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The story is written in the third person perspective following events in the life of Janine. Marcel is a merchant and Janine is his assistant. Assumed French by birth or descent, the couple live an isolated life in Algeria, neither of them speaking the native Arabic language.
"Carefully,' he cried, with a finger in his eye." – illustration by Claude Allin Shepperson from "The Country of the Blind", published in The Strand Magazine, April 1904. While attempting to climb the unconquered crest of Parascotopetl (a fictitious mountain in Ecuador), a mountaineer named Nuñez slips and falls down the far side of the mountain. At the end of his descent, down a snow-slope ...
"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 Love of a Good Woman is a collection of short stories by Canadian writer Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1998.. The eight stories of this collection (one of which was originally published in Saturday Night; five others were originally published in The New Yorker) deal with Munro's typical themes: secrets, love, betrayal, and the stuff of ordinary lives.
In the short stories comprising Licks of Love, Updike is preoccupied with "themes of loss", based on reminiscences from his youth and middle-age—often recounting "blue-remembered infidelities." [5] [6] Film and cultural critic A. O. Scott, writing in The New York Times, comments on the key thematic element that characterizes this short fiction:
The Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů based a short opera on this story; however, he used the title of another story by Tolstoi, "What Men Live By". Libretto of this opera-pastoral in one act (1952) was written by the composer. The story was made into a 1977 claymation special animated by Will Vinton. Vinton's recreation was a faithful ...
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In 2008, Indian filmmaker Subhash Ghai called this short story "his all-time favourite love story" and "a beautiful book for any die-hard romantic." [10] On May 2, 2015, Kansas based The Big Bang Theater performed Marathi adaption of Old Love called Priya Ulka: Fakta Tujhyasathi at Regnier Hall Auditorium at KU Edwards Campus.