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First edition, cover artist: Andy Everson. Take Us to Your Chief: and Other Stories is a collection of nine short stories by Canadian author, playwright, and journalist Drew Hayden Taylor published in 2016 by Douglas & McIntyre. [1] [2] Taylor, who is part Caucasian, part Ojibwe, [3] [4] explains in the acknowledgments section of the book that ...
Plot Some time after the drowning of their young daughter Christine in an accident at their English country home, John Baxter and his grief-stricken wife Laura travel to Venice where John has accepted a commission from a bishop to restore an ancient church. Laura encounters two elderly sisters, Heather and Wendy, at a restaurant where she and John are dining; Heather claims to be psychic and ...
193. ISBN. 9780670804528. Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan, set in and around the fictitious town of Malgudi in South India. The stories range from the humorous to the serious and all are filled with Narayan's acute observations of human nature. The concluding story, Under the Banyan Tree ...
Grace. —. " The Dead " is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. It is by far the longest story in the collection and, at 15,952 words, is almost long enough to be described as a novella. The story deals with themes of love and loss, as well as raising questions about the nature of the Irish identity.
Ron Rosenbaum, a journalist acquaintance of Casolaro's, speculated in Vanity Fair that Casolaro may have intended his suicide to appear to be murder triggered by his research, in order to have others look into the story after his death. Later investigations showed that the FBI misled Congress about investigating Casolaro's death. Members of an ...
The Death of Ivan Ilyich. The Death of Ivan Ilyich (also Romanized Ilich, Ilych, Ilyitch; Russian: Смерть Ивана Ильича, romanized : Smert' Ivána Ilyicha ), first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s.
The story may be a dramatization of an actual event. Literary critic Richard S. Hughes reports that Steinbeck had first intended to develop the story as part of his Pastures of Heaven saga, a story cycle published in 1932. “The Murder” is likely one of the two stories involving murder that Steinbeck had intended for The Pastures of Heaven.
1962. [1] " Big Mama's Funeral " ( Spanish: Los funerales de la Mamá Grande) is a short story by Gabriel García Márquez. In the story, an unidentified narrator [2] tells a mythical account of a historical event summarized on the first page. Through the exaggerated size of Big Mama herself and her extravagant birthday party, the story ...