The Dead is considered to be one of the masterpieces of James Joyce. It is more a novella than a short story. Because of its length we do not have access to merely snippets of the characters’ life caught in a moment of time. Rather, the two main characters, Gabriel Conroy and his wife are developed at length through their behavior...........
In the very first line which opens this story we feel strain as the protagonists seem to be going to an unnamed event against their will, almost out of duty. As Mr and Mrs Mitra battle the Calcutta traffic, as well as the contradictory directions they are given, we learn a little about their dynamics as a couple, each expecting the other to take the lead in the.....
This is a sad love story, set against the historical background of Nazi occupied France during the second world war. Adam Thorpe is a British writer who was born in Paris and grew up across three continents. This story takes place in a small French village, experiencing the impact of authoritarian German presence on the way........
Of White Hairs and Cricket was published in the 1987 collection of short stories Tales from Firozsha Baag. The author is from the Parsi community and the building compound where the story is set is inhabited by Parsi residents. This identity is an important part of the narrative As a community. the Parsis migrated to India in....
Paule Marshall is an American writer whose family is originally from the Caribbean. Like countless others, the writer’s father migrated from the Caribbean to New York in the second decade of the twentieth century. The present story is a tale of return, a theme common to many immigrant writing. Although the writer was herself a ...............
This delightful short story is written from the first person narrative perspective of a young boy of thirteen, who narrates the tale of his passion for comic-strips. He does not just read them, but also draws and invents his own stories. He sets himself up against his schoolmates, who all have sensible dreams for real jobs. However, his passion............
Games at Twilight is the first story in Anita Desai’s 1978 story collection of the same name. The story captures the atmosphere around the games children used to play in a bygone age, where twilight time, between day and night would be the moment where children would play together, between the hours of studying and the evening routine........
Doris Lessing is a multiple award-winning South African writer. In the present story, using a futuristic framework of aliens visiting earth to warn them about impending doom, with the geological calamities about to be unleashed, the story provides an ironical outlook on the madness, stupidity and senselessness of the.....
Patrick White was an Australian writer (1912-1990). It is always interesting when male writers write sensitively about the situation of women hemmed in by patriarchy. The setting of the story is Sydney and it suburbs. The protagonists are the Natwicks, a lower middle class couple who came to live off the busy streets of a Sydney...............
Maurice Shadbolt (1932-2004) was a novelist and playwright from New Zealand. His writing grappled with the paradoxes of New Zealand’s origin as a settlement culture, which was built on the spoils of native land. The present story stages the coming together of two sets of people from the opposite sides of the dolorous and cruel ..............
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