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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 ...
Given the divine process for selecting prophets, Mary Grace willingly became one prior to the start of "Revelation". (For example, the recruitment of the protagonist and freak, Obidiah Elihue, to become a prophet is the subject of the author's short story "Parker's Back".) She reveals her association with God to Mrs. Turpin and everyone else in ...
The creation and study of the short story as a medium began to emerge as an academic discipline due to Blanche Colton Williams' "groundbreaking work on structure and analysis of the short story" [25]: 128 and her publication of A Handbook on Short Story Writing (1917), described as "the first practical aid to growing young writers that was put ...
"After the Ball" (also known as "After the Dance") (Russian: После бала) is a short story by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, written in the year 1903 and published posthumously in 1911. The short story serves as an example of Tolstoy's commentary on high culture and social governance, as explored throug
How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (March 9, 1897) [1] is a series of essays by Mark Twain. All except one of the essays were published previously in magazines. The essays included are the following: How to Tell a Story (originally published October 3, 1895). In Defence of Harriet Shelley (August 1894). Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences ...
"August Heat" is a 1910 short story by W. F. Harvey, about two men, unknown to each other, whose look at the other's possible future suggests that one of them will be murdered and the other will be the murderer. It is often referred to as a ghost story (it appears in The Folio Society's Book of Ghost Stories, for example, and in Edward Gorey's ghost story collection The Haunted Look
"Idgah" tells the story of a four-year-old orphan, named Hamid who lives with his grandmother Amina. Hamid, the protagonist of the story, has recently lost his parents; however, his grandmother tells him that his father has gone to earn money , and he will come back with sackloads of silver. His mother has gone to Allah to fetch lovely gifts ...
"William Wilson" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839 in The Gift, with a setting inspired by Poe's formative years on the outskirts of London. The tale features a doppelgänger. It also appeared in the 1840 collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, and has been adapted several times.