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"Down at the Dinghy" is a short story by J. D. Salinger, originally published in Harper's in April 1949, [1] and included in the compilation, Nine Stories. [2]Written in the summer of 1948 at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, [3] the story marks a shift away from Salinger's literary misanthropy, which had largely been informed by his horrific combat experiences in Europe during World War II, [4] and ...
"A Class Divided" is a 1985 episode of the PBS series Frontline. Directed by William Peters , the episode profiles the Iowa schoolteacher Jane Elliott and her class of third graders, who took part in a class exercise about discrimination and prejudice in 1970 and reunited in the present day to recall the experience.
The Laughing Man" is a short story by J. D. Salinger, published originally in The New Yorker on March 19, 1949; and also in Salinger's short story collection Nine Stories. [1] It largely takes the structure of a story within a story and is thematically occupied with the relationship between narrative and narrator, and the end of youth.
While the New Yorker initially declined this story, Salinger still managed to publish Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes in the July 1951 edition of The New Yorker. [3] "De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period" was the last Salinger story to have been published outside the pages of The New Yorker, [4] it was later included in his 1953 collection Nine Stories.
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It includes two of his most famous short stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor". (Nine Stories is the U.S. title; the book is published in many other countries as For Esmé - with Love and Squalor, and Other Stories). The stories are: "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut"
Nine Stories is an English-language collection of stories written in Russian, French, and English by Vladimir Nabokov. It was published in December 1947 by New Directions in New York City, as the second issue of a serial, Direction. [1] The nine stories are: "The Aurelian" (a translation by Nabokov and Peter Pertzov of "Pil'gram")
Between the banks of the Providence River and Dyer Street, a memorial honors the nine men who died on Oct. 23, 1983, when a Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, was bombed.. Dedicated in 2020, the ...