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Getting Married (Swedish: Giftas) is a collection of short stories by the Swedish writer August Strindberg. [1] The first volume was first published on 27 September 1884 and contained twelve stories depicting "twenty marriages of every variety," some of which present women in an egalitarian light. [2]
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 2001. In 2006 , the story "The Bear Came over the Mountain" was adapted into a film, Away from Her , directed by Sarah Polley and produced by Atom Egoyan .
These powerful short stories will stay with you long after you’ve finished them. The post The 25 Best, Most Iconic Short Stories of All Time appeared first on Reader's Digest. The 25 Best, Most ...
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976) was the first major-press short-story collection by American writer Raymond Carver.Described by contemporary critics as a foundational text of minimalist fiction, its stories offered an incisive and influential telling of disenchantment in the mid-century American working class.
He described himself as "inclined toward brevity and intensity" and "hooked on writing short stories" (in the foreword of Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories, a collection published in 1988 and a recipient of an honorable mention in the 2006 New York Times article citing the best works of fiction of the previous 25 years). Another ...
"About Love" (Russian: О любви, romanized: O lyubvi) is an 1898 short story by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. The third and final part of the Little Trilogy, started by "The Man in the Case" and continued by "Gooseberries".
"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.
Winslow made the "Roll of Honor 1918" in The Best Short Stories of 1918 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story. [5] She was listed in the 1978 World Almanac as one of eleven famous Arkansans. [7] Edna Ferber called Winslow "a new master of the short story" in a blurb that appears on the cover of The Sex Without Sentiment. [13]