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The Independent includes The Story of a Nobody among the "finest fiction" that explore terrorism and its motives, through lens of tsarist Russia. [3] Translator Hugh Aplin compares the piece to the works of Turgenev in its capturing post-serfdom, pre-Soviet radicalism, as well both authors' creation of female characters with "great moral integrity" compared with their male counterparts. [4]
Lord found that a large part of the stories consisted of text which was improvised during the telling process. Lord identified two types of story vocabulary. The first he called "formulas": "Rosy-fingered Dawn", "the wine-dark sea" and other specific set phrases had long been known of in Homer and other oral epics. Lord, however, discovered ...
It might be more helpful just to say: read them." [5] Tess Riley, also in The Independent is similarly full of praise "In a tour de force of multiple voices – numerous histories – The First Person celebrates the act of story-telling as a way to keep hold of, and use, the past as a lens through which to view the here and now. This is ...
The song "Ol' Evil Eye" off of the 1995 album Riddle Box by the Insane Clown Posse adapts a version of the story, as well as sampling audio from a reading of the original story. The Radio Tales series produced The Tell-Tale Heart for National Public Radio in 1998. The story was performed by Winifred Phillips along with music composed by her.
The story tells of a boy named Joe whose father is a steeplechase jockey, and is narrated from Joe's point-of-view. [2] "My Old Man" was written in 1922. As one of Hemingway's earliest stories, it is generally regarded by critics as juvenilia, along with "Up in Michigan", also published in Three Stories and Ten Poems.
"The Man Without a Country" is a short story by American writer Edward Everett Hale, first published in The Atlantic in December 1863. [1] It is the story of a young American officer who declares himself disgusted with his country during a trial for treason, and wishes he never hears about her ever again.
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The history of the Hainish people goes back three million years, and they placed colonies on many planets, including Earth and Werel. In the course of this long history civilization has risen and fallen many times, including settlement and terraforming of Ve, another planet in the Hain system.