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The Great Automatic Grammatizator (published in the U.S. as The Umbrella Man and Other Stories) [1] [2] is a collection of thirteen short stories written by British author Roald Dahl. The stories were selected for teenagers from Dahl's adult works. All the stories included were published elsewhere originally; their sources are noted below.
The Thirteen Problems is a short story collection by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by Collins Crime Club in June 1932 [1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1933 under the title The Tuesday Club Murders.
By convention, story plots are written in the narrative present—that is, in the present tense, matching the way that the story is experienced. [3] Provide a comprehensive plot summary. For articles that do not have a dedicated cast section, as key characters are introduced in the plot of a film or play with a known cast, list the actors ...
In contemporary literary studies, a theme is a central topic, subject, or message within a narrative. [1] Themes can be divided into two categories: a work's thematic concept is what readers "think the work is about" and its thematic statement being "what the work says about the subject". [2]
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 ...
Contemporary reviewers often focus on the story's connection with The Great Gatsby. [3] [5] However, some scholars argue against that connection. They argue that this connection has been overemphasized. [8] Some modern scholars have also drawn parallels between "Absolution" and James Joyce's short story "The Sisters". [3] [9] [10]
"The Guest" (French: L'Hôte) is a short story by the French writer Albert Camus. It was first published in 1957 as part of a collection entitled Exile and the Kingdom ( L'exil et le royaume ). The French title "L'Hôte" translates into both "the guest" and "the host" which ties back to the relationship between the main characters of the story.
A is the narrator, his ex-wife is C, and B is the woman with whom A is attempting to forge a redemptive relationship and recover from his recent marriage. These mathematically hypothetical points occur on a two-dimensional plane, but are commingled in each puzzle with purely human attributes as they struggle to cope with personal and financial difficulties.