A Little Story About New York

of your flesh”, was written by Elizabeth Kolbert and published in November 2009 on The New Yorker website on the occasion of the publication of Jonathan Safran Foer’s last book Eating animals. The controversial essay brought out only one month ago in France. The young american novelist (34 years old) is already known for two previous novels. The first novel is entitled Everything is illuminated. It’s about a young jewish who goes in Ukrania to track down the person that rescued his grand-father

‘The Landlady' is a short story by Roald Dahl. It was first published in ‘The New Yorker' magazine in 1959, and has since appeared in many anthologies of Dahl's stories, the first of which was ‘Kiss, Kiss' (published by Michael Joseph). Billy Weaver, a young man visiting the City of Bath for the first time, is looking for accommodation. He is inexplicably drawn to a house where the landlady seems to be expecting him. The house and the landlady seem friendly and welcoming, and he looks forward to

voice of a childhood friend of Jim Burden, who is the narrator for the remainder of the novel. The anonymous speaker in this introduction tells us that last summer, he unexpectedly met his friend on a train and that they spent the journey reminiscing about their childhood in Nebraska. It is hot and dusty on the train, and it reminds them of the weather growing up on the frontier. According to the speaker, Jim Burden now works for the railroad in New York and is unhappily married to a dull woman

summary Nathan Glass, the novel's narrator, an ex-life insurance salesman, is sixty years-old, an divorced . When looking for a quiet place to die he opts for Brooklyn , the place where he was born. Nathan is alone, he has no family anymore except for his daughter. His sister, June, is dead and he has had no contact with his nephew, Tom, and his niece, Aurora, for a long time. One day, he happens to meet Tom by chance at Brightman’s Attic (Tom works there). They will hook up again, maybe

twentieth-century painting. Contemporary and realist painters, they have been put side by side, as much as pulled apart. Though Hopper himself hated the comparison, we will attempt to analyse in the following paper what unites and divides those artists. After a short presentation of both painters, we will examine their subject matters, their techniques and methods of painting, as well as the meaning of their work of art. Before analysing and juxtaposing the work of Norman Rockwell and Edward Hopper, let’s

Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction ‘Jonathan Culler has always been about the best person around at explaining literary theory without oversimplifying it or treating it with polemical bias. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction is an exemplary work in this genre.’ J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine ‘An impressive and engaging feat of condensation . . . the avoidance of the usual plod through schools and approaches allows the reader to get straight to the heart of the

traveling to their destination as well. Like most other immigrants, the Shimerdas left their native Bohemia and moved to America for a better life. Like Jim, the Shimerdas have no one to turn to in a new, frightening place. Chapter 2 The next afternoon, at the farm, Jim’s grandmother, Mrs Burden, awakens him and prepares a bath for him. After his bath, Jim explores his new surroundings while Mrs Burden prepares the evening meal. At supper, Jake discusses Virginia with the Burdens. Later, Otto tells

Edited by ALEXANDER JESSUP, Editor of "Representative American Short Stories," "The Book of the Short Story," the "Little French Masterpieces" Series, etc. INTRODUCTION This volume does not aim to contain all "the best American humorous short stories"; there are many other stories equally as good, I suppose, in much the same vein, scattered through the range of American literature. I have tried to keep a certain unity of aim and impression in selecting these stories. In the first place I determined that

Program Cégep de Ste-Foy Mars 2010 Clud dead, is a fantasy book written by Charlaine Harris, a New York times bestselling author. She writes both mystery and fantasy and her Sookie Stackhouse book series was so popular that a television show was created based on it and it is one the of the most watched shows on television. The story takes place in Bon Temps, a small town of Nothern Louisiana. Sookie as has find love for the first time in Bill, a 118 years old vampire. However, he as been distant

Amy Tan; Conflict between Origins The short story “Rules of the Game” from the book The Joy Luck Club, written by Amy Tan, is the story of a 8-year-old Chinese American girl named Waverly Jong who lives in San Fransisco's China Town. The chess game appears for her as a true revelation as she begins to play. As Waverly begins to win more and more tournaments, her Chinese heritage moves aside for the American culture. In this story, the symbolism, the setting and the conflict between Waverly