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Description Caroline Meeber, known as Sister Carrie to her family, moves to Chicago at the tender age of eighteen to try to make something of herself. Living with her sister and brother-in-law, she quickly finds that life, and work, are hard in the big city. She soon takes up with a traveling salesman she met on the train into town. Months later her eye is turned by one of the salesmanโs acquaintances, George Hurstwood, and vice-versa. A series of events lead Carrie and Hurstwood to New York
Description On a Chinese Screen was first published in 1922 by Heinemann Publishers, London. Its 58 short vignettes are based on Maughamโs travels along the Yangtze River from 1919 to 1920. Although later editions of the book added the subtitle โSketches of Life in China,โ there are actually only a few descriptions of the places he visited and the local Chinese people he met; rather, Maugham focuses on relaying his encounters with a range of Europeans living and working in the country. Maugham
Description Though James Joyce earned his literary fame mostly through his short stories and novels, he also published several short books of poetry. In fact Chamber Music, a collection of thirty-six short love poems, was his first major independent publication. The title of Chamber Music is said to have come from the sound of urine tinkling into a chamber potโthough this was actually a story made up by Joyce after the fact. As he grew older, he came to dislike the title, saying that it was too
Description Aleksandr Kuprin was one of the most celebrated Russian authors of the early twentieth century, writing both novels (including his most famous, The Duel ) and short fiction. Along with Chekhov and Bunin, he did much to draw attention away from the โgreat Russian novelโ and to make short fiction popular. His work is famed for its descriptive qualities and sense of place, but it always centers on the souls of the storiesโ subjects. The themes of his work are wide and varied, and
Description Writer Jack Derrick and his sister Edith move into a suspiciously inexpensive countryside manor. They quickly discover the reason for their luckโtwo years earlier an unsolved murder had taken place in the parlor. Jack is extremely sensitive and feels that both the house and the deceased former owner are communicating with him. But to what end? Alan Sullivan was the winner of Canadaโs Governor General Award for English-language fiction in 1941 for his novel Three Came to Ville Marie.
Description In 1855 Pedro Carolino set out to write an English phrasebook for Portuguese travelers visiting England. The only problem was that he couldnโt speak English. Undeterred by this minor setback, Carolino decided to base his guide on a respected PortugueseโFrench phrasebook written by Josรฉ da Fonseca. He took the French translations of Portuguese, and used a FrenchโEnglish dictionary to translate those to English. The result was an unintentional comedy of literal translation, as English