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Publication date. April 8, 1950. " For Esmé—with Love and Squalor " is a short story by J. D. Salinger. It recounts an American sergeant's meeting with a young girl before being sent into combat in World War II. Originally published in The New Yorker on April 8, 1950, [1] it was anthologized in Salinger's Nine Stories two years later (while ...
"The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 18, 1948. The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens. The lottery, its preparations, and its execution are all described in detail, though it is not ...
White Nights (short story) " White Nights " ( Russian: Белые ночи, Belye nochi) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky, originally published in 1848, early in the writer's career. Like many of Dostoevsky's stories, "White Nights" is told in the first person by a nameless narrator. The narrator is a young man living in Saint Petersburg ...
episodes. The following is a list of episodes of the Irish television crime drama series Love/Hate, first broadcast on RTÉ One in 2010, and running for a total of twenty-eight episodes across five series. Proving to be one of the most popular series on Irish television since the millennium, the final two episodes of the second series first ...
A love–hate relationship is an interpersonal relationship involving simultaneous or alternating emotions of love and hate —something particularly common when emotions are intense. [1] The term is used frequently in psychology, popular writing and journalism. It can be applied to relationships with inanimate objects, or even concepts, [2] [3 ...
798635005. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 2001 . In 2006, the story "The Bear Came over the Mountain" was adapted into a film, Away from Her, directed by Sarah Polley and produced by Atom Egoyan. Following the release of this film, the ...
Publication date. 1953. " A Good Man Is Hard to Find " is a Southern gothic short story first published in 1953 by author Flannery O'Connor who, in her own words, described it as "the story of a family of six which, on its way driving to Florida [from Georgia ], is slaughtered by an escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit". [2]
In 2012, Pin Drop Studio launched what became a regular short story salon, held in London and other major cities. Short story writers who have appeared at the salon to read their work to live audiences include Ben Okri, Lionel Shriver, Elizabeth Day, A.L. Kennedy, William Boyd, Graham Swift, David Nicholls, Will Self, Sebastian Faulks, Julian ...