This month's story is Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's “A New England Nun,” first published in 1891. The story is heavily realistic, and infused with a high degree of local color and detail meant to fully capture the bucolic pace and feel of village life in late 19th century New England. This languid tranquility is the
Hello everyone. This month's story is Edith Wharton's “The Angel at the Grave,” first published in Scribner's magazine in 1901. The story relates, among other things, the passage of a major literary figure's legacy from one of universal acclaim to the dustbin of history, an obsolete relic from a forgotten past. Maybe some of you
This month's story is Mark Twain's “The Californian's Tale,” published in 1893. Twain rates among the most celebrated and iconic of all American writers, and has achieved that rarified air of an author whose characters (Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer in particular) have come to embody the mythos of the country they reflect. with his
New session of the English reading club "English Reading Circle" with Andrew Bennett as moderator. To learn about contemporary American literature through the reading and discussion of short stories online. The meetings will take place in the library one Tuesday a month from 14:30 p.m. to 15:30 p.m. from september to
The theme of this year's cycle – “Great Short Stories from Lesser Known Authors/Lesser Known Short Stories from Great Authors” – raises intriguing questions with regard to our story for November, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Where, exactly, should we situate Gilman and her story of her in relation to our understanding of what it means
New session of the English reading club "English Reading Circle" with Chiara Luis as moderator. To learn about contemporary American literature through the reading and discussion of short stories online. The meetings will take place in the library one Tuesday a month from 14:30 p.m. to 15:30 p.m. from september to
New session of the English reading club "English Reading Circle" with Peter Savaiano as moderator. To learn about contemporary American literature through the reading and discussion of short stories from online literary magazines, which can be read for free over the Internet on the magazines' websites. The
New session of the English reading club "English Reading Circle" with Peter Savaiano as moderator. To learn about contemporary American literature through the reading and discussion of short stories from online literary magazines, which can be read for free over the Internet on the magazines' websites. The
New session of the English reading club "English Reading Circle" with Peter Savaiano as moderator. To learn about contemporary American literature through the reading and discussion of short stories from online literary magazines, which can be read for free over the Internet on the magazines' websites. The
Details November session Reading Circle 2013 There is an idiomatic expression in English that might be of use to us as we think through Tao Lin's “Sasquatch”: to take (someone or something) with a grain of salt. The expression means to resist believing entirely in the immediate appearance of some outward or superficial truth, and instead