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"The Other Two" is a short story by Edith Wharton, originally published in Collier’s Weekly on February 13, 1904. It is considered by some critics to be among her best short fiction. [ 1 ] Wharton explores themes of marriage , divorce , and social class through the perspective of businessman Mr. Waythorn, shortly after his marriage to the ...
The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Storr, Will (2020). The Science of Storytelling William Collins Publications ISBN 978-0-00-827697-3; The Persephone Book of Short Stories (2012) Persephone Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1903-155-905; Watson, Noelle, ed. (1994). Reference Guide to Short Fiction ...
James Arthur Anderson describes "Cookie Jar" as "more literary than King's other fiction" and "an excellent story". [4] Stephen J. Spignesi notes that Cookie Jar" shares a similar framing device as Blockade Billy and The Green Mile, with "a retired senior citizen recounting an epic story from his past". [2]
In a publishing climate built to sell novels, short fiction is an endangered species. Zach Williams, author of ‘Beautiful Days,’ explains why you might be reading more short stories than you ...
The first word of the story, "True!", is an admission of their guilt, as well as an assurance of reliability. [10] This introduction also serves to gain the reader's attention. [13] Every word contributes to the purpose of moving the story forward, exemplifying Poe's theories about the writing of short stories. [14]
The stories are autobiographical episodes based on the author's experiences as a Jewish-Italian doctoral-level chemist under the Fascist regime in Italy and afterwards. They include various themes that follow a chronological sequence: his ancestry; his study of chemistry and practising the profession in wartime Italy; a pair of imaginative tales he wrote at that time, [2] and his subsequent ...
The story is written without the use of quotation marks, and the dialogue is not distinguished from the narrator's comments. The story is rendered from the subjective point of view of the doctor and explores both his admiration for the child and disgust with the parents, and his guilty enjoyment of forcefully subduing the stubborn child in an attempt to acquire the throat sample.
The story was the basis for the 1953 action horror film The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. A play based on the short story was included in Bradbury's Pillar of Fire and Other Plays in 1975. The plot in the thirteenth episode of Pokémon, "Mystery at the Lighthouse" (1997), is based on this short story. [2]