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In 1916–1917 Maugham and his secretary-companion Gerald Haxton travelled in the Pacific, and the stories in this collection are among the writings produced as a result. . During the voyage, the ship had to pause at Pago-Pago for a quarantine inspection, and some fellow-passengers who lodged on the island became models for Maugham's story "Rain"; he also met there a young American sailor who ...
The Best American Short Stories 2001 ; Editor: Katrina Kenison and Barbara Kingsolver: Language: English: Series: The Best American Short Stories: Published: 2001: Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Media type: Print (hardback & paperback) ISBN: 0395926882: Preceded by: The Best American Short Stories 2000 Followed by: The Best American ...
Mademoiselle was a women's magazine first published in 1935 by Street & Smith [1] and later acquired by Condé Nast Publications.. Mademoiselle, primarily a fashion magazine, was also known for publishing short stories by popular authors including Truman Capote, Joyce Carol Oates, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, Sylvia Plath, Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles ...
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The story was first published in issue 3 of the magazine Midnight Graffiti in spring 1989. In 1993, it was republished in King's short story collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes collection. [1] In 2006, a version of the story illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne was published as part of the Cemetery Dance Publications book The Secretary of Dreams ...
The straw-to-gold quandary is the plot device driving the Grimms' version of the age-old fable, published by Georg Reimer in 1812. But an earlier iteration — one recorded by the Grimms just two years earlier, and sent to academic friends for comment — tells a different, more empowering story of the miller's daughter.
"Rain" is a short story by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham. It was originally published as " Miss Thompson " in the April 1921 issue of the American literary magazine The Smart Set , [ 1 ] and was included in the collection of stories by Maugham The Trembling of a Leaf .
Among the other notable writers whose stories were in the "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2001" were Ann Beattie, Dan Chaon, Stuart Dybek, Louise Erdrich, Joyce Carol Oates, Bob Shacochis, John Updike and the late Richard Yates.