tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8516193183201112342024-03-12T17:59:22.766-07:00Norba Short Story ClubI.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17124513657261571095noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-851619318320111234.post-1680640375986942402021-11-14T10:51:00.001-08:002021-11-14T10:51:50.005-08:0020. BREAK THESE RULES<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Hy_MpH1UiKk/YZFZ5lrvb_I/AAAAAAAADnI/Q1Azg8NGX_Y36BiZpNjbe7LJwp70ZaL3wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1186/break%2Bthese%2Brules.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1186" data-original-width="781" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Hy_MpH1UiKk/YZFZ5lrvb_I/AAAAAAAADnI/Q1Azg8NGX_Y36BiZpNjbe7LJwp70ZaL3wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/break%2Bthese%2Brules.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #707070; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Middle grades and young adult authors speak candidly on the unspoken “rules” of adolescence in this collection of moving, inspiring, and often funny essays. This unique volume encourages readers to break with conformity and defy age-old, and typically inaccurate, orthodoxy—including such conventions as Boys can’t be gentle, kind, or caring; One must wear Abercrombie & Fitch in order to fit in; Girls should act like girls; and One must go to college after finishing high school. With contributions from acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning young adult authors—including Gary D. Schmidt, author of The Wednesday Wars; Matthew Quick, author of The Silver Linings Playbook; Sara Zarr, author of Story of a Girl; and Wendy Mass, author of A Mango-Shaped Space—this collection encourages individuality by breaking traditionally held norms, making it an ideal resource for tweens and teens.</span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #707070; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3QYRe_Xns0c" width="320" youtube-src-id="3QYRe_Xns0c"></iframe></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #707070; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><p></p>I.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17124513657261571095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-851619318320111234.post-2751860353937599422019-06-25T09:52:00.001-07:002019-06-25T09:52:09.220-07:00STORY 19: "THE SCHOOL" BY DONALD BARTHELME<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Donald Barthelme</b> (April 7, 1931 – July 23, 1989) was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmdenist <span style="color: black;">style of short fiction. Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for the <i>Houston Post</i>, was managing editor of <i>Location</i> magazine, director of the <i>Contemporary Arts Museum </i>in Houston (1961–1962), co-founder of <i>Fiction</i> (with Mark Mirsky and the assistance of Max and Marianne Frisch), and a professor at various universities. He also was one of the original founders of the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. </span><br />
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The story achieves much of its humor through escalation. It begins
with an ordinary situation everyone can recognize – a failed classroom
gardening project. But then it piles on so many other recognizable
classroom failures that the sheer accumulation becomes preposterous.<br />
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Maeve Binchy (1940-2012) </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">was born in Dublin, worked as a school teacher, Irish
Times columnist, and then as a novelist. Her books, which have been translated into
over forty languages, have been adapted for stage, film and television. A
feature film of her novel ‘Tara Road’ was released in 2005. She lived in
Dalkey, Co Dublin, with her husband, the writer Gordon Snell. </span></i><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Maeve attended the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/cominfo/club_soc/historical/cumann_merriman.htm"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Merriman Summer School</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> since 1968. ‘A Week in Summer’ is a short story
commissioned by the Merriman Summer School as part of the bi-centenary
celebrations marking </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/people/merriman.htm"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Brian Merriman’s</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> life and work in 2005, 200 years after his death.
Maeve Binchy’s short story, which she read aloud, is about an American couple
who came to Lisdoonvarna looking for peace and hoping for a chance to
rejuvenate their marriage. They are plunged into the world of the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/literature/cuirt/cuirt_index.htm"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Midnight Court</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> and, even more importantly, of the hundreds who
attend the Merriman Summer School regularily.They find plenty to admire and
entertain and eventually something to change their lives.</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span><br />
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</span>I.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17124513657261571095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-851619318320111234.post-81954034303627046452018-10-21T12:38:00.001-07:002018-10-21T12:38:26.991-07:00STORY 17: "FIRST CONFESSION" BY FRANK O'CONNOR<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong>Frank O’Connor</strong>, pseudonym of <strong>Michael O’Donovan</strong>, (born 1903, <a class="md-crosslink autoxref" href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Cork-Ireland">Cork</a>,
County Cork, Ireland—died March 10, 1966, Dublin), Irish playwright,
novelist, and short-story writer who, as a critic and as a translator of
Gaelic works from the 9th to the 20th century, served as an interpreter
of Irish life and <a class="md-crosslink autoxref" href="https://www.britannica.com/art/literature">literature</a> to the English-speaking world.</div>
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Raised in poverty, a childhood he recounted in <em>An Only Child</em> (1961), O’Connor received little formal education before going to work as a librarian in Cork and later in <a class="md-crosslink autoxref" href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Dublin">Dublin</a>. As a young man, he was briefly imprisoned for his activities with the <a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Irish-Republican-Army">Irish Republican Army</a>. O’Connor served as a director of the <a class="md-crosslink autoxref" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Abbey-Theatre">Abbey Theatre</a>, Dublin, in the 1930s, <a class="md-dictionary-link" data-term="collaborating" href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/collaborating" id="___id11">collaborating</a> on many of its productions. During <a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-II">World War II</a> he was a broadcaster for the British Ministry of Information in London. He won popularity in the United States for his <a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/art/short-story">short stories</a>, which appeared in <a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-New-Yorker"><em>The New Yorker</em></a> magazine from 1945 to 1961, and he was a visiting professor at several American universities in the 1950s.</div>
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In First Confession by Frank O’Connor we have the theme of conflict,
appearance, division, connection, fear, innocence and honesty. Taken
from his Collected Stories collection the story is a memory piece and is
narrated in the first person by a man called Jackie. What is
interesting about the beginning of the story is that O’Connor may be
exploring the theme of conflict and appearance. </div>
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(http://sittingbee.com/first-confession-frank-oconnor/) </div>
I.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17124513657261571095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-851619318320111234.post-5825287267173025752018-03-03T11:09:00.000-08:002018-03-03T11:17:14.781-08:00STORY 16: "THE DEVOTED FRIEND" BY OSCAR WILDE<h1 class="page-header__title">
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<b>"The Devoted Friend"</b> is a darkly comic short story for children by the Irish author Oscar Wilde. It was first published in 1888 in the anthology <i>The Happy Prince and Other Tales</i>, which also includes "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Selfish Giant" and "The Remarkable Rocket". </div>
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The two main characters in "The Devoted Friend" are a poor man known as little Hans and a rich Miller. The Miller claims to be a devoted friend of little Hans. In
truth, he selfishly takes advantage of little Hans at every opportunity.
Little Hans always does everything that the Miller asks him to do
because he does not want to lose the Miller's friendship or offend him.
Little Hans' desire to remain the Miller's friend ultimately proves
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<br />I.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17124513657261571095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-851619318320111234.post-10186681236304237572017-12-04T10:14:00.000-08:002017-12-14T08:09:26.584-08:00STORY 15: "THE GIFT OF THE MAGI" BY O. HENRY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>(Many thanks to our assistant teacher Camilo Montoya for suggesting this story, perfect for Christmas.) </b><br />
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<b>William Sydney Porter</b> (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), known by his pen name <b>O. Henry</b>, was an American short story writer. His stories are known for their surprise endings.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plot_twist#Surprise_ending" title="Plot twist"><br /></a></div>
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Porter's most prolific writing period started in 1902, when he moved to
New York City to be near his publishers. While there, he wrote 381 short
stories. He wrote a story a week for over a year for the <i>New York World Sunday Magazine</i>. His wit, characterization, and plot twists were adored by his readers but often panned by critics.</div>
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O. Henry's stories frequently have surprise endings. His stories are also known for witty
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Most of O. Henry's stories are set in his own time, the early 20th
century. Many take place in New York City and deal for the most part
with ordinary people: policemen, waitresses, etc.</div>
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O. Henry's work is wide-ranging, and his characters can be found
roaming the cattle-lands of Texas, exploring the art of the con-man, or
investigating the tensions of class and wealth in turn-of-the-century
New York. O. Henry had an inimitable hand for isolating some element of
society and describing it with an incredible economy and grace of
language. Some of his best and least-known work is contained in <i>Cabbages and Kings,</i>
a series of stories each of which explores some individual aspect of
life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town, while advancing
some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another.</div>
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Among his most famous stories is "The Gift of the Magi" we have chosen, and also:<br />
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<li>"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ransom_of_Red_Chief" title="The Ransom of Red Chief">The Ransom of Red Chief</a>",
in which two men kidnap a boy of ten. The boy turns out to be so bratty
and obnoxious that the desperate men ultimately pay the boy's father
$250 to take him back.</li>
<li>"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cop_and_the_Anthem" title="The Cop and the Anthem">The Cop and the Anthem</a>" about a New York City <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobo" title="Hobo">hobo</a> named <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soapy_the_bum" title="Soapy the bum">Soapy</a>,
who sets out to get arrested so that he can be a guest of the city jail
instead of sleeping out in the cold winter. Despite efforts at petty
theft, vandalism, disorderly conduct, and "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flirting" title="Flirting">mashing</a>"
with a young prostitute, Soapy fails to draw the attention of the
police. Disconsolate, he pauses in front of a church, where an organ
anthem inspires him to clean up his life—and is ironically charged for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loitering" title="Loitering">loitering</a> and sentenced to three months in prison.</li>
<li>"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Retrieved_Reformation" title="A Retrieved Reformation">A Retrieved Reformation</a>",
which tells the tale of safecracker Jimmy Valentine, recently freed
from prison. He goes to a town bank to case it before he robs it. As he
walks to the door, he catches the eye of the banker's beautiful
daughter. They immediately fall in love and Valentine decides to give up
his criminal career. He moves into the town, taking up the identity of
Ralph Spencer, a shoemaker. Just as he is about to leave to deliver his
specialized tools to an old associate, a lawman who recognizes him
arrives at the bank. Jimmy and his fiancée and her family are at the
bank, inspecting a new safe when a child accidentally gets locked inside
the airtight vault. Knowing it will seal his fate, Valentine opens the
safe to rescue the child. However, much to Valentine's surprise, the
lawman denies recognizing him and lets him go.</li>
<li>"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Duplicity_of_Hargraves" title="The Duplicity of Hargraves">The Duplicity of Hargraves</a>". A short story about a nearly destitute father and daughter's trip to Washington, D.C.</li>
<li>"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cisco_Kid" title="The Cisco Kid">The Caballero's Way</a>", in which Porter's most famous character, the Cisco Kid, is introduced. It was first published in 1907 in the July issue of <i>Everybody's Magazine</i> and collected in the book <i>Heart of the West</i>
that same year. In later film and TV depictions, the Kid would be
portrayed as a dashing adventurer, perhaps skirting the edges of the
law, but primarily on the side of the angels. In the original short
story, the only story by Porter to feature the character, the Kid is a
murderous, ruthless border desperado, whose trail is dogged by a heroic
Texas Ranger. The twist ending is, unusually for Porter, tragic.</li>
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<b>"The Gift of the Magi"</b> is a short story about a young married couple and how they
deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other
with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about
gift-giving, it has been a popular one for adaptation, especially for
presentation at Christmas time. The plot and its twist ending are well-known, and the ending is generally considered an example of comic irony. It was allegedly written at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete%27s_Tavern" title="Pete's Tavern">Pete's Tavern</a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gift_of_the_Magi#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> on Irving Place in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>.</div>
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The story was initially published in <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_World" title="The New York World">The New York Sunday World</a></i> under the title "Gifts of the Magi" on December 10, 1905. It was first published in book form in the O. Henry Anthology <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Million" title="The Four Million">The Four Million</a></i> in April 1906.</div>
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I.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17124513657261571095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-851619318320111234.post-27712426095200041782017-10-12T01:25:00.000-07:002017-10-12T01:31:32.065-07:00STORY 14. "HAPPY ENDINGS" BY MARGARET ATWOOD<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Margaret Eleanor Atwood</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">(born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_critic" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Literary critic">literary critic</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, essayist, inventor, and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmentalism" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Environmentalism">environmental activist</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. She is a winner of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke_Award" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Arthur C. Clarke Award">Arthur C. Clarke Award</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> and </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Asturias_Awards" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Prince of Asturias Awards">Prince of Asturias Award</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> for Literature. She has been shortlisted for the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_Prize" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Booker Prize">Booker Prize</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_General%27s_Award" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Governor General's Award">Governor General's Award</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> several times, winning twice. In 2001, she was inducted into </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%27s_Walk_of_Fame" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Canada's Walk of Fame">Canada's Walk of Fame</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> She is also a founder of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writers%27_Trust_of_Canada" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Writers' Trust of Canada">Writers' Trust of Canada</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> Among innumerable contributions to </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_literature" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Canadian literature">Canadian literature</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, she was a founding trustee of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffin_Poetry_Prize" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Griffin Poetry Prize">Griffin Poetry Prize</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">.</span></span><br />
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"Happy Endings" is an example of <a data-component="link" data-ordinal="2" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" href="https://www.thoughtco.com/metafiction-2207827" style="box-shadow: rgba(123, 195, 222, 0.5) 0px -6px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282828; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out;">metafiction</a>. That is, it's a story that comments on the conventions of storytelling and draws attention to itself <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">as a story</em>. At approximately 1,300 words, it's also an example of <a data-component="link" data-ordinal="3" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" href="https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-flash-fiction-2990523" style="box-shadow: rgba(123, 195, 222, 0.5) 0px -6px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282828; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out;">flash fiction</a>. "Happy Endings" was first published in 1983.</div>
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The story is actually six stories in one. Atwood begins by introducing the two main characters, John and Mary, and then offers six different versions -- labeled A through F -- of who they are and what might happen to them.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Ray Douglas Bradbury</b> (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Fantasy">fantasy</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_fiction" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Horror fiction">horror</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_fiction" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Mystery fiction">mystery fiction</a> author and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenwriter" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Screenwriter">screenwriter</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Widely known for his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Dystopia">dystopian</a> novel <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Fahrenheit 451">Fahrenheit 451</a></i> (1953) as well as his science fiction and horror story collections <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_Chronicles" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="The Martian Chronicles">The Martian Chronicles</a></i> (1950), <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illustrated_Man" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="The Illustrated Man">The Illustrated Man</a></i> (1951), and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Sing_the_Body_Electric_(short_story_collection)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="I Sing the Body Electric (short story collection)">I Sing the Body Electric</a></i> (1969), Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th- and 21st-century American writers. While most of his best known work is in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_fiction" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Speculative fiction">speculative fiction</a>, he also wrote in other genres, such as the coming-of-age novel <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandelion_Wine" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Dandelion Wine">Dandelion Wine</a></i> (1957) or the fictionalized memoir <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Shadows,_White_Whale" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Green Shadows, White Whale">Green Shadows, White Whale</a></i> (1992).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Recipient of numerous awards, including a 2007 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_Special_Citations_and_Awards" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards">Pulitzer Citation</a>, Bradbury also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby_Dick_(1956)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Moby Dick (1956)">Moby Dick</a></i><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury#cite_note-2" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">[2]</a></sup> and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Came_from_Outer_Space" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="It Came from Outer Space">It Came from Outer Space</a></i>. Many of his works were adapted to comic book, television and film formats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On his death in 2012, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> called Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In "The Veldt," a family live in a technologically driven house that will do everything for its inhabitants - transport you upstairs, brush your teeth, cook the food, and clean the house. T<span style="color: #1e1d1d;">he nursery, the most expensive and exciting room of the house, is a place where childen can play, but something is going wrong. </span></span></div>
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I.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17124513657261571095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-851619318320111234.post-29299561343823477412017-01-29T05:08:00.003-08:002017-04-01T10:34:20.150-07:00STORY 12. "THE HITCHHIKER" BY ROALD DAHL<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><span itemprop="Name" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span itemprop="givenName" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Alice</span><span itemprop="familyName" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Munro (</span></span></strong><span itemprop="birthDate" style="box-sizing: border-box;">10 July 1931</span>, Wingham, Canada) <span style="font-family: inherit;">Alice was born in Wingham, Ontario in Canada. Her father was a fox and mink farmer and her mother was a teacher. Alice began writing as a teenager. She also studied at the University of Western Ontario and worked as a library clerk. After marrying she moved with her husband to Dundarave, West Vancouver, and moved again in 1963 to Victoria, where the pair opened a bookstore. Since the late 1960s, Alice Munro has dedicated herself to writing. She is married with two daughters from her first marriage.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Alice Munro has dedicated her literary career almost exclusively to the short story genre. She grew up in a small Canadian town; the kind of environment that often provides the backdrops for her stories. These often accommodate the entire epic complexity of the novel in just a few short pages. The underlying themes of her work are often relationship problems and moral conflicts. The relationship between memory and reality is another recurring theme she uses to create tension. With subtle means, she is able to demonstrate the impact that seemingly trivial events can have on a person's life.</span></div>
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other stories and published in Alice Munro’s first edition of short stories, Dance of the Happy Shades
(1968). The story, narrated by a young girl, details the time in her life when she leaves childhood and
its freedoms behind and realizes that to be a ‘‘girl’’ is to be, eventually, a woman. The child begins to
understand that being socially typed entails a host of serious implications. Thus becoming a ‘‘girl’’ on
the way to womanhood is a time fraught with difficulties for the young protagonist because she senses
that women are considered the social inferiors of men. Initially, she tries to prevent this from occurring
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I.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17124513657261571095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-851619318320111234.post-45649036525682793422016-10-23T14:18:00.000-07:002017-04-01T10:33:31.689-07:00STORY 10: "PARSON'S PLEASURE" BY ROALD DAHL<b><span style="font-size: medium;">Roald Dahl, "Parson's Pleasure"</span></b><br />
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<b style="line-height: inherit;">Roald Dahl</b><span style="line-height: inherit;"> (</span><span style="line-height: inherit;">13 September 1916 – 23 November </span><span style="line-height: inherit;">1990) was a British </span><span style="line-height: inherit;">novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot.</span><br />
<span style="line-height: inherit;">Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, Dahl served in the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a><span style="line-height: inherit;"> during World War II, in which he became a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_ace" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Flying ace">flying ace</a><span style="line-height: inherit;"> and intelligence officer, rising to the rank of Acting </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Commander_(rank)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Wing Commander (rank)">wing comma</a><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Commander_(rank)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Wing Commander (rank)">nder</a><span style="line-height: inherit;">. He rose to prominence in the 1940s with works for both children and adults and became one of the world's best-selling authors.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-INT_2-0" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl#cite_note-INT-2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BDC_3-0" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl#cite_note-BDC-3" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup><span style="line-height: inherit;"> He has been referred to as "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century".</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-IND_4-0" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl#cite_note-IND-4" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a></sup><span style="line-height: inherit;"> Among his awards for contribution to literature, he received the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award_for_Life_Achievement" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement">World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement</a><span style="line-height: inherit;"> in 1983, and Children's Author of the Year from the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specsavers_National_Book_Awards" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Specsavers National Book Awards">British Book Awards</a><span style="line-height: inherit;"> in 1990. In 2008 </span><i style="line-height: inherit;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="The Times">The Times</a></i><span style="line-height: inherit;"> placed Dahl 16th on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-TIM_5-0" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl#cite_note-TIM-5" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a></sup></div>
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Dahl's short stories are known for their unexpected endings and his children's books for their unsentimental, often very <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_comedy" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Black comedy">dark humour</a>. His works include <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_and_the_Giant_Peach" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="James and the Giant Peach">James and the Giant Peach</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factory" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Charlie and the Chocolate Factory">Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_(novel)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Matilda (novel)">Matilda</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Uncle_Oswald" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="My Uncle Oswald">My Uncle Oswald</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witches_(book)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="The Witches (book)">The Witches</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Mr_Fox" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Fantastic Mr Fox">Fantastic Mr Fox</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twits" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="The Twits">The Twits</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_Unexpected_(book)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Tales of the Unexpected (book)">Tales of the Unexpected</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%27s_Marvellous_Medicine" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="George's Marvellous Medicine">George's Marvellous Medicine</a></i>, and <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_BFG" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="The BFG">The BFG</a></i>.</div>
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I.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17124513657261571095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-851619318320111234.post-81863447162525213422016-04-16T11:08:00.002-07:002017-04-01T10:32:41.995-07:00STORY 9: "THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND" BY H. G. WELLS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Herbert George Wells</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946), known primarily as </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">H. G. Wells</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 11.2px; white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Science fiction"><span style="color: black;">science fiction</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> novels, and is called the father of science fiction, along with </span><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Verne" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Jules Verne"><span style="color: black;">Jules Verne</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Gernsback" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Hugo Gernsback"><span style="color: black;">Hugo Gernsback</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 11.2px; white-space: nowrap;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">His most notable science fiction works include <i>The Time Machine </i></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">(1895), <i>The Island of Doctor Moreau</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> (1896), <i>The Invisible Man </i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">(1897), and <i>The War of the Worlds </i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">(1898). He was nominated for the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Nobel Prize in Literature">Nobel Prize in Literature</a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> in four different years.</span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">"The Country of the Blind"</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> is a short story</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> first published in the April 1904 issue of <i>The Strand Magazine </i></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">and included in a 1911 collection of Wells's short stories. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">It is one of Wells's best known short stories, and features prominently in literature dealing with blindness. </span></div>
I.S.C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17124513657261571095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-851619318320111234.post-86674938811443743872016-04-15T13:22:00.000-07:002017-04-01T10:32:19.828-07:00STORY 8: "HOW WANG-FÔ WAS SAVED" BY MARGUERITE YOURCENAR<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yourcenar's first novel, <i>Alexis</i>, was published in 1929. She translated Virginia Woolf's <i>The Waves</i> over a 10-month period in 1937.</div>
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In 1939 Yourcenar's intimate companion at the time, the literary scholar and Kansas City native Grace Frick, invited the writer to the United States to escape the outbreak of World War II in Europe. Yourcenar lectured in comparative literature in New York City and Sarah Lawrence College. Yourcenar was bisexual; she and Frick became lovers in 1937 and remained together until Frick's death in 1979. After ten years spent in Hartford, Connecticut, they bought a house in Northeast Harbor, Maine on Mount Desert Island, where they lived for decades.</div>
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In 1951, she published, in France, the novel <i>Memoirs of Hadrian</i>, which she had been writing with pauses for a decade. The novel was an immediate success and met with great critical acclaim. In this novel, Yourcenar recreated the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world, the Roman emperor Hadrian, who writes a long letter to Marcus Aurelius, the son and heir of Antoninus Pius, his successor and adoptive son. The Emperor meditates on his past, describing both his triumphs and his failures, his love for Antinous, and his philosophy. The novel has become a modern classic.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26.4px;">Oscar Wilde was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest playwrights of the Victorian Era. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">The story “The Happy Prince” has at least three themes. The first theme of the story is that outward beauty is nothing. It is just a show. The real beauties are love and sacrifices. The second theme is that love and sacrifice are two saving forces. The third theme is that there is great gap between the rich and the poor, the rulers and the masses.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 29.7px;">Born to an aristocratic family in 1874, Winston Churchill served in the British military and worked as a writer before going into politics. After becoming prime minister in 1940, he helped lead a successful Allied strategy with the U.S. and Russia during WWII to defeat the Axis powers and craft post-war peace. Elected prime minister again in 1951, he introduced key domestic reforms. Churchill died at age 90 in 1965.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">“Man Overboard!” appeared in </span><em style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Harmsworth Magazine</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> at a turning point of Churchill’s career. He had been in the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#Service_in_the_Army" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #743399; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">military</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> since 1895; he resigned in 1899 and had his </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldham_by-election,_1899" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #743399; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">first run</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> for political office that same year. </span><br />
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The story is marvelously short, just as it is marvelously uncanny. Despite its brevity, it presents amazingly complex questions concerning the character of nature, the problem of evil, and the nature of God. Although one opinion concerning the story’s tone and the narrator’s final observation may seem more likely than others, each remains a possibility, and God may not be the sadist he at first appears to be. Death by shark would be horrible, to be certain, but would drowning be any quicker, more merciful, or dignified? On the other hand, if God exists, maybe he is as capricious and even as sadistic as the story can be interpreted to imply. For that matter, why did the man fall overboard?</div>
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To universalize the question, we might ask, instead, Why did humanity, in the Garden of Eden, take a similar fall? Is there a grace behind both “falls,” discernable only to the eye of faith, as Job suggests? Is the fall overboard a test of one’s trust in God, even when one faces his own mortality? Is the story a repudiation of the very idea of a merciful and loving God? Is he, instead, merely just and inscrutable? Does he exist at all?</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.8571434020996px;">E. Annie Proulx was born on August 22, 1935, in Norwich, Connecticut, the first of George Napoleon Proulx and Lois Nelly Gill Proulx's five children. Proulx's father was the vice president of a textile </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.8571434020996px;">company. His family had come to the United States from Quebec, Canada. The family often moved to different places in New England and North Carolina because of her f</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.8571434020996px;">ather's job. Her mother, a painter, encouraged her to notice everything around her. She was taught to observe the activities of ants and to notice every detail, the feeling of fabrics, and the unique parts of people's faces.</span></span></h2>
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Proulx attended Colby College in Maine briefly in the 1950s but left to work different jobs, including waiting tables and working at the post office. She received a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Vermont in 1969 and a master's degree from Sir George Williams University in Montreal, Canada, in 1973. She then began working toward her Ph.D. (an advanced degree beyond a master's degree), but in 1975 she abandoned the idea, thinking she would not be able to find a teaching job. Proulx told <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Contemporary Authors </i>that she was "wild" during those years. Her third marriage broke up at around the same time. As a result, Proulx became a single parent to her three sons.</div>
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In tiny towns in Vermont, Proulx spent her time fishing, hunting, and canoeing, and began working as a freelance (not under contract) journalist. She wrote articles for magazines on many different topics. Her work appeared in publications such as <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Country Journal, Organic Gardening; </i>and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Yankee. </i>In the early 1980s Proulx produced a series of <span style="line-height: 22.8571434020996px;">"how-to" books, including </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.8571434020996px;">Sweet & Hard Cider: Making It, Using It, and Enjoying It; The Fine Art of Salad Gardening; </i><span style="line-height: 22.8571434020996px;">and </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.8571434020996px;">Plan and Make Your Own Fences and Gates, Walkways, Walls and Drives. </i><span style="line-height: 22.8571434020996px;">She also created her own newspaper, the </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.8571434020996px;">Vershire Behind the Times, </i><span style="line-height: 22.8571434020996px;">which existed from 1984 to 1986. She also found time to average two short stories a year, nearly all of which were published.</span></div>
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In 1983 Proulx's career as a fiction writer was boosted by a notice in <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best American Short Stories, </i>an honor that was repeated in 1987. Proulx published her first book, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Heart Songs and Other Stories, </i>in 1988. Against the beautiful backdrop of the New England countryside, her stories involve the struggles of people trying to cope with their complicated lives. Proulx illustrates the stories with sharp descriptions, such as a man who eats a fish "as he would a slice of watermelon" or a woman who is as "thin as a folded dollar bill, her hand as narrow and cold as a trout."</div>
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Editors that worked with Proulx on her short stories suggested that she try to write a novel. She came up with <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Postcards </i>(1992), the story of a man from New England who flees the family farm after accidentally killing his bride-to-be. The passages involving the man's wanderings across the country come from Proulx's own trip across America while doing research. The book was a professional and personal success. Proulx became the first woman to receive the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction, which came with a fifteen thousand dollar bonus.</div>
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The very next year, Proulx capped this success by writing <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Shipping News. </i>A dark but comic tale set in Newfoundland, it is the story of an unlucky newspaper reporter named Quoyle. It is packed with details, all drawn in a vibrant (full of life) lively style. The book resulted in a steady stream of awards: first, the Heartland Prize from the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Chicago Tribune, </i>followed by the Irish Times International Award, and the National Book Award. These honors were all topped by the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.</div>
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After becoming famous, Proulx found that she had less time to research and write. In 1994 she had short stories published in <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Atlantic Monthly </i>and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Esquire. </i>She bought a second home in Newfoundland, and by the spring of 1995 she had moved to Wyoming. In researching her next novel, Proulx became an expert on accordion music. She studied not how to play the instrument, but how to take one apart and then rebuild it. <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Accordion Crimes, </i>released in 1996, is about the music of immigrants and particularly about different kinds of accordion music.</div>
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In 1999 Proulx released <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Close Range: Wyoming Stories, </i>which won a book award from <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The New Yorker </i>for best work of fiction. In 2001 <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Shipping News </i>was released as a film.</div>
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"<b>Brokeback Mountain</b>" was originally published in <i>The New Yorker</i> on October 13, 1997. <i>The New Yorker</i> won the National Magazine Award for Fiction for its publication of "Brokeback Mountain" in 1998. Proulx won an O. Henry Award prize (third place) for her story in 1998.</div>
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The story was published in a slightly expanded version in Proulx's 1999 collection of short stories, <i>Close Range: Wyoming Stories</i>. This collection was named a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.</div>
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<i><b>Brokeback Mountain</b></i> became an an romantic drama film directed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang_Lee" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Ang Lee">Ang Lee</a> in 2005. The film stars <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_Ledger" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Heath Ledger">Heath Ledger</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Gyllenhaal" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Jake Gyllenhaal"><span style="color: black;">Jake </span>Gyllenhaal</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hathaway" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Anne Hathaway">Anne Hathaway</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Williams_(actress)" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Michelle Williams (actress)">Michelle Williams</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Quaid" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Randy Quaid">Randy Quaid</a>, and depicts the complex emotional and sexual relationship between two men in the American West from 1963 to 1983.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokeback_Mountain#cite_note-3" style="background: none; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup></div>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="line-height: 1.1em; padding-right: 0.65em; padding-top: 0.225em; vertical-align: top;">Born</th><td style="line-height: 1.4em; vertical-align: top;">14 October 1888<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Wellington">Wellington</a>, New Zealand</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="line-height: 1.1em; padding-right: 0.65em; padding-top: 0.225em; vertical-align: top;">Died</th><td style="line-height: 1.4em; vertical-align: top;">9 January 1923 (aged 34)<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontainebleau" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Fontainebleau">Fontainebleau</a>, France</td></tr>
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<b>Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry</b> (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernist" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Modernist">modernist</a> writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of <b>Katherine Mansfield</b>. At 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.H._Lawrence" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="D.H. Lawrence">D.H. Lawrence</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Virginia Woolf">Virginia Woolf</a>. In 1917 she was diagnosed with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis#Extrapulmonary" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Tuberculosis">extrapulmonary</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Tuberculosis">tuberculosis</a>, which led to her death at the age of 34.</div>
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"<b>The Garden Party</b>" is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922_in_literature" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="1922 in literature">1922</a> short story by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Mansfield" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Katherine Mansfield">Katherine Mansfield</a>. It was first published in the <i>Saturday Westminster Gazette</i> on 4 February 1922, then in the <i>Weekly Westminster Gazette</i> on 18 February 1922. It later appeared in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_Party_(short_story_collection)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="The Garden Party (short story collection)"><i>The Garden Party: and Other Stories</i></a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_Party_(short_story)#cite_note-1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a></sup> Its luxurious setting is based on Mansfield's childhood home at Tinakori Road,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Wellington">Wellington</a>.</div>
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The Sheridan family is preparing to host a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_party" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Garden party">garden party</a>. Laura is supposed to be in charge but has trouble with the workers who appear to know better, and her mother (Mrs. Sheridan) has ordered lilies to be delivered for the party without Laura's approval. Her sister Jose tests the piano, and then sings a song in case she is asked to do so again later. After the furniture is rearranged, they learn that their working-class neighbor Mr. Scott has died. While Laura believes the party should be called off, neither Jose nor their mother agree. The party is a success, and later Mrs. Sheridan decides it would be good to bring a basket full of leftovers to the Scotts' house. She summons Laura to do so. Laura is shown into the poor neighbors' house by Mrs. Scott's sister, then sees the widow and her late husband's corpse. She is enamored of the young man, finding him beautiful and compelling, and when she leaves to find her brother waiting for her she is unable to complete the sentence, "Isn't life..."</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>Mrs. Sheridan</b>, Mr. Sheridan's wife and mother of Laura, Laurie, Meg, and, Jose. She is in charge of the household on a daily-basis.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>Laura Sheridan</b>, Mrs. Sheridan's daughter (and the story's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protagonist" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Protagonist">protagonist</a>)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>The workers</b>, who put up a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_marquee" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Pole marquee">marquee</a> in the garden</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>Mr. Sheridan</b>, Mrs. Sheridan's husband and father of Laura, Laurie, Meg, and, Jose. On the day of the party, he goes to work but joins the party later that evening.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>Meg Sheridan</b>, a second daughter</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>Jose Sheridan</b>, a third daughter</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>Laurie Sheridan</b>, a son, Laura's brother</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>Kitty Maitland</b>, a friend of Laura and a party guest</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>Sadie</b>, a female house servant</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>Hans</b>, a male house servant</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>The florist</b>, who delivers lilies ordered by Mrs. Sheridan</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>Cook</b>, a cook</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>Godber's man</b>, the delivery-man who brings in the cream puffs</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>Mr. Scott</b>, a lower-class neighbor who has just died</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>Em Scott</b>, the deceased's widow</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>Em's sister</b></li>
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<b>Class consciousness</b>. Laura feels a certain sense of kinship with the workers and again with the Scotts. An omniscient narrator also explains that, as children, Laura, Jose, Meg, and Laurie were not allowed to go near the poor neighbors' dwellings, which spoil their vista.</div>
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<b>Illusion versus reality</b>. Laura is stuck in a world of high-class housing, food, family, and garden parties. She then discovers her neighbour from a lower class has died and she clicks back to reality upon discovering death.</div>
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<b>Sensitivity and insensitivity</b>. The Sheridans hold their garden party, as planned, complete with a band playing music. Laura questions whether this is appropriate, given the death of their neighbor only a few hours earlier.</div>
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<b>Death and life</b>. The writer masterfully handles the theme of death and life in the short story. The realization of Laura that life is simply marvellous shows death of human beings in a positive light. Death and life co-exist and death seems to Laura merely a sound sleep far away from troubles in human life.</div>
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Not to be confused with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sake" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Sake">Sake</a>.</div>
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For other uses, see <a class="mw-disambig" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saki_(disambiguation)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Saki (disambiguation)">Saki (disambiguation)</a>.</div>
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Hector Hugh Munro by <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.O._Hopp%C3%A9" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="E.O. Hoppé">E.O. Hoppé</a> (1913)</div>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="line-height: 1.1em; padding-right: 0.65em; padding-top: 0.225em; vertical-align: top;">Born</th><td style="line-height: 1.4em; vertical-align: top;">18 December 1870<br /><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akyab" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Akyab">Akyab</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Burma" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="British Burma">British Burma</a></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="line-height: 1.1em; padding-right: 0.65em; padding-top: 0.225em; vertical-align: top;">Died</th><td style="line-height: 1.4em; vertical-align: top;">13 November 1916 (aged 45)<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaumont-Hamel" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Beaumont-Hamel">Beaumont-Hamel</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="France">France</a></td></tr>
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<b>Hector Hugh Munro</b> (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), better known by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen_name" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Pen name">pen name</a> <b>Saki</b>, and also frequently as <b>H. H. Munro</b>, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macabre" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Macabre">macabre</a> stories satirize <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwardian_era" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Edwardian era">Edwardian</a> society and culture. He is considered a master of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_story" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Short story">short story</a>, and often compared to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="O. Henry">O. Henry</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Parker" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Dorothy Parker">Dorothy Parker</a>. Influenced by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Oscar Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Lewis Carroll">Lewis Carroll</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Rudyard Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a>, he himself influenced <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._A._Milne" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="A. A. Milne">A. A. Milne</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Noël Coward">Noël Coward</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="P. G. Wodehouse">P. G. Wodehouse</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saki#cite_note-1" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a></sup></div>
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Besides his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was customary at the time, and then collected into several volumes), he wrote a full-length play, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Watched_Pot" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="The Watched Pot">The Watched Pot</a></i>, in collaboration with Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study,<i>The Rise of the Russian Empire</i>, the only book published under his own name; a short novel, <i>The Unbearable Bassington</i>; the episodic <i>The Westminster Alice</i> (a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">parliamentary</a> parody of <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Alice in Wonderland">Alice in Wonderland</a></i>); and <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_William_Came" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="When William Came">When William Came</a></i>, subtitled <i>A Story of London Under the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohenzollern" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Hohenzollern">Hohenzollerns</a></i>, a fantasy about a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_literature" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Invasion literature">future German invasion</a> and occupation of Britain.</div>
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At the start of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="World War I">First World War</a> Munro was 43 and officially over-age to enlist, but he refused a commission and joined the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Edward%27s_Horse" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="King Edward's Horse">2nd King Edward's Horse</a> as an ordinary trooper. He later transferred to the 22nd Battalion of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Fusiliers" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Royal Fusiliers">Royal Fusiliers</a>, in which he rose to the rank of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_sergeant" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Lance sergeant">lance sergeant</a>. More than once he returned to the battlefield when officially still too sick or injured. In November 1916 he was sheltering in a shell crater near <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaumont-Hamel" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Beaumont-Hamel">Beaumont-Hamel</a>, France, during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Ancre" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Battle of the Ancre">Battle of the Ancre</a>, when he was killed by a German <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniper" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Sniper">sniper</a>. According to several sources, his last words were "Put that bloody cigarette out!"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saki#cite_note-3" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup></div>
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Munro has no known grave. He is commemorated on Pier and Face 8C 9A and 16A of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiepval_Memorial" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Thiepval Memorial">Thiepval Memorial</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saki#cite_note-4" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saki#cite_note-5" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a></sup></div>
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In 2003 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Heritage" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="English Heritage">English Heritage</a> marked Munro's flat at 97 Mortimer Street, in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzrovia" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Fitzrovia">Fitzrovia</a> with a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_plaque" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Blue plaque">blue plaque</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-EngHet_6-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saki#cite_note-EngHet-6" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[6]</a></sup></div>
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After his death his sister Ethel <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_burning" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Book burning">destroyed</a> most of his papers and wrote her own account of their childhood.</div>
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Munro may have been gay, but in Britain at that time <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_Kingdom" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="LGBT rights in the United Kingdom">sexual activity between men was a crime</a>. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Street_scandal" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Cleveland Street scandal">Cleveland Street scandal</a> (1889), followed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde#Trial.2C_imprisonment.2C_and_transfer_to_Reading_Gaol" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Oscar Wilde">the downfall of Oscar Wilde</a>(1895), meant that if he was gay, "that side of [Munro's] life had to be secret".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saki#cite_note-7" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[7]</a></sup></div>
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Munro was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tory" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Tory">Tory</a> and somewhat reactionary in his views.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saki#cite_note-8" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[8]</a></sup></div>
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<b style="line-height: inherit;">Roald Dahl</b><span style="line-height: inherit;"> </span><span style="line-height: inherit;">13 September 1916 – 23 November </span><span style="line-height: inherit;">1990) was a British </span><span style="line-height: inherit;">novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot.</span><br />
<span style="line-height: inherit;">Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, Dahl served in the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a><span style="line-height: inherit;"> during World War II, in which he became a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_ace" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Flying ace">flying ace</a><span style="line-height: inherit;"> and intelligence officer, rising to the rank of Acting </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Commander_(rank)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Wing Commander (rank)">wing comma</a><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Commander_(rank)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Wing Commander (rank)">nder</a><span style="line-height: inherit;">. He rose to prominence in the 1940s with works for both children and adults and became one of the world's best-selling authors.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-INT_2-0" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl#cite_note-INT-2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BDC_3-0" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl#cite_note-BDC-3" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup><span style="line-height: inherit;"> He has been referred to as "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century".</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-IND_4-0" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl#cite_note-IND-4" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a></sup><span style="line-height: inherit;"> Among his awards for contribution to literature, he received the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award_for_Life_Achievement" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement">World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement</a><span style="line-height: inherit;"> in 1983, and Children's Author of the Year from the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specsavers_National_Book_Awards" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Specsavers National Book Awards">British Book Awards</a><span style="line-height: inherit;"> in 1990. In 2008 </span><i style="line-height: inherit;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="The Times">The Times</a></i><span style="line-height: inherit;"> placed Dahl 16th on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-TIM_5-0" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl#cite_note-TIM-5" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a></sup></div>
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Dahl's short stories are known for their unexpected endings and his children's books for their unsentimental, often very <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_comedy" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Black comedy">dark humour</a>. His works include <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_and_the_Giant_Peach" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="James and the Giant Peach">James and the Giant Peach</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factory" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Charlie and the Chocolate Factory">Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_(novel)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Matilda (novel)">Matilda</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Uncle_Oswald" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="My Uncle Oswald">My Uncle Oswald</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witches_(book)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="The Witches (book)">The Witches</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Mr_Fox" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Fantastic Mr Fox">Fantastic Mr Fox</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twits" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="The Twits">The Twits</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_Unexpected_(book)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Tales of the Unexpected (book)">Tales of the Unexpected</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%27s_Marvellous_Medicine" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="George's Marvellous Medicine">George's Marvellous Medicine</a></i>, and <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_BFG" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="The BFG">The BFG</a></i>.</div>
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