Showing posts with label short story. Show all posts
Showing posts with label short story. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Theodore Sturgeon: "A God in the Garden"

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Theodore Sturgeon "A God in the Garden" in The Ultimate Egoist: Volume 1: The Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon Th...
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Monday, September 4, 2017

Thomas Mann: "Disillusionment" Part 2

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Thomas Mann "Disillusionment" a short story After rereading the post, I realized that I had focused on the relationship betwe...
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Saturday, September 2, 2017

Thomas Mann and Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and Peggy Lee?

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Thomas Mann "Disillusionment" a short story included in Stories of Three Decades H. T.  Lowe-Porter, translator   I, after a...
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Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Nathaniel Hawthorne: King Arthur in Boston?

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Nathaniel Hawthorne "The Gray Champion" in The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories "The Gray Champion" There w...
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Sunday, July 9, 2017

Ray Bradbury: "The Parrot Who Met Papa"

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Ray Bradbury "The Parrot Who Met Papa" from Long After Midnight "The Parrot Who Met Papa" is the second story I ha...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Ray Bradbury: Long After Midnight, "One Timeless Spring"

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Ray Bradbury "One Timeless Spring" Long After Midnight "One Timeless Spring" is the second story in the collection, ...
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Sunday, July 24, 2016

Nathaniel Hawthorne: "The Minister's Black Veil"

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Nathaniel Hawthorne:  "The Minister's Black Veil" I'm sure most people have either read the story or are at least famili...
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Sunday, May 15, 2016

Ray Bradbury: "The Night"

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Folks, spoilers follow, so if you haven't read the story and prefer to read it with no foreknowledge, you should stop here. As I'v...
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Monday, August 24, 2015

Theodore Sturgeon: "It," a short story

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Theodore Sturgeon:  "It" As I began reading, I found myself doing something strange:  I was pausing more often than I usually do...
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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Lu Hsun/ Lu Xun: A Madman's Diary

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Lu Hsun or Lu Xun (his stories and poems appear under both names) is a new name to me.  I just happened to run across him while browsing the...
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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Edgar Allan Poe: "The Black Cat"

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"For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to e...
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Monday, May 16, 2011

Franz Kafka: "A Country Doctor"

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Franz Kafka, "A Country Doctor," a short story. It begins relatively sanely: "I was in great perplexity; I had to start on a...
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Saturday, August 28, 2010

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: "For the Good of the Cause"

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I've read a number of Solzhenitsyn's works, and I find this one to be the most formulaic of the ones I've read. His character...
Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Walter Van Tilburg Clark: August 3, 1909--November 10, 1971

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Walter Van Tilburg Clark unfortunately published very few works: three novels, about ten short stories, and some poetry. It is my opinion...
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Saturday, July 3, 2010

Franz Kafka: July 3, 1883--June 3, 1924

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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was lying on his h...
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Sunday, June 27, 2010

Shirley Jackson: "The Lottery"

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Warning: I will reveal significant plot elements and the ending. One of my favorite short stories is "The Lottery" by Shirley...
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