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The Lesson” is a first-person narrative told by a young, black girl named Sylvia who is growing up in Brooklyn. The story is about a trip initiated by a well-educated woman named Miss Moore who has taken it upon herself to expose the unappreciative children of the neighborhood to the world outside of their oppressed community.
Teachers can also use short story collections as introduction or further exploration to a genre. [12] By providing several works from that genre, students can get a feel of its conventions. Another potential use is to challenge students to evaluate and criticize literature by using short story collections as a jumping off point. [12]
Dealing with a strong cough, Anton Chekhov wrote "The Student" while on a monthlong vacation to Yalta, a city he found to be "ever so boring". [2] The story, which initially bore the title "In the Evening", was published in issue number 104 of the newspaper Russkie Vedomosti (The Russian News) [b] on April 16, 1894, [a] and, at just four pages long, was one of Chekhov's shortest stories.
Notes on the Text and Chronology in John Steinbeck: Novels and Stories, 1932-1937. The Library of America. Notes/Notes on the Text pp. 1051–1067. ISBN 1-883011-01-9; DeMott, Robert. 1996. Notes on the Text in John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings, 1936-1941. The Library of America. Notes/Notes on the Text pp. 1051–1067.
The story was published with seven illustrations by Sidney Paget in the Strand, and with nine illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele in Collier's. [2] It was included in the short story collection The Return of Sherlock Holmes, [2] which was published in the US in February 1905 and in the UK in March 1905. [3]
In literary criticism, close reading is the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text. A close reading emphasizes the single and the particular over the general, via close attention to individual words, the syntax, the order in which the sentences unfold ideas, as well as formal structures.
At the Bottom of the River [1] is a collection of short stories by Caribbean novelist Jamaica Kincaid.Published in 1983, it was her first short story collection.The collection consists of ten inter-connected short stories, seven of which were previously published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review between 1978 and 1982. [2]
Prominent short story awards such as The Sunday Times Short Story Award, the BBC National Short Story Award, [37] the Royal Society of Literature's V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize, [38] The London Magazine Short Story Prize, [39] the Pin Drop Studio Short Story Award and many others attract hundreds of entries each year. Published and non ...