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The hero and namesake of the story was based on a real person. According to the memoirs of Tatyana Andreevna Kuzminskaya (Lev Tolstoy's sister-in-law), "the assistant to the cook and yard-keeper was the half idiot Alyosha the Pot, who was, for some reason, romanticized to the point that reading about him, I could not recognize our holy fool Alyosha.
The Person I Loved Asked Me to Die in My Sister's Stead: Why Is the Unrequited Love Who Married My Sister Comes to Me Now? I Wonder (恋した人は、妹の代わりに死んでくれと言った。―妹と結婚した片思い相手がなぜ今さら私のもとに？と思ったら―, Koishita Hito wa, Imōto no Kawari ni Shindekure to Itta: Imōto to Kekkonshita Kataomoi Aite ga Naze ...
"Why I Live at the P.O." is a short story written by Eudora Welty, American writer and photographer. It was published in her collection of stories named A Curtain of Green (1941). [ 1 ] The work was inspired by a photograph taken by Welty that depicts a woman ironing at the back of a post office.
Come, Tell Me How You Live is a short book of autobiography and travel literature by crime writer Agatha Christie.It is one of only two books she wrote and had published under both of her married names of "Christie" and "Mallowan" (the other being Star Over Bethlehem and other stories) and was first published in the UK in November 1946 by William Collins and Sons and in the same year in the US ...
Yeats changed the poem's title from "To a friend who has asked me to sign his manifesto to the neutral nations" to "A Reason for Keeping Silent" before sending it in a letter to James, which Yeats wrote at Coole Park on 20 August 1915. The poem was prefaced with a note stating: "It is the only thing I have written of the war or will write, so I ...
Social narratives still expect mothers, particularly primary caregivers like me, to stay in the family home. But for us, the arrangement we've chosen made the most sense. But for us, the ...
The Proust Questionnaire is a set of questions answered by the French writer Marcel Proust, and often used by modern interviewers. [1]Proust answered the questionnaire in a confession album—a form of parlor game popular among Victorians. [2]
If you cannot live longer, live deeper; If you cannot stand the heat, get out of the kitchen; If you give a mouse a cookie, he'll always ask for a glass of milk; If you think that you know everything, then you're a Jack ass; If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas; If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys