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The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer 1967 Paperback Edition Author Norman Mailer Language English Genre Fiction Published 1967 Publisher Dell Pub. Co; First Dell Printing edition Publication place United States of America Pages 285 ISBN 978-0523480091 OCLC 961934 The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer is a 1967 anthology of short stories by Norman Mailer. It is grouped into eight thematic sections ...
He described himself as "inclined toward brevity and intensity" and "hooked on writing short stories" (in the foreword of Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories, a collection published in 1988 and a recipient of an honorable mention in the 2006 New York Times article citing the best works of fiction of the previous 25 years). Another ...
Almost universally praised by critics, "Roman Fever" earned a place in An Edith Wharton Treasury (1950) [5] and The Best Short Stories of Edith Wharton (1958). [6] It is the title story of Roman Fever and Other Stories, [7] a collection of Wharton's writing originally published in 1964 and still in print. One of Wharton's most anthologized ...
Good Women, by Halle Hill In these edgy stories set in Appalachia and the Deep South, Black women face the full monty of modern life—weirdo predators, bogus jobs, ill-fated pregnancies, the ...
"The Beggar Maid" in The New Yorker, 27 June 1977; [9] in Who Do You Think You Are?, 1978; in 78: Best Canadian Stories, 9–42; in Best Canadian Short Stories (1981), 96–121. [8] (republished in 2006/ 2008) "The Children Stay" in The New Yorker, 22 December 1997, Extended summary, in The Love of a Good Woman, 1998 (republished in 2003, 2011 ...
Stories from The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938) The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (1936) The Capital of the World (1936) The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1936) Old Man at the Bridge (1938) From Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923) Up in Michigan (1923, revised 1938) In Our Time (1925 and 1930) On the Quai at Smyrna; Indian ...
In the story, all women have a specific location and color to their ribbon. The narrator talks the reader through her sexual explorations, marriage, motherhood, and the extent in which the "good" men in her life lead to her demise. The short story begins at a party where the narrator meets her future husband and the father to her child.
In Jane Austen's novels, the approach to marriage differs. For some heroines, marriage is seen as a reward after enduring trials, but for others, it may feel more like a compromise. [147] For example, Marianne's marriage to Colonel Brandon and Jane Bennet's marriage to Charles Bingley are sometimes viewed as sacrifices rather than true fulfillment.