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The Complete Stories is a collection of short stories by Flannery O'Connor. It was published in 1971 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It comprises all the stories in A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must Converge plus several previously unavailable stories. Complete Stories won the 1972 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. [1]
"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856.
Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer, known as Theodore Boone: Young Lawyer in the UK, is a 2010 legal drama and the first novel by John Grisham for middle-grade children (8–13-year-olds). [1] It is the first in a series about Theodore Boone. Grisham jokingly said in an interview that he wanted to catch up with Harry Potter, since his number one place ...
The book is loosely structured to follow the life of a criminal case from magistrates' court, through to sentence and appeal.It mixes first-hand accounts of the author as advocate, acting at different times for the prosecution and the defence, with a discussion of how the system in practice fails to deliver justice on a daily basis: "Access to justice, the rule of law, fairness to defendants ...
The New Advocate" (German: "Der neue Advokat") is a short story from A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka. [1] [2] It is a very brief piece that illustrates Kafka's view of lawyers. [3] A firm has hired a new associate, Bucephalos. The narrator realizes that times have changed, but hopes that people will hold back on any judgement and accept this ...
Oscar "Zeta" Acosta Fierro (/ ə ˈ k ɒ s t ə /; April 8, 1935 – disappeared 1974) was a Mexican American attorney, author and activist in the Chicano Movement.He wrote the semi-autobiographical novels Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972) and The Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973), [3] and was friends with American author Hunter S. Thompson.
The group, led by Cullen Post — a lawyer and Episcopal minister — is known for taking on a limited number of innocence cases, focusing on individuals wrongfully convicted and forgotten by the legal system. Cullen Post, while working on Quincy's case, uncovers a complex web of deceit involving powerful entities responsible for the murder of ...
From 1915 to 1922, Train was in private practice as a lawyer with Charles Albert Perkins while continuing to write, not just novels but short stories, plays, and journalism. In 1919, he created the popular character of Mr. Ephraim Tutt, a wily old lawyer who supported the common man and always had a trick up his sleeve to right the law's ...