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Author : John William Tuohy
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781517270452
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Short Stories from a Small Town written by John William Tuohy and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories from a small town in New England
Author : Ruskin Bond
Publisher : Rupa Publications
ISBN 13 : 9789382277545
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (775 download)
Download or read book Small Towns, Big Stories written by Ruskin Bond and published by Rupa Publications. This book was released on 2017 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It is easier to know people in small places. Sometimes you can't help knowing them. Like the boy who walks four miles to school; or the elderly gentleman who is up every morning at five o'clock, taking his morning walk (tap-tap-tap, I hear his walking stick below my window); or that busy little woman gathering firewood for the winter; or the man from the nursery who sells me a potted geranium and ends up telling me the story of his life... So many stories waiting to be told! And, as I have discovered, small towns may be smaller than cities, and there may be fewer people living in them, but the stories they provide a writer with are big, they contain worlds upon worlds within them.'
Author : Stewart Hyson
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525513753
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Last of the Small Towns written by Stewart Hyson and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last of the Small Towns: Short Stories is a charming collection of tales that recount the boyhood years of author Stewart Hyson. From gatherings in the “Indian Graveyard” through unprecedented encounters with baby chicks, here is a sentimental recounting of a range of colourful juvenile adventures experienced by a boy during a time that was poignantly more innocent than today. Hantsport, Nova Scotia, might have been a small place during the 1950s and early 1960s, but it was a veritable hive of activity in certain sectors and for certain segments of its lively population—especially through a kid’s eyes. In this memoir, Hyson invites readers to share his childish perspective of the postwar years on the streets of this little town. With a strong wash of nostalgia that characterizes his memory of his time there, Hyson shares his growing-up experiences of such preoccupations of the time as Sputnik and the widespread introduction of television. Last of the Small Towns: Short Stories is a labour of love that delivers readers back into their own childhoods, so vividly painted are its scenes. It is this energy, this devotion to subject, that are the book’s greatest strength.
Author : Nathanael T. Booth
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476672741
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book American Small-Town Fiction, 1940-1960 written by Nathanael T. Booth and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In literature and popular culture, small town America is often idealized as distilling the national spirit. Does the myth of the small town conceal deep-seated reactionary tendencies or does it contain the basis of a national re-imagining? During the period between 1940 and 1960, America underwent a great shift in self-mythologizing that can be charted through representations of small towns. Authors like Henry Bellamann and Grace Metalious continued the tradition of Sherwood Anderson in showing the small town--by extension, America itself--profoundly warping the souls of its citizens. Meanwhile, Ray Bradbury, Toshio Mori and Ross Lockridge, Jr., sought to identify the small town's potential for growth, away from the shadows cast by World War II toward a more inclusive, democratic future. Examined together, these works are key to understanding how mid-20th century America refashioned itself in light of a new postwar order, and how the literary small town both obscures and reveals contradictions at the heart of the American experience.
Author : Gigi Mera
Publisher : Xlibris Us
ISBN 13 : 9781543483758
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (837 download)
Download or read book The Stories of a Little Town written by Gigi Mera and published by Xlibris Us. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of short stories. The characters and all the events are fictional. After reading the book, I would like the readers to wonder where Little River is, since I did not mention in what part of the world it is located. Little River really exists; its not fictional. I gave some clues that will help the curious reader to locate it. Take a break from the world of high technology to visit Little River.
Author : Ima Honaker Herron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Small Town in American Literature written by Ima Honaker Herron and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Reingard M. Nischik
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571131270
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (312 download)
Download or read book The Canadian Short Story written by Reingard M. Nischik and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the 1890s, reaching its first full realization by modernist writers in the 1920s, and brought to its heyday during the Canadian Renaissance starting in the 1960s, the short story has become Canada's flagship genre. It continues to attract the country's most accomplished and innovative writers today, among them Margaret Atwood, Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro, Carol Shields, and many others. Yet in contrast to the stature and popularity of the genre and the writers who partake in it, surprisingly little literary criticism and theory has been devoted to the Canadian short story. This collection redresses that imbalance by providing the first collection of critical interpretations of a range of thirty well-known and often-anthologized Canadian short stories from the genre's beginnings through the twentieth century. A historical survey of the genre introduces the volume and a timeline comparing the genre's development in Canada, the US, and Great Britain via representative examples completes it. The collection is geared both to specialists in and to students of Canadian literature. For the latter it is of particular benefit that the volume provides not only a collection of interpretations, but a comprehensive introduction to the history of the Canadian short story. Reingard M. Nischik is professor and chair of American Literature at the University of Constance, Germany.
Author : Abd Alkareem Atteh
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527568334
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book A Study of Place in Short Fiction by James Joyce, William Faulkner and Sherwood Anderson written by Abd Alkareem Atteh and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds light on the modernist short story cycle and its pivotal role in representing and depicting place. With an ever-changing attitude towards place and what it means, modernist writers found in the short story cycle a suitable form to depict this sense of change. Drawing from a range of recent theories of the short story cycle and theories of place, this book highlights, in a comparative way, the role of the emergent short story genre and its seminal role in grasping and capturing a fragmented world through the various short and interconnected narratives and narrative strategies a short story cycle can accommodate. As such, this text contributes to the study of the modernist short story (cycle), American literature, Irish literature, comparative literature, and theories and studies of place.
Author : Gigi Mera
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1543483763
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (434 download)
Download or read book The Stories of a Little Town written by Gigi Mera and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of short stories. The characters and all the events are fictional. After reading the book, I would like the readers to wonder where Little River is since I did not mention in what part of the world it is located. Little River really exists; its not fictional. I gave some clues that will help the curious reader to locate it. Take a break from the world of high technology to visit Little River.
Author : James Finch Royster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book American Short Stories written by James Finch Royster and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yuka Igarashi
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1936787695
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (367 download)
Download or read book PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017 written by Yuka Igarashi and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INAUGURAL ANTHOLOGY OF LITERATURE'S MOST PROMISING NEW VOICES "A welcome addition to the run of established short story annuals, promising good work to come." —Kirkus Reviews Many writers who are household names today got their start when an editor encountered their work for the first time and took a chance. This book celebrates twelve such moments of discovery. The first volume of an annual anthology, launched alongside PEN's new Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, it recognizes writers who have had outstanding fiction debuts in a print or online literary magazine. The winning stories collected here—selected this year by judges Marie–Helene Bertino, Kelly Link, and Nina McConigley—take place in South Carolina and in South Korea, on a farm in the eighteenth century and among the cubicles of a computer– engineering firm in the present day. They narrate age–old themes with current urgency: migration, memory, technology, language, love, ecology, identity, family. Each work comes with an introduction by the editor who originally published it, explaining why he or she chose it. The commentaries provide insight into a process that often remains opaque to readers and students of writing, and showcase the vital work literary magazines do to nurture contemporary literature's new voices.
Author : Benjamin Joseph
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781502983695
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (836 download)
Download or read book Small Town Futures written by Benjamin Joseph and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-26 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Lottery to Those That Walk Away From Omelas, speculation has a rich history in written fiction, especially in the short-story format. The obvious appeal lies in its ability to shuck the constraints of what we know know now in favor of exploring what we think could be. However, in literature, these speculations are often levied at the larger society, the teeming masses holed up in dystopian metropolises. It's easy to see the reason why so many writers would go there: it's where the action is. But what happens at the margins, in the podunk small towns where history is forgotten and the future seems so removed compared to the rest of the world? How does the little man or woman deal with these (oftentimes catastrophic) changes? That's what I wanted to find out. I grew up in a town with a population of around 2,000. And while I'd always lamented being trapped at the cross streets of Boring and Hopeless, I recognized the relative safety in the confines of a small town. But what if that were to change? What if everything went to shit? This anthology of short stories is a way for us to explore these changes, and explore we do. From killer dick pills to retro-futuristic Hatfield and McCoys; from Thunderdome-esque child gladiators to the just plain weird; Small Town Futures is your chance to tap into the twisted, sometimes bleak, sometimes hilarious minds of a new crop of authors just begging you to look into their crystal balls. Caution, however, is advised, for you might not always like the future you see.
Author : Fred Lewis Pattee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Century Readings in the American Short Story written by Fred Lewis Pattee and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anna Wing-bo Tso
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476637245
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Reading the Short Story written by Anna Wing-bo Tso and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with a brief history and evolution of the short story genre, alongside an overview of the key short story writers, and an explanatory chapter of literary criticism, this book aims to give readers insight into the works by canonical British, Irish, and American authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, Flannery O'Connor, and more. Applying close reading skills and critical literary approaches to twelve selected short stories in English, this work conducts comparative analyses to reveal the interrelationships between the texts, the authors, the readers, and the sociocultural contexts. Developed and tested in literature classes at university over several semesters, this book addresses key issues, topics and trends in the short story genre.
Author : Joseph E. Pluta
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1770671862
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Small Town Michigan Tales written by Joseph E. Pluta and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twenty-four short stories focuses on diverse experiences in small Michigan communities during the second half of the twentieth century. It addresses such topics as racial conflict and harmony, white collar crime, college life, family dynamics, tragedy, aspirations of young athletes, growing up, personal rejection, dishonesty in academia, unusual mentors, less than ethical policemen, class conflict, and career triumphs of a twice unhappily married woman. Michigan's Polish, Finnish, Irish, Hispanic, and Asian cultures are highlighted. The stories present the human side of life in American small towns from the relative ease of physical entry into these communities to the psychological difficulty of exit.
Author : Dennis Denisoff
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1551113562
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (511 download)
Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories written by Dennis Denisoff and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2004-05-11 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories beautifully demonstrates the astonishing variety and ingenuity of Victorian short stories. This collection brings together works focused on a wide range of popular Victorian subjects in many different styles and forms (including comic, gothic, fantasy, adventure, and colonial works; science fiction; children’s tales; New Woman writing; Irish yarns; stories originally published in popular periodicals; and travel stories). Both well-known and lesser-known authors are included, and both men and women are well represented. This anthology includes twenty-six annotated stories, a general introduction that discusses the history of the genre’s development in relation to key socio-political issues of the Victorian era, and suggestions for secondary readings. It also includes an intriguing selection of Victorian writings on the genre by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Frederick Wedmore, and Laura Marholm Hansson.
Author : Lucy Evans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781381186
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories written by Lucy Evans and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the representation of community in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean short stories, focusing on the most recent wave of Anglophone Caribbean short story writers following the genre's revival in the mid-1980s. The first extended study of Caribbean short stories, it presents the phenomenon of interconnected stories as a significant feature of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Anglophone Caribbean literary cultures. Lucy Evans contends that the short story collection and cycle, literary forms regarded by genre theorists as necessarily concerned with representations of community, are particularly appropriate and enabling as a vehicle through which to conceptualise Caribbean communities. The book covers short story collections and cycles by Olive Senior, Earl Lovelace, Kwame Dawes, Alecia Mckenzie, Lawrence Scott, Mark McWatt, Robert Antoni and Dionne Brand, and argues that the form of interconnected stories is a crucial part of these writers' imagining of communities, which may be fractured, plural and fraught with tensions, but which nevertheless hold together. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of community, bringing literary representations of community into dialogue with models of community developed in the field of Caribbean anthropology. The works analysed are set in Trinidad, Jamaica and Guyana, and in several cases the setting extends to the Caribbean diaspora in Europe and North America. Looking in turn at rural, urban, national and global communities, the book draws attention to changing conceptions of community around the turn of the millennium.
