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The School Story is a children's novel by Andrew Clements, published in 2001. It is about two twelve-year-old girls who try to get a school story published. Plot summary
The full text of A School Story at Wikisource; An omnibus collection of James's short fiction at Standard Ebooks; A School Story public domain audiobook at LibriVox; Full text of "A School Story" A Podcast to the Curious: Episode 9 - A School Story; Cast of Wonders: Episode 172 - A School Story
The “music school” refers not only to the pedagogic training of children in the musical arts but, according to literary critic Robert Detweiler, “a pathos-ridden paradigm of the exercises their elders practice in learning life’s notes…Music School is life.” [6] Detwieler points out that the story possesses neither a discernible plot nor a linear narrative, yet conveys “the ...
Illustration of a game of rugby football from a 1911 edition of Tom Brown's School Days; first published in 1857, Tom Brown helped to typify the school story.. The school story is a fiction genre centring on older pre-adolescent and adolescent school life, at its most popular in the first half of the twentieth century.
Literary critic George W. Hunt remarks upon the nexus of style and theme that characterize the story's in the volume: The Music School collection holds a distinctive place in the Updike corpus because it contains several stories that, in addition to more familiar Updike themes, especially engage the issues of artistic self-consciousness and the act of composition itself.” [4]
The Chalet School is a series of 58 school story novels by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, initially published between 1925 and 1970.The fictional school was initially located in the Austrian Tyrol, before it was moved to Guernsey in 1939 following the rise to power of the Nazi Party, and again to Herefordshire following the Nazi invasion of the Channel Islands. [1]
A Barthelme collection like 'Sixty Stories' is a Whole Earth Catalogue of life in our time." [ 1 ] In The New York Times Book Review , critic John Romano called Barthelme a "comic genius," adding, "The will to please us, to make us sit up and laugh with surprise, is greater than the will to disconcert.
After retiring from Brown University, Cassill became the editor of The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, retaining this position for nearly a quarter century, until his death. [ 4 ] In 1973, Cassill created a controversy when his essay, “Up the Down Co-ed,” was published in Esquire magazine with the subtitle "Notes on the Eternal Problem ...