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American Gothic Tales is an anthology of "gothic" American short fiction. Edited and with an Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates , it was published by Plume in 1996. It featured contributions by Washington Irving , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Edgar Allan Poe , Stephen King , Anne Rice and others, and included over 40 stories.
Formal trousers were originally introduced in the first half of the 19th century as a complement to the then widely worn frock coat.As established formal day attire trousers, they were subsequently introduced to go with the morning dress, which in turn gradually replaced the frock coat as formal day attire standard by 20th century, along with its semi-formal equivalent black lounge suit.
Collected Stories of William Faulkner is a short story collection by William Faulkner published by Random House in 1950. It won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1951. [ 1 ] The publication of this collection of 42 stories was authorized and supervised by Faulkner himself, who came up with the themed section headings.
"Good Boy" The Paris Review (No. 234) Jane Pek "Portrait of Two Young Ladies in White and Green Robes (Unidentified Artist, circa Sexteenth Century)" Conjunctions (No.75) Tracy Rose Peyton "The Last Days of Rodney" American Short Fiction (Vol. 23, No.71) Christa Romanosky "In This Sort of World, the Asshole Wins" The Cincinnati Review (Vol. 17 ...
Knickerbockers have been popular in other sporting endeavors, particularly golf, rock climbing, cross-country skiing, fencing and bicycling. In cycling, they were standard attire for nearly 100 years, with the majority of archival photos of cyclists in the era before World War I showing men wearing knickerbockers tucked into long socks.
Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying is a collection of short stories by Roald Dahl. It was published in 1946 by Reynal & Hitchcock. [1] This early collection is a stylistic departure from Dahl's better known stories. For the most part they do not use suspense or twist endings and are instead more slow-paced and reflective.
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty is a collection of short stories by American penner Eudora Welty, first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1980. Its first paperback edition ( Harvest Books ) won the 1983 National Book Award for Paperback Fiction .
Trousers (or pants in American English) are a staple of historical and modern fashion. Throughout history, the role of trousers is a constant change for women. The first appearance of trousers in recorded history is among nomadic steppe-people in Western Europe. Steppe people were a group of nomads of various different ethnic groups that lived ...