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Take Us to Your Chief: and Other Stories is a collection of nine short stories by Canadian author, playwright, and journalist Drew Hayden Taylor published in 2016 by Douglas & McIntyre. [1] [2] Taylor, who is part Caucasian, part Ojibwe, [3] [4] explains in the acknowledgments section of the book that the origin of the project lies in several ...
"The Fair at Sorochyntsi" is the first story in the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Ukrainian writer Nikolai Gogol. Later in the 19th century the story was adapted as an opera of the same name by Modest Mussorgsky (left unfinished by the composer, and completed by other hands). The Fair at Sorochyntsi Plot summary
Full Dark, No Stars, published in November 2010, is a collection of four novellas by American author Stephen King, all dealing with the theme of retribution. [1] [2] One of the novellas, 1922, is set in Hemingford Home, Nebraska, which is the home of Mother Abagail from King's epic novel The Stand (1978), the town the adult Ben Hanscom moves to in It (1986), where Alice and Billy stop for a ...
First edition (published by Charles Henry Webb) " The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County " is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was his first great success as a writer and brought him national attention. [ 1] The story has also been published as " Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog " (its original title) and " The Notorious Jumping ...
The Wheel of Love and Other Stories. The Wheel of Love is contains 20 works of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates published by Vanguard Press in 1970. [1] The volume brought Oates "abundant national acclaim" [2] including this assessment from librarian and critic John Alfred Avant: "Quite simply, one of the finest collections of short stories ...
35318437. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments is a 1997 collection of nonfiction writing by David Foster Wallace . In the title essay, originally published in Harper's as "Shipping Out", Wallace describes the excesses of his one-week trip in the Caribbean aboard the cruise ship MV Zenith, which he rechristens the Nadir.
The Winds of Change and Other Stories. First edition, cover art by Kiyoshi Kanai. The Winds of Change and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by American writer Isaac Asimov, published in 1983 by Doubleday .
The story is set in a small Western Australian town and is about all different kinds of "turnings", be they in people, situations, surprises, accidents, relationships, and even the turning of time. [ 1] These turnings come at crucial times in the characters' lives. They are doomed and unhappy people, and though the turning may not change their ...