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Description Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacockโs humourous and affectionate account of small-town life in the fictional town of Mariposa. Written in 1912, it is drawn from his experiences living in Orillia, Ontario. The book is a series of funny and satirical anecdotes that illustrate the inner workings of life in Mariposaโfrom business to politics to steamboat disasters. The town is populated by many archetypal characters including the shrewd businessman Mr. Smith, the
Description Ethan Frome is a young man whose nascent ambitions were thwarted by illness and privation. Now his daily toils wring only the most meager living from his fading farm, and his marriage is as frigid as the winter that has beset his home in Starkfield, MA. Yet despite the swirling snows, a flame of passion sparked by the recent arrival of his wifeโs cousin, Mattie Silver, burns desperately within him. How far will he go to pursue a forbidden love and the prospect of true happiness?
Description The Way We Live Now is Anthony Trollopeโs longest novel, published in two volumes in 1875 after first appearing in serial form. After an extended visit to Australia and New Zealand in 1872, Trollope was outraged on his return to England by a number of financial scandals, and was determined to expose the dishonesty, corruption, and greed they embodied. The Way We Live Now centers around a foreign businessman, Augustus Melmotte, who has come to prominence in London despite rumors
Description Roswitha, also known as Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim, was a tenth century German canoness, dramatist, and poet. A remarkable woman, she has been called the first Western playwright since antiquity as well as the first known woman playwright. She was inspired by the Roman comic playwright Terence, who wrote six farces filled with disguises, misunderstandings, and pagan debauchery. Upset by Terenceโs immoral subject matter but also inspired by his well-crafted plays, Roswitha sought to
Description Kate Chopinโs most famous work nowadays is the novel The Awakening , but at the turn of the last century she was more famous for her short fiction, published in American magazines like the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Youthโs Companion, and Vogue. A prolific writer, over the course of fourteen years she penned nearly a hundred stories, although many didnโt see publication until a new collection was released in 1963. The stories focus on life in 1890s Louisiana, a setting that she was
Description The Moon and Sixpence tells the story of English stockbroker Charles Strickland, who abandons his wife and child to travel to Paris to become a painter. First published in 1919 in the United Kingdom by Heinemann, the story is inspired by the life of the French artist Paul Gauguin. Itโs told in episodic form from a first-person perspective. The narrator, who came to know Strickland through his wifeโs literary parties, begins the story as Strickland leaves for Paris. Stricklandโs new