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says on the page 139, that she often whines. In the scene at the hospital, Ofwarren is described as being a ‘’whining bitch’’ and a ‘’strong girl with good muscles’’. Aunt Lydia considers Ofwarren as a trustworthy person, that’s why she told her the story of Moira, thinking that she wouldn’t repeat it to anyone. Ofwarren wasn’t a friend of Moira. Offred doesn’t like Ofwarren, they know each other because they were together in the red center. Ofwarren is the kind of person who takes everything for herself

their way to another farm. It is a Friday and it’s around midday. Their friendship seems overwhelmingly strong: as George starts to complain about the fact that his life would be easier without Lennie, Lennie asks him to tell the story of their future ranch. This story brings peace to both of them and we easily understand that George needs Lennie and his childish mind to believe in it. They need each others: Lennie, because of his mental disease, needs George, and George needs Lennie to trust in

1914 she married Colonel Archibald Christie,an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. The couple had one daughter, Rosalind,before their divorce in 1928. In a writing career that spanned more than half a century, Agatha Christie wrote 79 novels and short story collections. She also wrote over a dozen plays including The Mousetrap, which opened in London on November 25th, 1952, and is now the longest continuously running play in theatrical history. Christie's first novel, The mysterious Affair at Styles

About Nine Stories Nine Stories, published in 1953, is a collection of Salinger’s short stories, and is considered one of the finest short-story collections in the English language. Taking his cues from such masters of the medium as Guy de Maupassant and James Joyce, Salinger presents a series of brief narratives or vignettes – rarely over twenty pages in length in the average edition – in which small-scale reversals occur. The narratives hinge on these reversals: consider the revelation of the

ARGUMENTS OPPOSES- However / Nevertheless / Yet- On the contrary / In contrast- Contrary to / Unlike / As opposed to- Conversely - On the one hand …on the other hand | | | RESUMER - In short / In brief / In a word- To sum things up / To sum up- (To put it) in a nutshell- To cut a long story short- On the whole- For all these reasons- All things considered | EXPRIMER LE BUT- to + B.V.- in order to / so as to + B.V.- with the purpose of V+ing- so that | |

Best American Humorous Short Stories, by Various 1 Best American Humorous Short Stories, by Various Project Gutenberg's The Best American Humorous Short Stories, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Best American Humorous Short Stories Author: Various Release Date:

‘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

mixed heritage. She is the author of a number of award-winning novels, including The Beet Queen, Tracks, and The Bingo Palace. She also has written two collections of poetry entitled Jacklight and Baptism of Desire as well as books for children and short stories. Her first novel Love Medicine, first published, 1983 introduces several generations in the interrelated families living in and around a fictional reservation of North Dakota. Spanning fifty years, from 1934 through 1984, the novel is told

THE LANDLADY :text 1 | Roald Dahl was a famous short story writer who became one of the most successful and beloved children’s writers of all time, he also wrote screenplays. His popularity continues to increase as his fantastic novels including the landlady. The story, The landlady, is about a young man who is on a business trip in a litte English town called Bath. The yong man is billy,and he is from LondonThe narrator choose the external point of view and it is a third person narrative

the short story is an exerpt from the novel « Dubliners » written by James Joyce in 1914, so at the beginning of the first world war. The irish author is considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist advence guard of the early twentieth century. He wrote stories centered around charaters in Dublin who were dealing with the issues of the time period for example the Great Irish Famine (1845–1849), were about one million people died and another million emigrated. The story illustrates