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by: Sarah Throne
(January 02, 2009)
What really makes a short story a good one? What must it have for a reader to want to keep reading? Most readers want to read about a character that they feel they can relate to. Readers also want to finish the story feeling as though they were left with a message, a powerful theme. One story that ..
by: Philip Spires
(October 23, 2008)
An aspect of William Boyd's writing that always seems close to the surface of his work is an examination of selfishness. At the very least, his characters fulfil their self-interest. One recalls how the events of The New Confessions or Any Human Heart unfold, how in both cases the central ..
by: Rick Huffman
(August 23, 2008)
Many of Hawthorne's characters are burdened by inner conflicts which are never resolved into a tidy resolution. “The Birthmark", however, has a more clearly defined moral than some of Hawthorne's other work. The social significance of this story that was written over 150 years ago endures ..
by: Philip Spires
(August 17, 2008)
Poisoned Petals by Andy Crabb is a set of over forty short stories, tales with a Spanish flavour. Most are set in Spain, with many featuring locations and people from within the Costa Blanca, where the author lives, works and continually observes. Some are historical, others utterly contemporary, ..
by: Rangoo Srinivas
(July 19, 2008)
The novel form of Tamil literature has been in existence only since around two centuries.Before that, the poetry form used to rule the roost for nearly two thousand years. Novel is a relatively new genre in Tamil literature but is very popular among the Tamil novel readers. The novel format was ..
by: Rangoo Srinivas
(July 19, 2008)
The mere mention of the name ‘Kalki’ is enough to send most the Tamil readers of yesteryears into a journey of nostalgia. Kalki is a name that sparks off memories of kingdoms and the saga of war, patriotism, love and loyalty that go into the making and perishing of those kingdoms in the .
by: Rangoo Srinivas
(July 19, 2008)
The short story format originated from Europe. The Tamil world believes that the short stories in Tamil can be traced back to the seventeenth century to ‘Paramartha Kurunkathai’ a transition from the classical Tamil poetry. V.V.S. Iyer started a new trend in the 1880s giving the short ..
by: Donna Sundblad
(July 13, 2008)
The President's Parasite and Other Short Stories By Jim Musgrave CIC Publishers 304 Pages ISBN: 0977650367The President's Parasite and Other Short Stories is a rich collection of slice of life vignettes written with a melancholy flavor and a twist of dark humor in an easy-to-read conversational ..
by: Iain Stott
(July 10, 2008)
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955) and Seymour: An Introduction (1959), are a pair of long short stories written by Salinger about the Glass family. The former ostensibly about Buddy Glass, and the latter about Seymour Glass, but quite often it appears that the opposite is true. Although, ..
by: Iain Stott
(July 06, 2008)
Miranda July is one of those annoying people who seems to be able to turn their hand to just about anything. Artist, musician, filmmaker, actress, writer, all around smarty-pants; and on top of all that, with those piercing blue eyes and slender figure, she's also quite beautiful. Those that wish ..
by: Iain Stott
(July 06, 2008)
To fully appreciate this collection of short stories, one must, I think, be familiar with the author Alexei Sayle's stand-up or television sketch comedy work. His prose very much mirrors his angry, ranting, incredulous Liverpudlian persona. Not that I want to put off the uninitiated, because I'm ..
by: Sunil Tanna
(March 16, 2008)
Drakas! is an anthology of short stories written against the background of S. M. Stirling's Draka universe. Each story stands on its own, and they are set at various times and places from the 19th century to the 21st and beyond. Towards the end of the book, we also see the same kind of cross-time ..
by: Gene Louis
(December 03, 2007)
Every society breeds some people who will resort to bullets when they think their desire for greed or power is threatened. Some of these threats to the heroes of society occur when power grabbers cannot verbally compete with words and logic.This sickness can inflict any society in the world. For ..
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