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A young prince in northern India meets and falls deeply in love with, “a young maiden of indescribable beauty and delightfulness.” [2] Theirs is a love, "beyond anything you have ever dreamt of love." The couple marries but have spent little more than a year together when the prince's beloved dies from, "some venomous sting that came to her ...
"About Love" was widely discussed by the contemporary Russian critics, but mostly in the context of the whole three-story cycle. The in-depth analysis came from Alexander Skabichevsky in Syn Otechestva [ 9 ] and Angel Bogdanovich in the October 1898 issue of Mir Bozhy , the latter seeing the story "as a kind of setting for the environment where ...
The story was much discussed by the contemporary critics and garnered mostly positive reviews. The in-depth analysis were provided by Alexander Skabichevsky in Syn Otechestva [4] and Angel Bogdanovich in the October 1898 issue of Mir Bozhy, the latter describing the story "as a kind of setting for the environment where the Man in a Case rules ...
"The Dead" is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. It is by far the longest story in the collection and, at 15,952 words, is almost long enough to be described as a novella. The story deals with themes of love and loss, as well as raising questions about the nature of the Irish identity.
Many proverbs are based on stories, often the end of a story. For example, the proverb "Who will bell the cat?" is from the end of a story about the mice planning how to be safe from the cat. [37] Some authors have created proverbs in their writings, such as J.R.R. Tolkien, [38] [39] and some of these proverbs have made their way into broader ...
"The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade" is a short-story by American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849). It was published in the February 1845 issue of Godey's Lady's Book and was intended as a partly humorous sequel to the celebrated collection of Middle Eastern tales One Thousand and One Nights .
“In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future.”— Alex Haley “It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness ...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is a 1981 collection of short stories by American writer Raymond Carver, as well as the title of one of the stories in the collection. Considered by many one of American literature's most ambitious short-story collections, it was this collection that turned Raymond Carver into a household name in the ...