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As their forbidden romance grows, Christina becomes pregnant by Benjamin. But she is taken away immediately by her family, and forced to marry the son of an old family friend, Klaus Willing. However, it proves to be a sham marriage. Five years later, Benjamin reestablishes contact with Christina where they both live and work in Toronto. She ...
In pointing to the influence of O'Connor on the titular story, "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage," he notes that "if the story were by Flannery O'Connor ... it would have ended in a comedy of the grotesque, with the deluded spinster brought face-to-face with her folly," while "Munro resists the doctrinaire satirist's ...
A family finds a chest of old circus outfits that cause whoever wears them to gain the abilities of their original owner. The family's scarecrow also gains abilities from being dressed in one of the outfits, however the original owner of this outfit was not a very nice person.
The collection was published using King's brother's small printing press. It consists of a mere 18 hand-bound pages, and King estimates that only 10 copies were printed. Copies were sold to school friends for about $0.10 to $0.25 each. The original collection consists of nine short stories by King and nine by Chesley.
In Our Time is the title of Ernest Hemingway's first collection of short stories, published in 1925 by Boni & Liveright, New York, and of a collection of vignettes published in 1924 in France titled in our time. Its title is derived from the English Book of Common Prayer, "Give peace in our time, O Lord". [1]
The Honest-to-Goodness Truth is a 2000 picture book written by Patricia McKissack and illustrated by Giselle Potter. It is about a girl, Libby Louise, who decides to only tell the truth, the problems this causes, and her eventual understanding about the need for empathy and kindness in some situations.
Uncle Wiggily Longears is the main character of a series of children's stories by American author Howard R. Garis.He began writing the stories for the Newark News in 1910. . Garis penned an Uncle Wiggily story every day (except Sundays) for more than 52 years, and published 79 books in his lifetime.
Storyteller is a collection of works, including photographs, poetry, and short stories by Leslie Marmon Silko.It is her second published book, following Ceremony.The work is a combination of stories and poetry inspired by traditional Laguna Pueblo storytelling. [1]