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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]
Download as PDF; Printable version; Help ... Pages in category "Short stories by John Steinbeck" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
"The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens. The lottery, its preparations, and its execution are all described in detail, though it is not ...
A Canary for One. The Capital of the World (short story) Cat in the Rain. Che Ti Dice La Patria? A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. Cross Country Snow.
Captive Market (short story) The Chromium Fence. Colony (short story) The Commuter (short story) The Cookie Lady (short story) The Crawlers (short story) The Crystal Crypt.
The story is about a class of students on Venus, which, in this story, is a world of constant rainstorms, where the sun is only visible for two hours every seven years. One of the children, Margot, moved to Venus from Earth five years earlier and is the only one who remembers the sun, since it shines regularly on Earth. She describes the sun to ...
Short stories date back to oral storytelling traditions which originally produced epics such as the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey. Oral narratives were often told in the form of rhyming or rhythmic verse, often including recurring sections or, in the case of Homer, Homeric epithets. Such stylistic devices often acted ...
B. Baa Baa, Black Sheep (short story) Bread upon the Waters. The Broken-Link Handicap. The Butterfly that Stamped.