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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]
The story was positively reviewed by Peterburgskiye Vedomosti (No.167, 1886) and N. Ladozhsky. Leonid Obolensky, writing for Russkoye Bogatstvo praised Chekhov for his extraordinary ability to see the hidden drama behind deceptively simple things, and cited "Misery" as a perfect example of that.
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.
A frame story is a literary device that acts as a convenient conceit to organize a set of smaller narratives, either devised by the author or taken from a previous stock of popular tales, slightly altered by the author for the purpose of the longer narrative. Sometimes a story within the main narrative encapsulates some aspect of the framing ...
August 1954. " The Cold Equations " is a science fiction short story by American writer Tom Godwin (1915–1980), first published in Astounding Magazine in August 1954. In 1970, the Science Fiction Writers of America selected it as one of the best science-fiction short stories published before 1965, and it was therefore included in The Science ...
Plot. "Free Radicals" is the story of a recently widowed woman named Nita. Her husband, Rich, had just died while on his way to the hardware store. Rich's death came as a surprise to Nita. She had been diagnosed with cancer a year before, and they were expecting her to die before him, especially because Rich had just been given a good bill of ...
T. The Tale of Hongxian. The Tale of Huo Xiaoyu. Tale of the Transcendent Marriage of Dongting Lake. Toba Tek Singh (short story) The Turning (short story collection)
Pages in category "Short story collections by Margaret Atwood". The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .