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Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. [1] It presents a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging ...
Project Gutenberg ( PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks ." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3] Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in ...
The Fair Jilt: or, the Amours of Prince Tarquin and Miranda is a short novella by Aphra Behn published by Will Canning in 1688, a year before Behn's death. [2] The plot is loosely based around rumors Behn had heard regarding a story of Prince Francisco de Tarquini. Though Behn did insist that the story was true, it is sensationalized. [3]
Background. Conrad began writing the four short stories that would comprise T yphoon and Other Stories while he was attempting to complete the third and final story for the proposed collection Youth, A Narrative; and Two Other Stories (1902) for William Blackwood and Sons. Setting aside “The End of the Tether”- and after finishing his novel ...
The bibliography of Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 – 1881) comprises novels, novellas, short stories, essays and other literary works. Raised by a literate family, Dostoyevsky discovered literature at an early age, beginning when his mother introduced the Bible to him. Nannies near the hospitals—in the grounds of which he was raised—introduced ...
Dunsany in 1919. The catalogue of Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (Lord Dunsany)'s work during his 53-year active writing career is quite extensive, and is fraught with pitfalls for two reasons: first, many of Dunsany's original books of collected short stories were later followed by reprint collections, some of which were unauthorised and included only previously published stories; and ...
Life. " It's a Good Life " is a short story by American writer Jerome Bixby, written in 1953. In 1970, the Science Fiction Writers of America selected it for The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, as one of the 20 best short stories in science fiction published prior to the Nebula Award. The story was first published in Star Science ...
Delta of Venus. Delta of Venus is a book of fifteen short stories by Anaïs Nin published posthumously in 1977 [1] —though largely written in the 1940s as erotica for a private collector. [2] In 1994 a film inspired by the book was directed by Zalman King .