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The Best Short Stories of Frank Norris

Author : Frank Norris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780965530910
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Best Short Stories of Frank Norris written by Frank Norris and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Publishers Weekly: Those who know Norris (1870-1902) through his muckraking novels, The Pit and The Octopus, will be interested in these 14 stories culled by the editors from among more than 60 tales that he published in his brief life. They include strong evidence of Norris's naturalism and his sense of the primal, the healthy, the rural, as opposed to the corrupt, the urban, the effete. In "His Sister," Norris describes a magazine writer "knowing he'd be more apt to find undisguised human nature along the poorer unconventional thoroughfares." In the autobiographical "Dying Fires," he writes of an author: "he lived in the midst of-a life of passions that were often elemental in their simplicity and directness." The gold in "Judy's Service of Gold Plate" foreshadows the use of that element as a symbol for greed in McTeague. In such stories, one anticipates Norris's influence on John Steinbeck. Even in the more journalistic tales, precursors of Jim Thompson-esque noir, Norris's favored themes, particularly of injustice and class consciousness, persist. Three of the stories have never been collected in book form before, including the experimental "Man Proposes," written in five parts for a literary weekly. These somewhat mannered short pieces describe five couples who decide to get married: the ways they come to and act on their decisions reflect their varying social strata and cultural sensibilities.

Ironweed

Author : William Kennedy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1849838364
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (498 download)

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Download or read book Ironweed written by William Kennedy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, basis of the film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. Francis Phelan, ex-big-leaguer, part-time gravedigger, full-time bum with the gift of gab, is back in town. He left Albany twenty-two years earlier after he dropped his infant son accidentally, and the boy died. Now he's on the way back to the wife and home he abandoned, haunted at every corner by the ghosts of his violent life. Francis; his wino ladyfriend of nine years, Helen; and his stumblebum pal, Rudy, shuffle their ragtag way through the city's bleakest streets, surviving on gumption, muscatel, and black wit. estiny is not their business. 'The premise of Ironweed was so unpromising, that in marketing terms the writer still to this day finds it funny: the story of a bunch of itinerant alcoholics, knocking around Kennedy's hometown, falling out, having visions, trying to pass for sober to cadge a bed for the night in the homeless shelter.' Guardian 'But for all the rich variety of prose and event, from hallucination to bedrock realism to slapstick and to blessed quotidian peace, ''Ironweed'' is more austere than its predecessors. It is more fierce, but also more forgiving.' Quoted from the classic New York Times review of Ironweed, which made it an overnight sensation.

The Third Circle

Author : Frank Norris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Third Circle written by Frank Norris and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories from Norris's time at the San Francisco Wave (1896-1897), selected and edited by Will Irwin.

McTeague

Author : Frank Norris
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book McTeague written by Frank Norris and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-09 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McTeague is an enormously strong but dim-witted former miner now working as a dentist in San Francisco towards the end of the nineteenth century. He falls in love with Trina, one of his patients, and shortly after their engagement she wins a large sum in a lottery. All is well until McTeague is betrayed and they fall into a life of increasing poverty and degradation. This novel is often presented as an example of American naturalism where the behavior and experience of characters are constrained by “nature”—both their own heredity nature, and the broader social environment. McTeague was published in 1899 as the first of Norris’s major novels.

Novels and Essays

Author : Frank Norris
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 9780940450400
Total Pages : 1270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Novels and Essays written by Frank Norris and published by Library of America. This book was released on 1986 with total page 1270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 33.

Blix

Author : Frank Norris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blix written by Frank Norris and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pit

Author : Frank Norris
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1605209023
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Pit written by Frank Norris and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like his more famous contemporary Upton Sinclair, American author BENJAMIN FRANKLIN NORRIS, JR. (1870-1902) also highlighted the corruption and greed of corporate monopolies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries... themes that continue to make his work riveting reading more than a century later. The Pit, first published in 1903, is a fictional narrative of the dealing in the Chicago wheat pit, focusing on speculator Curtis Jadwin, who is so addicted to his own greed that it becomes his downfall. The second part of Norris's projected "Trilogy of the Epic of the Wheat," *The Pit is preceded by 1901's The Octopus, also available from Cosimo. (Norris died before he could write the third volume, The Wolf.)

Great Short Stories by Great American Writers

Author : Thomas Fasano
Publisher : Coyote Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 0982129874
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Great Short Stories by Great American Writers written by Thomas Fasano and published by Coyote Canyon Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring 30 of the greatest short stories from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this new anthology begins with Washington Irving's tale "Rip Van Winkle" and ranges across more than one hundred years of storytelling, concluding with F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic, "Winter Dreams." Other selections include Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher," Melville's "Bartleby, The Scrivener," Harte's "The Luck of Roaring Camp," "To Build a Fire," by Jack London, "The Middle Years" by Henry James, plus stories by Mark Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, and others. Perfect for classroom use, this outstanding collection of short stories will also prove popular with fiction readers everywhere.

The Octopus

Author : Frank Norris
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486146324
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Octopus written by Frank Norris and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an actual bloody dispute in 1880 between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad, this tale of greed, betrayal, and a lust for power is played out during the waning days of the western frontier.

The Third Circle

Author : Frank Norris
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Third Circle written by Frank Norris and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1909 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are more things in San Francisco's Chinatown than are dreamed of in Heaven and earth. In reality there are three parts of Chinatown-the part the guides show you, the part the guides don't show you, and the part that no one ever hears of. It is with the latter part that this story has to do. There are a good many stories that might be written about this third circle of Chinatown, but believe me, they never will be written-at any rate not until the "town" has been, as it were, drained off from the city, as one might drain a noisome swamp, and we shall be able to see the strange, dreadful life that wallows down there in the lowest ooze of the place-wallows and grovels there in the mud and in the dark. If you don't think this is true, ask some of the Chinese detectives (the regular squad are not to be relied on), ask them to tell you the story of the Lee On Ting affair, or ask them what was done to old Wong Sam, who thought he could break up the trade in slave girls, or why Mr. Clarence Lowney (he was a clergyman from Minnesota who believed in direct methods) is now a "dangerous" inmate of the State Asylum-ask them to tell you why Matsokura, the Japanese dentist, went back to his home lacking a face-ask them to tell you why the murderers of Little Pete will never be found, and ask them to tell you about the little slave girl, Sing Yee, or-no, on the second thought, don't ask for that story.

Reunion Beach

Author : Elin Hilderbrand
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063048957
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Reunion Beach written by Elin Hilderbrand and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! In this warm and moving anthology, a group of bestselling authors and writers pay tribute to legendary, larger-than-life New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank and her literary legacy. Inspired by the title Dorothea Benton Frank planned for her next book—Reunion Beach—these close friends and colleagues channeled their creativity, admiration, and grief into stories and poems that celebrate this remarkable woman and her abiding love for the Lowcountry of her native South Carolina—a land of beauty, history, charm, and Gullah magic she so brilliantly brought to life in her acclaimed novels. From Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times bestselling author, a sequel to Summer of ’69. From Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author, comes a heartwarming, humorous interview from the hereafter with Pat Conroy and Dorothea Benton Frank, two beloved icons of Southern literature. From Patti Callahan, bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis and Surviving Savannah, comes The Bridemaids, a story about a trip to the South Carolina beach. From Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author, Mother and Child Reunion, a heartwarming story set under the warm South Carolina sun. Reunion Beach also features letters, short stories, poems, and essays from: Mary Norris, New York Times bestselling author and staff writer for The New Yorker Cassandra King Conroy, bestselling and award-winning author of Tell Me A Story Nathalie Dupree, James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Marjory Wentworth, former Poet Laureate of South Carolina Gervais Hagerty, author of In Polite Company Jacqueline Bouvier Lee, Peter Frank, Victoria Peluso, and William Frank Infused with Dorothea Benton Frank’s remarkable spirit, Reunion Beach is a literary homage and beautiful keepsake that keeps this dearly missed writer’s flame burning bright.

Short Lines

Author : Rob Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780760720448
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Short Lines written by Rob Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Hemingway Short Story

Author : Robert Paul Lamb
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807147443
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Hemingway Short Story written by Robert Paul Lamb and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Hemingway Short Story: A Study in Craft for Writers and Readers, Robert Paul Lamb delivers a dazzling analysis of the craft of this influential writer. Lamb scrutinizes a selection of Hemingway's exemplary stories to illuminate the author's methods of construction and to show how craft criticism complements and enhances cultural literary studies. The Hemingway Short Story, the highly anticipated sequel to Lamb's critically acclaimed Art Matters: Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story, reconciles the creative writer's focus on art with the concerns of cultural critics, establishing the value that craft criticism holds for all readers. Beautifully written in clear and engaging prose, Lamb's study presents close readings of representative Hemingway stories such as "Soldier's Home," "A Canary for One," "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen," and "Big Two-Hearted River." Lamb's examination of "Indian Camp," for instance, explores not only its biographical contexts -- showing how details, incidents, and characters developed in the writer's mind and notebook as he transmuted life into art -- but also its original, deleted opening and the final text of the story, uncovering otherwise unseen aspects of technique and new terrains of meaning. Lamb proves that a writer is not merely a site upon which cultural forces contend, but a professional in his or her craft who makes countless conscious decisions in creating a literary text. Revealing how the short story operates as a distinct literary genre, Lamb provides the meticulous readings that the form demands -- showing Hemingway practicing his craft, offering new inclusive interpretations of much debated stories, reevaluating critically neglected stories, analyzing how craft is inextricably entwined with a story's cultural representations, and demonstrating the many ways in which careful examinations of stories reward us.

Short Stories from the Jazz Age - The Best of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528798333
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Short Stories from the Jazz Age - The Best of F. Scott Fitzgerald written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short Stories from the Jazz Age is a collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best short stories, featuring his three masterful volumes: Flappers and Philosophers, Tales of the Jazz Age, and All the Sad Young Men. This collection provides an insightful overview of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most effective works of short prose and features famous tales, including ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ and ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’. The author, known for his 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, explores the highs and lows of the Jazz Age in these seminal pieces. Fitzgerald examines themes of disillusionment, extravagance, prosperity, and freedom. Many of his characters are extremely privileged but find their lives are lacking true meaning or love. Delve into the Roaring 20s with this volume and explore the reality of post-war America. Featuring 28 stories in total, this volume is divided into three sections: - Flappers and Philosophers - Tales of the Jazz Age - All the Sad Young Men This brand new collection features a specially-commissioned biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald alongside an introductory essay on Jazz Age literature. Short Stories from the Jazz Age is the perfect gift for those who loved The Great Gatsby and is not to be missed by fans of Fitzgerald’s short prose.

The Public Domain

Author : Stephen Fishman
Publisher : Nolo
ISBN 13 : 1413327567
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book The Public Domain written by Stephen Fishman and published by Nolo. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find free content and save on permission fees Millions of creative worksbooks, artwork, photos, songs, movies, and moreare available copyright-free in the public domain. Whether your tastes run to Beethoven or Irving Berlin, Edvard Munch or Claude Monet, youll find inspiration in The Public Domain. The only book that helps you find and identify which creative works are protected by copyright and which are not, The Public Domain covers the rules for: writings music art photography architecture maps choreography movies video software databases collections For the first time in decades, new works began to enter the public domain in 2019, and more are entering each year. The 9th edition is completely updated to include new public domain resources and to cover the latest legal changes to copyright protection of songs, books, photos, and other creative works, as well as public domain rules outside the U.S.

A Study Guide for O. Henry's "After Twenty Years"

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410339394
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for O. Henry's "After Twenty Years" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Resisting Regionalism

Author : Donna M. Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Resisting Regionalism written by Donna M. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite such prickly themes, according to Donna Campbell, local color fiction "fulfilled some specific needs of the public - for nostalgia, for a retreat into mildly exotic locales, for a semblance of order preserved in ritual.".