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"The Man Without a Temperament" is a 1920 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in Arts and Letters in Spring 1920, and later reprinted in Bliss and Other Stories . [ 1 ]
"Snow" (1986) [1] is a neorealist [2] short story by Ann Beattie. The story is told by an unnamed female narrator who recounts the story of the time she spent in the country with her former lover. As though she is speaking directly to her former lover she recalls, in great detail, the landscape of the area and some of the events of the winter ...
The story begins with Dr. Max Greitzer waking to the sound of his telephone. The voice on the other line tells him that a woman he'd dated previously, Liza Nestling, had died and that the funeral was to be held at eleven. It had been twelve years since the two had broken up.
"Lily Daw and the Three Ladies" is a short story written by American writer, Eudora Welty. It is included in Welty's first collection of short stories A Curtain of Green . Critics have found it possible for Welty to have been influenced by fairy tales, folklore and or nursery rhymes when writing this story, as there are elements of each within ...
"The Other Two" is a short story by Edith Wharton, originally published in Collier’s Weekly on February 13, 1904. It is considered by some critics to be among her best short fiction. [ 1 ] Wharton explores themes of marriage , divorce , and social class through the perspective of businessman Mr. Waythorn, shortly after his marriage to the ...
Twenty-Three: Stories (1962) is the third collection of short stories by Australian author John Morrison. [1] It won the ALS Gold Medal in 1963. [2]The collection consists of 23 stories, with several appearing here for the first time. [3]
In the stories, "The Name’s the Same" and "Real Life Writes Real Bad" both tell the story of two brothers, Bud, and the first-person narrator Neil. In the first story Neil takes on a voice that seems very much to be a homage to Holden Caulfield, protagonist of The Catcher in the Rye. In it, it tells of Bud’s reluctance to work and the ...
Man Descending is a collection of short stories written by Saskatchewan-born writer Guy Vanderhaeghe. The book was first published by Macmillan of Canada in 1982 and Vanderhaeghe went on to become one of the few first-time authors to win the coveted Governor General's Award for Fiction for this work. [1] It also won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial ...