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In his story, Dostoevsky utilized some techniques of the vaudeville genre, in particular the construction of the dialogues, replete with puns. The title of the story, too, resembles popular titles of the vaudeville 1830-1840s (e.g., Fyodor Koni's 1834 "Husband in the Fire, While His Wife On a
Mary Pearl receives a note from her recently deceased husband, William, a man given to emotional abuse due to his controlling nature. The letter tells how Landy, a doctor, approached William about his cancer six weeks before William's death. He suggested William undertake a procedure, which he explains in great detail.
Johanna Basford OBE (born 1983) is a Scottish illustrator.Her illustrations are hand-drawn, predominantly in black and white, with pencils and pens. [1] [2] Basford's works can be found in products such as colouring books, wallpaper, beer labels and even tattoos. [3]
The story, like Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), is written in the present tense, employing the second-person singular “you” when the protagonist addresses his wife. “Wife-Wooing” is part of the Maples family saga, first collected in Too Far to Go: The Maples Stories (1979) [4] No plot develops, and though unnamed, the married couple are Joan and Richard Maple.
"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story by O. Henry (pen name of William Sydney Porter) first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Wife (1975) is a novel by ... This is the story of Dimple Dasgupta who has an arranged marriage to Amit Basu ...
Enjoy a classic game of Hearts and watch out for the Queen of Spades!
The Merry Play between John John the Husband, Tib his Wife, and Sir John, the Priest is a Tudor era farcical comedic interlude written in 1520 and first published in 1533 by English playwright John Heywood. It relates the tale of a common Englishman who believes his wife to be cheating on him with the local priest.