salinas Valley of California.
Yellow is a collection of short stories written by Korean-American novelist Don Lee. It contains eight stories set in the fictional California town of Rosarita Bay in which a variety of characters examine issues of what it means to be Asian in America. This collection includes: [1] The Price of Eggs in China; Voir Dire; Widowers; The Lone Night ...
"The Luck of Roaring Camp" is a short story by American author Bret Harte. It was first published in the August 1868 issue of the Overland Monthly and helped push Harte to international prominence. [1] The story is about the birth of a baby boy in a 19th-century gold prospecting camp. The boy's mother, Cherokee Sal, dies in childbirth, so the ...
Flight" is a short story by American writer John Steinbeck, first published in his collection The Long Valley. It appears in the ledger notebook under the title "Man Hunt". The story outlines a young man, Pepé, who is sent into town by his mother. She says he is not yet a man. While he is gone, Pepé kills a man, and after his return, he is ...